We interrupt our series on the Walking Wapping Warm-up for a quick chat on calories.
There are many online tools and apps for tracking the foods you eat. (I like myfitnesspal.) Most can show a variety of statistics on the nutritional composition of your diet. One of the most important values they show is calories.
The Walking Wapping Warm-up series continues. So far, we've done:
Time to switch to some lower-body focus as we complete the first half of the warm-up. Yes, it's time for some knees!
If you haven't been following along with our Walking Wapping Warm-up series, here's what we've seen so far:
Today we look at the next movement in the series: the one-two.
So far we've had The Introduction and The Jab. Now it's on to the next move in The Walking Wapping Warm-up: the cross. This is the straight punch with the rear hand. It comes across your body (get it?). For most people it's also the hardest punch, as in having the hardest impact. But this is just a warm-up, so that's not important. What is important is getting the mechanics right to get more of your body involved while staying efficient.
Last time was the introduction to the Walking Wapping Warm-up (so if you don't know what it is, check that one out first).
Now it's on to movement #1: The Jab. It's a simple movement, but like anything worth doing, it's worth doing right. Even in a warm-up.
Warming up is an important part of training, especially for over-40 folks and those of us in locations that get cold in the winter. But warm-ups tend to be dull and limited in their effectiveness for a full range of movements. (Or mini-workouts that really need warming up to do.)
Enter the Walking Wapping Warm-up. We've been doing this at StrongFast for many years, starting as a preliminary warm-up for our kickboxing or mixed martial arts training classes (hence, "wapping"). But it crosses over well for all kinds of workouts.
Probably the most common health/fitness objective is to "lose weight." But is that what people really want?
A quick and sure way to lose 10, 20, or more pounds is to hack off a limb. But no sane person would do that, not only because it would hurt (a lot), but it's also not the kind of weight people want to lose. Nobody's looking for "Secrets to Losing Bone" or "3 Ways to Shed Muscle...Fast!"
