curtis_belliveau

Eat more food... Seriously though, when people try to lose weight they have a tendacy to cut back on their food intake thinking that less food will make then burn fat faster. In reality, cutting back on your food intake can cause your body to become catabolic and makes it less likely to burn excess calories if you are training hard. The best thing you can do is eat a tonne of fruit (banannas, kiwis, oranges, apples, mangos ect.), a lot of high protien low fat meat (chicken breast, lean beef, tuna), lots of whole wheat bread, cottage cheese, and egg whites. When I was trying to get in shape i mad ethe mistake of cutting back on food intake and after a month and a half i lost 5 pounds and put on no strength. When i upped my food intake i lost 25 pounds in three months along with raising my bench press 45 pounds. this wasnt doing martial arts though; this was training in a gym and running.

I dont have a super weak wrist it is just that it only has about 50% mobility and is useless for striking. I could use it for it to hold sonething/someone and even though it is weaker right now it would strengthen quickly with use. I am just worried about injuring it with a strike or someone else injuring it sparring. And like I said, I am not a fighter but my size seems to make me an obvious target for people to come up to me and randomly try to start a fight with me. Usually I am able to either talk them out of it or defend myself but I have had a couple instances where, completely unprovoked, people have come up to me and started fights with me that didnt go so well. So could you name some of the more common martial arts that contain both striking and grappling components?

next time you see him pretend you dont, wait for him to walk up and try to hit you then step into him as he throws a punch and elbow him in the nose. Then when he staggers back in suprise kick him in the side of the knee. If hes already hit you twice dont mess around with him. (I havent had any martial arts training, Im just telling you what id do).

So, here is my background info: I am 17 years old, 190 pounds, about 76 inches tall and have a bench of about 200. I am currently a bit out of shape and have some limited boxing training. I am unable to really effectively do any striking forms of martial arts because I had several bones shattered in my wrist and it seriously hinders my ability to punch with that arm (that is to say, if my punch lands crooked theres a chance it will shatter the scaphoid bone in my left wrist). What I am looking for in a martial art is intense physicall training along with sufficeint self defence training. Basically I want something that is going to get me in better shape and enable me to kick some * if the time calls for it.　I am not much of a fighter but I would like to have some training if the time ever calls for it. Right now I am thinking of BJJ or Judo combined with something else. BJJ is my first choice but I am not sure if there is a club near me.　I am currently out of town but once i get back I am planning on looking into what clubs are near me. I am also looking for something that I can do at least 3 times a week along with going to the gym a bit. Basically, I am looking for any suggestiongs anyone on this board has as to what type of martial art would best suite my specific requirments. Also, even though I am not too keen on taking a striking martial art I would consider some sort of mixed martial art focusing primarily on grappling and wepons training with a bit of striking involved. I can still use my right wrist, both my elbows and my legs just not my left wrist.