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Welcome to Anta’s Fitness and Self Defense’s Miami Kettlebell.Com. This web site is dedicated to educating and spreading the health and physical benefits of kettlebells and other functional fitness exercises since 2004. We are proud to be the first web site dedicated to kettlebell training in the Greater Miami area. A Kettlebell is a solid iron cast cannon ball looking weight with a handle on top. Some people have described it as a Mickey Mouse looking weight, yet by no means will anyone ever refer to kettlebells as a Mickey Mouse workout. KB’s are the ultimate fat burning, functional training program. It will give you a low impact aerobic and strength building anaerobic workout all at the same time. KB’s utilizes all of your core muscles which are absolutely essential for maintaining good health and fitness.

Anta’s Fitness and Self Defense, 10721 NW 58 St, Miami (Doral) is a fully equip and certified kettlebell training center. We offer private kettlebell training. We also offer a group class which we call Xtreme Functional Training (XFT) Challenge. This class is the fusion of Kettlebells, Indian Clubs, Battling Ropes, Kickboxing, Slosh Pipes, sandbags, sledge hammer, tire flipping medicine ball training, circuit training, boot camp and stretching giving you a complete functional workout. Call us today for a free tryout XFT class at 305 599-3649.

Look at photos of turn of the last century strongmen and gyms and you would most likely find Kettlebells. Most athletes including weight lifters, bodybuilders, boxers and wrestlers trained with KB’s. KB’s have been around for hundreds of years and it is Russia’s national sport, yet we in America are just recently rediscovering them. No wonder the Soviets ruled the Olympics in the Cold War. Today KB’s are being used by Hollywood stars, professional athletics, martial arts, and sumo wrestlers. Kettlebells are for everyone, from the professional athlete that wants the edge on the competition, the martial arts that wants flexibility, speed and power to dominate his opponent to the grandmother who just wants to play with her grandchild for many years to come.

Life is full of movement KB’s mimic life movements unlike working out at a gym or health club. The chrome plated weight machine in today’s so called modern gyms workout a specific muscle group at a time as oppose to the kettlebell that works most muscles at a time. In movements in real life as in carrying groceries, getting out of bed and slamming on the breaks when a car cuts in front of you in traffic you do not isolate muscles. You utilize numerous muscles at the same time. You need balance, flexibility and ballistic power and speed. So why workout specific muscles separately, controlled and slow.

Anta’s Fitness and Self Defense is one of South Florida’s most successful and recognized martial arts schools. The center is co-own and operated by Julio and Elena Anta. Julio has over 35 years experience in fitness and martial arts. He holds the rank of Master in Hung Gar Kung Fu, a former competitive bodybuilder and served our nation as a U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant. He also holds certifications in Haganah F.I.G.H.T. (Israeli Martial Arts), SABER Edge Weapon Combatives, Fitness Kickboxing, Personal Trainer, Kettlebells, Battling Ropes, IYCA Youth Fitness Specialist and Pilates. Anta writes a column for the Doral Tribune “Get Fit with Anta” and Ciudad Doral. In 2006 he was inducted into the United States Martial arts Hall of Fame as the Kung Fu Master of the Year. He was also awarded the Florida Martial Arts Hall of Fame Instructor of the Year and the 2004 Miami Dade County Martial Arts Excellence Award. Elena is a fully certified Pilates mat and equipment instructor. She is also certified in Fitness Kickboxing.

Julio Anta and Anta’s Fitness and Self Defense are Florida’s and Latin America’s Kettlebell pioneers. The first Kettlebell certification in the state of Florida conducted by Kettlebell Concepts was held at Anta’s Fitness and Self Defense in 2004. Kettlebell Guru Mike Mahler held his first Miami kettlebell workshop at Anta’s Fitness and Self Defense in 2005. On March 6, 2005 The Miami Herald had a special family and fitness section entitled “Family Circle of Fitness.” This special section of the Miami Herald interview 3 families on their fitness programs and Julio Anta introduced his kettlebell training to South Florida. By the end of 2006 the popularity of kettlebells and the media began covering them. In the December issue of Men’s Health En Espanol Alberto Roja a kettlebell student of Anta interviewed Julio Anta on the benefits of kettlebell training. The article was entitled “El Poder Absoluto De La Pesa Rusa” (The Absolute Power of Russian Weights). On December 8, 2006 Julio Anta’s kettlebell program was featured on Telemundo’s International TV Show Al Rojo Vivo. On December 28, 2006 Julio Anta took Telemundo’s Titulares Y Mas host Karim Mandiburu through a Rocky workout. As part of the workout Anta took him through kettlebell training just like Stallone did in Rocky Balboa. In 2009 Julio Anta was on the cover of the April issue of Canadian fitness magazine Fytness Fanatiks. Fytness Fanatiks was the first print fitness magazine in North America to have a kettlebell on the cover. Anta also wrote an article on kettlebell training "Kettlebells are Back" in the May issue of Tae Kwon Do Times.

Always on the cutting edge in 2004 Julio Anta developed XFT (Xtreme Functional Training) at Anta's Fitness and Self Defense in Doral a suburb of Miami FL. XFT is a workout consisting of kettlebells, Battling Ropes, Indian clubs, Boot Camp, Stretch Loop Conditioning, plyometrics, body weight exercise and odd object training (sandbags, slosh pipes etc.) In 2004 on this web site we wrote "What’s old is new again and there is nothing new under the sun. The gym of the future will look more like the gyms of the turn of the last century with open space for calisthenics, kettlebells, Indian clubs, rope climbing and medicine ball training. Anta’s Fitness and Self Defense is the gym of the future." The future is here and our prediction came true! This web site is a work in progress and we welcome and appreciate any and all information and photos on kettlebells, kettlebell training and kettlebell history. For more information call us at 305 599-3649 or E-mail us at fitdef@aol.com For Information on fitness and martial arts visit our Sister Sites AntaKungFu.com, MiamiPilates.net, SuperFitKidz.com, our blog martialartsandfitness.typepad.com, on Twitter www.twitter.com/fitdef on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38018754119&ref=ts and on Myspace myspace.com/antakungfu.

Julio Anta kettlebell and functional training interview in Icelandic in Iceland Kettlebell web site: http://www.kettlebells.is/?s=2&ss=108
Listen to Mr. Anta get Interviewed by David Ganulin of Kettlebell Concepts!
Julio Anta's interview on KB lifting for seniors, in Latin America

Tae Kwon Do Times May 2009
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