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In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, people are starting to look at new ways to get the jobs done that they're looking for.

If you're looking for aesthetics, if you're looking for performance, if you're looking for to excel at adventure racing, they're all different goals.

And I think that ultimately, if we just say, hey, no matter what your goal is, you should be in there lifting barbells exclusively. I think we're doing a big disservice with a lot of people.

And then the risk to reward ratio for whatever we're selecting with you. Like you said, should everybody swing a mace around your head? Probably not.

But there's a lot of different ways to use a mace that don't fall swing.

I think that in person coaching is the most ideal way to do it because there's instant feedback besides pain.

I mean, essentially when you're exploring a lot of this stuff, you do things wrong, just a piece of metal hitting your body.

You don't really know what you're doing this incorrect, except for the fact that something hurts.

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The Hey folks has been Greenfield and these days one of the places that you'll often find me is either in my basement or in my driveway playing with some of the unconventional fitness equipment that you've heard me talk about in the past few months on the show.

Things like battle ropes, maces, steel bells, clubs, kettlebells with monkey faces on them, and a variety of other fitness gear that seems kind of weird, kind of mysterious, but is actually kind of fun to use if you know what you're doing.

Now I know that in the past I've talked about this stuff for like you know a few seconds and kind of moved on, but today I want to delve into why I use these type of things, how you can use them, how they came about in the first place because there's some really interesting history behind some of this stuff.

And so we're basically just going to geek out on weird unconventional fitness gear today and what you can do with it.

Now as you listen in if you want to check out the show notes for anything that we talk about you can go over to bengreenfieldfitness.com slash weird fitness that's bengreenfieldfitness.com slash weird fitness if you want to delve into any of the resources that my guests have.

And I talk about today so my guess is john wolf john wolf is the owner in the founder something called wolf fitness systems.

It's a great last name for being in fitness and this is basically an unconventional gym that focuses on the integration of a bunch of different movement theories with unconventional tools.

Well now what john does is he's the director of fitness education for a company called on it and at on it he helps to train people with things like kettlebells and clubs and maces and sandbags and suspension training tools and even body weight exercises and he's kind of an ninja when it comes to these weird fitness tools.

So john thanks for coming on the call man.

Thanks for having me on ben is great to be here and for those you who want to see a pretty badass photo of john I've got one of him on the podcast show notes swinging around a club so he he knows how to wield these things and he looks like he walks the walk as well not just talks the talk so I love to have people like down the show who are out there in the trenches.

So john let's um let's start here man because this is something I've always wondered about and so I'm just going to ask you straight up you guys have kettlebells and they have weird faces on them like some have monkey faces some I believe have zombie faces what's the story there why not just a straight up good old competition kettlebell.

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