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Strength Training for Taekwondo

Here I am going to deal with upper body strength for increasing punching power and blocking power in taekwondo competition. As you steadily progress through the different taekwondo belts you will need to draw on higher livels upper body strength and stamina.

Whenever people think about punching power they immediately think of pushing movements such as the plyometric push up or bench press. However, to prevent puscular imbalances, you should also make it a goal to work the pulling muscles of the back and arms twice as much as the pushing muscles of the chest, shoulders and triceps. I advise martial artists taekwondo exponents to incorporate the Pull Up in your training sessions in order to:

• improve explosiveness and reaction time
• train in a way that ignites the best conditions for fresh muscle development

For complicated multi-joint movements, including the Pull Up and others like the Atlas Stones Lift, and Back Squat, it is important to be given skilled instruction and start using very light loads. I’d by no means tell anybody to not push themselves hard in their quest to increase strength. However, every pro strength athlete will tell you, in order to build much larger muscles you will need to control the the iron, not let them control you. It is is crucial to implement these type of movements in your total body fitness program as they have an anabolic impact on the entire body, not just the Latissimus Dorsi and Levator Scapulae.

Many taekwondo black belt exponents I know can do 30 straight pull ups with no rest. Most average people struggle to do one or two. So getting this fit with your own bodyweight is a great way to help you progress though the belt grading systems in taekwondo.

So to recap on the above use Pull Ups in your workout routines to help you:

• maximize explosive power and speed
• train in a way that invokes a physiological response
• increase fat oxidation
• make your muscle and fitness program more effective for the hours invested

For those martial artists looking to go up a weight division bear this in mind. Once you work on a number of muscle groups all in one go then you are using a compound exercise. It commonly engages several joints moving concurrently. Exerciseslike the Pull Up are not as easy to perform compared with many because they require more of the body’s energy supplies.

The more of your body you use at any one time in an exercise the more demands it places on your muscles. Compound movements like the Pull Up not only work the Back and Posterior Delts well but also help you to get extremely lowered body fat percentages (3-9%). Training utilizing compound movements:

• Promotes extra testosterone output.
• Induces HGH (human growth hormone) to be produced
• helps to improve your appearance and maximize muscular strength.
• Helps you overload muscles

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