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Last week I told you about warming up in general.
As promised, this week I’m going to give you an account of one way I warm up a Karate session. For me, the priorities of Karate training are:
My warm ups usually start with basic, generic moves and progress onto more Karate-specific drills of increasing speed and complexity.
Remember, this is just an example of one way I warm up a session…here goes!
Most people asking me for training programmes do so for aesthetic purposes. They want to lose weight, “tone up”, get big guns…in other words, they want to look better and don’t care about anything else.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with training to look better…but in my experience, people need to work hard and changes are fairly slow. And this can be demoralising for anyone. So many people “fall off the wagon”.
Here is a quick article on warming up before a training session. We all know we have to do one before training, but do we all know:
Look in any sports shop, fitness magazine or gym and there will be adverts for supplements and protein shakes promising to change your body in ways you only ever dreamed of.
But should you spend your hard earned cash on them?
The final part in the series charting the history of Shotokan Karate by Dr Tudor Jenkins.
I hope you have enjoyed them and learned something from them.
If you have, please tell your friends!
Clients regularly ask me if they should be eating this food, or that food. This is my opinion…
This weeks session was an aerobic one. Mostly easy stations, but the aim was to…
“just keep moving“.
Continuing the history of Shotokan by Dr Tudor Jenkins. Make sure you check out all 7 parts.
Part 5 of 7. Make sure you see them all!
Continuing in the series telling the history of Shotokan Karate by Dr Tudor Jenkins.
Part 4 of 7.
If you ever need reminding that anything is possible if you try hard enough…
Dr Tudor Jenkins continues his history of Shotokan Karate. Pt 3 of 7.
Congratulations to my friend Karen Driver who competed in the European Masters Swimming Championships in Cadiz last week.
She got 4th in the 800 metre freestyle (only missing out on the bronze by 0.6 sec! :(), and knocking 3 seconds off her personal best!
She got 3rd in the 400 metre freestyle (yay!!! :))
And she got 13th in the open water freestyle, knocking a fantastic 3 minutes off her personal best!
Second part in the series of 7, by Dr Tudor Jenkins.
Quick history of Shotokan Karate by Dr Tudor Jenkins. This is the first part of 7, make sure you see the other parts.
According to this report from the BBC news (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8269462.stm), it seems that most of us don’t know how fat/obese we are.
Todays circuit was geared towards the upper body and went like this:
Half time display at the KUGB Nationals 2007, by the Chelmsford Display Squad:
Keystone Abilities are derived from the biological term “Keystone Species“. These are plant/animal species that have a disproportionate effect on their environment. In other words, their presence (even in very small numbers) have a big effect on everything else around them. So if these Keystone Species are ok, then the surrounding environment is almost certainly … Read more
Sensei Paul James (5th Dan) takes you through a possible Bunkai to Empi.
Important: This is a possible bunkai to Empi. So before thousands of you keyboard warriors start foaming at the mouth saying that it is wrong or a corruption of Shotokan, remember the most important words to live by…