Kick Boxing and flexability

C

claridge

Cathlete
Has anyones flexability increased due to Kick Boxing workouts?

I desperatly need to improve my flexability in the legs and hip flexers. More stretching or longer stretching doesnt cut it for me.

Being able to achieve the splits again like I was 10 would be nice (HA HA)

Maybe more yoga/Pilates!

What do you think?

Marion
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Yoga will increase your flexability a lot and it feels soooo good after a hard workout! Espically a step workout, where your hip flexors are used a lot.
 
my flexibility has greatly improved from doing cathe's cardio and dancing. my teacher suggested stretching your legs by spreading them apart and holding for 15 secs and gradually increasing. he suggested another way but i forgot it. my dance instructor can leap high in the air with both legs off the ground and do splits!
 
I think all activity helps out on flexibility. I get really, really tight when I don't work out at all. When I do lots of heavy weights I gain flexibility as well.

Kickboxing.....hmmm.........while I don't know if you can build flexibility doing it, I DO know you need flexibility to do it right!! LOL!! Hip flexors always give me trouble on the kicks!


Your best bet would be lots of kickboxing with long stretches afterward...say total body, atleast 20 min....
 
Hi Marion!:)

I have never done Yoga and regular stretching FEELS great and prevents soarness and injury BUT Pilates worked wonders for my flexability where regular stretching never did. And again, I can't speak for yoga because I have never done it.


Cheers!

~Wendy~


We don't stop laughing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop laughing...Put more laughter into your life.
 
Thanks for the replies girls

I think Kick Boxing (which I looooooove) plus Pilates (which I already do alittle of) and some Yoga (which I will start) should hopefully, as a combination, help and improve my flexability.

Gosh! it seems to me, its getting "harder and harder" to get the TOTAL body work out in 6 days. The cardio, the weights, stretching, yoga, pilates.........Boy!
I REALLY need to organise myself in 05...... thats for sure.

Marion

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Yes, kickboxing definitely helped increase my lower body flexibility. But yoga and intentional stretching (an entire stretch
 
Arrgh! I can no longer edit my previous message (whacky, because my computer suddenly stopped typing in the middle of the sentence! I thought I'd have to take it in for some expensive repair, but I got customer service on the phone, and all I had to do was reboot the system--by removing the battery and discharging extra electricity--and it's fine now) but, anyway.

As I was saying...kickboxing helped, but doing an entire stretch workout once a week really helped as well.
 
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