Martial arts training.?

Question

My dad brought me a punching bag and I have started useing it. I've been trying to get my hands hard so that when I punch it will not hurt as bad. Is there any other good ways that I can strengthen my arms and legs. And build up the strenght in my hands?

Answer 1

A trick my sensei taught me for strengthening hands is to take a single sheet of newspaper, and slowly crumple it with one hand. This works every single muscle in your hand. If you do this daily, splitting an entire newspaper between both hands, you'll find that after a month or so you'll have greatly increased strength.

There are a couple of downsides to this, though. One, your hands will be excruciatingly sore, so don't do the exercise before work or a major workout. Two, you'll need to "maintain" this exercise, even when you feel your hands are as strong as you like. You won't have to do as much, or as often, but if you stop all together, you'll notice that the power will slowly start to fall off.

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As far as lessening the pain in your hands, this following system should help in that conditioning. However, it does require the use of a body bag:

1. Starting with sand in the body bag, perform 100 knuckle strikes per hand, twice a day, seven days a week for 3 months. If there are multiple strikes you practice with, feel free to set up a steady, constant rotation.
2. After that 3 month period, replace the sand in the bag with pebbles. Continue the same training regiment.
3. After that 3 month period, replace the pebbles in the bag with any sort of inexpensive metal shot. Continue the same training regiment.
4. After that 3 month period, you'd be able to strike solid stone, and feel very little to no pain. At this point, your hands will be as "hard" as they can possibly get.

My sensei used this same approach to strengthen his chi punch. I haven't had the time (or, to be honest, the guts) to try it yet.

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Besides standard weight training, a good tool for strengthening arms is a pair of crutches. By forcing your body to reposition the weight, you're accelerating the muscle-building process. Going up and down flights of stairs is probably the best exercise with this. As you alternate legs, you alternate which arm is getting the brunt of the attention.

Nice thing about this exercise is that most people have crutches, and it doesn't require a gym membership.

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Unfortunately, legs are the hardest to build up. The exercise equipment at the gym is probably the best for this. However, if you have any weights available to you, then definitely do squats while holding/wearing the weights. If you have the type of weights you wear (wrap-around), do squat-lunges. These will slowly (but surely) improve your legs.

Answer 2

STOP NOW! The hand toughening process is something that you do and build gradually over a long period of time and I hate to say it but if your hands are hurting now you are doing more damage to them than building them. Buy a set of bag gloves and hand wraps for your hands for your bag; the damage you are doing is cumulative; (in other words you are on your way to developing arthritis if you continue and you will have hand problems down the road). Do some reading on this and I think you will find that it is accomplished over several years of training-not just in a week or month or two.

Also do not equate strong hands with tough hands per say. If you look at a person's hands that has toughened them and has done a lot of breaking they will have calcium deposits and more dense bone structure than yours-but their hands will be supple and not hurt.

Answer 3

The more you hit the bag, the more strength you will develop in you wrists. Strong wrists are the key ingredient needed to punch the bag for longer and longer periods.

You build wrist strength several ways:
Using dumbell weights, do wrist curls. Sit with your forearm resting on your leg with the hand and wrist out past your knee and your palm upward, holding the dumbell. Now simply curl your hand upward and downward. That is a wrist curl.

Another simple exercise to build wrist strength is to squeeze a ball or grip exerciser.

Striking the heavy bag will in itself help to strengthen your wrists and make your hands stronger at the same time. The most important thing is that you must wear handwraps and a good pair of bag gloves. This will help to prevent injuries and it will allow you to punch the bag for longer periods of time, which is what you need to do to make your wrists strong and your hands hard.

Have fun!

Answer 4

taking a martail art and some yoga would definitely work. Good martial arts for developing your leg and arm strength include capoeira and shaolin-do.

These are the only ones that I have had good experience in strengthening my arms and legs. Yoga helped too.

If you are interseted, you can look up shaolin-do on their website (shaolin-do.com) for information and locations (very affordable). There are many capoeira groups around, so you probably won't have trouble finding one of those. The exercises i have encountered in these martial arts have made even my athletic friends sweat and tired within a few minutes.

I can jump higher, move master, and kick/hit harder from practicing these martial arts and yoga. I also practice ki-aikido, but that may not entirely relate to your question.

Answer 5

Can they curb, minimize, or disable, the wiring? I'm no longer certain that I might positioned it that approach. I might lean extra to exchanging or rewiring for the larger... due to the fact I wish to. But if it is easy to occur, then it is just logical that the opposite can too. Below is my reasoning for the exchanging whichever approach it should pass. Instinctual conduct can certainly be converted with constant bodily sporting events and mental influencing. The factor of martial artwork coaching is to make changes to the scholar's bodily instinctual reactions. This is why there have got to be the constant coaching, it's what adjusts the spinal responses to the one-of-a-kind forms of bodily stimuli. This is why although the man or woman behaves within the method of fearing any type of combating will mechanically reply as soon as the bodily risk has impacted them. (This takes situation due to the fact the reaction direction runs from the feeling to the backbone and again, wholly leaving out the mind and it is 'imperative' computations and comparison of the hindrance.) I listen time and time once more, even from the 'masters' of tactics announcing that martial arts instruct within the usual conduct for self safeguard. That is surely unfaithful. If martial arts have been usual responses, we might NOT ought to paintings such a lot at it to grow to be knowledgeable. We might additionally no longer ought to paintings continuously to preserve the abilities won. I do believe that the grownup neurological responses to instances which are calmly threatening to mortally threatening are a lot more intricate to have an impact on or difference, due to the fact they don't seem to be simplest born intuition, but additionally 'expert' intuition headquartered off of the societal have an impact on forming the notion chain and synaptic pathways. In more youthful humans (youngsters) the instinctual pathways can also be stimulated simpler than adults. That is due to the fact they're nonetheless forming their techniques or synaptic pathways. In adults extra of a 'brainwashing' process have got to be taken to make the changes, due to the fact they've already shaped their 'everlasting' notion techniques. It is feasible, and now we have visible it occur for the period of society, such a lot in particular whilst handling cults, or a few type of devout extremism. It may be utilized in many fiction reports related to army and different mystery companies, which might be fairly headquartered off of rumor of parties that experience taken situation in historical past. The synaptic paragraph is wherein I get extra of a no for your query. It takes an virtually devout devotion to the martial arts, and a one hundred% dedication to survival to be in a position to regulate one's possess instincts; and this isn't some thing the vast majority of martial artists do. (NOTE: The majority is all inclusive, internationally. There are many that do, and so they might be sure, however there are nonetheless sufficient to be a no.) Ultimately, I do not see martial arts as diminishing or exchanging a perception similar to the only the of the person demise to save lots of his son in a bad method. I say this due to the fact of the ethical have an impact on of probably the most famend martial artwork societies, (East Asian). It is taught in those tactics that reality, and simply movements in all conduct, as good as sacrificing one self for yet another is honorable, and can pay off the soul on this and the following lifestyles. People extra traditionally than no longer aspire to those teachings within the martial arts, versus natural self renovation and a totally purpose outlook on lifestyles forgoing any try to aid yet another in want.

Answer 6

if you want your fist to be tough.. follow the shaolin monks training.. (watch youtube natinoal geographics)..
Place newspaper on your wall.. (dont use your silly punching bag.) .. punch the newspaper for 2 hours every day..(non stop punching..) until it is broken,.. and replace it with new ones.. until the wall dents..

soak your hands in cold water afterwards to release the brusing.. after few month... I guarantee you... no one can take one punch from you... and you will feel no pain.

Answer 7

Building up your arms & legs I could think of weights or pilates or yoga. Hardening your hands....well around the turn of the last century bare knuckle boxers would soak their hands in animal urine. I think it was horse or cow but I wouldn't recommend that for sanitary reasons. LOL.

Answer 8

1st off wear glove to avoid hand injuries. For general strength training there are lots of books & equipment out there most of which will work.

Answer 9

keep hitting it, make sure you have the right technique also it could be bad technique thats causing you strife
if you keep punching the bag your hands will eventually get used to it, just keep practicing

Answer 10

My personal favorite is using makiwara. You build up the strength in your wrist and the striking spot on your knuckles.