Radok

Actually, the bodybuilder was kind of a joke, but still, women aren't nearly as heavy as men, on average. And you would seriously claim that punching power doesn't rely on upper body strength? That's laughable. to do a pushup, you basically bench press half your body weight. I don't think anyone who cannot bench half their body weight could punch very hard, regardless of perfect technique. Unless maybe they wiegh upwards of 400 pounds.

You guys have more to push? Yeah, right. http://www.bodybuilders.com/melvin11.jpg A pushup requires only very basic strength. If you not even strong enough to do pushups, you can forget about using Karate effectively on the street unless you have decades of practice, and even then you would have trouble.[/img]

I am assuming they are both good schools. I would suggest going to the kickboxing school for a year. This will give you good practice on the basic techniques of Karate, get you in good physical condition, and teach you to keep going after taking hard hits. Then you could switch over to Karate to get the advanced skills and more focus on defense on the street.

Thaiboxerken!? You haven't posted in years!

I lift weights, run miles everyday, spar hard, and do katas. Yet I am in Karate. In traditional Martial arts, they trained X-tremely hard in the old days, like insanely hard. The stuff you see today is McDojo material. Muay Thai is a traditionalo art, by the way.

Do really low reps, like weight you can only lift 3-4 times. This takes you to neurological failure without the sarcoplasmic hypertrophy that adds bulk and slows you down. Also, do body weight exercises such as pull ups, squats without added weight, pushups, situp, ect. These exercises will increase your strength slightly, your endurance alot, and your bulk none. They can give you the ability to move your body around more quickly, especially if you do them as plyometrics.

I agree, high reps for endurance, low reps (under 5) for strength. Go in the middle with 8-12, you get mass.

False. Neurological training increases the efficiency of the neves in your muscles, allowing you to recruite more muscle when needed. When you do 1-4 reps or so, it does not cause the stress (ripping) needed to build more size through hypertrophy. When my bench went from 150 to 200, I gained very little size, because I never did over 4-5 reps.

I'd have to disagree with ya here....1-5 reps is generally used for mass building since you will be doing heavier weight. This will give you strength AND mass. Training this way also leads to overtraining quickly. To train for strength, use moderate weight and 8-12 reps. This also helps with your endurance when it comes to doing repetitive motions or grappling, etc. It's Ok to mix up the moderate training with 2 weeks or so of low rep heavy weight training. But don't do the low reps exclusively. You'll burn out and can actually lose strength doing it day in and day out. This is my routine for strength but not much mass: Day one: Full body workout with bench press, pullups, rows, curls, tricep pressdowns, shoulder press, bodyweight only squats and lunges. Day two: 40 minutes of cardio and abs. Day three: off/ train at dojo. Day four: Full body workout like day 1. Day five: off/ train at dojo. Day six: 40 minutes of cardio and abs. Day seven: off or very light lifting- body part specific: bench for chest, curls or dips, train at dojo if up to it. 8-12 reps is classic body building rep range. If you do 1-5 reps, you do not cause as much hypertrophy, because it is neurological training.

Right now, if I grab the bar with one hand and my arm bent at a ninety degree angle, I can lift my feet off the ground and hold myself in place. I cannot lift myself up, just stay in the same place. I figure if I increase my barbell curl by 50 pounds, that's 25 pounds of extra force in each arm. That ought to give me the extra pull I need to do the one armed pull up.

No, a genuine one armed pull up. I can already do plenty while holding my wrist.

I am also trying to get the ability to do a one armed pull up on both arms. Do you think curling my own body weight would help much with this?

I don't hate him. I hate the fact that he is stronger than me. Once I get my sqaut rack, I will be safely able to max out on bench and squat, so I will increase them at that time. For now, I will just increase my curls and deadlift.

1OO pounds, but this is all out of natural strength, as I haven't built up my biceps at all.

Do 1-5 reps to gain strength without mass.

150 pounds, 5'10".

I am close to doing the splits in all three directions, I can do close to 400 squats in a row, 130 pushups in a row, bench over 200, run a 400 meter in under 1 minute, the list goes on. All around fitness is pretty decent.

This kid is a good friend of mine, he isn't lying. Many people have witnessed him bench 300, and squat 500. He weighs a little over 200, like 210 or something.

I was talking to a guy at my school who said he can curl 15O pounds. I weigh 150 pounds, and I would like to get my max barbell curl up so that I could curl my own body weight. The only real reason is that I hate it when kids my age are stronger than me, regardless if they outweigh me by 100+ pounds. I was wondering if it is ok to curl your own body weight. Is it safe?

Round kicking with the foot is only taught for use in point sparring. If you are doing it the traditional Okinawan way, you will be kicking with your shin.

Wow, that is good. Try this: http://www.teenbodybuilding.com/steh7.htm I'll have to try that seals training after Cross Country season is over.

Any healthy person can build up to over 600 pushups. According to the 1999 Book of World Records, Charles Servizio did 46,001 pushups in 24 hours. Paddy Doyle did 8,794 ONE ARMED pushups in 5 hours! Terry Cole did 8,200 fingertip pushups in five hours. I don't think there is any exact limit on the number of pushups a person can build up to. Once you get the capillary density on the muscles high enough, it would clear lactic acid and bring new oxygen faster than you body produced the acid.

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That's what I'm saying! 8 percent is extremely low.

I didn't say a street fighter can't knock you down, I am saying when a steetfighter is fighting a Muay Thai fighter, and both are trying to knock each other down, the MT guy will probably succeed 8/9 times out of ten, not the other way around.