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Summary: Teach overall fitness and health to kids; learn how to use tires to do Shaolin balance and strength exercises for kids' functional training in this free video on functional fitness and kids health.
Julio Anta owns Anta’s Fitness & Self Defense in Doral (Miami), Florida. He is a Kung Fu Master with 30 years of Martial Arts & Fitness training and is a certified Haganah F.I.G.H.T....read more
"This is Julio Anta from Anta’s Fitness & Self Defense Miami, Florida bringing you some classes on children’s functional training on behalf of Expert Village. Okay now, with a tire. We’re going to be working explosive power. This is also Shaolin training. Imagine the Shaolin monks would dig a hole and try and jump out of the hole. Well if you don’t have a yard to dig a hole, we can use a tire. First thing he’s going to do is he’s going to jump and he’s going to land in a horse stance and balance and back in. It’s not easy because the tire moves. Go and back in. You see the movement of the tire for balance. Move, great coordination, and sometimes you lose your balance. One more, and now let’s make it harder. He’s going to squat. Ready, up, first squat, up. See the balance he needs. Go. And one more. And you can train like a Shaolin monk this way. On behalf of Expert Village, thank you for watching. "
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