James Reviews a 16kg kettlebell

If like me, you have a track record of buying home fitness equipment and not really using it, then this 16kg kettlebell is just what you’ve been looking for.

Unlike that enormous weights bench, which sat in your parents’ garage long after you left home, this kettlebell is relatively easy to transport. A cautionary note, it does weigh 16kg, which is quite heavy if you’re travelling on public transport, but it will fit easily into the smallest of cars, which means that relocation shouldn’t stop you from keeping (and not using) your kettlebell forever.

Also, unlike that massive cross-trainer you once bought, which took up the whole of your living room, the kettlebell can be stored away discreetly, meaning that you never need to feel the resultant guilt from seeing it, unloved and gathering dust in the corner of the room. It can literally be ‘out of sight and out of mind’…

But if you do choose to have it on display, it’s way more ornamental than that rowing machine you bough back when you were in your early twenties and sharing a house in Cardiff. That was rubbish wasn’t it? Do you remember how you set it up so that if faced the televsion so you could ‘row’ while watching the Sydney Olympics on TV? You thought you might one day graduate to a proper rowing team, but then you joined the Cardiff University rowing club and realised just how fit you needed to be. From that point on it was just a matter of time before the rowing machine joined the weights bench in the garage ‘retirement home’…

In conclusion,  the 16kg kettle bell is better than a weights bench, a cross-trainer and a rowing machine, because it’s easier to store, easier to move and significantly more affordable.

Does it actually help you to get fit?

I haven’t got a clue.