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Overall best work-out


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Overall best work-out  

16 members have voted

  1. 1. Overall best work-out

    • Swimming
      8
    • Running
      2
    • Weight Training
      1
    • Meditation and Spiritual enlightenment
      0
    • Conditioning
      2
    • Life
      0
    • Kata or other
      3


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i say running, but the other ones are good to. running is healthy for the body in general, and when you start to see your becoming healthier, its also good for the mind. they go together quite nice.

Im brasilian, but live in the united states. Really enjoying martial arts.

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none of these can give you a complete work out,

running improves fitness, but does nothing for upper body..

weight training makes you strong, but wont help you loose weight.

you need a combination of aerobic training (run/swim/bike/etc) and strength training (weights/gym/pushups/situps/etc)

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none of these can give you a complete work out,

running improves fitness, but does nothing for upper body..

weight training makes you strong, but wont help you loose weight.

you need a combination of aerobic training (run/swim/bike/etc) and strength training (weights/gym/pushups/situps/etc)

Well i woundn'y say running doesnt do anything for the upper body, because you lungs and for some reason when i run my abs get worked so pending on the person really...but yea i agree otherwise

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst"

William Penn

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I voted other as I feel you need a combination to stay fit. Kata and martial arts are great, but running or stair steppers for cardio, weights for building muscle, and stretching are all necessary to be in great shape. Couple cardio, weights, stretching and martial arts and you have a great combination.

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For straight overall body, I put swimming. It is a whole body exercise, is very aerobic intensive, and can be driven into anaerobic as well. However, it doesn't do a lot for building muscle size.

Running is absolute anathema if you are seriously trying to build muscle, as the pounding you take when running can cause muscle breakdown.

As others have said, a sensible cross traning program with several different types of activity is the best bet.

Aodhan

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.


-Douglas Everett, American hockey player

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