Strengthen your lower back, loosen your hips and offset the effects of prolonged sitting with a beginner-friendly alternative to the 300-rep kettlebell swings workout

Woman holding kettlebell in domestic setting.

Part of my duty as a fitness writer with a background in personal training is to try workouts and interrogate fitness fads so you, dear reader, don’t have to.

At the start of the year, I undertook the 300 kettlebell swings a day challenge, which involved, you guessed it, doing 300 daily kettlebell swings every day for 30 consecutive days.