How Do You Become Proficient In Martial Arts Through Strength Techniques?
“Hi everybody I’m John Graden from the Martial Arts Teacher’s Association and johngraden.com. How do you improve your martial arts through strength training? This is a great question because there are two parts, there are exercises you definitely want to do as a martial artist and there are exercises you probably want to stay away from. Let’s talk first about the exercises you want to probably be a little cautious on. I’m not a big, as a fighter, I’m not a big fan of bench press or working my pectorals too much for size. Why? One of your goals as a fighter should be to always get your forearms together, so that I can protect this side of my body and protect this side of my body. The bigger my chest gets the harder it is and in fact when I used to compete in tournaments I would always seek out the guy with the biggest chest because I knew he would have a hard time defending against my side kicks and punches to his body. It always worked like a charm so we want to try to avoid getting bu
