Krav Maga and other martial arts

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  • hamlet1222
    hamlet1222 Posts: 459 Member
    Krav Maga is the best for self-defence, but as for fitness, it all depends on the instructor and how much warm up, bag work, and sparring you do. If it's just practicing the KM techniques then it's not that intense.

    I tried kickboxing once, but found the 1 hour class consisted of 45 minutes of 'warmup' - doing push ups, star jumps, sit ups etc, followed by on 15 minutes actual kickboxing. It was exhausting.
  • KittensMaster
    KittensMaster Posts: 748 Member
    HIIT will provide wind for short burst sparring intensity

    A fight is an adrenaline dump intense two minutes maybe.

    Sparring is still 3 or so 3 minute rounds normally

    I never got a workout for cardio value sparring.

    Not like a fast 5K or fast 20 mile bike ride.
  • Soundwave79
    Soundwave79 Posts: 469 Member
    hamlet1222 wrote: »
    Krav Maga is the best for self-defence, but as for fitness, it all depends on the instructor and how much warm up, bag work, and sparring you do. If it's just practicing the KM techniques then it's not that intense.

    I must have one of the good instructors then because by the end of class I am spent. I've done Insanity and Krav pushes my limits to the edge way further then Insanity did. The resistance of the bag work for those 2 minute intervals is intense. Like anything else you get what you put in, if you're dogging it you just hurting yourself. I give 100% effort all the time and Krav absolute kicks my butt. I love it.

  • jakkrk
    jakkrk Posts: 54 Member
    I do Krav, Boxing, BJJ, Muay Thai..all the extreme fitness' that I can. Have been since the beginning of the year.
  • Roza42
    Roza42 Posts: 246 Member
    I finally started back to Krav last week. I am going to try to go to Krav 2-3x a week now. I had surgery on my knee almost 2 years ago, and it just never healed well. After the fall I did PT for my hip, and it has really helped my movement. I am know throwing kicks with my bad leg and it doesn't hurt. I don't kick full strength. I have added a lot of hip/glute and bodyweight exercises to my routine as well which has helped a lot.

    I was reading one of your questions above about training, and the classes at my gym run about an hour and 15 minutes. There is about 30 minutes of warm up prior to learning forms. Sometimes sprinting and "drop and give me" exercises or tag to rounds of hitting shields to being surrounded and hit with shields. I really enjoy the hitting/kicking part of the warm up.

    What I have noticed is now I have goals based on body movement, rather than heavy lifting.
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