minute drills....long enough?

largeli · 02-26-2006, 07:58 PM

So i use a lot of conditioning routines from rossboxing.com book and they're great! But a lot of them can be completed in less then 20 minutes, and leaves me exhausted but also wondering if you can get sufficient cardio/strength conditioning from just 15-20 minutes a day.
He has some sample routines from the minute drill section that go something like this....

30 seconds burpees
1 minute dumbell swings
30 seconds burpees

rest 30-60 seconds and repeat for 6 rounds.

this routine is awesome and all that and after im done completeing any of the routines in his book im left feeling like i got my cardio/conditioning in for the day, but want to know from others if you think 15-20 minutes of excercise could be sufficient for getting into good fighting condition. I mean i see guys at the gym doing 20 minutes of light jogging just for a warm up and so after i do sprint intervals on the treadmill for 20 minutes and being done i feel like people are looking at me like i just did a warm up and left......of course all the others in the gym are there to gain big muscles and all, but i still want to know if i should be working more.

this is of course in addition to any kick boxing, grappling that would be going on in any giving day in my schedule.

he also has this routine called burpee mania where you preform sets of burpees with 10 push ups after each set. The sets of burpees go 5, 5, 10, 10, 15, 20, 15, 10, 10, 5, 5, each so its a total of 110 burpees and 110 push ups.
The type of burpees are where you stand, squat, kick feet back and land into BOTTOM push up position, kick feet back and push up simultaneously landing into bottom squat and then explode up into jump. This routines is killer, sometimes i feel light headed, dizzy, want to puke but i can fight through it and complete it in about 12 minutes, and so im not sure if 12 minutes is enough of a workout.

largeli · 02-27-2006, 11:16 AM

anyone?

jammy_dodger · 02-27-2006, 11:59 AM

i definately think so when you think about it in the ring, cage or whatever unless your pro you spewnd less than ten minutes per fight but its all out and even if you are pro its not much longer i personally much prefer shorter more intense cardio to long low intensity as i feel it better reflects the type of conditioning needed to fight

bdweezil6998 · 02-27-2006, 08:04 PM

if you're completely exhausted, then yeah, it's enough. If it's a sprint type cardio routine (by sprint I mean short, fast bursts of whatever the exercise is), then it'll tire you out a lot quicker. Even if you're used to doing slower cardio for longer periods of time, fast cardio will still tire you out is it's working different muscle fibers. Use both in your workout...maybe at different times/days.

wenispinkle · 02-27-2006, 10:30 PM

i think you should try and break your thinking that volume makes or breaks the workout. the routine your doing with the burpees and swings is obviously much more intense and beneficial than jogging for 20 minutes. have you ever done a tabata? those only take 4 (or 5 minutes if you do 10 intervals instead of 8) minutes and you wont be feeling like you didnt work hard enough after that.

boxhead51 · 03-02-2006, 12:44 AM

good routine your doing high intestiy cardio. Treadmills are overated. The guy in the gym don't have nithing in you moderate to low cardio is done by people that aren't really trying to do anything but stand heart fit. Remember get a heart rate monitor stay in your target heart rate range. started doing burpees bring me back to my westling days where i would almost throw up after ever workout.

**Gandhi** · 03-02-2006, 11:32 PM

if that is in addition to your MA classes it is great. Do it for anywhere from 6 weeks and then change the workout