toughening the body

[Hawkmoon]

I'll add if only to put some context of how strong (and quickly you get strong) doing legs lifts.

When we write the club name in the air we do so in full including the moto .

• Kyokushinkai karate
   
  The strongest karate

... most nights that we do core work, we do this AFTER we have done sets of 3x3 as a rule.

For example.

• 50 lifts
   
  rest
   
  50 lifts
   
  rest
   
  50 lifts
   
  .. repeat 3 times!

The thing is as we work towards a tournament the students who wish to fight start to double there work rate, they attend more sessions, and they start to arrange sessions outside normal dojo sessions.

Come a couple of weeks before a tournament the fighters no longer 'count' leg lifts, for example, as sets like set I offer above we start to do lifts based on time.

• 2 mins
   
  rest
   
  2 mins
   
  rest
   
  2 mins
   
  .. repeat 3 times!

The new fashion is 'exhaustion'

• Leg lifts
   
  'till exhaustion
   
  rest
   
  'till exhaustion
   
  rest
   
  'till exhaustion

I truly wish I was messing with you, I'm not I truly am not!

Core is crucial to knockdown competition, fighters consider this effort this work as law!!

..but man the bouts are such a rush it truly is worth the effort!