Here’s why Turkish Get-Ups are one of the best kettlebell exercises:

• Build coordination and spatial awareness
• Train rolling patterns and cross-lateralization
• Improves other lifts 
• Enhance shoulder mobility/stability
• Promote upper and lower body stability
• Adds lean muscle to the body in a functional way
• Develop upper, lower, and trunk strength
• Endless combinations, variations, and workouts
• It can be used for a cardio training effect

Turkish Get-Ups are one of the best kettlebell exercises a person can learn, train, and progress. Turkish Get-Ups demonstrate integrated total body strength, stability/mobility, and control.  

Kettlebell swings, snatches, and cleans are explosive exercises. These movements are ballistic and demand force production for maximum benefit. Turkish Get-Ups are on the other side of the spectrum. They’re a slow and controlled grind.  

Turkish Get-Ups can be used to create a cardio stimulus if performed continuously for a longer duration. Loaded conditioning is fantastic for fat loss and building work capacity.  

The following movements are woven into every repetition of Turkish Get Up:

• Core rolling patterns 
• Windmill 
• Hip lift
• Lunge 
• Dynamic shoulder stability (holding the kettlebell anterior, vertical, etc.)

In future posts, I’ll share variations that add other exercises to create a different training effect and challenge. Every segment of the Turkish Get-Ups allows an opportunity to add an exercise or tweak. The options are limitless.  

The unique part of Turkish Get-Ups is the mirror effect of the exercise. The movement actions performed in the first half of the exercise are mirrored and reversed, returning to the floor. Therefore, you’re training the concentric and eccentric phases of each movement.  

Learning, practicing, and building strength and work capacity with Turkish Get-Ups are worth your time. Over time (and with attention to essential factors like diet, hydration, sleep, etc.) Turkish Get-Ups can play a influential role in improving body composition (losing fat and building functional muscle), strength, coordination, and control.