Martial Arts Exercise - Principles of Training Continued

I have been getting alot of questions in, reply to my previous Martial Arts Exercise Training video, about whether or not martial artists should be doing high reps low weight or vice versa. This video is just to answer that question.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Martial
• Arts
• Exercise
• Reps
• Weight

[AbstractAddiction]

I read in a book recently that the last rep you do should be extremely hard. This means that for more weight, you would do less reps and for less weight you would do more reps.

The book also said that the ideal number of reps for a martial artist, that is, someone who will likely want leaner and more flexible muscles, is about 12-15 reps per set.

[BlackDice572]

I personally prefer the pyramid ideal. Which is to say, I do 10 or so reps of as many as I can handle (the last rep being extremely difficult, as you say), and then lower the weight so that I can do 15 reps with the last one being extremely difficult, and then lower the weight again and increase the reps, and so on and so forth. By the end of the session you should be using very low weights indeed and still be finding it very difficult with the last couple of reps.

[chailizard]

specificity? that's a word?

[AbstractAddiction]

Also, and this was common knowledge to me prior to reading this book, is you train almost every day, remember not to train the same muscle group two days in a row. When you exercise, you damage your muscles. They then heal back stronger and eventually large. So you'll want to give them time to heal.

The book is called "Weight Training for Martial Artists" by Jennifer Lawler, Ph.D.