Slay Mode is a striking workout with a full arsenal and no filler - seventy strikes per set across five different weapons. Palm strikes, backfists, punches, uppercuts and elbow strikes rotate through seven blocks of ten, and by the final elbows, your shoulders know precisely what mode they have been in.
The sequence tours the complete striking vocabulary, and each entry loads the shoulders through a different arc. Palm strikes open twice, driving open-handed and straight from the hips. Backfists whip out sideways from the centerline. Punches - appearing twice in the second row - rotate through the classic straight line, while uppercuts between them drive from low to high, recruiting the legs and core in a vertical arc nothing else in the set touches. Elbow strikes close at the shortest range, all torso rotation and no arm extension at all. Long range, short range, straight, sideways, upward: a complete kit, with the recurring blocks arriving on progressively more tired shoulders.
Every strike starts from the ground - rotate hips before shoulders, shoulders before hands, and snap each one back to guard as fast as it went out. Keep the uppercuts driving from bent knees rather than swinging from the elbow. On the closing elbow strikes, turn your whole torso through each rep; the power in an elbow is entirely borrowed from the rotation beneath it.
Seventy strikes, five ranges, zero hesitation. Mode: engaged.
Make it Harder: Speed up every block while keeping full rotation.
Make it Easier: Drop each block to five strikes and slow the pace.
