Rippetoe Starting Strength and taekwondo

paulig

We're interested in starting a weight training program at our taekwondo club and I stumbled across a thread on this forum talking about the Rippetoe Starting Strength program. The thread is now closed so posting here. Anyway as I see it's a 3 day a week program the idea is to run it for approx an hour before regular class times on the 3 days a week we train anyway.

I'm wondering if there'd be any concerns as to doing program and then going straight into a two hour taekwondo session (muscles torn etc). Our normal two hour session would usually be broken up into something like.

Stretching & warming up - half hour
Patterns/trad - half hour
Paddles and kick sheild work - half hour
Sparring - half hour

Apart from sparring its not hugely strenuous cardiovascularly. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Khannie

I'd say you'd have nothing left at the end of the weights session. Just a guess. Also, you'd be looking at over 2 hours until you eat and that's not ideal after a heavy weights session.

Personally, I'd do it the other way around. Finish with the weights session, then get some grub in to help recovery.

Roper

paulig wrote: »

We're interested in starting a weight training program at our taekwondo club and I stumbled across a thread on this forum talking about the Rippetoe Starting Strength program. The thread is now closed so posting here. Anyway as I see it's a 3 day a week program the idea is to run it for approx an hour before regular class times on the 3 days a week we train anyway.

I'm wondering if there'd be any concerns as to doing program and then going straight into a two hour taekwondo session (muscles torn etc). Our normal two hour session would usually be broken up into something like.

Stretching & warming up - half hour
Patterns/trad - half hour
Paddles and kick sheild work - half hour
Sparring - half hour

Apart from sparring its not hugely strenuous cardiovascularly. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

There's no problem doing strength work before a session at all. Your recovery time will improve as you get used to the load and one won't interfere with the other too much. However Starting Strength is far from ideal for what you're trying to achieve. There are too many lifts in SS to handle as part of a double session.

Assuming 3 sessions, I think you'd be better off doing something like
Week 1: A, B, C
Week 2: D, A, B
Week 3: C, D, A
and so on where A= Squat variation session with supplementary lower back, B= pressing variation with supplementary trunk work, C= Deadlift variation with supplementary hamstring/glute, D= Upper body pulling session with supplementary abs.

Get rid of that Taekwondo warm up. Unless you're some sort of TKD Maverick, you're static stretching and if I catch you doing it then I'll have wasted my time with this post and I'll be mildly irritated. Seriously, you should do your warm up/mobility stuff before the weight training and then you'll have a half hour extra to lift.

Fire away with any questions.