Hi, my name is Michael Quebec, over here at the Heritage Kickboxing Gym, in Union City, and today's subject is how to become proficient in martial arts through strength training. For stand up striking martial arts, you want to make sure that you don't develop bulky big muscles, because that can reduce your speed. One thing that you can try is taking some light free weights just like this, and you can practice shadow boxing with them. I like to do this for my boxing. So I'm doing my shadow boxing while holding light free weights, keeping slight bend bends in my elbows, so that way I don't hyper-extend my joints. Doing this will increase my speed. It also increases my strength, because it gets me used to keeping my hands up. If I can hold my hands up easily with weights then without the weights, holding my hands up becomes really easy. When I'm doing my shadow boxing with free weights I'm not ever fully extending or locking out the elbow, because that can hyper-extend the joint. So, you want to make sure that you're keeping a slight bend in the elbow to protect your joints. So that's one exercise that I like to do. I'm going to go ahead and put this down, and I'm going to demonstrate another one. Okay, I can use strength training, traditional strength training techniques; such as the common push-up for developing explosive short bursts of speed and power in my martial arts, so one thing I like to do is apply a metric push-up. The traditional push-up of course is you're really going all the way down, all the way up. Well, apply a metric push-up is getting a little bounce in your push-ups. Doing like three sets of twenty, or three sets of ten when you're first starting, and then building up to three sets of twenty is a good way of developing explosive power, such as punching power, in your martial arts. So, that's another strength training exercise adapted for use in the martial arts.
pg7dktenor
Nov 04, 2010
