{"id":135,"date":"2010-10-12T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karateteaching.uploadmysite.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2010-10-12T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:39:00","slug":"walking-push-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/walking-push-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking push-ups&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_tAMvG3zBGTs\/TLSA8MDa8tI\/AAAAAAAAADY\/9PyjuCq7GA8\/s1600\/pushup.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_tAMvG3zBGTs\/TLSA8MDa8tI\/AAAAAAAAADY\/9PyjuCq7GA8\/s200\/pushup.jpg\" width=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Real fast &#8211; crazy busy day, but I want to quickly share this push-up exercise with you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I call these &#8220;Walking Push-ups&#8221; and it works like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have your students line up on one side of the room in the push-up position so that everyone is facing the front. Now to your count the class must do a full push-up, then shuffle forward one step, do another push-up, shuffle forward, repeat until they reach the other side of the room.<\/p>\n<p>Once your class reaches the other side of the tatami, have them return to the start position, moving backwards! (This is actually quite challenging for many people). <\/p>\n<p>A variation of this drill includes &#8220;springing forward&#8221; after each push-up where both hands and feet leave the floor. Just rock your weight backwards a little to bend the legs, then spring forward, push-up and repeat. This one is especially challenging when moving backwards.<\/p>\n<p>Try &#8217;em out!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jason<\/p>\n<p>P.S. In my 125 Dynamite Drills there are hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/karatedrills\">skill and strength building exercises<\/a>, including 14 other push-up exercises you can use with your class (or at home if you want to get in some extra training).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real fast &#8211; crazy busy day, but I want to quickly share this push-up exercise with you&#8230; I call these &#8220;Walking Push-ups&#8221; and it works like this&#8230; Have your students line up on one side of the room in the push-up position so that everyone is facing the front. Now to your count the class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}