April 28th, 2009
flibbertigibbet11 asked:
Would doing bodyweight exercises be more beneficial for a martial artist than weights?
I currently do:
-150 pushups (total)
-10 sets of 10 dips between chairs
-5 sets of 5 pull-ups
-3 sets of 10 handstand pushups
and plyometric exercises in the form of:
-2 sets of 10 lunge cycle jumps
-2 sets of 10 depth jumps
-2 sets of 10 tuck jumps
-2 circuits of: 30 seconds of burpees, 30 seconds of mountain climbers, 30 seconds of jumping jacks, 30 seconds of split shuffles.
I do all this after 30 minutes of skipping rope every second day. I only started exercising like this last month. Before that I used to lie on the couch everyday, but I’m wondering if this is good for a martial artist?
I don’t know if I should be doing weights or not. There was another question on this subject where someone answered with something about fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers, so now I’m not too sure about doing plyometric exercises.
Is this workout any good for a martial artist?
If there is something this workout is lacking, could anyone please point out something I could change (but I don’t have any sort of weight equipment, which is why I’m doing bodyweight exercises instead).
Or if weights are more beneficial than bodyweight exercises, I could look into buying some equipment.
I’m not too sure what a martial artist requires in terms of conditioning.
And if I already have a decent school?
Ah and I forgot to say I do 50 bodyweight squats as well in my workout.
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