Capoeira Fitness Tip of the Week

This feature is designed to give you functional training tools for your off days when you are not training capoeira.  We will be looking at various excercises, tools, and resources that we will have as resources for you to devise a strategy for your overall physical development as a capoeirista.

The goals will be:

Overall Physical Health

Promoting Longevity

Improved Performance in your capoeira training and game

Yet another bit on the serious and real negative health effects of a sedentary lifestyle.  Please take this to heart and see what you can do to make changes in your work station.

Enjoy!

Capoeira Fitness Tip of the Week

This feature is designed to give you functional training tools for your off days when you are not training capoeira.  We will be looking at various excercises, tools, and resources that we will have as resources for you to devise a strategy for your overall physical development as a capoeirista.

The goals will be:

Overall Physical Health

Promoting Longevity

Improved Performance in your capoeira training and game

We have had some folks asking about off day workouts.  This is a version of the pushup that is easy to execute in terms of its form and technique and has great returns with consistent practice.

Enjoy!

Capoeira Fitness Tip of the Week

This feature is designed to give you functional training tools for your off days when you are not training capoeira.  We will be looking at various excercises, tools, and resources that we will have as resources for you to devise a strategy for your overall physical development as a capoeirista.

The goals will be:

Overall Physical Health

Promoting Longevity

Improved Performance in your capoeira training and game

Ok...  These big little things have been popping up at gyms all over.  I recently got into them at the beginning of the summer.  They are hard.  They offer a ton of options for exercises.  They are awesome!

Enjoy!

Capoeira Fitness Tip of the Week

This feature is designed to give you functional training tools for your off days when you are not training capoeira.  We will be looking at various excercises, tools, and resources that we will have as resources for you to devise a strategy for your overall physical development as a capoeirista.

The goals will be:

Overall Physical Health

Promoting Longevity

Improved Performance in your capoeira training and game

Here we look at weight or force and its impact on the body.  We are using a video that talks about excess weight on the joints.  Thankfully, having something like capoeira as a regular activity in your life means excess weight will likely be much less of an issue for you, so the lesson applies in another way.

Good form or technique as you do your capoeira movements is essential to longevity in the art, in anything really.  For example, we talk about how in armada or cocorinha, there are ways to lighten the load on your knees.  This video shows how force can travel through the body all the way down to your feet, and affects all the joints along the way.

Enjoy!

Capoeira Fitness Tip of the Week

This feature is designed to give you functional training tools for your off days when you are not training capoeira.  We will be looking at various excercises, tools, and resources that we will have as resources for you to devise a strategy for your overall physical development as a capoeirista.

The goals will be:

Overall Physical Health

Promoting Longevity

Improved Performance in your capoeira training and game

Part 2/2 on our look at some exercises for our feet.   

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from some barefoot experts at vibram five fingers...

2-week strength training program.

Now that you have begun to familiarize yourself with your feet, you’ve probably noticed that they are pretty weak. Maybe it’s hard to spread or control your toes? Perhaps being barefoot for an extended amount of time leaves your feet sore or tired? To safely begin the transition to wearing Vibram FiveFingers® for barefoot running and fitness, we highly recommend the following foot strengthening exercises.

Practice the exercises below in 3 sets of 20 reps, 3-5X/week for 2 weeks. Your feet may feel tired afterwards, but you should not be in pain. Ultimately, this series of exercises will be part of your warm-up routine.

1. Heel raise

2. Toe grip

3. Dorsi/plantar flexion

4. Toe spread/tap

5. Exaggerated eversion/inversion

6. Grabbing a towel on the floor with toes and pass to other foot

7. Walking in FiveFingers: never underestimate the power of just being barefoot or in FiveFingers. One- to two-hour intervals of general day-to-day activity in your FiveFingers is an excellent way to slowly build the small muscles in the feet and ankles.

Capoeira Fitness Tip of the Week: A Way to Stretch

This feature is designed to give you functional training tools for your off days when you are not training capoeira.  We will be looking at various excercises, tools, and resources that we will have as resources for you to devise a strategy for your overall physical development as a capoeirista.

The goals will be:

Overall Physical Health

Promoting Longevity

Improved Performance in your capoeira training and game

In Monday's 8:30pm class we used this approach to stretching.  Here is some more on it. 

Enjoy!