Original Body Exercises are meant to train your body in many different ways. Several of these exercises are not widely known and give practice to muscles that you commonly don't use. Practice these and other exercises for some time daily to increase the flexibility and strength of your body and for better health and ability. These exercises are excellent preparation for dance and martial arts.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
11 - Stand-up variations with stool
Do as many reps as you feel comfortable with. Then after some time repeat, relax, and repeat again.
To prevent injuries never overdo any of these exercises.
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These exercises are all variations on the normal stand-up in which you stand, go through your knees and stand up again. You do these variations with the help of a stool. The stool stands either in front of you, to your back, to your right or to your left. You make stand-ups either with your weight above the leg on the stool or above the leg on the floor.
Shown in the figures are only the down positions. In the exercises you need to make reps by standing up from these down positions.
a. Figures 1 and 2 show the down positions with the stool in front of you.
b. Figure 3 and 4 show the down positions with the stool at your back.
c. Figures 5 and 6 show the down positions with the stool at your left. Do the same exercise with the stool at your left side.
d. More variations: Do stand-ups with one leg on a stool standing in an angle of 45 degrees, to four different sides.
e. You can also do all of these exercises with a chair, which is higher than a stool.
f. Variation: Do all of these stand-ups with your body weight in the middle above your legs.
I regularly do training sessions together with friends who learned Shaolin fighting. It is their habit to do 3,000 stand-ups as a routine each day. Normal stand-ups give you good training, but the variations are even better as they give exercise to many different muscle groups in your legs.
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