No Mercy.
No Mercy Tae Bo: A Non-Stop Routine of Cardio-Boxing
Cherise Curby, Dale City Patch
I knew I was in trouble when I started feeling my legs in the warm-up. I knew I was doomed when I realized, this instructor doesn’t give water breaks! You just have to snatch a sip if you are dying and jump right back in. It was going to be one of those kind of classes.
This was my first Tae Bo class, held at the Woodbridge Sport&Health. Tae Bo is a cardio-boxing program, combining punches, knee raises, kicks, lunges, and all manner of martial arts and boxing stances, all really, really fast. And, if you were in my class, all many, many times over.
Our instructor was energetic and enthusiastic, but she admitted at one point that, “No one ever makes it through a whole Tae Bo class without stopping.” I felt justified when I saw the people who were in way better shape than me dripping sweat and having to stop for breaks. A couple girls in front of me actually slipped out half-way.
If you think holding a lunge sounds easy, trying holding a lunge while punching an invisible foe, twisting your abs (held tight all the time) back and forth. If that sounds easy, try doing it for two minutes, holding that same lunge on the same leg. If that sounds easy, you must be a robot.
Our instructor seemed to thrill on having us do a move over and over and over until we were ready to drop. No rests and no smiles in that room (except for our ever-cheerful, sweat-dripping instructor). And any move could be made harder by adding jabbing arms.
The instructor took blocking pads around to various students throughout the class, encouraging them to swing harder and twist further as they hit her hands.
“Why is everyone stopped?” she asked, looking up from concentrating on one student all of a sudden. And it was true: almost the whole class was trying to catch their breath. “Let’s go!” she called and sent us into another move.
“You have a couple choices here,” she called out. “You can smile
Cherise Curby, Dale City Patch
I knew I was in trouble when I started feeling my legs in the warm-up. I knew I was doomed when I realized, this instructor doesn’t give water breaks! You just have to snatch a sip if you are dying and jump right back in. It was going to be one of those kind of classes.
This was my first Tae Bo class, held at the Woodbridge Sport&Health. Tae Bo is a cardio-boxing program, combining punches, knee raises, kicks, lunges, and all manner of martial arts and boxing stances, all really, really fast. And, if you were in my class, all many, many times over.
Our instructor was energetic and enthusiastic, but she admitted at one point that, “No one ever makes it through a whole Tae Bo class without stopping.” I felt justified when I saw the people who were in way better shape than me dripping sweat and having to stop for breaks. A couple girls in front of me actually slipped out half-way.
If you think holding a lunge sounds easy, trying holding a lunge while punching an invisible foe, twisting your abs (held tight all the time) back and forth. If that sounds easy, try doing it for two minutes, holding that same lunge on the same leg. If that sounds easy, you must be a robot.
Our instructor seemed to thrill on having us do a move over and over and over until we were ready to drop. No rests and no smiles in that room (except for our ever-cheerful, sweat-dripping instructor). And any move could be made harder by adding jabbing arms.
The instructor took blocking pads around to various students throughout the class, encouraging them to swing harder and twist further as they hit her hands.
“Why is everyone stopped?” she asked, looking up from concentrating on one student all of a sudden. And it was true: almost the whole class was trying to catch their breath. “Let’s go!” she called and sent us into another move.
“You have a couple choices here,” she called out. “You can smile
Links: Popular Slimming for 2012 SNL is composed of slimming & white ning in one capsule 1000mg. SNL . www.yumeimise.net Cardiovascular Workout One of Tae Bo 's biggest selling points is its cardiovascular workout, which Blanks said was a result of the dance moves added to the already high-energy workout. The benefit of a good cardiovascular workout was the first thing Blanks noticed when he inadvertently created Tae Bo in 1976. Blanks, a devoted exerciser, became quickly fatigued when combining dance moves to his martial arts and boxing workout. Weight Loss Due to the high-energy aerobic nature of Tae Bo, the exercise program will burn calories during the routine, which should translate into weight loss. Self Defense The kicking and punching done during a Tae Bo workout will lead to a better grasp of self-defense methods. While Blanks says he hopes Tae Bo users are never put in a spot where they will need the self-defense training, Tae Bo will give them the skills and confidence to deal with potential trouble. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/TAEBO.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tae_B http://www.sportandhealth.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=10703