Posts Tagged ‘strength’

Do you ever feel burnt out? Try this new approach to training.

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

We are constantly told that we have to train hard. If you are lifting weights or bodybuilding then you haven’t had a good workout if you can walk to your car after or if you can pick up your protein shake without your training partners help!

When you are trying to get stronger, you train to failure, every set and that’s it!

When we train in Martial Arts, there is normally the belief that your training should be hard. You should train hard, fast and keep going until you can’t do any more.
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Train Consciously. (Or, how to get a Black Belt in half the time!)

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

This article is aimed at training in the martial arts but really, the concepts discussed apply to learning or practicing anything.

 

People start training for many reasons but one thing that is common to most people when we start something new, is that we are filled with enthusiasm.

 

We find something that we love, get excited about it and train hard  based on that motivation. We normally make great progress early on. It’s all new, so we learn the easy stuff first and experience a lot of  quick successes.

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