Different Workouts, Different Results

It may not be obvious that different types of workouts lead to different changes in the way your body will look. A marathon runner looks different from a boxer or a gymnast. Here I'll show what the difference in results are between working out with kettlebells and a typical bodybuilding approach.

Before I knew about kettlebells, I used the bodybuilding-type workouts to get in shape. Up until then I made my greatest progress physically using the approach from Body-for-LIFE. After a while I went away from that and eventually discovered kettlebells and Pavel Tsatsouline's unique approach to exercise and strength training.

Since I documented both methods with pictures, I thought this might be a good way to demonstrate how these different methods lead to differences in physical appearance. The picture on the left was achieved primarily through kettlebell workouts and the picture on the right via traditional bodybuilding techniques.

I was a little bit leaner in the picture on the left, but the differences are pretty obvious... Using kettlebells I didn't have as much of a "rounded" look to my muscles as in the bodybuilding photo. KBs lead to more of a lean, tight look than the BB method.

Pick your method, pick your look.

Of course you can combine both methods and get a little of each as well.