Get Stronger kicks - 6 exercises with minimal equipment

6 exercises using minimal to zero equipment you can do at home, at the dojo or in the gym to develop more powerful kicks for your martial art. #martialarts #karate #kicks #gym

[@nolynylon]

Quadzilla over here

[@dumitriuflorentina6137]

GET STRONGER KICKS - 6 EXERCISES WITH MINIMAL EQUIPMENT

[@mateusmagal7101]

😂😂😂😂 piroquinha

[@Yurimartins97]

@@mateusmagal7101 Inveja mata, mané

[@thenovicenoisemaker]

Absolute tank of a man!

[@MartialArtsGamer]

Osu. Great power and techniques John. Your channel is a great asset to all martial arts channels.

[@shauntheangelofmercy]

you really are something else Sir. your students are lucky to have such a great teacher.

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you 🙏

[@shauntheangelofmercy]

@@jkgardiner it's us that should be grateful to be lucky to have such a passionate teacher for free here on youtube. Thank you, thank you, thank you Sir.

[@aurelienhenryobama5434]

Thank you very much for tips. I am from Cameroon. I Karate shotokan instructor. 4th degree black belt.

[@garland336]

You are wildly fast for your size and I gotta say I now see why - brilliant training techniques

[@mickybender7726]

that man deserves a whole lot of leave alone

[@donovanjones4175]

He’s got legs for arms!!

[@joeblogs-vx4ep]

Kicks like a mule Awesome power 🔥👍

[@dougfowler6898]

This is excellent and very much appreciated sensei. You have definitely given me way more techniques and strategies to improve my Shotokan than I have learned in many years. Very grateful.

[@educatedcanadian7408]

Im half Bulgarian i should be able to do those squats. This man john is built like a god damn tank. Imagine him kicking you full force with all his might. Right leg hospital left leg cemetery. Ive seen him spar too. Hes fkin good. Love to see john fight karate combat or mma. I can't imagine anyone walking through that back or roundhouse. Ive got power i turn the hips over etc but john is far more powerful. He should definitely atleast get on the powercube and check that power. If i lived around london id go to his dojo. Hands down.

[@jkgardiner]

I appreciate it 🙏

[@educatedcanadian7408]

@@jkgardiner you're a beast bro. Honestly love to see you compete full contact. I wouldn't fight you. Spar yes, fight absolutely not. Nat can look good in no contact sparring and he has great technique but I see one major difference which is your power is off the charts. That's the kind of power thst truly sends you to the hospital. Careful with that john you truly are a deadly weapon. Again I know power, that's terrifying ! Even a liver or gut shot from leg might be so strong the guy wouldn't gain breath again. I bet your kick on powerkube is over 180. I've seen so many many guys kick, I've never quite seen this kind of power. You do realize it right ? You'd shatter any bone you hit on opponent. Arm, rib, etc I think it's like double tripple mine and I can buckle the heavy bags all day, but I think you'd break them in one session. Wow. !!!

[@jjbtech]

Sensei what does your weekly between weight training and conditioning

[@meateaterwhitetail7291]

My brother did a karate kick to a bag in front of his muay thai coach. He was clapping his hands and says it's only good in the street..😂

[@robertthomas3777]

Thanks mate. You are validating what I’ve been saying and practising for years.

[@Leonidas.-NrOne]

Excellent!

[@mountainwarrior108]

Great exercises, excellent demonstration & explanation 🤜🤛

[@arkatarunmukherjee]

Excellent! Loved every bit of it!

[@cad3nce]

Really excellent set of exercises.

[@SecretsOfMartialArts]

Excellent educational booster on kick development...

[@thakurenterprises1094]

Thank you for such great video

[@seanbarker9272]

These are useful thanks 👍

[@cindrella897]

Superb🎉🎉

[@saized7494]

Thank you for being my sensei...osssss!!

[@donoberloh]

Great technique also

[@georgegoodyear9631]

Very good tips. Thank you.

[@DanielLock-xy1ek]

Nice brother I’m definitely going to start doing these, it makes perfect sense on each movement that you demonstrated

[@teddyboo7843]

Great stuff ! Thanks

[@Yogananndmartialaarts19]

Excellent 👌

[@Strikesquad84]

Superb ❤

[@Troll_of_Society]

I really like your videos, this one is better than the others because it doesn't have music (a little distracting, can be disturbing) and is straight to the point. Thank you for this quality

[@jkgardiner]

Thanks, the longer ones don't have music, i prefer making the longer ones as I can give more detail in them

[@ckapincahmar1077]

Amazing video much appreciated Osu!

[@mohammedhse4451]

Amazing

[@fitlife8234]

Great content sensei...waiting for you gym routine video too! Osu!

[@pokemania1022]

My ribs hurt while watching this👍

[@educatedcanadian7408]

You're too good to us. The chamber lift is gold. Now I see. Thank you so very much. Btw that chamber with the table hurts almost as much as the side pulse at first

[@JoseFernandez-mt1se]

I needed that!! Oss

[@marcd1981]

Thank you for the video John, this is the first of your videos I've seen so far. I saw the thumbnail for this video last week, and I have to admit, seeing how big your legs were, I was wondering how good your kicking was going to be. Glad I just watched to find out.

[@alwaystraining54]

Don’t get too muscular!…they said…it’ll slow you down!…they said…um yeah I don’t think so. Great stuff here! Thank you!

[@jkgardiner]

That's been said to me many times!

[@piotrkosztirko438]

​@@jkgardinerYou would actually hit harder if you were smaller though. Power is generated primarily through speed, not mass.

[@jkgardiner]

@piotrkosztirko438 that is absolutely rubbish. Why do heavyweight boxers hit harder than light? And the formula is mass x acceleration (speed) = power. increasing any of those numbers results in more power. (Eg. 7 x 8 is the same as 8 x 7)

[@piotrkosztirko438]

@@jkgardiner Not rubbish, you're just inexperienced in this matter, as well as misinformed. What is acceleration? Speed^2 ... That means that any increase to speed is much more significant than any increase to mass. Try plugging in some numbers, you'll see. Also: I'm not comparing a heavyweight to a lightweight, so don't try making my point into a strawman argument. My point is that one and the same heavyweight could actually hit harder if he was lighter but faster. Pretty basic.

[@jkgardiner]

@piotrkosztirko438 @piotrkosztirko438 your last statement makes no sense.. if the heavyweight was lighter he wouldn't be a heavyweight.. you're also suggesting that I don't have speed as well.. It's not a strawman argument, you said if "I" was lighter I'd hit harder. So If I was in a lower weight class you think I'd hit harder.. so you began the comparison of lighter vs heavier weight. Either way I'm fine, you carry on as you are and ill do my thing. It doesn't matter.

[@harold1733]

Great stuff! One of my favorites is attaching a cable to my ankle and raising my foot with a straight leg laterally as high as I can. I think it hits all three heads of the glute system if you rotate the knee and toes a little bit outward at the top of the lift. We actually do some variation of these exercises in Muay Thai/ Dutch kickboxing.

[@thorstenh1976]

Very good Training techniques..thank you

[@thorstenh1976]

I really like the resitant band exercise

[@mkleng]

Holy shit.. your kicks are powerful! Thanks for sharing - very kind watrior

[@RavenburnX]

Wow I think im pretty flexible but aspire to be able to kick like this having just got my purple belt, blisteringly fast kicks, awesome technique and awesome leg exercises. Thank you Earned a follow 🥋

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you 🥋

[@user-zv9qe1ss8s]

Nice.

[@johnsanchezzambrano6303]

Hola John. Hace poco tiempo descubrí tu canal y te felicito por la excelente calidad de tus contenidos y enseñanzas. Recibe mis saludos y mis respetos desde Chile. Que Dios te bendiga y que tu canal siga prosperando.

[@jkgardiner]

Muchas gracias 🙏

[@xrayfish2020]

Thank you Sensi -OSS!

[@xrayfish2020]

I need to get back to my old dojo and try this out - thank you for your time and sharing these techinques with us all - OSS.

[@Ronin-tp4vx]

Osu Some great exercises there. I did wince a bit at the Split Stance Explosive Jumps. Look at a softer, rather than a static 'high impact' landing Gardiner San. Having trained in Kyokushin for a few decades the bones and joints are starting to creak a bit now and I know some of it was because of the high impact exercises I could of eased back on .. but when your young and handsome ... you remind me of me back in the day, you don't think of the long term consequences . Great content. Subscribed.

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you 🙏 you're right a soft landing is probably safer long term.

[@keagghead]

Those kicks shook my liver loose...

[@bajuszpal172]

Dear Sir, Excellent exercises for snap kicks! How about those with combined efforts, like Mae- or Yoko- Geri Ke-KOmi? Paul,68

[@oleksanderlezhepekov5850]

Спасибо большое за информацию!

[@logithbatman9221]

oss Can you show some mixed combination of point sparring karate cuz I have a tournament next week

[@jkgardiner]

Take a look on my channel here I have a few videos on Kumite combinations 👍

[@kiyomiheinrich2147]

more extension on that back kick...more heal....less ego.

[@sorbet26]

Everything I aspire to be 😭🙏🏻

[@myssytys]

Just ordered your channel, thanks for these excellent videos!

[@adamwilson2561]

As a single dad with two small kids, I need a way to train legs on days when I can't get to the gym. Also having a few leg days more focussed on my karate rather than pure strength or hypertrophy feels good from a whole health and flexibility perspective. Thanks for the video. Could also add kettlebells or whatever heavy object you have to hand I guess if bodyweight alone is a bit light?

[@jkgardiner]

Yes definitely add resistance if you can, progressively overloading the movements is important for continued progression.

[@ccosta_santos]

Great video master! When should I do these exercises? Before or after martial art training, or in a period distant from fight training?

[@jkgardiner]

These are better done away from your martial arts training. But if that's not possible then at the end of training would be fine.

[@ccosta_santos]

@@jkgardiner Thank you so much! Amazing video.

[@johntay3831]

amazing form and power. For the Ushiro Geri, are you using Chusoku or Kakato?

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you, kakato on ushiro geri

[@carlitzer-cm5lf]

Great exercises, although I will come back and complain if my thighs doesn't end up looking like that 😄

[@jkgardiner]

Add heavy squats and Romanian deadlifts to this and you'll be getting there 💪

[@dfk09]

Great video! Where do you get resistance bands like those? They look really heavy duty.

[@jkgardiner]

Amazon would probably have some 👍

[@ministryofvolcano]

Sets & Reps? I'd do these exercises between Heavy Lifting Compound days!😊

[@cspahn3221]

1. Split Squats 2. Front chamber with resistance 3. Single leg hip thrust 4. Split stance explosive jumps 5. Chamber position raises 6. Improve your kicking technique

[@eathealthylivehealthy8171]

I love you johngardiner

[@sergiotrofinofilhotrofino8013]

Oss

[@prasadmunasinghe3651]

Grate workout , simple and highly effective ❤

[@alanguages]

I tried plyometric exercises, but after a while my joints took quite the pounding.

[@logithbatman9221]

Master Can u share ur daily routine workout for martial arts?

[@jkgardiner]

I will be posting my training programme soon 👍

[@shokster]

OSS!!🦵🏻🔥

[@janhelgelorenz4352]

What a MAN - why you are a KARATE-Fighter ? You are a "Bodybuilding Pro" !!! ;-) - What a Body !!!

[@jkgardiner]

Not big enough for that!

[@devine8253]

Where can I get the exact resistance band you have?

[@jkgardiner]

This one is from Blitzsport

[@1979jon]

I didnt realise how good bands can be

[@sportmuaythaiv1045]

#6 Is most important. I do muaythai which has power in their kicks. Simply because it has very bio-mechanic efficiency.

[@jkgardiner]

👍

[@longro9999]

So,how to do to kick fastly ? Please share with us ❤

[@jkgardiner]

More power will also mean more speed. Most importantly is to have good technique. 👍

[@johnreidy2804]

I think he could beat Jake Paul. Good video my friend

[@Danishkhankarateboxing]

MMA

[@KmSyvenirka]

Молодец - отталкиваєшся ударной ногой от пола, 99% этого не делают. Ещё, также, при mavashi geri - для акцента, можно отталкиваться ногой от makivary (а не отводить, как это делаешь ты).

[@KelvindeWolfe]

If you want powerful kicks take ITF.

[@TBlay]

forget the exercises in this video, this man's body is the body of a man who goes to the gym regularly. Lots of power in his shots, but don't forget that on a moving target or one that blocks well, you won't be able to go at full power without exposing yourself. This kind of power especially allows you to impress your training partners.

[@jkgardiner]

Yes my physique is built in the gym with a heavy strength and hypertrophy focused training programme. These exercises are for those who want to train without access to a gym or to do in their dojos.

[@piotrkosztirko438]

He's a meat head, not a martial artist. Tried having a civilized convo with him about basic power generation via speed (the whole point of his video is power generation, after all), during which he did little other than demonstrate his ignorance and ego.

[@timonbagh]

Why it seems like gravity is different for him

[@Rajdeep-jl1hy]

I love traditional karate OSS ❤️

[@migueltallmike7629]

Seem bodybuilding body more than martial arts body

[@jkgardiner]

Yes I do both... you dont need to take it as far but being stronger is always a good thing.

[@migueltallmike7629]

for squash or raquet sports is not possible to have such a mass volume to move properly , i do not know so much about martial arts , thanks @@jkgardiner

[@andrejkakoperova1744]

Thanks for the tips, very useful 🙏 Ps : can you be any more hot 😅

[@joaodelgado6118]

You need more flexibility big boy! But great low kicks :)

[@jkgardiner]

Take a look at my other videos

[@thehitman06]

Get stronger kicks, learn Muay Thai kicking technique 😜

[@jkgardiner]

These would help your muay thai kicks be stronger....

[@wb-usmcret.4762]

If this Man kicked you it would be equivalent to getting hit by a truck!!! Great video~

[@sarinulek6816]

Minimal equipment?? Tell it to the guy holding the bag.😅

[@voidofmisery4810]

no offense, are you on gear?

[@jkgardiner]

No offense taken. No I'm not.

[@emersonr7481]

Loosen your kicks a bit. Decent technique, but you're super stiff. Watch how light on their feet soccer players are. You don't need massive quads to kick harder.

[@MegaRastaman]

Tu dois travailler ta vitesse tu es trop lent

[@kiyomiheinrich2147]

5 one leg squats!! hold ankle.. now ,jump up, grab tree!!and chase squirrel. hit those tires ,every day!! and FIGHT!!!! Mexico baby!!!! like your life depends on it! ...or a tiny jail cell!! TRAIN!!!!!! my ! J.K.D., baby!!! im 63 years old, and all Viking!! German, Irish. learned from all cultures...whatever works, disregard the rest. GOD thru CHRIST is my POWER!!! no foreign gods. DIET!! FAST! SPIRITUAL TRAINING!!! GOPDS WORD!! PRAYER!!! the HOLY SPIRIT is my TEACHER in this area. Nothings changed at all ,health wise...in fact.. I'm in the best health of my life.. really weird. lately im increasing my hand to hand to BAKI anime level!! do to what's happening in the Citys these days...gun"ate is my other work out...Musashi says two hands ,two swords!! two 40 cals..like equilibrium movie.! CAREFUL training!! ready for the street.. never seen this on you tube. I'm camera shy.

[@jahstafari4606]

stronger? kicks is about speed precision and TIMING ....strenght ...comes out of hiting your oponent when he is weakest ...then you need half strenght and you dont brake your own leg ...or fist...i'm playing smart here but thats the way it is 😅 ...if you kick in right spots you hardly even need some strenght ...its more explosiv swing then some strenght and big muscles ...most succesfull kickers dont have big muscle and weight ...it slows you down ...i'm a small skinny guy so strenght comparing to some 6+ft 2 meters high makes no sense ...gotta use what you have as advantige

[@jkgardiner]

I've got faster with more strength... it is all the things you mentioned and strength. A strong body is also more injury resistant. These movements are about developing the muscles involved in kicking and as a result technique can be improved with more strength through the full active range of motion.

[@user-on2ph5nk2f]

You forgot to mention your ped regimene

[@user-mn3vt2sl1m]

Are you natural, taking any testosterone, steroids or sarms. Just be honest, live your truth

[@jkgardiner]

I'm not taking anything, but how would that effect the information I'm putting across either way?

[@user-mn3vt2sl1m]

@jkgardiner as an ex-juicer and MMA enthusiast that comes as a Big surprise and I'm astounded by your genetics, but I guess I'm still learning. The exercises you detailed wouldn't change, but from my experience if you're PE'ing your training and recovery is different.

[@jkgardiner]

@user-mn3vt2sl1m I've been training for 24 years in Karate and about 20 In the gym, although probably about 10 years of having a better idea about how to train.

[@user-mn3vt2sl1m]

@jkgardiner that's brilliant, well done Dude & Thanks

[@user-xo7zn6fc9v]

Bro you do roids…

[@karatedo4928]

If he is doin gym there is not point in karate

[@jkgardiner]

Why not?

[@karatedo4928]

@@jkgardiner if you go to UFC or tournaments full contact. Then ok need more power but karate was made for self defense. Like normal guy in the street don't go to gym he only do karate if u do bodyweight training that ok

[@jkgardiner]

@karatedo4928 what if I also enjoy weight training? Weight training will absolutely improve your Karate, without a doubt. Over 20 years of combining Karate with weight training and I haven't experienced a single downside. The body doesn't differentiate between resistance from body weight or external weight, the muscles contract under load in both cases.

[@karatedo4928]

@@jkgardiner 👍

[@scottlaroc7396]

With a bodybuilder body, why wouldn’t you be able to kick someone through a wall 😊…. But I love the exercises and very impressed on your delivery of kicks ( outstanding)🤜🏾🫷🏾