In professional wrestling, you shouldn’t be interested in that mindless cardio where your brain goes to a different place. No, you need to focus on your heart and lungs while also concentrating on stimulating your mind. This is a thinking man’s sport, all the meat head slots are already taken!
Pro Wrestlers cardio training will be intense, but it will start slow. Start with some basic back and forth twists, nothing major, just enough to get your heart pumping by the minute. (About 20 total will do.)
The forward throw. Make a fist with both hands, plant the flat of your wrist on the mat, kick your feet over your head using the momentum to get back to your feet. The roll back. Start back up by pushing your feet into a quick sitting position, using the momentum to roll back, planting your fist on the mat (protecting your neck), and return to your feet.
Then move on to the quick basic workouts. Push-ups: 15 military push-ups (Kaos Push ups) Straight shape, body as flat and rigid as a board. Head up and take out the first 15, take a 15 count break (in perfect push up position) then move to 14, with a 14 count rest and so on until you get to 1. Now that you’ve at least broke one sweater. Move on to some standing squats.
Squats: Minimum of 150. Legs shoulder-width apart. Hands overhead, cross chest or sides raising hands (directly in front of you) into squat. Back straight, head up, and squat to a sitting position, 150 times.
Now that you’ve warmed up, it’s time to start muscle-fatigue cardio. submission wrestling. Starting in a standing position, the first man (or woman) enters the ring, performing 10 one-minute rounds with a fresh opponent. (It doesn’t matter if you present or win, everyone goes the full minute) 30 second rest between games and the first game is 3 minutes. (Total 11 rounds)
Now is the time to take it home. Just when you thought you gave it all you can give. Just when you thought you had nothing left in the tank. Just when you think it’s all over. This is the time when you have to dig deep. Bring out your inner fighting spirit! When every day Joe says I quit, that’s you kicking him for 10! Never say die attitude. Bring out the fire that is breathed inside you. It’s time for the Universal Pro Wrestling sequence.
Begin by throwing your opponent off the ropes with a right-handed Latigo (similar to an arm drag for American wrestling fans). Skip your return charge to you. Follow with a dropdown and a quick frog jump. Try to blow up your opponent with a vicious clothesline. Watch out, because if he ducks, he can hit you with a devastating block to the shoulder. Don’t worry, if he does, do your drop down sequence, frog jump and catch him with a big hiptoss. Cover (Pin) and repeat, 5 times. Role reversal (Doing both sides of this sequence counts as 1) Soak up each fall with your feet as much as possible, you want to take as little damage as possible. And remember, only a trained professional wrestler can perform this task. All this done in 30 minutes. You can’t beat this intense workout.
