"I Love My Body / shadow punches and arm circle".

How do you box your shadow or in shadow? 🤣 Jeff see him there. Where?

• in front
• Beside you
• Behind you
• He's above you .....Punch 💥💥💥💥💥💥

That's how your shadow moves. 🤣 When I hear the word shadow boxing, it reminds me of shadow fight. It's actually a computer game I used to enjoy playing then but it has a different meaning from the exercise I want to perform. It's shadow boxing and arm circles.

Shadow boxing as the name implies doesn't just mean you box your shadow but it figuratively means you'll be fighting without an opponent. You'll be fighting with thin air as there's nobody in front of you. In essence, it's more like punching your shadow which can't feel pain or even know you exist. Let me illustrate with this example.

Let's just say you're preparing to fight in a ring. That's those that play fighting games, you'll practice yourself first to strengthen your arms, build your endurance and coordination so that when you stretch out to your opponent, the punch won't be an odeshi punch but would be one that would knock your opponent to the ground.

You're punching the air with so much fury as if there's an opponent there and your ability to stretch your hands forward in a propelling way that shows force and then retrieve it back to cover your face shows coordination and resilience.

In this program, we aren't practising to fight. The programs aim at helping us improve our arms and hand physique. You stretch out with force and you bring it back in a constrictive way. In the process, you may hear your bones crack or glide.

crak, cruka, Krip kpop....

This kpop is the deep audible sound you may hear of and outsider would think you've broken it practically, not knowing it's a less serious sound.That's for the arm. It gets strengthened when propelled forward with force and the arms feel the feedback when it returns to rest. Arm circles too teach much about endurance. I can remember this Barbie movie I watched where she held 5 books on both palms and stretched out her hands to meet her shoulder.

She took on that position for 6 minutes without dropping her hands down. The endurance level was on the high side. Can't even stretch out singlehandedly, it's holding books to stretch sideways and make yourself appear like a cross. This is the program we did. It has a lot of benefits explained after doing it.

For this task, I'm to do repetitions of these programs. It's just like telling someone to sit in the air for 2 minutes and then sit in the air again for another two minutes. You're repeating what you've already done. Sometimes you'll wish it just came to an end after the first round. Endurance will really help you repeat the programs with hope in view. That's how I got help through the repetition of these programs. Let me take you through.

Shadow boxing: I did this program by standing straight as entailed in the guideline and also protruding my hands as if I want to punch a physical opponent. You know if you want to punch a physical opponent, you must be alert. 100% focus and coordination is needed to doge attacks. I placed my hands in a way that when I throw out, I can easily take it in to myself. I started with front punching then moved to side and up and down punch.

For arm circles, this was quite tough but I had to endure maximally , the pains that come from keeping your arms laterally and then moving it around that region. I stood in an upright position and made sure my hands were straight enough as if I were crossing it like a plus. I aligned it with my shoulders and then made moves anticlockwise and clockwise for 40 times and then rested for 10 seconds and took it again to the next level.

I mistakenly deleted my arm circles video and had to make another one this morning. I was in pain though not completely because this program is targeted to making us do 100 Repetitions in total so I've done 80 😁