Weight Training for Martial Arts
eBook - ePub

Weight Training for Martial Arts

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  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Weight Training for Martial Arts

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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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Information

Publisher
Price World Publishing
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781619843585
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover page
  2. Half-Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Title page
  5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  6. Dedication page
  7. CONTENTS
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. Part I: What is a Strong Body?
  10. The Modern Martial Artist
  11. What is Strength Training?
  12. How Does Strength Training Help You Lose Weight?
  13. Importance of Strengthening Connective Tissue
  14. Developing Power and Strength
  15. Ballistic Exercises
  16. Plyometric Exercises
  17. Strengthening Your Joints
  18. Bodyweight Training for the Martial Athlete
  19. Does Strength Training Make You Better at Martial Arts?
  20. Flexibility Training Enhances Strength
  21. Part II: Getting Started
  22. Use Your Discipline Nature to Find Time to Strength Train
  23. 5 Questions to Ask Before Getting Started
  24. The Most Important Part of Warming Up
  25. What is the best way to warm up?
  26. Importance of Breathing in All Training
  27. Will Meditation Help Me Learn to Breath Better?
  28. Part III: Exercises
  29. Bodyweight Exercises
  30. The BOSU Balance Trainer
  31. Core and Abs
  32. Dumbbell Exercises
  33. Dynamic Flexibility Exercises
  34. Plyometrics
  35. Suspension Strap Training
  36. Cable Machines
  37. KettleBells
  38. Weight Machines
  39. Part IV: Program Design
  40. Introduction
  41. Designing a Program is Mastering Change
  42. Recapping Strength Training
  43. Does a Fitness Professional Need to Design Your Strength Training Program?
  44. The Principles of Training
  45. How Should I Format My Program?
  46. The Big Picture - Structuring Your Programs Over the Course of a Year
  47. Types of Periodization
  48. Age Matters, Do Not Fool Yourself
  49. DEFINING PHASES, CYCLES and DAILY GOALS
  50. Summarizing Program Design
  51. Part V: Programs
  52. Author Bio
  53. Bibliography