stoneheart Posted April 6, 2004 Posted April 6, 2004 I was a blue belt (3rd gup) in ITF tae kwon do way back in high school...I'm now in my early thirties and fighting the battle of the bulge. I remember enjoying martial arts and I think they would be a great way of getting some much needed excercise. Can anyone suggest a number of useful books and videos for motivated self-study? I'm afraid with my career attending regular classes at a dojo would be very difficult to accomplish. I'm style-agnostic. Obviously, something easier to understand is probably called for. I know if I really want to understand the material, I'll have to seek out instruction from a good teacher, but isn't there something I can do in the meantime?
Radok Posted April 6, 2004 Posted April 6, 2004 You could pretty simply put together a kickboxing style workout. Just search the net to find the techniques. Then get a heavybag so you can do bagwork along with shadow boxing. An example would be 3 rounds of five minutes drilling techniques on the heavybag with maximum intesity, followed by ten minutes of bagwork, and one set of squats, crunches, and pushups, each done to failure. For a break, do a 30 minute run on Saturday and Sunday, so you can have a couple days off your normal routine. This routine won't take that long to do, and would get good results. If you can't laugh at yourself, there's no point. No point in what, you might ask? there's just no point.Many people seem to take Karate to get a Black Belt, rather than getting a Black Belt to learn Karate.
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