How can I make my bones harder>

[MuayTB1]

You need strong bones to fight in the ring so I kick hard sand bags but do you know any other ways to make you bones harder.

[Iron Arahat]

Sand is not the best to start with, and you need proper medicine. If you train them wrong guaranteed arthritis.

[KickChick]

Weight Lifting!!!!!!!

 

Bone is made of calcium phosphate and collagen. There are hundreds of concentric rings called haversian canals within each bone. When you lift a weight, your muscles react--they do work. Because muscles are attached to bones, pressure and tension are put upon the bone as well. Blood flows through both the muscle and the bone, carrying nutrients to the bone-building cells. At the same time an electrical charge shoots through the haversian canals-stimulating bone growth. This process is triggered by weight lifting.

 

Increase muscle mass...build bone. Reduce muscle mas...reduce bone density.

 

You can also add calcium and ipriflavone to your nutritional regimen.

 

Deby

 

 

 

 

[thaiboxerken]

Kickchick is correct. Also, if you want your shins tough, don't worry about conditioning them.. just keep kicking the heavy bag and you'll develop "harder" shins. Really... you can't make the bone too much "harder" the real goal is to make the nerves less sensitive. But there isn't a point to that either, because pain isn't much of a factor in a fight due to adrenaline.

 

 

[tokeabowl]

keep hitting your shin bone and drink milk! That might sound funny, but drinking milk helps alot!

[stl_karateka]

Calcium suppliments!

 

I also take the womens ultra mega vitaman....word on the street is the Mega Men counterpart is equally good

[cross]

drink a glass of milk

[Coudo]

If you want to make your bones harder; Break them

[Guy_Mendiola]

drink a lot of milk.

[GreenDragon]

You probably want to deaden the nerves so you can kick harder with less pain, not harden the bone. In the ring the last thing you want is a stiff, hard shin bone. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying the bone should be brittle, what I am saying is that the Muay Thai fighters that don't break shin bones owe it to the flexability of the bone, not the bone's hardness or rigidity. If you watch a slow motion kick from a Muay Thai fighter you will see the shin bone bend a little as it strikes the target. It is this bending that keeps the bone from breaking when a powerful strike is delivered.

 

That being said, the advice others have given is sound. Calcium suppliments will make bones healthy with more elasticity. Kicking a bag or Thai pads will condition the nerves. DO NOT kick anything harder than your shin bones (trees, posts, etc.) or hit your shin bones with anything like a stick or a baseball bat. Although these things will condition the shins more quickly, it is widely believed that this causes permanent damage that will manifest itself in your later years and you will have trouble walking.