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About this book
Weight Training for Martial Arts is the most comprehensive and up-to-date martial arts-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by martial artists worldwide. This book features year-round martial arts-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other martial arts book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book is the most informative and complete resource for building muscles, speed, and stamina to enable the body to excel in judo, karate, aikido, kung fu, jujitsu, taekwondo, kempo, muay thai, and all other martial arts forms. The book provides martial artists with an abundance of easy to follow training techniques needed to be effective in the martial arts, such as flexibility, joint stabilization, balance, and muscle development.From recreational to professional, martial artists all over the world are already benefiting from this book's techniques, and now you can too!
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Half-Title page
- Copyright page
- Title page
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Dedication page
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Part I: What is a Strong Body?
- The Modern Martial Artist
- What is Strength Training?
- How Does Strength Training Help You Lose Weight?
- Importance of Strengthening Connective Tissue
- Developing Power and Strength
- Ballistic Exercises
- Plyometric Exercises
- Strengthening Your Joints
- Bodyweight Training for the Martial Athlete
- Does Strength Training Make You Better at Martial Arts?
- Flexibility Training Enhances Strength
- Part II: Getting Started
- Use Your Discipline Nature to Find Time to Strength Train
- 5 Questions to Ask Before Getting Started
- The Most Important Part of Warming Up
- What is the best way to warm up?
- Importance of Breathing in All Training
- Will Meditation Help Me Learn to Breath Better?
- Part III: Exercises
- Bodyweight Exercises
- The BOSU Balance Trainer
- Core and Abs
- Dumbbell Exercises
- Dynamic Flexibility Exercises
- Plyometrics
- Suspension Strap Training
- Cable Machines
- KettleBells
- Weight Machines
- Part IV: Program Design
- Introduction
- Designing a Program is Mastering Change
- Recapping Strength Training
- Does a Fitness Professional Need to Design Your Strength Training Program?
- The Principles of Training
- How Should I Format My Program?
- The Big Picture - Structuring Your Programs Over the Course of a Year
- Types of Periodization
- Age Matters, Do Not Fool Yourself
- DEFINING PHASES, CYCLES and DAILY GOALS
- Summarizing Program Design
- Part V: Programs
- Author Bio
- Bibliography