Anyone in the NYC area interested in cross-training this weekend?

Through a website called bullshido different martial artists get together in local areas to arrange different sparring sessions under whatever rules the people agree on. It isn’t very formal. if you want to go light contact you can find someone there who will go light contact, if you want to do standing only or full mma you can find someone there who will do that too.

No egos, just a bunch of people who want to cross train with other styles and martial artists.

If you show up you are considered a winner because you are a normal person willing to test your technique against different people and you are not all talk.

It is this sunday (the 19th) at the fighthouse here is the info from the bullshido topic:

sunday nov 19, 12noon-3pm. at fight house (www.fighthouse.com) mat fee seems to usually be /per person but if there are enough of us we should try to haggle down to 122 West 27th Street 2nd floor, New York, N. Y. 10001 (bet. 6 & 7 Ave.) TEL. (212)807-9202
here is the bullshido link for the topic:

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=47377&page=5

Or you can message me with any questions.
It went well. I guess there isn’t anybody here on yahoo answers from nyc though.

Tap out of Your Exercise Routine

Practicing fitness religiously comes highly recommended, but it's important to remember to introduce new activities into your every day routine. Part of living a healthy lifestyle means trying new things, mixed
martial arts included.

I'm guessing for most of you it's the same: wake up; go to the place that you love the most (work), followed by a visit to the gym where you supplement your day with even more routine. Next, you go home to prepare a freshly cooked meal, similar to what you ate the day before. And before you tuck yourself in, you stare in the mirror asking yourself why you didn't try something new today?

Sure, it's difficult for some to simply switch their lifestyle, whether it is job, diet, fitness, or relationship related. Although most of these variables are fixed or very difficult to change, it's important to stimulate your health and standard of living by engaging in new and different things.  The easiest is typically your daily exercise routine, starting with your visit to the gym.

For a majority of people who practice exercise, taking a trip to the gym 3 or 4 times a week is quiet ideal, and will do the trick. But after a while this can get old, especially if you are following the same routine. And some gyms, although affordable, don't have the necessary equipment to diversify your workout. What I mean by this is that athletic centers contain things like rock walls and punching bags, while your standardized gym merely has treadmills, ellipticals, machines and free weights/barbells. It's true that some places even contain swimming pools, tracks, tennis courts, basketball courts, aerobic centers, and house personal trainers.

For the population of people who visit the gym with fewer options, I strongly suggest Mixed Martial Arts as a form of exercise. Highly aerobic and calorie-shedding, MMA is a full contact combat sports that permits a large variety of fighting methods. It's derived from a mixture of martial art traditions and non-traditions. Traced all the way back to the early 1900s (Europe and Japan), MMA has been around for over a century now, and continues to draw large crows in the USA through venues like The UFC.

Although it may seem unlikely, there are many training centers – ones that you didn't even know existed in your hometown. Typically, training centers that specialize in Jiu Jitso and/or Karate will also provide classes for MMA. Also, there are some well known gyms that offer this type of combat training, subject to their own practices and facilities.

MMA relies heavily on achieving superior body positioning skills, allowing you to control your opponent both standing, and on the ground. Therefore, there are a number of workouts/routines involved in becoming an MMA expert. It's true that most confrontations end with a clinch on the ground; MMA gives you the ability to defend yourself against larger, more powerful attackers, while providing a full body workout. All in all, the practices taught will lead you to a healthier lifestyle, while separating you from your mundane exercise routine.

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ok so i do crossfit for mma and bascially my cardio sucks, and i smoke and i know i have to quit but this is what im going to do today (ive already done it but i have to get better) we have to do those things where you jump on and off of the box then we go to the kettle bell and swing it then we take a medicine ball and throw it up then catch it and go into a squat and we have to do it for ten minutes but each time around you add one more to each workout so its like yo start out jumping on and off the box 3 time then kettle bell for time then medicine ball 5 times then it goes box 4 time kettle bell 5 times and medicine ball 6 times and so on and so on until you get 12 times on each but it takes about ten minutes and its called ten minutes in hell and it wears me out because my cardio really sucks bad and my strength isnt as good as it used to be. so what should i do other than quit smoking, drink alot of water and eat? thank you. God bless