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sion and subsequent soreness,
Ashburn said she quit the course,
but the knee injury has since reg
ularly reappeared during exer
cise.
Kari Brazeau, Eugene YMCA
health and fitness director, said
YMCA instructors ensure that
participants learn how to safely
exercise, but whether or not par
ticipants heed that advice is “an
other question.” The instructors
of Ashburn’s course weren’t
available for comment.
Ashburn is one of many Amer
icans who have jumped on the
kickboxing fitness bandwagon,
led by the popular exercise video
“Billy Blanks’ Tae-Bo,” only to
bail out after sustaining injury.
Jennifer Evans, public relations
coordinator of the American
Council for Exercise, said kick
boxing fitness has grown im
mensely popular in the past year.
“A lot of people have a hard
time staying with aerobic exer
cise because it can get monoto
nous,” Evans said. “Kickboxing
is a very different and active ex
ercise.”
Kickboxing fitness, which
combines the leg thrusts of com
petitive kickboxing, the punches
of boxing and the fast pace of tra
ditional aerobic exercise, isn’t
easy, Brazeau said. “It’s not for
everybody.”
Todd Newton, who teaches
kickboxing fitness at Japan Karate
Do Northwest, said that while se
rious injury sustained from kick
boxing exercise is unlikely,
smaller injuries are quite com
mon, especially when instructors
aren’t trained in the martial arts.
“There are people out there
teaching who I could spend days
correcting their form,” Newton,
who has a fourth-degree Karate
black belt, said. “Even the people
on the Tae-Bo infomercials make,
me cringe.”
Another major problem with
most kickboxing fitness instruc
tion is large class sizes, Tim
Rochford, a Chicago kickboxing
instructor, said. Rochford, a
long-time amateur competitive
kickboxer, has just completed a
kickboxing fitness training man
ual that he hopes to publish
soon.
“It takes the body a long time
to adapt to that kind of stress,”
Rochford said.
“Too many instructors are
worried about performance and
too concerned with filling class
es.
“Another mistake a lot of peo
pie are making is training people
with techniques from kickboxing
competition that rely on quickly
explosive movements with the
goal of having power behind the
strikes.” »
Ashburn, however, feels that
Even the people on
the Tae-Bo infomercials
make me cringe.
Todd Newton
kickboxing instructor
the main cause of her injury was
insufficient instruction.
“We were told what to do and
not how to do it,” Ashburn said.
“I feel they weren’t very careful
with me.”
Rochford said he fears that
while many minor injuries due
to improper kickboxing motions
are already surfacing, serious in
juries will develop over long
term exercise.
He suggested instructor-to-stu
dent ratios never pass 1:20 and
that kickboxing fitness classes
begin with an orientation, during
which instructors could gauge
student fitness and skill.
“I think kickboxing fitness will
continue to be a trend and go on
to be a long-time exercise pro
gram,” Rochford said.
“A lot of the movements in
kickboxing fitness are more func
tional to the human body than
traditional aerobic exercise.”
By using circular motions
moving “every joint in every pos
sible direction,” kickboxing fit
ness done right develops flexible
and balanced muscles and boosts
cardiovascular activity, Rochford
said.
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before the ASUO primary elections.
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