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For core and strength training, I do a lot of free weight, hands free, and gravity-assisted stuff like jack-knives (while holding 10lb-20lb medicine ball or kettle weight), leg-lifts (laying on back), push-ups (with or without balancing medicine ball on my back), elevated push-ups, dips (with or without balancing medicine ball on my lap), burpees, etc.

For my cardio, mostly just practicing all my kata with everything I have...

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Cross Training, free weights, body weight exercises...no running...different accent same memories evildave...too long in the military for running to be enjoyable anymore!!!

The day I believe I have no more to learn is the day I will hang my head in shame at my own arrogance.

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I do Weight/circuit training and yoga (occasionally).

The past is no more; the future is yet to come. Nothing exist except for the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what's clearly is clearly at hand...Lets continue to train!

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I do a fair bit of Rock climbing and I hike a lot. Sometimes I just feel in the mood, pack a lunch and go off in some direction for 6 or 7 hours. Over the summer I've been hiking a lot at high elevations carrying equipment for work. I notice it's improved my stamina a fair amount. Rock climbing keeps me limber and helps me build a lot of upper body strength. Gardening is also a nice workout. ....for me that means chopping apart fallen trees with a machete.

"My work itself is my best signature."

-Kawai Kanjiro

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I've been injured on and off for the past 2 years, so I probably spend about as much time at the gym as I do at the dojo. I do exercises recommended by the physio to help strengthen karate muscles, but I also have a weights program written by a boxing trainer to help maintain strength even when I'm injured. I try to do at least one cardio session per week, usually on the spin bike (sigh, so boring).

It's not about the medals you win, it's about how much you improve.

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I so want to add swimming to my routine for stuff done out of the dojo...its just with work and family life I can't fit it in!

“A human life gains luster and strength only when it is polished and tempered.”

Sosai Masutatsu Oyama (1923 - 1994) Founder of Kyokushin Karate.

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