yeadon karate blog
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Monday 21st of September 2020
Whilst I am waiting to re-start karate training I am keeping up my usual weekly training routine of six days training, one day rest day - usually Sunday. So this morning I've done a fairly light routine - 12 minutes stretching and one tabata set. Then 17 minutes mid level aerobic and finishing with 20 minutes of core and a five minute jogging cool down - total 54 minutes gentle intro to the week. Tomorrow will be either a full 40 minute tabata set or something CrossFit and painful ! Tuesday 22/9/20 They say that sometimes less is more and I cannot think of anything this applies to more than Tabata - a simple workout process - 20 seconds on, 10 seconds rest repeated eight times for a 4 minute set. The only problem - whatever exercises you choose (I normally do four exercises and repeat twice) you have to do the 'on' 20 seconds at maximum effort. This makes even the simplest session a brutal killer potentially. I personally credit tabata with most of my early gains when I began training seriously for gains in March 2019. My Mondays had a simple routine - 8 sets of tabata in the morning, two hour karate session in the evening. Since karate finishes I have continued my tabata once or twice a week and thus far throughout all of lockdown nor put on a single pound. Here's two of my favourite four exercise sets for you to try : 1) karate themed - punches (I actually do left right upper cuts and left right hooks for shoulder involvement but you can do any punching technique you like; material front kick; gedan barai downward block (twisting motion gives some abdominal involvement but again you can do any block); Yoko geri side kick alternating. Then to finish (killer) : press ups, squat tuck jumps, burpees and bear crawls. If that last one doesn't finish you off you are doing it wrong ! Enjoy. By the way my session today was my usual 8 tabata sets finishing in the last one described above. Didn't enjoy ! But did it. |