[Phoenix]

Hey guys,need your learned advice on conditioning exercises to improve my training,what techniques have you found work?
Any tips on improving flexibility etc?

[RickCreasson]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Hey guys,need your learned advice on conditioning exercises to improve my training,what techniques have you found work?
Any tips on improving flexibility etc?

What parts of the body do you need work on?

[Niall0]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Hey guys,need your learned advice on conditioning exercises to improve my training,what techniques have you found work?
Any tips on improving flexibility etc?

what kind of training do you do?

[Phoenix]

shotokan at the mo,legs definately need to improve the flexibility and i suppose in general too

[RickCreasson]

Originally Posted by Aquila

shotokan at the mo,legs definately need to improve the flexibility and i suppose in general too

Flexibility has many sub-goals.

Do you want your arms-shoulders more flexible?

Why do you want your legs more flexible?

In other words;

What is your goal(s), other than "to be flexible", do you want out of flexibility training?

I ask all of this, because there are different flexibility routines for specific body target areas for specific movements or techniques

[Raging_Ninja]

some people might laugh, but if you only want to gain some flexibility and pick up some stretching techniques, give yoga a shot.

[CIARAN_BOYLE]

Originally Posted by Raging_Ninja

some people might laugh, but if you only want to gain some flexibility and pick up some stretching techniques, give yoga a shot.

agreed, there used to be a yoga class before karate one day a week and a couple of the lads went to that as a kind of long warm up/flexibility session

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by RickCreasson

Flexibility has many sub-goals.

Do you want your arms-shoulders more flexible?

Why do you want your legs more flexible?

In other words;

What is your goal(s), other than "to be flexible", do you want out of flexibility training?

I ask all of this, because there are different flexibility routines for specific body target areas for specific movements or techniques

I basically wana improve my whole bodies flexibility and definitely improve on my kicking height

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Raging_Ninja

some people might laugh, but if you only want to gain some flexibility and pick up some stretching techniques, give yoga a shot.

Any particular type?there seems to be quite a few out there!

[RickCreasson]

Originally Posted by Aquila

I basically wana improve my whole bodies flexibility and definitely improve on my kicking height

I did not realise Shotokan was into kicking heights.

That said, I once came across a fellow who was doing a extreme stretching routine because he wanted kicking height.

After I had observed his routine, it wasn't that he needed more stretching/flexibility, he lacked proper mechanics on how to kick.

For example; he said his front kick was poor and lacked height, which what he really lacked was the understanding on how to bring up the knee and proper balance.

I would have thought, your Shotokan instructor would have knowledge on how to stretch the students to obtain flexibility.

That said, flexibility does not "come overnight"


I have to agree with Yoga, as this is mild stretching. In other words, very smooth and easy going (at first)

Join any Yoga class within in your area and budget to see if it is what you may like-need

You could always find another

[CIARAN_BOYLE]

Originally Posted by RickCreasson

I did not realise Shotokan was into kicking heights.

A lot of the time in Shotokan we do big movements in training, especially as beginners or when working on basics with the idea that if you can do it big you can learn to miniaturize it later easier. For example if you can kick to head quickly you can kick to knee in a quarter of the time.

Of course there are some who like to showboat look at how high I can kick but those are a minority.

Originally Posted by RickCreasson

After I had observed his routine, it wasn't that he needed more stretching/flexibility, he lacked proper mechanics on how to kick.

For example; he said his front kick was poor and lacked height, which what he really lacked was the understanding on how to bring up the knee and proper balance.

Gotta agree with that.

[RickCreasson]

Originally Posted by CIARAN_BOYLE

A lot of the time in Shotokan we do big movements in training, especially as beginners or when working on basics with the idea that if you can do it big you can learn to miniaturize it later easier. For example if you can kick to head quickly you can kick to knee in a quarter of the time.

The "slight con" to this is forming bad "habits"