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Training Tip 2.4
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The Intangibles - Optimizing Your Stamina
This is the 5th in a series of weekly training tips designed to improve overall success, stamina, and flexibility.
Stamina, or endurance, is impacted by a number of different factors. Diet, quality of sleep, and stress levels all have an effect on how well you hold up when the heat is on. Stamina is especially important when it comes to sparring. If you can't breathe, you can't fight, so high endurance levels are critical to achieving top performance (and avoiding that unexpected wack to the head).
Training Tip 2.3
Tuesday, 07 September 2010 | Written by staff |
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The Intangibles - Warming Down This is the 4th in a series of weekly training tips designed to improve overall success, stamina, and flexibility. Time for a pop quiz. What time during your training session is the most critical to increasing flexibility? a) kicking targets b) kicking back after I'm done c) stretching after class time d) none of the above - I'll never be Gumby
Training Tip 2.1
Monday, 09 August 2010 | Written by staff |
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The Intangibles - Warming Up This is the 2nd in a series of weekly training tips designed to improve overall success, stamina, and flexibility. You have 20 minutes until class begins, and you're 20 minutes from the dojang - after you put your dobok on. As you race in the door, everyone has just finished running and is getting ready to stretch. You join in, but feel stiff as a board and wonder if you should have just stayed home. The answer? Maybe...
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Training Tip 2.2
Monday, 23 August 2010 | Written by staff |
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The Intangibles - Stretching This is the 3rd in a series of weekly training tips designed to improve overall success, stamina, and flexibility. So you’re warmed up, hyperventilating, and wishing you’d stayed home. Thankfully it’s time to stretch so you can catch your breath, and get your second wind before the training begins right? Not so grasshopper…
Training Tips
Monday, 02 August 2010 | Written by staff |
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Why Are You Here? This is the 1st in a series of weekly training tips designed to improve overall success, stamina, and flexibility. We're all busy; work, school, friends and family all demand time. So the decision to commit to a Taekwondo training program will likely require some adjustments to your schedule. As with any exercise regimen, one of the first and most important steps is deciding what the goals of your training will be.
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