Category: Health

London kickboxing club can provide personal training and conditioning

When it comes to getting in shape, meeting new friends, and learning a new discipline, there can be few better things to do than London kickboxing classes. Seriously: if you don’t believe me, then you are missing out! I went to a London kickboxing club for the first time around a year ago. I went on the suggestion of a friend, and also because I had nothing else to do, and I have not looked back since then! I enjoyed it so much I wanted to go back straight away! Since then I went every week, and I started to work on a training program, with the instructor acting as my personal trainer. I have never been so healthy and energetic, and it feels amazing. I’m sure – in fact I know, since I have been to compete in a few other dojos – that there are many different types of kickboxing London clubs can offer, but I think I was just lucky to find the one that was just right for me at the first time of asking. If I hadn’t, I imagine I would have just decided that kickboxing in general wasn’t for me.

As it is, I have really enjoyed finding out about the sport and its origins, and also about the codes of conduct and discipline that you can apply to your everyday life; some meditation and breathing exercises I have learned at Karmaa (my London kickboxing club), for instance, have really reduced my stress levels at work, and helped me to deal with tough issues involving colleagues. I didn’t beat anybody up, if that’s what you’re thinking!

In fact, Kickboxing has weirdly made me feel more calm and passive in life. Less like I am fighting against anything and more like I am going with the flow and calmly finding my way through. It’s funny: before I took up kickboxing, I was seriously contemplating leaving my job, because I found living in London too stressful. Now I don’t think of it in that way, and I don’t think that can be a coincidence.

In London kickboxing classes can be a brilliant way to escape from your job in the city for a while. You get an adrenaline rush, which helps you to relax and sleep more at night. A good London kickboxing club should be able to cater for your individual needs – i.e. what it is you want to get out of kickboxing. Through kickboxing London has become a less difficult and more exciting place to live.

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The bonuses of being part of kickboxing London?

Having recently relocated to London, I was spending so much of my time at work I had become really stressed, and needed to start doing some regular exercise.  A friend suggested kickboxing as a great way to work out and to alleviate stress, so I started asking around and looking for a nearby kickboxing club.  The kickboxing London scene was more thriving than I expected, and I managed to find a club that was close to my house and held sessions four nights a week.  I found a brilliant teacher who was really committed to helping beginners learn the ropes, and fairly quickly  I found myself really looking forward to my evenings at the club.

I was surprised to find out that kickboxing as a Western leisure activity is a fairly recent phenomenon – it started in the United States in the 1970s, when karate experts organised competitions which incorporated the full-contact kicks and punches that had been banned in karate.  Health and safety concerns led to the introduction of padding and safety rules to the sport, giving us the type of kickboxing that is commonly practised today. It is a brilliantly adaptable activity, with different forms that vary according to the techniques used and the amount of physical contact between competitors.

One of the types of the sport I particularly like is aerobic kickboxing, also called kickboxercise, which combines elements of boxing, martial arts and aerobics to give the entire body a full-on workout.  In these classes, we generally do a fifteen minute warm up, which involves regular exercises such as push ups and squat thrusts, and then move onto a more skills based half hour that focuses on kicks and punches.  After one of these classes I often feel absolutely shattered, but I’m sure it does my body a lot of good.  Apparently, an hour of the sport burns from 350 to 450 calories, so I would guess that kickboxercise could dispense with twice as many!

I know for sure that my upper leg strength and muscle definition in my arms have greatly improved since I started at the kickboxing club.  And that’s just the physical changes.  Being part of kickboxing London has changed my life in so many ways, it’s hard to remember what I was like before.  Fitter, healthier, less stressed, able to defend myself in an emergency – and I have kickboxing to thank!

Please visit http://www.zendokickboxing.com/ for further information about this topic.

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