About

Hey, thanks for checking out this site. I’m Justin Qualler and I run things around here.

I hope you find something of value here. I keep adding stuff, but I have a day job, too.

I’ve been exercising at varying intensities since 1994. Before that, I was playing—and that constituted exercise.

In that time, I’ve done a lot of different routines, exercises, lifted a lot of weight, been really strong, been really injured, been pretty weak, had no endurance, played sports, read a lot of different theories, found kettlebells, moved and had to get rid of all my weights except kettlebells, and I’ve gotten more entrenched in an office sit and slump environment.

I started training people in 2003, after taking the Russian Kettlebell Certification. It opened a lot of doors and I met a lot of interesting people. Many of the people I trained were attracted to a new fitness solution—they’d tried other things and just didn’t feel right.

The kettlebell does a great job of integrating the muscles and helping people coordinate their bodies in a meaningful way.

By 2004, I had fully immersed myself in training and was willing to finally try to gain weight.

I did a version of the Super Squats routine and gained 20 pounds in a month. A gallon of milk per day helped give me the extra calories. Overall, I don’t think I’ve been any stronger, but it obviously wasn’t healthy and muscles grew stronger more quickly than my tendons and I tore my pec.

In 2006, I was an instructor at the Russian Kettlebell Certification. It was an amazing experience and there are a lot of great people who go through that program. Shortly after that I paid for Steve Cotter’s online training. I’d been to a lot of his workshops and his instruction is outstanding.

He knew me well enough to really be able to give me a solid routine and again I was getting really strong and in outstanding shape. The training was so intense that it didn’t matter if I worked out with my kettlebell classes or not. Anything I did in class for the general population was nothing compared to the Steve Cotter workouts.

That winter, I dropped off the grid and spent three months not working and about a month and a half in Mexico. Mexico made me realize a different kind of fitness and I became a lot more in tune with movement, my posture, breathing, and awareness.

Then, I moved to Arizona and began working for a fast-paced, fast-growing company. Somehow three years have passed here. I spent a year boxing, lost a lot of weight, lost some strength, and now I’m working on being in tune with my movement, posture, breathing, and awareness, while still working out at a high level.

The information that’s on this site comes from the years of experience, from books, and from teachers. I hope you enjoy it, and if you have questions, or comments, email me.