Martial Arts Training Concept

Before we start learning any martial arts techniques I would like to cover some training concepts.  This is quality v quantity, when you practice it’s much more important to focus on the quality of your martial arts training rather than the quantity.   In other words it’s better to train for 20 minutes with intensity than it is to train for 1 hour at 50% effort.

 For example professional golfers were hitting around 500 balls a day and becoming more injury prone.  Experts analyzed their practice and found that they would be much better hitting 100 balls with absolute focus and intensity.

So instead of doing 500 kicks focus on 100, so that you are putting maximum effort in and your paying attention to your technique and not just getting to the end of your repetitions.  So think quality instead of quality because less can really be more.

If you think of rating your effort on a scale on 1 to 10 (ten being your hardest) you start out warming up at level  5 a comfortable work rate, you then want to ensure during each workout you achieve level 8, 9 and 10’s during some of your rounds.

The best way to workout would be to workout roughly how many repetitions you can do with speed, power and focus in say two minutes and then workout how many rounds you need to do to achieve the desired number of repetitions, that way you keep going until the timer bleeps this lets you focus on your techniques rather than counting how many you have done.