Five Martial Arts Exercises Make You Five Times More Stronger, Faster and Powerful!

[I:https://healthclub90.com/storage/2011/08/AlCase10.jpg] I was talking with one of my students the other day, and we were discussing condensing body calisthenics into maybe a half dozen simple motions. Think about it, five martial arts exercises that help you be stronger, faster and more powerful. All you need to do is these five exercises!

So I researched a bunch of disciplines having to do with Yoga, Tibetian exercises and even American programs like Matt Furey. Here’s my initial thoughts on the five exercises, and while I will probably work on them a bit, tweak them further, I think they fit the bill. The added attraction is that they’ll be good martial arts class warm ups, no matter whether you do Karate, kenpo, taekwondo, or whatever.

First, and most important, is stretching. Most body injuries result from the body being compacted, so to stretch the body, whether it be splits or just hanging from a tree or over the side of a bed, should start the blood flowing and awake the body. No set exercise for this, I just recommend reading up on a little yoga, isolating the movements you aren’t flexible in, and concentrating on them.

Next, would be what I call snaking. This includes such things as worming style push ups, and covers basically the whole front bend of the body. There are a whole series of yoga poses, from dog looks up to plank position to child pose to rabbits pose, that could fit in this particular exercise.

The third exercise would be that staple from wrestling called bridging. There are many varieties of bridging, and they should be explored gently and on a gradient. Bridging from the neck, the hands, over a stool, all this covers the whole range of bending the body backwards.

Now, you may have figured out that I am trying to cover every range of motion for the body, and you would be right. After front bend and back bend, we have twisting the body. While there are many yoga poses that twist the body, generally and specifically, if you just sit cross legged looking over your shoulder, then twist up to a standing position, and down to cross legged and looking over the shoulder on the other side, this should cover most everything.

The final martial arts exercise would be being upside down. This should reverse gravity for your innards, and should be very good for your organs. This would include frog stands, head stands (start out against the wall), and eventually a variety of handstands and even walking on the hands.

So that’s it, my quick fix for whole body health through five simple body calisthenic, martial arts exercises. These calisthenics are fairly common, and you should find them in a variety of programs. At any rate, try them out for a month or two, and watch yourself get nothing but better and strong and faster.

I do recommend a study of all body motion potentials if you want to get the most out of these drills. Head over on over over to my Yogata page (TThe Yoga Kata), and get even more data on getting stronger, faster and more powerful through the martial arts.