At Home Training - Workout Drills
Sharpen your skills with the best tips and drills from martial arts experts to practice at home!
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Chris Casamassa - Sit Up Crunch Challenge
Students will cross their feet together and execute sit ups as a team. You can also add punches or high fives to the sit ups.
Conditioning | Fitness | Sit Up | Teamwork -
Chris Casamassa - Push Up Challenge
Students will execute push ups facing each other, then adding high fives in between the push ups. You can also incorporate clapping push ups.
Conditioning | Fitness | Push Ups | Teamwork -
Chris Casamassa - Power Jack Challenge
Students will do jumping jacks, hitting their stomach as hard as they can every time they bring their feet together. Take advantage of the many variations of this drill.
Conditioning | Fitness | Cardio -
Giulliano Gallupi - Ab Clap Exercise
A great exercise to target the core abdominal muscles, the ab clap can be used with or without weights in hand to add levels of difficulty.
Conditioning | Fitness | Abs | Dumbbells -
Giulliano Gallupi - Lock, Lunge, and Twist
This exercise focuses on the core and legs. The lunges will work the legs while the twisting at the end will strengthen the core.
Conditioning | Fitness | Lunge -
Danny Etkin - Explosive Jumping Drill
This drill will help you maximize height when doing tricking forms or techniques. This drill is also great to incorporate into a functional fitness routine.
Fitness | Conditioning | Tricking | Jumping | Exercise -
Danny Etkin - Jumping Drill
There are two primary jumping techniques used in martial arts tricking. Use this drill to help your students master these jumps and become better trickers.
Sport Karate | Tricking | Jumping | Plyometrics -
Dave Kovar - Bear Crawl
The bear crawl is a classic drill in martial arts classes. However, many instructors forget that you can use this warm up in a variety of different directions.
Warm Up | Fitness | Kids Drills
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Dave Kovar - Animal Planet Drill - Rabbit
These warm up drills, named after animals, use your own body weight and are intended to be used after your students have already warmed up a bit. This particular drill works the shoulders and lower body, known as the "Rabbit".
Warm Up | Kids Drills | Fitness
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Antony Graf - Knee Jump Progression - Part 1
The beginner level of the knee jump is a simple transition from both knees being on the ground, to what is called a "power position".
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | Fitness -
Antony Graf - Knee Jump Progression - Part 2
The next level of the knee jump works power transfer and bounding. Simply add another jump immediately after reaching power position.
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | Fitness -
Antony Graf - Knee Jump Progression - Part 4
The final level of this progression uses a bo staff to add a snatch to the knee jump. This motion creates a tremendous amount of violent hip power.
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | Fitness -
Antony Graf - Knee Jump Progression - Part 3
The third level of this progression incorporates box jumping to maximize force. This drill is designed for a low number of reps.
The Juice Compound | Conditioning | Warm Up | Exercise | Strength | Power | PlyoBox | Fitness