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English: A lift with many benefits to bring a kettlebell or dumbbell from dead to overhead with a low windmill, curl, and rotational press. The intermediate version is followed through with a high windmill, and the advanced version is performed with two kettlebells and is also followed through with the high windmill.

With this lift, the kettlebell is lifted from dead to overhead with the following kettlebell exercises combined, low windmill, side curl, and rotational press. The lift is super effective because it targets so many areas normally neglected in training, even in kettlebell training. To list a few benefits:

   • Lateral/front bend
   • Thoracic rotation
   • Curl
   • Shoulder press 

An explanation follows.

The lifting from a semi lateral and frontal bend at the hips is not a position one usually lifts in, thoracic rotation is often overlooked in most training that is not martial arts, and the curl is quite often frowned upon in the kettlebell training (functional world) community because it’s not deemed functional.

Lifting from angles and positions not usually lifted from is something one should always do to become more injury-proof, it’s a wonderful thing to do, as long as it’s done through proper progression.

Anything with thoracic rotation is lacking tremendously from most training apart from martial arts, even in martial arts you need to be lucky enough to have a good trainer/coach that will cover all the important movements. If I had to point out one training regimen that is seriously lacking rotational movements then it would be CrossFit, not to put it down, just stating facts. It’s quite clear that most movements happen at the front, from bottom to top, from back to top, and no rotation.

The short explanation is taken from the book Kettlebell Complexes Made Simple by Cavemantraining.