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WyrmFyre · Post by **WyrmFyre** » 15 Jan 2010 06:46

I think with footbag its about knowing your own limits. During the height of the summer, i made time to play pretty much every day for at least two hours, anything upto 5 on a weekend including net. Aside from one stupid, stupid attempt at a DLO ending in basically a tweaked hip (whoops) I felt no ill effect from doing so. If anything, I felt a whole lot better for it.

I would say though that rest days are just as important as play days. Your body does need to to recover. Shredding every day for a month will take its toll on your muscles and could ultimately lead to injury. I think I read a post on here a while back about taking at least two or three days off in a week was best, but again, its all about personal limits.

bryan732 · Post by **bryan732** » 15 Jan 2010 07:15

yea yesterday my brother and i were kicking back and forth for about an hour or so. i woke up this morning and could barley get out of bed my legs hurt so bad lol. probably the main reason being that i never had any real leg exercise for about a year besides walking lol. it hurts like a b!tÂ¢# but im actually feeling alot more energetic than feeling tired 24/7 like i normaly did. its going to take a real long time before i can pull off an around the world (oww) lol

bryan732 · Post by **bryan732** » 15 Jan 2010 07:23

hey guys i got a crazy idea. how about you put on some ankle weights and kick with them on?
-would it make your legs faster when you take them off?
or...
-would you just be doing more damage than good?

what do you think?

WyrmFyre · Post by **WyrmFyre** » 15 Jan 2010 07:42

bryan732 wrote:-would it make your legs faster when you take them off?

Yes

bryan732 · Post by **bryan732** » 15 Jan 2010 10:07

did you ever use ankle weights to footbag? how many pounds.?

Frank_Sinatra · Post by **Frank_Sinatra** » 15 Jan 2010 11:01

I've never tried them, because every time I see this question come up either someone who has used them or someone whose opinion I really respect says it is a really bad idea.

If you're working on basic kicks, you definitely shouldn't be thinking about hardcore training regimens. Just go kick.

[edited because I think I might've sounded like a dick earlier]

bryan732 · Post by **bryan732** » 15 Jan 2010 11:15

Frank_Sinatra wrote:someone who has used them or someone who knows what they're talking about says it is a really bad idea.

yea true its probably to unnatural to do. like rite now when i kick my hip hurts, and my legs ache the next day. so i guess putting on all of that extra leg weight would probably strain if not pull muscles. and besides, i wasn't going to do it now anyway because im so unskilled that it wouldn't even help. just throwing some ideas out there.

Frank_Sinatra · Post by **Frank_Sinatra** » 15 Jan 2010 11:21

Also try stretching more. Actually, you know what? Research how to stretch before stretching, there are threads on modified and probably a million pages of information on the internet that will help. And if you're wearing restrictive clothing, or kicking with a bunch of heavy shit in your pockets, that won't help your hips feel any better either.

If you really want to sit down and figure out how to do everything, how to get started on the right foot, then there's tons of helpful threads on modified. The process is pretty well documented.

bryan732 · Post by **bryan732** » 15 Jan 2010 11:49

hey frank how long did it take you until you could do like 5-10 kicks straight? if you can even recall lol

Frank_Sinatra · Post by **Frank_Sinatra** » 15 Jan 2010 12:30

Ummm, hard to say. That was a while back. But I was super stiff and awkward when I first tried to kick. It wasn't pretty.

bryan732 · Post by **bryan732** » 15 Jan 2010 17:21

i wish i was a girl, its just probably soooo much easier to kick once you got your junk outa the way

g00d33 · Post by **g00d33** » 15 Jan 2010 21:15

Compression shorts! They work wonders

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 15 Jan 2010 23:22

Ales Zelinka played with leg weights for a while and decided it was a waste of time I think. I've never tried it and don't see any reason to.

WyrmFyre · Post by **WyrmFyre** » 16 Jan 2010 07:05

WyrmFyre wrote:
bryan732 wrote:-would it make your legs faster when you take them off?
Yes

I think that ill just go on record as saying this was a joke, just in case

If i strap ten pounds of weight to my legs, played, then took them off, yes I would be quicker/better, as i would then be playing with legs weighing 20 pounds less.

I have no idea if trying to shred with weights on your legs would make you any better

bryan732 · Post by **bryan732** » 16 Jan 2010 09:31

g00d33 wrote:Compression shorts! They work wonders

lol i looked up conpression shorts on google images and damn, its like a spandex for dudes. does it feel comfortable to play in? they look like nut huggers lol

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 16 Jan 2010 17:33

bryan732 wrote:when you lift weights, you gotta lift every other day so you dont get hurt. does the same apply to playing footbag?

No, and it doesn't apply to lifting weights either, depending on your training of course. It is good to have a break fairly regularly though. I try to have one day a week where I play no sport or do serious exercise. However at times when I've gone large periods without a break it's been fine too.

bryan732 · Post by **bryan732** » 17 Jan 2010 06:34

Jeremy wrote:
bryan732 wrote:when you lift weights, you gotta lift every other day so you dont get hurt. does the same apply to playing footbag?
No, and it doesn't apply to lifting weights either, depending on your training of course. It is good to have a break fairly regularly though.

oh realy? i always herd that you got to lift one day. than the next day work you legs. so on so forth.

renke · Post by **renke** » 17 Jan 2010 11:24

bryan732 wrote:
g00d33 wrote:Compression shorts! They work wonders
lol i looked up conpression shorts on google images and damn, its like a spandex for dudes. does it feel comfortable to play in? they look like nut huggers lol

I just bought men's shorts, seems like they are designed to solve the problem.
There's this white thin fabric inside that fits as tight underpants.
I can't think of any other reason why you guys would want this 'tight pants into another', right?
Anyway, you won't look like an idiot in these ones

g00d33 · Post by **g00d33** » 17 Jan 2010 12:26

bryan732 wrote:
g00d33 wrote:Compression shorts! They work wonders
lol i looked up conpression shorts on google images and damn, its like a spandex for dudes. does it feel comfortable to play in? they look like nut huggers lol

haha yeah they are in fact nut huggers, but you just throw normal shorts on over them lol. Saves spectators from the show

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 17 Jan 2010 23:15

bryan732 wrote:
Jeremy wrote:
bryan732 wrote:when you lift weights, you gotta lift every other day so you dont get hurt. does the same apply to playing footbag?
No, and it doesn't apply to lifting weights either, depending on your training of course. It is good to have a break fairly regularly though.
oh realy? i always herd that you got to lift one day. than the next day work you legs. so on so forth.

Well I'm no professional, but the fitness coach at my football club is, and he has me about to start a 5 times a week weights regime, that involves some variety day to day and some repetition. My understanding is that it depends on what you're trying to achieve with your weight lifting.

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