becuase i am practicing kickboxing and i need to strenghten these two things my friend said to just keep hitting them and thats will make it stronger , is that true?
2007-10-24 10:33:09 · 10 answers · asked by Silent1781 1 in Sports ➔ Martial Arts
you can strengthen bones by taking calcium but you can also focus on the muscle around those bones to protect them.
2007-10-24 12:31:56 · answer #1 · answered by nycdealmaker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wear shinguards and forearm pads!
These bones will toughen up through normal training (blocking drills, kicking a heavy bag, etc). Your bones actually grow and change in response to the micro-traumas that training produces. Blocks that are painful for a new student will soon become barely noticeable.
Also, don't ever block a roundhouse kick to the body with a downward block like many styles teach - this is a sure way to break or at least seriously bruise your forearm. Instead, tuck your elbow against your ribs and take the impact across the upper and lower arm simultaneously. This distributes the force across a much wider area. It also leaves your hand in a better position to strike after the kick.
2007-10-24 11:44:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weight training increases you bone density also. To strengthen your shin muscles is to elevate your heels on a flat surface and then grab a loose free weight plate that isn't to light or too heavy and slowly raise the weight off of the floor and lower it similar to a calf raise but in reverse. For forearm size you can do wrist curls or hammer curls with dumbbells. They beef up the forearms. If you keep kicking a bag or wooden dummy eventually you are going to develop callouses like I have on my shins.
2007-10-24 16:00:17 · answer #3 · answered by xian w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By just hitting them you may increase your tolerance for pain. and you will probably bruise less. Making stronger bone is not as simple. If you are not doing resistance training start yesterday. This will help to promote harder bones. Stay away from soft drinks like carbonated drinks. These contain phosphoric acid which rips calcium out of your bones,even diet drinks as well. Try to get calcium into your diet from leafy green vegetables as well. Make sure your for arm block are executed as near perfect as you can. It is rare but I have seen student break arm in class from a bad block.
2007-10-24 10:55:49 · answer #4 · answered by SiFu frank 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It takes time... kick hard and block hard, when you spar hard.... don't wear pads, and after a couple of years... the hardest shin to shin kicks, will only annoy you, but not stop you... it is all a frame of mind to begin with, then it becomes the normal thing... again it takes time (and many bruises).. good luck
2007-10-24 22:03:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try kicking a tree like Jean-Claude Van Damme did in Kickboxer.
2007-10-24 11:48:27 · answer #6 · answered by rdrssuk 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
calcium ride push bike cos you build a muscle that covers your shin and also build muscle in forarms and banging your arms back and forward between two metal bars also works but not to agroly
2007-10-24 15:20:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way to strengthen bones is to get enough calcium.
2007-10-24 10:36:59 · answer #8 · answered by I wanna talk to Samson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I discovered one day, while I was tapping my foot..
that it's a workout for your shins.
stand straight and somewhat bend your leg, and tap your toes.
=D
2007-10-24 10:38:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Baseball bats !
Kidding :o)
2007-10-25 01:23:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋