Have you managed to get your self a little bit out of shape lately? Let us face it; have not all of us gotten a little bit soft? If you are tired of being tired, then welcome to the wake up club. What you need is some exercise. For the serious business, consider martial arts fitness.
There are many ways to get in better shape available to you, but some are going to be more efficient than others. What you will want is the combination of three things. You want to increase your flexibility, your strength, and your cardio-vascular capabilities. Getting all three aspects in one package deal is even better still.
This type of fitness program with give you all three in spades. To begin with, think about all of those fantastic moves you see the Kung Fu and Karate guys do. They have amazingly flexible bodies, do they not? And you can, too, with some diligent effort. It may take some time, but a supple body can be trained for.
And it certainly takes a great amount of strength to split the boards and bricks like some do at exhibitions. Of course, if you wanted to learn how to kill a person with two fingers, like some claim they can, that would indicate a great amount of strength as well. That and some serious nerve, you would guess. At any rate, and fighting art will develop strength necessarily.
Any good, strenuous, and continuous workout will give you cardio benefits. This includes raising your heart rate for about twenty minutes at a time, and making you breathe a little heavier than normal. These things are very good for you, and understand that the heart and lungs are muscles, too. With repeated stresses, of the good kind, they will grow stronger like any other muscle will.
For a whole body workout, these types of disciplines are ideal. And do not forget that they are mental exercises as well. Training the mind to remain focused, disciplined, and clear is as healthy as it gets, and these cultural styles are based largely on the whole mind and body connectivity thing.
Will it be easy to fly through the air, flipping, kicking, punching, and turning? Of course not, and most of that is movie fantasy anyways. But for an exceptional way to tone the body, burn fat, build strength and endurance, consider martial arts fitness. And while you are working on the body, you can be working on the mind.
About the author: Tom Fazio is the owner and operator of Personal Trainer Hong Kong, a fitness and martial arts personal training business. He also combines fitness and martial arts in a unique blend of fitness kicking workouts.