First of many from Ross
Training for many is all about goal setting, even if it’s to lose that few extra pounds, bench that ever eluding weight or just simply to condition your body to an all-round better fitness. For me personally, it’s all about the latter; simply conditioning the whole body for what ever comes my way.
Coming from a fitness background and having participated in various sports from martial arts to rugby, conventional training techniques have become a bore…period! What I mean by the conventional types of exercise are such things that you would find in your local fitness suite or centre, the fixed resistance machine that remove the stability in your exercises, the free weights section that is left as a lucky dip of exercises with no guidance, (unless you want to pay through the nose for a Personal Trainer), and then the core section, taken up by those who do the occasional sit-ups, not realising that the core is more than just that…
That’s when I met Stu Lanham, a like minded thinker that is as eager to introduce people to a different type of conditioning. In a nut shell people who take part in boxing or MMA (Mixed Marshal Arts) are arguably the most well rounded types of athlete, because firstly the cardio that a fighter must have to sustain the long interlude of expiration through the rounds, secondly the muscular endurance needed to insure that they manage to continue to produce the punches, kicks, knees, elbows and holds vital to winning the fight, and lastly the strength that a fighter must have to make and take every hit against an opponent.
Taking into consideration all the above, Room 13 Fitness & Development was born and out of this the combat conditioning class was developed. Now having called it combat conditioning, it does not mean that you have to take part in any combat yourself, it is simply just geared towards the functional strength training of those who do take part in it.
The class its self is broken up into three segments, these segments are never the same as the weeks roll on in order to reduce the forever common complaint of boredom and at the same time not allowing its participants to become accustom to the effort needed. The three aspects of these segments however are always the focus; functional strength conditioning, cardiac technique, lactate thresholds and finishing with core conditioning. Each of the different segments relates to any and all combat sports overlapping in each aspect to give all participants of the session a well rounded work out. Before I go any further I must stress that this is not ‘Boxersize’, as much as I agree with the fact that it is a well driven and commercialised exercise circuit that is where it stops, and Room 13’s Combat Conditioning class starts…I firmly believe that our class offers people a chance to further their physical fitness to another level.
We invite any and all abilities to come along and give it a go, we already have a great mix gender class that is devoid of ego…we are here for the same reason and do not tolerate show boating or ego boasting…its all about the work and nothing else. The class runs for 2 hours, (from 7pm to 9pm) and is held at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Blackfield. All we ask is £3.00 a class, or you can pay monthly at a cost of £10 which works out out only £2.50 per session…an absolute bargain for a great work out.
Thank You,
Ross Cutting (Instructor)
