Martial Art Strength Building

Hank_Scorpio

Finally back into full training again after a spell out injured.

Just wondering what sort of training people do to build strength up for doing martial arts.

Last night I was training at a kickboxing club. We started doing press ups and did 50 normal press ups. Then we were doing press ups with another guy roughly the same weight leaning on your shoulders and basically doing press ups aswell. 5 sets of 5. Really hard and my tits are hurting me today.

The other thing we were doing was standing back to back and linking arms. One person steps out in front and the rear leg bends down to touch the ground (like lunges) and the other person tries to lean onto them as much as possible. And then returning to the starting position and doing a lunge on the other leg.

Doing sit up stand ups. Face each other, one guy sits on your feet and hooks their arms around your legs and you do a sit up but when you reach the top you stand up. We added dips into the stand up part as well to make it harder.

It was fantastic. I wasn't able for after only coming back to full time training but it was great craic.

Any other ideas?

Hank_Scorpio

Just putting it to the top of the pile again. Hope someone tries to answer?

dudara

I train TKD about 3 times a week, and head to the gym whenever I feel the need to burn off some angst, which comes to another 2-3 times a week.

For martial arts, a strong abdomen is important, so I do a good few sets of crunches, on the ground, on an inclined bench, feet up in the air, and rows. I also do a good few press-ups in various positions, as changing the position of your hands changes the muscles being worked from triceps to biceps to pecs and so on/

for other strength, I squat and deadlift and do dumb-bell pull-ups and presses.

Cabelo

Cartwheels, can't say enough for the ability to hold your own weight. Do them progressively slower and slower.

Hank_Scorpio

Well being an ex gymnast i'd say i could do a few cart wheels alright. How would you go about teaching an adult how to do that?

Ferdie

Burpees are a good overall body exercise. You start off doing a push up, then bring you legs to your the area under your chest & then jump off the floor as high as you can. Absorb the landing by bending your knees; Hands down to the floor, push your legs downward to push up position & do a push up. Cycle continues. Still looking online for a good sample of it...

[Edit]: Here's one: http://www.warriorforce.com/articles/burpeeclip.htm
Actually, the site had a way better explanation than mine - hehe.

paddyc

Really hard and my tits are hurting me today.

Hank_Scorpio

Always have said if it's not hard it's not worth doing. But always keep it fun