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Grace Walsh

This simple exercise targets more muscles than planks and lunges, and it's great for core strength - here's how to do it

Woman doing kettlebell swing at home.

If you're short on time or motivation, you'll want movements like the kettlebell swing in your strength training routine that use multiple muscles at the same time. All you need is a kettlebell and some space to do it.

I counted up the muscles used in this exercise myself with a pen and paper. A modest estimation would suggest that this one exercise uses 15 of them, if not more, from the core to the shoulders to the glutes, and even the calves.

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