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Keep your game sharp (and your guard up…!),
Shir

Widespread However , Powerful Enjoy On the web Roulette

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Quite a few athletes you should not recognize that the chances as well as cash are usually investment right, due to the several choices to help chance taking part. Like, a real game addict bet during one variety for every simply turn incorporates a thirty eight to facteur for you to triumph. Based on a trendy process throughout roulette, of which corresponds to all the live seller on-line roulette game at the same time, a player incorporates a sixty percent possibility for be successful with if perhaps this individual wagers for just one single number for the purpose of thirty seven bets. The per cent can be reduced for you to 50 percent of if for example the game player gamble on not one but two statistics. It truly is extra lower whenever the game lover gambles with much more stats. You’ll want to basically switch numbers to solution on the subject of when the phone number has got competed or even soon after your loss reduce has actually been reached.Various players, more hence, the particular amateurs-are swayed simply because of the gamble located by way of your co-gamers. Game enthusiasts need to mainly value their particular recreation, without following this online game of your entire gamers.

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SPRING FEVER

Spring is here – and now is the time to work out hard. This is when people get that spring workout fever and decide they want to push it harder… But as we know all too well, sometimes work and the rest of life can throw a detour in your workout journey. If you are pressed for time, forget the hour and a half workout at the gym – a long workout is great if you have the time; when crunched for time try the circuit below – it can be done in 25 minutes:

Warm-up can be whatever you want. Sometimes I start with a set of regular push-ups and a set of squats at a moderate speed. This helps to get my heart going and my body warm. Perform the circuit four times. The goal is to go from exercise to exercise with no rest. If needed take a one-minute rest at the end of each circuit.

1. Dumbbell deadlift to shoulder press
2. One leg diamond push-ups- (keep other leg 6 inches off the floor)
3. Dumbbell squat to standing shrugs
4. Gorilla Crunch Pull-up and Hanging Crunch combined: Pull yourself up on the pull-up bar and perform a crunch. The key is to bring your elbows to your knees, rounding the body like a ball.
5. Plyometric kettlebell push-ups: One hand is on the ground and the other is on a kettlebell (the smaller the bell, the harder the exercise!). Feet are kept two feet apart. Push off the ground switching hands on the kettlebell as you come down. This exercise can be done with a Kettlebell or dumbbell.

My “12 Days of Christmas” Workout

Here’s one that will help you stay sharp during the holidays… If you know the lyrics, you know what to do (and if you don’t know the song, Google it for goodness sake)!

12 Days of Christmas:
1. Deadlift
2. Pullups
3. Plyometric pushups (whole body off the ground)
4. Box squat jumps
5. Burpees
6. Dumbbell step-up & press
7. Kettlebell cleans
8. Kettlebell double hand swings
9. V-ups
10. Spiderman pushups
11. Kettlebell squat into vertical row
12. Bird-dog

This should conclude a total of 354 reps.

Keep your game sharp (and your guard up)
Shir

Workout of the Week

Here’s a very short one for you, so you’ll have enough time to prepare for the holiday…

Warm up: anything light
1. 100 foot sprint, back and forth
2. Five hanging cleans with Olympic bar, as heavy as you can handle (if you don’t have a bar, use two heavy KBs instead)
3. Ten hanging leg raises (to 90º)

Repeat this circuit as many times as you can fit in 15 minutes. Then go have your protein shake.

Keep your game sharp (and your guard up),
Shir

Workout of the week

This one will raise your heart rate very quickly – be sure to hydrate before and after the workout, but not during. This week we are working for time – you will repeat the set 4 times without resting between exercises and sets; use a stop watch to see how quickly you can complete the entire workout:

30 walking lunges with KB held overhead; if you have room to walk 15 lunges, use one length with KB in right hand, and walk back holding it in the left)

20 box squat jumps (as high a bench as you can handle)

15 sand bag high wall throws (at least 20 lbs)

10 handstand pushups (on wall do 15 reps)

8 hanging choppers (like hanging leg raises, but in a 360º circle and alternating sides)

Get some protein and some electrolytes in you as soon as your heart rate slows down…

Keep your game sharp (and your guard up),
Shir

The Real Deal!

It’s November, and the Chinese Kung-Fu, Wu-Su Association’s 43rd Annual Exhibition is approaching fast!

When: Sunday, November 14th, 1–4 pm
Where: 28 W 27th Street, 8th Floor, NYC 10011

For more details go to the Temple’s website, and please purchase your tickets in advance!!!

Workout of the Week

Warmup: Anything except static stretching.

1. Kettlebell stiff-leg deadlifts: as heavy as you can handle (x20)
2. KB hanging cleans: as heavy as you can handle (x8 each side)
3. Handstand pushups (x8)
4. KB snatches: as heavy as you can handle (x8 each side)
5. High jump and reach (x8 each side, reaching with one hand)
6. KB pendulum swings, heavy (x8 each side)
7. V-ups (x15)
8. Plyometric pushups (lift entire body) (x8)
9. KB Russian twists, heavy (x20)
10. KB side plank with press (x8 each side)

This is done as a circuit – no break between exercises. Repeat 1–10 one more time (total two times).

Keep your game sharp (and your guard up),
Shir

Workout of the week

Coming back from pregnancy and birth could be very challenging, especially for someone who was in very good shape. The loss of strength alone can be a serious motivation killer; All those sets of pullups I used to do so easily are now a distant memory… But I must push harder and simply do what it takes to get back there, however long it takes me.

Here’s this week’s workout (I felt like puking after that one, but give me two weeks and I’ll do better, I promise!):

Warmup: KB jumping jacks
2. pistol squats (single leg squats) holding one KB in rack position (x8 each leg)
3. diamond pushups (x15)
4. bench step-up and KB press (x20 each side)
5. pullups (x15)
6. box squat jumps (x10)
7. superman pushups (replace with Bosu plyometric pushups next round) (x10)
8. scissor jumps (x20)
9. turkish getups (x8 each side)
10. window washers with KB (x10)

Repeat 1–10. This should be done as a circuit, no break between exercises.

Keep your game sharp (and your guard up),
Shir

KBC Galvanized 2010 Convention Is almost here!

It is That Time Again!

Summer is just about here, and another Galvanized Convention is coming up very soon—July 9–11, 2010. This year I’ve designed a very special class for you*: It’s called “Ultimate Rush: Combat”, and was created especially for combat athletes. We will work our way around a high-intensity circuit, involving Kettlebells, heavy bags and other equipment, and perform exercises that are directly derived from martial arts and boxing, and others that were designed specifically to enhance a fighter’s performance — both standing up and on the ground. Your heart-rate will rise during the rounds and drop in between rounds, much like it does in the ring or in the octagon.

To register please visit the convention website; Registration deadline is June 24th, and space in this class is limited – so hurry up and reserve your spots!.

Keep your game sharp (and your guard up!)
Shir

* I strongly believe that things in life happen for a reason… As it happens, I am due to give birth on the day of this class; If my son decides to arrive on time, the charismatic and knowledgeable Pete Isip will be teaching this class—either way you are in excellent hands!

The ‘Culture’ of Martial Arts

Part III

In the last and final addition of this series we will focus on the little known but widely influential African martial arts.

The African continent is infinitely rich in history. It is not surprising that it boasts one of the oldest martial arts in existence. Some of the earliest evidence of martial arts in Africa were discovered in the Beni Hasan tombs in ancient Egypt, dating back to 2,040 and 1,785 BCE. Archaeologists found paintings of fighters displaying techniques such as punching, kicking, throwing, and locking the opponents’ joints. (It is important to note that Egypt is in Africa, and that many years of racial intermingling have transformed the population of ancient Egypt into its current and modern inhabitants). The Nuba people of Sudan already performed a form of martial arts around 2,800 BCE. This form of martial arts included empty-hand combat along with weapons training. There are no records in the world that can claim a documented martial arts tradition older then the fighting arts of the Nuba. Read More