Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Fighting Fit


As promised from my article called "The Futures Bright ... The Futures Oranje" I wanted to follow up with some technique that you can use within your exercise routine.

I can tell you without any shadow of doubt the fighting is one of the most demanding activities in the world. When you strike, you extent your body weight outwards, putting as much force behind your strike as possible. The reason you do this is because of course you want the strike to land and do as much damage as possible. However, please remember it takes far much force to miss that it does to land a strike. So what does this mean to you? This means that if your first strike (or even the first few) does not connect with the intended target, you are going to need to have stamina to go the extra distance. And in order to do that you are going to need to be fighting fit.

So last month we got to grips with some basics Push Ups, Three Sided Crunch, Hyper Extensions, Free Standing Squats, Body Pulls, and the Plank X for five circuits.

Now lets add another no gym requied routine on to the end.

SPRAWL, KNEE TUCK



Targets: Chest, Abs, Glutes, & Legs

1: Stand upright with feet shoulder width apart. Squat down and place the palms of your hands on the floor right in front of you.




2: Immediately trust your feet back, landing in full push up position (palms under shoulders, legs extended) with feet wide. Then arch your back into the cobra pose, lowering hips toward ground. then, push your feet back into the full squat position.



3: Jump straight up into the air, bringing hands up to chin and tucking knees into chest. Do two sets of 30 seconds with a 30 seconds rest in between the two sets.

Push yourself each time you do this, try and get at least eight reps in the 30 seconds and build up to doing twelve reps.

Come back in a few days, I will be adding more combative exercises to this page.