Be Well: How Mix Martial Arts Can Offer a Full-Body Workout

<div class="block">This four minute &#39;beWell&#39; fitness segment focuses on mixed martial arts. Cheddar News anchor Shannon LaNier learned a few moves that can help with his fitness in the gym or at home.</div>

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Welcome back to be. Well, time now for fitness in four today. It's all about total body training without any weights. Yes. So I tried out M MA and that's mixed martial arts and it works your arms, your abs, a lot of things. It was a pretty good stress reliever too. John M Ma is all the rage right now. I have some gloves. Is this necessary when doing this workout, you don't have to have them, but it helps resistance training and protecting your wrist and your knuckles when you're punching for a little bit better workout. And if you don't have someone with you, you could probably just shadow box as well. Right. Absolutely. That's great where you're training. Ok. So what are some of the routines we're gonna do? Ok. First thing we're gonna do is having our hands up for our front hand, we're going to do jab whatever side you have forward that hand is gonna be the jab. That's just to keep someone away from you here with the first two knuckles. It's kind of like your feeler when you're fighting and it's just a good workout to start off with. Now, what about the elbow. Shall we lock the elbow out or always keep your elbow a little bit bent. You don't want to hyper extend it and put your elbow or your joints and should I put some power behind it? Yeah. Yeah, that's it breathing out. Yeah. Then the other punch is gonna be our crush off the back hand. So we're gonna twist her body into it. Get her whole body just now punch with the arm, the pivot in our whole body into that punch. And when you say pivot, my right foot comes off the ground as I cross over. Right. That's it. Stay on the ball of the foot. And then we could put those together. A jab and a crush. 12. Yep. Good. I feel it getting energized. Ok. That our next punch is, is a pretty powerful punch is a hook. We could do it off our back hand or our front hand, either one. So if we do it off our front hand, you want your elbow and your fist to be in a straight line and your palm facing you and you're going to the side. That's it. Right. Yeah. So we could do it off the front and we could do it off the back. Now, do I need to twist my leg when I'm doing this one? Yes. Just like the crust pipping it off that back leg. Right. Then the next we could do jab Crust Bob and weave in the huck. Oh, there's a lot to remember. Ok. So jab cross, Bob and weave. That's when I go down and then a doesn't matter which hook I throw. So it depends on what side the person comes on, what side you bob a weed. Ok. So if we do jab cross now we bob a weed this way and then we can do and we could do another. Oh, ok. I'm ready for that. OK. Right. Let's do it. OK. OK. This is getting exciting once you memorize what you're supposed to do. Do you have a freestyle where you just have to know what's coming at you. Absolutely. You can imagine there's opponent in front of you at home. Shadow boxing, moving around, ducking, weaving, bobbing and this gets the components ready for the ring when they're actually having someone coming at them. Absolutely. So you don't always have to sparse somebody or fight somebody. You could it in the air and just move around a little bit. Now, that was a lot of upper body. What about the lower body? Yep. So a powerful weapon is the knee of the back leg. So just like this, that you could also grab out of the bag or your partner. Oh That kind of like brings you down, like get down there. OK? I like that one too. So I really get your lower body and you can switch and do it with your other knee as Well, yeah. Don't mess with me. I love, oh, you could tell how much you loved it too. And if you have a workout you love. We want to hear about it. So scan the QR code, let us know so we could try it out. Yeah. And you'll find helpful workouts like that every day here on. Be well, plus money saving tips, home hacks and healthy eating options. So, tune in tomorrow for more. Be well, helping you live life better.