[newb_breaker]

i am kind of weak but i really want to break dance what is some of the ways you girls got your arm strength?

[ultraman__26]

sorry if this is b-girl forum.cuz i'm a boy.for strength train push ups,cuz most freezes gotta need triceps strength.or ucan go to workout forums.Pz

[Moochy - Mania]

ach , this should go to the moves forum .

off topic for a moment - it's funny , on the session , or on the net , there always those kids saying to me " oh , i wish i was able to break , but i'm not strong / flexible enough " . fuck , they're just aren't serious enough , that's they're problem . they give up from the begining - such a weak personallity .

anyway , i can't understand those who come by and ask how to aquire strength . where strength come from ? it's come from practice , a 5 years old kid can tell you that ! same for flexabilty .
now if you asked for training routines , i wouldn't mind . that make sense , i'd ask for those too . but you're asking for ways to get arm strength .......

[electron]

want arm strength?
practice footwork ! Practice turtles , practice handstands
then stretch

oh- gee , that also happens to work every other part of your body ! GO figure , and you'll also become a better dancer

sounds good to me

[tinyD]

handstands will do it, so will baby freezes and turtles

[newb_breaker]

okz just one mistake...yeah i was asking for routines and im all bout breaking you dont know me so dont judge me [moochy_mania]

[Gangsta Attack!]

do alot oof jump roiping ajnd joggig.

i also watillift and do the spilits.

[Braunau]

here is my routine when i actually get off my ass

day 1: chest and triceps
decline bench 4 /10
incline bench 3/10
flat bench 3/10
butterflys 3/10
cross pully flys 3/10
2 arm tricep pully 4/10
dips 4/10
one arm tricep pully 6/10
rope pully 4/15
decline sit up 3/25

day3: back and biceps
low rows 4/10
high rows 3/10
pull downs 6/10 with alternating grip
reverse butter flies 3/10
roman chair 4/20
side roman chair 4/10 both sides
preacher bench inner grip 4/10
preacher bench outer grip 4/10
one arm pully curls 3/10
rope pully curls 3/15
decline sit up 3/25

day 5: legs and shoulders
squats 8/10
calf extention 3/25
military press 4/10
front shoulder raises 4/15
side shoulder raises 4/15
shrugs 4/15
15 min of cardio, usually Xtrainer
decline sit up 3/25

[Braunau]

Originally posted by electron
want arm strength?
practice footwork ! Practice turtles , practice handstands
then stretch

oh- gee , that also happens to work every other part of your body ! GO figure , and you'll also become a better dancer

sounds good to me

i disagree, you dont dance or play sports to get in shape, you get in shape so that you can dance or play sports. you ever notice those middle aged folks that play softball on weekends as their excersize are all fat? there is a reason for that, same with dancing. if she doesnt have the strength to do a move she is just going to hurt herself

[Gangsta Attack!]

laughnig i dont know trhwaht you guys are realyl saying buyt for best worknig out i stil am think that of waitlift i do msot curl push then wher yuor git on yours sisde an you lift it with a 1 arm.

[bLuRiL]

what do i have to do if i wanna train triceps?

[STIFF_UK]

Pushups like this...

Put your hands directly under your shoulders, elbows held as close to your ribs as you can, and do pushups from that position.

Don't go all the way to the floor, stop just before you touch down.

This kind of pushup works your triceps a lot more than regular ones do but be warned - they are a lot harder to do. You might need someone to hold your elbows in for you at first.



Braunau - Those people are fat for a number of reasons. One of them being a seditary lifestyle where softball (essentially standing around and maybe runng once every hour) is a token gesture to fitness.
Shit there are PRO baseball players who have a gut that'd be better placed on a darts player at the Embassy!

Dancing on the other hand is a full body physical and cardiovascular workout. You don't need to get fit to dance. The dance itself gets you fit.
That's like saying people need to get fit before they go to an aerobics class.

As for the strength needed, as you train moves, your body grows and becomes strong in the ways it needs to do the moves you are doing.
I ever go to the gym or do weights, My stomach is fat-free and my triceps and shoulders get bigger every week.



Also - you use weight machines. Not the best of ideas when you actually need to use the strength you build. Machines basically train you to be good at using machines. Since they lock you into moving weight along one precise plane of movement, if you change that movement, (as you do in a dance like bboying) your strength becomes much less effective.

Machines have many problems, also streching to the well known problems that can be caused by working muscle groups in isolation.

For bboying, you don't just need strong muscles - you need all the supporting muscle groups to be worked aswell, if youre going to use weights, then freeweights are by far the best answer. (Once you know how to use them)

But anything where you are building up muscles you don't use while bboying, is simply making life harder for you, and in all honesty, is purely cosmetic.

[tinyD]

indeed.

dancing will give you the definition in the muscles as well as the strength. handstands and other air freezes are great for that as well as baby freeze variations and moving from variation to variation. and yes, with machines it isolates the muscles it works out and forgets about others, thus not os good for bboyin purposes.

[Mowicz]

Originally posted by STIFF_UK

Also - you use weight machines. Not the best of ideas when you actually need to use the strength you build. Machines basically train you to be good at using machines. Since they lock you into moving weight along one precise plane of movement, if you change that movement, (as you do in a dance like bboying) your strength becomes much less effective.

"That's like saying people need to get fit before they go to an aerobics class."

*Thinks back to the Nutty Professor Movie*


I disagree about the machines....machines Do train you only to use certain muscles....that's what they're meant to do. But that doesn't mean the strength isn't as useful as using your body as a weight. The only real downside is that you build 1 muscle faster than others......but the REAL downside is when you don't use machines.....you build 1 side of your muscle, and not the other (Unless you can freeze equally well on both arms, do air babies equally well on both arms, do millz equally well both ways, and so on.....but let's face it, who's PERFECTLY even both ways?) So what you need to do, is find a balance.....In theory, the best thing to do would probably be work out your main muscles at the gym (like IE, for freezes you'd work out your tri's, possibly your bi's (If you wanna do some crazy stuff you'll need some. lol) and your lats.....) THEN you use that muscle to build new muscle....by actually trying the move itself a few hundred times....this way you develop the primary muscles evenly, then can fairly quickly build the auxiliary muscles to back it up.

Peace.

[Zodiak Stizo]

Originally posted by Braunau


i disagree, you dont dance or play sports to get in shape, you get in shape so that you can dance or play sports. you ever notice those middle aged folks that play softball on weekends as their excersize are all fat? there is a reason for that, same with dancing. if she doesnt have the strength to do a move she is just going to hurt herself

i disagree wid u, middle aged ppl playin softball? .....r u talkin bout the ones that did not when they were younger, cuz we aint talin middle aged ppl, and they would b fat is they did not do that stuff when they were younger so they do it now. on another note i dont kno wut kind of sessions u go through, but if u r not gettin a workout from them, then u dont session as hard as the ppl talkin. u think liftin will make u able to do flares or handstands? not really, doin the moves is wut makes u ablet o do them, and if u can do them, u gotta b in some kind of good shape. I workout more than u and lift more, porb dance more, hell i been dancin longer, but i still believe that u can get in shape from dance