Find something you like doing and form your workouts around that. I train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and I form my workouts around that.
So for me 6 days a week of bjj, 4 days of weights alternating between heavy days and high rep days. Cardio 2-3 days a week.
Get proper rest/nutrition and earn your cheat meal.
Originally posted by Putinbot1Walking is sooo underrated as an exercise. When I see someone jogging, I get tempted to yell out, Unless you're training for a race, you're working too hard! Lower incidence of injury, effective cardio, calorie burn is the same per distance (only per time is jogging better, but then, there's that injury-thing again).
Cardio is a funny one because it depends on age, person and time constraints. No way I'm doin HIIT at my age but skipping, power walking and the heavy bag are all good. Mix it up, I always get my 10,000 steps in, in a day.
Heavy-bag is great, too, for spontaneity in WOs, but at my age, sometimes I start to feel the, uh, *protests* in my joints (especially hips, from kicking).
Last I checked, though, I was still able to do the Sitting-Rising test. 💃
Exactly MS, the only kicks I do now on the bag teep to the mid section, low leg and mid section Samart Payakaroon and knees especially skip knee drills. I do more regular boxing on it, including boxing footwork, changing levels etc, which you simply don't do in Muay Thai because you'd end up eating knees in the ring. Not that I ever intend to competitively fight again.
Originally posted by Mindship
Walking is sooo underrated as an exercise. When I see someone jogging, I get tempted to yell out, Unless you're training for a race, you're working too hard! Lower incidence of injury, effective cardio, calorie burn is the same per distance (only per time is jogging better, but then, there's that injury-thing again).Heavy-bag is great, too, for spontaneity in WOs, but at my age, sometimes I start to feel the, uh, *protests* in my joints (especially hips, from kicking).
Last I checked, though, I was still able to do the Sitting-Rising test. 💃
You hit the punching bag at times? That's cool!
Originally posted by dadudemonAbout 15 years ago, my 80 lb bag finally gave (only so much duct tape can do). I went to Model's and fell in love with a 100-lb'er. Hanging that in my garage, my wife said, "Y'know, you're not as young as you used to be." She had a point.
You hit the punching bag at times? That's cool!
I don't do it as much as I used to. And like Putinbot1, I do more boxing-type stuff, though usually with bare palm strikes (I don't use gloves, even with punching) + bobbing/weaving. It's nothing much, just to keep some basic muscle memory in case I ever do find myself in a dire situation.