Sprinting For Martial Arts

Martial arts today have changed from traditional martial arts to today’s mixed martial arts.

Martial arts are great for overall conditioning not to mention the discipline you will build.

But a lot of martial artists are fat and out of shape and this is sad, it didn’t used to be that way.

Years ago martial artist’s were strong, fast and hard, not weak, slow and soft. Not to long ago I visited a traditional karate school that I thought about joining, and I was really disappointed at what I had seen.

The higher belts the instructors were slow and out of shape, their kicks and punches weren’t explosive they were slow and breathing heavy after a few front kicks.

I stayed until the end of class and then they attempted some bodyweight exercises pushups and situps this was embarrassing. There wasn’t one that could do 25 pushups, I decided not to join.

If you are going to be involved in martial arts you should be as physically fit as possible.

If you are involved in martial arts do yourself a favor get into great shape, go hard, be explosive and train hard.

A great way to get into great shape for martial arts is with bodyweight conditioning exercises. Bodyweight exercises will build explosiveness, strength, flexibility, balance, and build stamina like nothing else.

One thing you could do to improve your conditioning for martial arts is sprinting, sprinting will pay you big when you are sparring, you won’t get tired and you will be able to push harder and longer.

Try this simple sprint workout:

Sprint one minute – walk one minute- sprint one minute – walk one minute.

Sprint thirty seconds – walk thirty seconds – sprint thirty seconds- repeat four times.

Sprint fifteen seconds – walk fifteen seconds – sprint fifteen Seconds repeat four times.

Each sprint is to be done all out, no dogging it- run hard.