How Kettlebells Could Have Helped Katniss Everdeen

By Brent Neenan


What the Hunger Games was; was a fight for life. With adolescent against adolescent in epic fights to the bitter end the settings may have varied but the rules were always constant. Live through the Hunger Games and procure relief for your district. The girl on fire, Katniss Everdeen would have infinitely benefited from using kettlebells and performing kettlebell exercises before being thrown into the games.

Being a young girl from an impoverished district Katniss was not quite suited to participate in these games. The only advantage she had was her ability to fire a bow and arrow. She acquired and refined her skill from her father then alongside her friend Gale Hawthorne. It was this skill that enabled her to survive.

Prominent physical strength was never the determining factor while participating in the games even though other competitors were far more fit for the games than Katniss was. In using kettlebells though she could have built her muscles just as how her co-tribute Peeta Mellark did working his parents' bakery his whole life.

Kettlebell exercises can help a person, increase stamina, and help them to lose weight, making them more agile. These characteristics most likely would have definitely helped Katniss as she was running through the wilderness while hunting small woodland creatures to help feed her family or later, during the Hunger Games. The overall physical development would have enabled Katniss to compete with some of the other tributes in a more physical arena, rather than having to depend on just her wits to get her through the Games.

Although distinctly poor, Katniss could have developed her own form of kettlebells when not hunting in the woods. She most likely could have used some of the rocks as rough kettlebells, and taught herself ways to use them during a workout. At least for her, she was fortunate enough to have a hidden talent, one that helped her to survive the Hunger Games and compete against far better conditioned tributes.




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