Trish Bare Grounds, author of the Bare Essentials Guide to Martial Arts Injury Care and Prevention says that a vegetarian diet alone shouldn't affect your training but there are special steps you need to take to ensure that your muscles are getting the right nutrition:
Simply being vegetarian does not effect your stamina and muscle tissue repair, but too low of a protein intake will. Protein is the building block for your muscle which is damaged and broken down every time you work out, so therefore is a vital part of your daily food intake.
There are many very healthy alternatives if you do not wish to eat meat, fish, fowl, dairy products or eggs. Beans, nuts, tofu, and lentils to begin with have necessary protein from a non-animal source, but the addition of dairy products or even eggs would greatly increase your protein intake. Cheese, yogurt, ice cream, cottage cheese, milk, etc. are good sources of animal product, but not animal, alternatives to eating meat. If you are a vegetarian and a martial artists, I suggest you look at your diet and re-evaluate your protein intakes and adjust them as necessary.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
New Book Release: Martial Arts Injury Care and Prevention
The revised second edition of Trish Bare Grounds' Bare Essentials Guide to Martial Arts Injury Care and Prevention has been released. New in this revised and expanded second edition:
Expanded strength and conditioning section:
Expanded taping and wrapping section:
Added information on first aid:
New chapter about pregnancy and the martial arts
Updated scientific research and medical information
Over 150 pages and 300 photos added
Expanded strength and conditioning section:
- 12 additional upper body stretches
- 7 simple tests to gauge your fitness level
- 24 essential core strengthening exercises
- Weightlifting for conditioning
- Core strengthening TotalGym workout
- 25 strength-training exercises for the Swiss ball
- Weight training with dumbbells and free weights
- Resistive band exercises for strengthening and rehab
- Plyometrics overview
Expanded taping and wrapping section:
- Using protective padding on the feet
- Taping the Achilles tendon, knee joint, elbow and heel
- Wrapping the ankle, thigh, hip and shoulder
Added information on first aid:
- wound care
- treatment of lacerations
- skin infections
- hip and groin injuries
- shoulder, elbow, wrist, finger and thumb injuries
- torso injuries
- dehydration
New chapter about pregnancy and the martial arts
Updated scientific research and medical information
Over 150 pages and 300 photos added
Kickboxing Strategy: Close Range Fighting
Keith Livingston, co-author of Complete Kickboxing, tells us why distance doesn't always equal safety in the ring:
The difference between the inside and outside is that the inside is a total power game, a seek and destroy kind of a game. A good inside fighter generally equates to a power fighter. On the outside, the jab is the dominant technique. It may therefore appear as though outside fighting is more strategic. But all the principles that apply to outside fighting also apply to inside fighting. When you get to the inside with a good defensive fighter, you can’t just punch away and hope to win. There has to be some method to your madness. You must vary your rhythm, timing, and strike patterns. For example, on the outside, you may jab high and throw a rear cross low. But on the inside, you may throw an uppercut to the head to open up the body. There are specific techniques which are more appropriate at close quarter range, such as hooks to the body, uppercuts, tight hooks to the head, short jabs and crosses, and overhand strikes. These inside techniques tend to favor power and allow for a better body attack. On the outside, you can land a lot of strikes to your opponent’s centerline. But on the inside, you can be successful with both the center and sides of your opponent’s body.
The difference between the inside and outside is that the inside is a total power game, a seek and destroy kind of a game. A good inside fighter generally equates to a power fighter. On the outside, the jab is the dominant technique. It may therefore appear as though outside fighting is more strategic. But all the principles that apply to outside fighting also apply to inside fighting. When you get to the inside with a good defensive fighter, you can’t just punch away and hope to win. There has to be some method to your madness. You must vary your rhythm, timing, and strike patterns. For example, on the outside, you may jab high and throw a rear cross low. But on the inside, you may throw an uppercut to the head to open up the body. There are specific techniques which are more appropriate at close quarter range, such as hooks to the body, uppercuts, tight hooks to the head, short jabs and crosses, and overhand strikes. These inside techniques tend to favor power and allow for a better body attack. On the outside, you can land a lot of strikes to your opponent’s centerline. But on the inside, you can be successful with both the center and sides of your opponent’s body.
Monday, January 23, 2006
What is Dynamic Tension?
Loren Christensen and Wim Demeere answer this common question in The Fighter's Body:
Dynamic tension is a simple, but highly effective way for your muscles to gain power and increase size by working against other muscles in your body. You control the tension by increasing or decreasing the amount of resistance you apply. The exercises are considered progressive because you continuously increase the tension as you progress in strength.
Dynamic tension has been an important supplemental exercise in the martial arts for many years. It defines the word applicability because it develops power from the starting point of a technique and all along its track. This is called “specificity of movement,” meaning that you exercise the exact muscles you want to increase in power and size.
You can do dynamic tension as a supplement along with your weight training, by itself at the end of your martial arts workout, or on those days you don’t train in your fighting art. If you normally lift weights but for whatever reason you can’t for a while, dynamic tension helps maintain your weight-trained gains.
Dynamic tension is a simple, but highly effective way for your muscles to gain power and increase size by working against other muscles in your body. You control the tension by increasing or decreasing the amount of resistance you apply. The exercises are considered progressive because you continuously increase the tension as you progress in strength.
Dynamic tension has been an important supplemental exercise in the martial arts for many years. It defines the word applicability because it develops power from the starting point of a technique and all along its track. This is called “specificity of movement,” meaning that you exercise the exact muscles you want to increase in power and size.
You can do dynamic tension as a supplement along with your weight training, by itself at the end of your martial arts workout, or on those days you don’t train in your fighting art. If you normally lift weights but for whatever reason you can’t for a while, dynamic tension helps maintain your weight-trained gains.
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