mecalder

The first time I did a kiai, I was quite quiet also. I find it's more getting out of your comfort zone. There are times when I'm the only one in the class doing the kiai during katas because I will be doing fukyugata while other people are doing higher ones. I figure just let it out. Sooner or later someone else will be doing it by their self also. And it's more impressing to your sensei to do a good loud kiai than a kiai he can barely hear.

I bought this book last night. Seems good so far. Looking forward to reading more of it.

03/13/08 5 pm - Chest/Biceps workout: 5 sets of bench press/5 sets of seated dumbbell curls, 5 sets of cable crossovers/5 sets of standing dumbbell curls, 2 sets of incline dumbbell presses/2 sets of barbell curls 7 pm - Stretching, Kata Work, Sparring

Speed can be incorporated in heavy training also though. (Power Lifters)

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I'm self employed now. I'm planning to go to school in the fall for electrical training. But I'd like to be in pro sports

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Club: Bill Conley’s Schools of Karate (Matsubayashi Shorin-Ryu Style) City: St Stephen, NB Sensei: Bill Conley (4th Dan)

Also, I think I should add in, for equipment, we train in his garage. We have enough free weights to put 565 pounds on his barbell, and we have enough to put 100 on each dumbbell. We have a bench that can go incline flat and decline, and a cable machine. We also have extensions for preacher curls, leg curls, and leg extensions, and a self crafted calf raise machine and makiwara. We don't have a leg press machine.

My uncle and I train in karate and are looking for a good weight lifting routine. We train 4 days a week using day 1 chest/biceps, day 2 back/triceps day 3 shoulders/traps day 4 legs. I do abs and cardio at home. We have been lifting for 6 years, using a bodybuilding style. Lately we've been looking for a routine that will benefit as many aspects of karate as we can improve through weight lifting. We train in the morning, doing 1 hour of heavy explosive lifting, with slow controlled negatives. Then we practice katas, fighting form, and body toughening for 30 minutes after that. We intend to continue practicing for the 30 minutes after, but I am wondering if anyone can give me some advice on what our weight training routine should look like? Thanks, mecalder

Faves are probably Hammer Curls, Flat Dumbbell Press, Forearm Curls, Squats

Whats your favorite game/characters? My favorite is Soul Calibur 3. Favorite characters are Mitsurugi, Astaroth, and Maxi.

That would be cool to have. I don't have any of those. The swords I do have is the one wielded by Nathan from the Last Samurai, and Bill's Sword from Kill Bill.

I've watched db through dbgt working on 3 times. It's my favorite show. I am looking forward to seeing it, even though I didn't know about it until I read this. But I think they will have a hard time making it as good as the show.

A few years back, I didn't know any Japanese at all. But I like to watch anime, and most of the anime that I watch is in Japanese with English subtitles. So from watching it, I've picked up a little of the Language. Not sure if you like those type of shows or not, but if you do, you can pick up some of the Language that way.

Well, like I said, I'm sort of unemployed. So I try to get in a lot of vitamins to help me recover from workouts. The reason why I think I should train more, is some people with Labour jobs would be applying stress to their body at work, and still training at home. So I thought that if they did this, several hours of training a day shouldn't be too bad.

I think Kata makes sense to practice. I don't know much about forms yet however. I don't think you are likely to see someone doing an exact kata in a fight, but kata is a good way to practice different techniques, and it is a good way to practice chaining these techniques together. I understand people that practice martial arts without kata know how to do each of these things. But Kata is another form of teaching and discipline, and after going over it, and over it, the techniques are much easier to execute. Also, it is a good way to focus, and a good source of exercise. I find that when I go over kata, I try to focus as much as possible, and think that by continuing to practice them will help me build a stronger body/mind connection.

I am wondering if people that read this can list me some good exercises that will help me with Karate? In the next paragraph, I will type out some stats, and how I am currently training, as well as my goals. I am currently 5'9, 290 pounds. I am quite overweight, and have been working on losing weight for the last 4 months. Starting weight was 330. However, in my first few months, I was being slack in my training. Now I am trying to push myself harder than I have before. In the past, my style of training has been a bodybuilding/powerlifting style. I am trying to get out of the habit of training like this. In my opinion, people that train this way, have to many unnecessary rules, such as drink so many protein shakes, don't do too many sets, do this many reps, not too much cardio, and the list goes on. Now, I train twice daily. My first workout is at 6:30 am. However, I am still unsure what to put in this workout. I am unemployed, only working small jobs here and there, so to make up for not working, I am trying to train at least 2-3 hours a day. Many call this overtraining, but many of those also have jobs. For my morning workout, I think my main focus should be going over kicks, punches, blocks, and kata. But that isn't all I want to do. I also want to work on doing exercises that will help me to do better in my Karate experience, and the morning would be a good time to do this I think. So first of all, can you tell me what I should be doing along with the technique training? For my afternoon workout, I train at 4:30 pm with my uncle, who is also in my Karate class. For this workout, we mainly work on muscular endurance, and power. But there are workouts that we add in exercises that are more for cardiovascular. Usually our workout will start with 30 minutes of weight lifting. Our lifts are giant sets, taking 1-2 minutes in between giant sets. For example, shoulders day would consist of doing front, side, rear lateral raises, and shoulder presses, one right after another for as many sets as we can get in, in 30 minutes. For the second 30 minutes, we do all outside activities. Here is a list of activities we choose from: 5 minutes on the elliptical, 5 minutes of jump roping, 5 minutes punching the punching bag, Farmer walks using 80 pound dumbbells for around 100 meters, vehicle pushing, 150 pound tire flipping, wood splitting, or jogging. The majority of these activities use all of the body, and all of them cause fatigue about halfway through, to push us to a new level. For a diet, I eat meat on occasion, but my meals consist of mostly fruit and vegetables. I try to eat around 5-6 pieces of fruit each day. Eat 1-2 salads each day, and drink alot of water. The only supplement I use is actually a juice with several fruits in it. The juice is called Monavie. It's kind of expensive, but I find it works better than anything I have ever tried. And it's a natural supplement. My goals are to continue through Karate. I really enjoyed my visit the first time. I want to reduce my weight to around 220 pounds, gain punching power, kicking power, speed, agility, stamina. Anything that makes a good student, I want to work on. So this is my training and diet. I have wandered into ALOT of motivation right now, and am still not satisfied with my training. I want to train as much as possible. Whether it's weight lifting, techniques, cardiovascular exercises, or even meditation, if you think that is a good idea. But currently I am looking for advise. Also, I currently only go to karate once a week, since it's a 1.5 hour drive. The class lasts for 2.5 hours. Thanks. And I will be back on to check this after I wake up.

I joined a Karate class with my uncle this week. He had been going for 3 months, and tells me about how much fun he is having, so since I have taken Aikido previously, I thought I would join. I am 21 years old, and after my first visit to the class, I gained the feeling that I could do this forever. I really enjoyed it. Now I continuously watch Fukyugata 1 on youtube, since it is the first Kata I have been introduced to, and now have the movements memorized. Just need to practice the form of each of the moves. Also, since I started, I have wanted to search the internet a little more, in search of more information on karate, and in new training styles. In the fitness section, I will post my concerns about training. I am happy to have found this forum, and have read some of your articles. You all seem like nice, knowledgible people. And I look forward to discussing Martial Arts with you in the future.