Thread: What is your favorite conditioning exercise?

I'm a still building up my stamina, so I am limited to what I can do.
However I am curious to see what some of you more experienced folks like to do for conditioning and why........

For a sport which taxes loads of components of fitness you gotta do a variety of types of training!

For conditioning - I love Drills on the heavy bag, activates loads of muscle groups intensely and obviously it's sport specific... plus it's great fun!

Love hill sprints... even when I go on a run for distance I find if I come to a good hill/set of stairs/what ever I've got to bust out some sprints... after about 3 good ones going all out you start to feel it... really gets you... call me a masochist but I love it!

Calisthenics are good too, burpees etc... generally I just love any type of training that uses a lot of large muscle groups and that get you moving around.

For strength training, I generally do a lot of body weight exercises... most of them plyometricly (like pretty much all my resistance training) pull up and push up variations (loads... I do about 15-20 types of push up ) etc... If I'm using weights or a machine then I like to use the lat pull down machine with a V grip... again you use loads of muscles and you have the advantage of being able to work plyometricly for the positive part of the rep and then slowly on the negative part... so you hit slow and fast fibres.

I love rowing as well (mostly on a rowing machine... not really easy for me to go out and row on a boat... play a bit of basketball and I'm starting swimming soon

I also love the top and bottom ball I have in the house... good skill and conditioning training!

liposuction.

plus I love my pulley machine, my new jab breakthrough exercise, jumping rope and shadow boxing, which peolpe tend not to see as having cardio benefit. But bouncing around like an idiot in front of the mirror sure does!

Liposuction while you eat...

Don't forget laxatives it releases tension in certain parts of the body.

Anyways Adam picked a lot of my favorites. I like to do my roadwork where there are lots of hills, it gives my calves and hamstrings a better workout. I agree with the rest of what he has mentioned. Instead of the rowing machine, I use a stationary bike, I may do it even right after my roadwork if I'm feeling great.

I've been doing the deck of cards (From Ross Boxing .com)
Running out here in Arizona is near suicide as temperatures reach 118+ degrees (50+ degrees C)
I've tried running in the morning but I can't wake up that early (I have to be at work by 5 A.M.)

How's the temp at night?

Press up burpee

Im in my late 30's,none!
No matter what I do,Im a gonna hurt tommorrow
That being said,I wouldnt rely on any one exsercise
Just off my own regiment(keeping in mind Im working on re-building my own stamina)
Today is abs speed bag,heavy bag,squat jumps,and split jumps

Tommorrow will be jump rope,chest press,overhead should press,Rows,and jogging

Originally Posted by Scrap

Press up burpee

Your body is the most important piece of equipment when it comes to any exercise.

ok...

Anyways... yeah I love them scrap! Best calisthenics are (proper! ) Star Jumps and Burpees!

What I meant and should've said is that you don't need to be in the gym to do the exercises. You could be in a hotel room w/e and still do your burpees, pushups and any calisthenics.

Originally Posted by Chris N.

How's the temp at night?

Right now at night it's in the mid-80's

In mid summer it can still be over 100 degrees at midnight.

I'm asleep by 9 pm.

Originally Posted by killersheep

I'm a still building up my stamina, so I am limited to what I can do.
However I am curious to see what some of you more experienced folks like to do for conditioning and why........

Swimming jogging short sprints skipping heavybag aerobics.

Originally Posted by Chris N.

What I meant and should've said is that you don't need to be in the gym to do the exercises. You could be in a hotel room w/e and still do your burpees, pushups and any calisthenics.

You're right!

Glad you cleared it up... what you said before was true, but I just couldn't see the relevance... maybe I'm slow tonight? :P

Been drinkin?