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14-05-2008, 08:29 PM
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| Getting there (?)  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Suffolk
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 | Training split including Karate too I need advice on how best to mix weight training for size/strength, with karate training twice a week. I don't want to overtrain the muscles and lose the gains I've made, or hamper future gains. At present I train body parts once a week as below Sunday - Chest and arms Tuesday - Legs Thursday - Back and shoulders I have just this week restarted karate after a break of 4 years. Training is twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays. So my initial thought was to drop the legs day as they will get a good workout at karate anyway, and train like this- Sunday - Chest and arms Monday - rest Tuesday - karate Wednesday - rest Thursday - Back and shoulders Friday - Karate Saturday - rest. I've picked up loads of very useful tips from this forum over the last three years so need advice again. Many thanks.
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14-05-2008, 08:34 PM
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  | Re: Training split including Karate too Ok. what are you training for: functional strength for karate? non functional strength for aesthetics/other?
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14-05-2008, 08:39 PM
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| Re: Training split including Karate too Sorry mate but I'm a bit dim... what do you mean by non functional strength?! I'm wanting to get myself bigger and stronger, but not just big muscle size with no strength in them. Is that it??
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14-05-2008, 08:50 PM
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| Re: Training split including Karate too No i am asking why you want the muscle, is it to move up a weight in your fighting and be better or just to look better on the beach/nightclub? The training will differ between the two
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14-05-2008, 08:54 PM
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| Re: Training split including Karate too Oh right I'm with you now. I want to get bigger to assist with power etc for karate. Looking good on the beach would be a nice 'side effect'! The wife doesn't let me out to nightclubs anymore!
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14-05-2008, 09:44 PM
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 | Re: Training split including Karate too When i did martial arts, I did one sesison of weights a week. It was clean and press, squat the end I used to work up to max doubles/single in the clean and press, squats i would work up to a max set of 8. would be about 15 sets total. I realy like isometrics, I did them every day it only took about 10 mins with my bullworker. We used to do lots of plyometric type exersise in the actual TKD sessions so I didnt do them outside of it. Swimming would also be good for your training (I did thats once a week also). |
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