What is Combat Fitness?
Combat Fitness is based on martial arts training, in order to get you fit. This can be pad work, bag work, aerobic & anaerobic exercise, flexibility work, circuit training etc. But it doesn’t involve fighting, sparring or traditional type exercises like patterns (forms/kata) and training is a lot more relaxed. Plus its a lot of fun.
Combat fitness is the fitness that enables one to perform in a combatively effective manner under the conditions of extreme physical and mental stress that are inherent in the real combat environment of injury and death.” External versus Internal Focus Focus on External Factors: the weight In conventional weight training, being able to lift a X-amount of weight is typically the goal. How the weight is lifted is hardly even a consideration. This is because the focus is on an external factor – moving the weight. For example, when doing a simple barbell exercise, such as barbell squat, the athlete takes the bar on his shoulders, lowers to the bottom position in a controlled fashion, then pushes upward to get the bar back up. Moving the bar is the focus, and the effort exerted will only be the amount of effort necessary to move the bar. Even in working around the 80% max level, people just don’t naturally use more effort than necessary to raise the bar. While this type of “minimum effort n
