How to Do the One-Arm Kettlebell Split Jerk
💪 Shoulders, Glutes, Hamstrings, Quadriceps, Triceps🏋️ Kettlebells📊 Intermediate🏷️ Strength
How to perform it
- Hold a kettlebell by the handle. Clean the kettlebell to your shoulder by extending through the legs and hips as you pull the kettlebell towards your shoulder. Rotate your wrist as you do so, so that the palm faces forward. This will be your starting position.
- Dip your body by bending the knees, keeping your torso upright.
- Immediately reverse direction, driving through the heels, in essence jumping to create momentum. As you do so, press the kettlebell overhead to lockout by extending the arms, using your body's momentum to move the weight.
- Receive the weight overhead by returning to a squat position underneath the weight, positioning one leg in front of you and one leg behind you.
- Keeping the weight overhead, return to a standing position and bring your feet together. Lower the weight to perform the next repetition.
Muscles worked
The One-Arm Kettlebell Split Jerk primarily targets your Shoulders, with support from your Glutes, Hamstrings, Quadriceps, Triceps. You'll need kettlebells.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the One-Arm Kettlebell Split Jerk slots into a plan built for your goal — sets, reps and progression auto-suggested, logged in two taps, and folded into a weekly review that adapts what comes next.