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Morning all - I posted a while back when I was mistakenly "Waltered" about the RM POC.
Anyway, I teach kickboxing locally and have been seeking the advice of an Army mate (ex sniper and boxed for the Army, can't remember which regiment) on hideous exercises to "torture" my class.
Best so far has been the "chinese press ups" - A sort of handstand press up in an inverted "V" shape.
Any of you fitness experts have any more?
Anything that can be done with one or two people would be good.
The harder, the better

What form of unarmed combat do you guys tend to use BTW?

Have you ever heard of the Janda situp? From what I've heard, if you do these properly they're really hard, but good for your abs, heres some more info;

Janda Situp

They can be done in pairs without the "ab pavalizer";

The Janda sit-up ingeniously inactivates the hip flexors by contracting the hamstrings and glutes. Dr. Janda accomplished this by placing his hands under his patient’s calves as they assumed the standard bent-knee sit-up position. He then asked the patient to pull against his hands as they attempted to sit-up. Presto, the hip flexors are inhibited by the contraction of the opposing knee-flexor hamstrings and the hip-extensor glutes. The result, according to Dr. Janda, is true isolation of the abdominal muscles.

But I hear its hard to do em properly, hope this helps you,

Rev

Nice one!
Can't quite picture how the "hand under calves" bit works but I'll do some experimenting.

I think you'd do it a bit like that

I see - So does the arrow indicate pressure in that direction?
Got stacks of press up variants but it's great to have some torturous ab stuff!

I think the arrows are where the bloke doing the situps pushes against his partners hands, I'm not a hundred percent sure but thats what the website above would suggest

Thanks Rev!
Will try them tonight.
Makes a change from one arm press ups

Think I got them right and they do indeed hurt!
I shall introduce them on my Thursday

Remind me NOT to attend any of your classes.

Not from the forces Matt, but my old teacher when I did White Crane for a while was a charming chap who loved variations on the standard pressup, namely making you do them on fingers only (fingertips on ground instead of palm), on knuckles (old favourite), and for the old hands, doing the above while standing on or with a foot inbetween their shoulderblades.

Your class will love you for it

We cover most of that tbh as I've spent faaaar too long researching!
I think I just about know every press up variation around with the one arm and Chinese press ups winning the "agony" prize even above handstand ones.
Double (or triple if you're good) clap press ups are good too.

The crunchy sit up thing is a great find!

Why not just jump on their fingers?

That'll make em jump!

Artist

Probably the hardest type of press up to do is the planche press up. It's generally only done by gymnasts because of the amount balance it requires in addition to the extreme strength levels. Basically it requires balancing on your hands, feet in the air, and body held paralell to the ground, and then doing press ups.

There are some good pics of it on this site: http://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode3/229/

Also, i've got a small ebook of deifferent exercises some of us on an MMA forum came up with a few years back. I can't attach it here, but i can send it through to your email if you give me your address.

Take care.

there not little children!! there mini-machines!! WWW

matt you sound like one of the bigest bas**** i have heard of for an instructor keep it up dude