Check out Scott Bird’s site, Straight to the Bar. I’m still not sure if that refers to a pub or a barbell. Probably both. SttB is not strictly a kettlebell blog. It covers a wide range of stories from all points on the spectrum of human strength & endurance.

Scott & his team (I find it hard to believe 1 man can stay on top of the research required to dig up all these stories) relentlessly scour the web for an amazing array of fitness stories and videos. Most of the articles lean towards the less mainstream forms of fitness, so there just happens to be a ton of great kettlebell stories thrown in this mix.

For example, today’s front page headlines:

Nathan Turley’s ’08 Sampler: A youtube video showing some extreme “parkour” moves. Watch this video or Google “parkour” if you’ve never heard the term. Insane.

Tug ‘o War: a sweet picture of some manly men in kilts during a highland games competition.

Pickleball: Introducing a new sport that combines Tennis, Badminton, & Pingpong.

The Amazing Voyage of the Me Too:  The inspiring story of a quadriplegic woman who sailed around a continent. Okay, you HAVE to go read that story.

Scott generally writes a couple of descriptive sentences and then points you to the rest of the story on some other site. The beauty of SttB is this combination of brevity with mountains of variety. I’d never take the time to stumble across most of these articles and videos. Scott does that work for me. Then, he boils the message down to a couple of sentences so I can decide if I want to invest the time in a full reading. Often, he gets the point across with just a humorous blog post title!

We highly recommend staying on top of SttB through its RSS feed. If you don’t know what that means, watch this video.

If you really really really only care about kettlebells, just click here for a convenient listing of all kettlebell related posts. We recommend watching the full feed for awhile, though. You’ll discover some great gems!