Hello, my name is Greg Konig, owner of Fitness For Life and today we're going to discuss weight training for Marital Arts. Martial Arts is, obviously, a very paced, very technical sport, so when weight training, or if you're going to weight train for Martial Arts, you definitely want a faster paced movement. As Hunter is going to demonstrate for us, we're doing a fast paced ballistic style dumbbell press. Here, again, when you are performing a movement at this pace, the chance of injury is greater than a slower, more of a general conditioning pace. This is more specific trying to create speed through his triceps, his shoulders and his chest. Speed, obviously, is what you want in Martial Arts, the quicker you are, generally, the better you're going to be. Here, again, slow on the way down with a dumbbell and explode with them up but you want to be controlled with it. You don't want to hyperextend the joints and you don't want to make the range of motion any bigger than it needs to be, meaning on the way down, with the elbows, you stop them about shoulder height and then drive them back up. Try not to lock the elbows out, try to keep the weight as controlled as you can but as fast a pace as you can take it. Again, this is Greg Konig for Fitness For Life and this concludes our talk about weight training for Martial Arts.
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