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Kettlebell Injury Prevention: Banging, Bruising & Back Pain
Stop the forearm banging, bruising, blisters, and lower back pain that make most beginners quit kettlebell training.
Created byCoach T. Fleur, Anna Junghans
Last updated 8/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Prevent the kettlebell from banging your forearm in cleans and snatches by fixing hand insertion, grip, and bell path.
- Protect your hands from blisters, calluses, and tears through correct grip and handle contact points.
- Identify the technique faults that cause lower back pain in swings and deadlifts, and correct them before they turn into injuries.
- Recognise the early warning signs of tendinitis, tendinosis, and overtraining, and adjust your training before you're forced to stop.
- Analyse an injury you already have, trace it back to the specific fault that caused it, and apply the fix.
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Course content
6 sections • 59 lectures • 4h 14m total length
Requirements
- No prior kettlebell experience needed — this course is designed to be taken before your first workout, not after something goes wrong.
- A single kettlebell of any weight is enough to follow along, though you can complete the course without one.
Description
Most kettlebell beginners don't quit because the training is too hard. They quit because the bell keeps banging their forearm, their hands tear open, and their lower back aches after every session.
None of that is a normal part of learning kettlebells. All of it is preventable, and this course covers exactly how.
What you'll be able to do
Prevent the injuries and annoyances before they happen, rather than working around them
Analyse, identify, and correct the specific technique fault behind any pain you've already developed
What's in the course
Detailed breakdowns in text, video, illustrations, and photos
Exams to check what you've actually retained
A 90-minute follow-along kettlebell workout, broken into technique, warm-up, workout, and cooldown
A free digital PDF of the whole course on request after purchase, so you have it on hand at the gym
There's a lot of written material. If you'd rather learn by watching, skip the text and work through the videos.
What goes wrong when it's done wrong
Forearm banging and bruising
Blisters, calluses, and torn hands
Lower back pain
Tendinitis and tendinosis
Overtraining
Other joint, muscle, and tendon problems
The other side of it
Done correctly, kettlebell training makes you harder to injure — in training and in daily life. Strength, power, muscular and cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, agility, and mental toughness all raise your tolerance for the loads life puts on you. The stronger, more mobile, and more resilient you are, the less likely you are to get hurt in the first place.
Over two decades of coaching, condensed into the one course I'd tell every beginner to take first.
Who this course is for:
- Complete beginners who want to start kettlebell training without building the habits that cause injury.
- Anyone already dealing with forearm bruising, torn hands, or lower back pain from their kettlebell training.
- Lifters coming back from a kettlebell injury who want to understand exactly what went wrong.
- Coaches and personal trainers who want their clients to stay free of the common kettlebell complaints.