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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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Posted (edited)

What would you say is the best overall work-out?

I voted swimming

Edited by Menjo

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

William Penn

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Posted

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.

Posted

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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Posted

Swimming makes your body stornger and it also helps with cardio. It is the most complete excercise(if you're not planning on doing anything else).

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Posted
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

Posted

Actually would conditioning really be considered a work out?

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

William Penn

  • 2 weeks later...
Posted

Can I vote all of the above . Cross training is best.

We are not so much individual beings as individual points of perception within one immense being.

Posted

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.

Posted

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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