what are the most challenging conditioning exercises you love/hate to do in class?
Soy_K
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you know.. the ones that burn and quiver and you hate them but you know they're helping to make you stronger..?
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Jumping jacks. My bladder minds them more than I do.1
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I have a few....
Pistol squats
pull ups
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I have a love/hate relationship with static kicks where we hold the kick up for a period of time that seems like FOREVER...but is probably just a few seconds.3
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My nemeses:
1) sideways jumping cossack squats down the length of the room, where you go from left squat to right and have to jump sideways and repeat down the room on one side and the on the way back they are drop stances (same thing but both feet flat instead of toe up)
2) similar drill with sideways jumping horse stances where you swing the upper body downwards in a U shape as you jump sideways into the next horse stance down the lenght of the room
3) worst yet = step/box jumps with straight legs
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I could do without the squat thrusts, burpees, and jumping jacks. Not because they are physically difficult, but because they make my pants fall down, then I try to pull them up, it snags the top of the uniform, and before I know it I look like I don't know how to dress myself.3
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Time for a new uniform?0
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Its the motion of upvdown impact and my lack of a butt lol1
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Ahhh - I know the curse of the buttless well.0
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No one has a butt on either side of my family, I was doomed haha. I have one of the most extreme cases of flat butt I've ever seen.
After I lost weight was the first time I could ever wear pants without a belt because they could rest on my hips and not look ridiculous. Now that I put weight back on not so much, but still, lol.1 -
If you are using elastic waist pants, that can definitely make it worse.. if you have drawstring pants, you can pull them tight and they won't fall so easy.0
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Generally I have to tighten mine twice for some reason.. once when I put them on, then once during/after warm up when they invariably loosen... after that, they stay. Never could figure it out, as it doesn't matter how tight I make the knot the first time, they WILL loosen.. but pretty much never after that first retie.0
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The heat and sweat makes the threads in the string expand, which makes the knot looser. Once its already warmed up the next knot will stay, but will sometimes be hard to undo if it cools off and contracts after class. Silly little science things.
I have a couple of uniforms and i think the elastic stays up better.1 -
I had thought about the heat/sweat too, but it's a heavy weight dobok - by the time the sweat gets to the knot, there has to be a bucket of sweat coming off me... so my guess would be the heat. I've worn a lot of them as well - personally settled on the drawstrings years ago and haven't looked back since.0
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Jump rope before kickboxing class. I have always had weak ankles and no matter how good a shape the rest of my body is in, jumping rope stresses my ankles and makes me miserable.1
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I just really hate when we're made to jog around the room for warm up. I love to jog, but outside in the fresh air and wearing shoes, not around a warm room, barefoot on a hard floor, and certainly not before I'm about to spend an hour doing kicks and holding long stances - my hips and knees are always screaming at the end of a jogging warm up.
We did a cossack squat to front kick thing last week which I've never done before, my poor balance really shows when I do something like that, it's definitely something I'm going to build into my home workout.
I love anything that works my core, I always feel the benefit of a good core workout even though I can never see it thanks to the generous covering of fat on my midriff.1 -
I love anything that works my core, I always feel the benefit of a good core workout even though I can never see it thanks to the generous covering of fat on my midriff.
Ditto! If I can't feel the DOMs from a core workout I know it wasn't tough enough or I didn't give it my all. Still, I don't actually see the effects until I get rid of more of this fat/weight.1 -
Brabo_Grip wrote: »Jump rope before kickboxing class. I have always had weak ankles and no matter how good a shape the rest of my body is in, jumping rope stresses my ankles and makes me miserable.
for the longest time i couldn't jump rope worth $%^. it was so frustrating. it was more like give myself rope burn exercise, or the worst- the ropes that are made out of those long plastic segments that sometimes pinch your leg. thankfully i finally can jump rope like a normal person, but wow that first month sure made me feel like dummy!2 -
I always hit my toe when I jump rope barefoot, and it hurts XD
I'd rather jump rope than run though....2 -
Push-ups are still on the top of my “most hated” list. And we do them all the time. And my arms still look like two sticks. Haha2
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Push-ups are still on the top of my “most hated” list. And we do them all the time. And my arms still look like two sticks. Haha
I hate pushups too, actually all upper body anythings. I find I can do about 5 really good nice form pushups total before getting too tired but I can fake many poor pushups!1
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