Karate and Keto...

[Himokiri Karate]

Been a while since I posted. So recent times, I got in to keto diets and surprisingly enough, its pretty darn good! 

Like I noticed use of carbs and fat is a moving target. If I carb up, I can go without carbs for few days and feel incredible if glycogen is full like having a dinner party but then I need to fill in my glycogen with carbs again. But I just noticed that this is a new dimension in to my karate training.

Also I have been really working on my Himokiri Karate or should I say lots and lots of Nukite and I noticed its getting significantly better and actually training nukite really helps with accuracy in boxing and throwing punches straight down the pipe and the diet does help because you feel calm energy and I feel more of a relaxed/less excited and so I end up focused more on accuracy and laser focus strikes vs volume work. 


One important thing to mention is, I ease up on meat consumption. Still consume it but not in excess.  

I love to hear if any karateka has tried keto diets before? If so what did you eat? How did you feel? What did your karate turn in to?
 

[KarateKen]

On 9/23/2025 at 7:57 PM, Himokiri Karate said:

Been a while since I posted. So recent times, I got in to keto diets and surprisingly enough, its pretty darn good! 

Like I noticed use of carbs and fat is a moving target. If I carb up, I can go without carbs for few days and feel incredible if glycogen is full like having a dinner party but then I need to fill in my glycogen with carbs again. But I just noticed that this is a new dimension in to my karate training.

Also I have been really working on my Himokiri Karate or should I say lots and lots of Nukite and I noticed its getting significantly better and actually training nukite really helps with accuracy in boxing and throwing punches straight down the pipe and the diet does help because you feel calm energy and I feel more of a relaxed/less excited and so I end up focused more on accuracy and laser focus strikes vs volume work. 


One important thing to mention is, I ease up on meat consumption. Still consume it but not in excess.  

I love to hear if any karateka has tried keto diets before? If so what did you eat? How did you feel? What did your karate turn in to?
 

I have not tired it but am now going to give it consideration after this post.  I am especially interested in the carbs aspect. My diet is too carbs heavy, though it is better than it once was, it can be improved further. 

Thanks for the post