Speed-Strength Training for Martial Artists: [Mind-Body Link]

In martial arts, there are many interdependent yet symbiotic components that enable you to perform at peak levels. Of all these components, speed of strike(s) and its technique, because it is crucial, is held in highest esteem. To gain strength, most martial artists have used a variety of weight-training programs. However, these programs are not sport specific, and are therefore of limited value for the martial artist—they are more detrimental than beneficial. Unfortunately, most martial artists perform bodybuilding-type exercises to gain strength then, for endurance they train like a marathon runner or flip tires or some other method for inefficient strength gains. All of those exercises are slow-speed, which will not allow athletes who use them for training to perform at peak speed because they have trained at a slow pace, i.e., you are detraining yourself in regard to speed, especially for martial arts strikes and motions. With proper sport-specific speed-strength training, martial artists can perform at their individual peak, particularly when exercises and training routines emulate your martial arts movements. The fitness and speed-strength, sport-specific training programs described herein will: (1) Increase your strength 25-35 percent, perhaps more. Develop phenomenal speed, strength, and power; (2) Give you the best science-based resistance training methods for any martial art. Help link mind with total-body movement for more dynamic, fluid, and powerful strikes and motions; (3) Teach you how to design your own professional level sport-specific speed-strength martial arts training program. Enhance fluidity of motion, timing, and defensive and offensive responses; (4) Provide you short and long-range preparation methods for competitive and non-competitive martial arts. Increase consistency and precision of motion for rapid reaction and reflex; (5) Increase bio-mechanical muscle recruitment efficiency for improved posture yielding greater power by producing more force; (6) Demonstrate the best scientific stretching methods to dramatically increase your flexibility; (7) Teach you cutting-edge recovery techniques to prevent overtraining and injury, as well as effective supplementation and essential nutrition to burn fat, build lean muscle, and develop maximum potential.