Choreography Ideas for Fitness Kickboxing

One of the fundamentals of teaching fitness kickboxing is a repetitive motion that both simulates a kickboxing fight as well as engages the muscles in aerobic exercise. But too much repetition can be a bad thing. It can make the class stale, and you could lose students. Simple combinations can be changed and edited to suit the needs of the class and keep it interesting, aerobic, and using actual kickboxing techniques.

  1. Punching Combinations

    • Sometimes, a simple jab cross combination is not enough to get the heart rate up for fitness kickboxing. A good addition to an old favorite is to add a lunge or a spring forward to the combination. Begin with the left leg forward in a fighting stance. Spring off the back leg moving forward at the same time as the jab is thrown. Turn the hips on the cross, and then spring back to the starting position, pushing off with the forward leg.

    Knees Up

    • Any time a knee comes above the waist, it is equivalent to one crunch or sit-up on the ground, so it is beneficial to incorporate as many knees into combinations as possible. In a fighting stance, start with a jab cross, then as the cross comes back to the body, pick up the front leg's knee high. This action also simulates a check to a low leg kick for kickboxers. To change this combination, make the knee a front kick, side kick, or any other kind of kick.

    Adding Jumping Jacks

    • Adding jumping jacks to any set combination keeps the heart rate up. There are the classic, "jack, then jab" combos, when in between each jumping jack, a punch is thrown. There also are the combinations in which the jumping jacks are used to travel. Move forward with any amount of front kicks or lunging punches, then use the jumping jack to move back to the starting point.

    Using Squats

    • To give plain squats more of a kickboxing twist, add a punch or a kick each time you come up out of a squat. Another way to integrate squats while teaching a kickboxing technique is to instruct the students to draw a U shape with their head while squatting, to simulate a kickboxing weave. Then add a straight punch or uppercut to each squat. It represents weaving under an opponents strike, then countering with a punch.