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Get the most out of your Martial Arts aerobics workouts
Martial arts aerobics in general are the best aerobics style workouts available.
There are several reasons behind this. They are a full body workout. You'll
be sore all over. They concentrate on all of the leg muscles especially the
gluts. This degree of concentration cannot be done with regular aerobics.
Because the larger muscle groups are focused on, this gives a much better
cardiovascular workout. Also, developing these muscles will greatly increase
the metabolism as the need for the body to fuel them increases. The benefit
of Cardio Karaticise™ is that it is a low impact full body workout.
Secondly, they are more exciting. It's much easier to workout if your mentally
working out your aggressions also. Mentally pummelling an imaginary opponent
is much more stress relieving and gratifying than stepping up and down a step.
Cardio Karaticise™ is a total strees relieving workout.
Third, through learning proper alignment, martial arts aerobics can improve
balance. They can aid in developing coordination, and, if done properly they
can teach you more natural motions which are soothing to the body. And even
possibly develop your chi.
One note though, they are not martial arts. Many of these programs imply
that you will recieve the benefits of learning self defense through these
programs. This is misleading. I have had a few of our Cardio karaticise students
come in and say that something they learned in class benefited them in a self
defense situation, but I would not rely on this. I believe this is possible
but not likely. We will term martial arts aerobics as a martial way rather
than a martial art. It is something that has been developed from the principles
of martial arts but is not a martial art in itself. Can it benefit the study
of martial arts, certainly. Could the motions be developed into a martial
application, certainly. Is it a martial art in itself, certainly not. Some
of these programs are even selling black belts in their system. Do not let
some of these popular programs mislead you into believeing you are studying
a martial art. A false sense of security can be dangerous.
With that said, I do highly reccomend them. Of course I highly reccomend
ours over the others but as a whole they are all great. They are exercise
programs, not martial arts.
There can be a downside to martial arts aerobics. Many rely on ballistic
type motions. Martial artists who use these motions (typically hard style
martial arts) have prepared their muscles for them. The common person has
not. There have been a lot of injuries due to these motions. Even a few proffessional
athletes have been injured. In my field I hear about it all of the time. There
is also a high degree of impact. Both of these can be dangerous. That is the
purpose of this tutorial. We will show you how to do these exercises properly,
giving a low impact full body workout, while minimizing the ballistic stretches
and impact on the joints. Of course, Cardio Karaticise is a no impact full
body workout, and has no ballistic motions but we want you to be safe no matter
which program you follow.
The exercises in this program will focus on those taught in the cardio karaticise
program but the principles can be adapted to give a lower impact workout.
These principles will aid you in getting the maximum workout with the minimum
risk in any program. Our newsletter will cover the motions of other systems
and how to use them without getting hurt. It's hard to get in shape with a
blown out knee. I'll send these lessons out to you about once a month or so.
Have fun and feel free to e-mail me with any questions or comments.
Shun Shifu Phil Weaver
