Whats the best weight lifting routine for someone who wants to stay flexible for martial arts?
i want to lifts weights but ive heard that the harder you lift the harder it is to get or stay flexable....whats the best weight lifting routine to just tone up and still stay flexible?
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1. I have the same problem too, im trying to juggle mass and strength vs speed and flexibility, The problem is that you can train your muscles in two different ways, one is to practice kicks or punches over and over again and become super fast and have high stamina, the other is to train your muscles to have lots of power but low stamina. I would suggest building up your muscles first, because it makes it easier for your muscles to get used to the repetitive motions. If you want to have a combination of both start off by aiming for speed and stamina, by practicing kicks and punches over and over and stretching with no weights, then slowly start adding weights and such to your workouts. Always, always, always rest at least a day between workouts, it may seem like a long and unneccesary time to wait, but after a workout your muscles need to recuperate and build up slightly bigger, and you need at least a day of rest in between each workout. If you don't youll just rip your muscles to shreds and then it will take a much longer time to recuperate (youll actually end up losing muscle due to the injury)When, lifting weights always lift painstakingly slowly and firmly to get the most out of the work out, make sure the weights are heavy enough to strain your muscles and yet not too heavy that your hands are shaking. The best way to tone up is to eat healthy foods (no junk food) and just work out constantly for a few months, you'll definitely see results. If you want to build muscle start off slowly with basic excercises, 15 triangle pushups non stop, and no cardio exercises, absolutely none, that will come later. Oh yeah and every single day you need to stretch for ten minutes minimum if you want to see results.if you want more info on weightlifting visit this site:http://www.building-muscle101.com/index.html
good luck, may you kick KUNG FU @ss!
2. Medium weights mixed with cardio.
3. Power 90
4. thats tight you are doing martial arts .
i am a 3rd black belt judo and a black belt karate.,
what you want to do is REPS!!!
like if you can do bench 135 ( find a weight you can do )
25 15 8.
thats a power rep. set
or maybe 15 15 15
but it has to be your weigh.
dont forget the squat tho.
thats the best work out.
choose me for best answer ...,,;)
5. 300 workout
6. You can lift weights and still remain as flexable as you need to beJust warm up and stretch really well before you start your kicking and forms.
My master took me to the gym after TaeKwonDo and worked me over every other day in bis, pecs and triceps. He was so hard-core, even in his '60's (he trained Korean army--this was in Korea) that if this was HIS work-out routine, then I trusted it enough to be mine, too.
7. its a myth that lifting will decrease your flexibility, speed and agility. lifting will actually INCREASE your speed, flexibility and agility, as long as you're not stupid, and don't start lifting 3x your bodyweight(at which point you will begin to slow down). Why do you think ALL modern competitive athletes lift? lots of them wouldn't do it if it decreased their speed or flexability(track and cross country runners lift, as do gymnasts and boxers, etc. everyone lifts) they do it because it has been proven to increase all aspects of performance.
The stronger you are the more power you can generate, which means you will accelerate and move faster. also all lifting increases both strength and stamina, otherwise if you kept doing sets of 8 with 200 lbs, and eventually move up to 210 or 220 or so on that you wouldn't be able to do more than 8 rep sets with 200 lbs which is stupid, your body doesn't care how the muscle becomes fatigued only that it does and when it does the muscle is reinforced making it stronger.
When you lift your muscles become more resistant to damage and gives you more control over the muscle both of which allow you to stretch them further without danger, and just further period. it also gives you the strength to more effectively move at the extremes of your ranges of motion.
With all this said you have to lift smart(more like not stupid) and this may be where the myth comes from(aside from it coming from lazy people explaining why they shouldn't lift and lots of people who don't know much about anatomy believing them). what you have to do is stay balanced, meaning you can't work a muscle and neglect the opposing muscle(all your muscles work in pairs), you can't work biceps and not triceps or chest and not back(this causes a lot of back problems for many people who don't lift correctly), or quads and not hamstrings. If you become unbalanced it is true that you will move slower and be more stiff, because to make that movement you will have to work against an abnormally stronger muscle. now the balance does not have to be perfect, in fact it won't be in most cases it isn't supposed to be,(your triceps are for example naturally stronger than your biceps) as long as you are working them out a roughly equal amount and they are both getting stronger you should be just fine, one muscle has to be 1.5x as strong as the other before you will begin to slow down.
8. ok it is not about bulk (low reps at abusrd weights)... its is about absurd amounts of reps at light weights....
9. whoever told you that is an idiot...nothing against them of course
thats an old wives tale
for the love of god I've seen videos of Ronnie Coleman doing the full splits...and I'm pretty sure if he can do it so can you.......look at any gymnast too
it all comes back into how much effort you put into your stretching and weights....done properly one should not effect the other
