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Written by Damian Ross
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 16:35 |
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Everyone in the martial arts lies about their training. It's always I trained here for 5 years and trained like animals 5 days a week for 5 hours a day. Sure you did.
No one trains harder than a professional athlete. But even they have off seasons. Even they can only keep up that pace for a limited period of time at during a certain span of years.
The same goes for Police coming out of the academy, soldiers coming out of boot, you can only keep up that pace for so long. Once you settle in to your job, your natural instinct to adapt to your surroundings takes over. What you need to do is cycle your training.
Training is in cycles. There are two types: competitive cycle and maintenance cycle.
Competitive cycle is for the times you really go for it. You feel good and you are training like a madman (or woman). Maintenance cycle is the time you need a break. You do about 1/4 to 1/2 of what you o in a competitive cycle. The Competitive cycle is about 1/3 to 1/8 of your training. Over time as your muscle memory improves you do less competitive and more maintenance. Plus as you get older your body loses some of its ability to recover.
The benefit to self defense training as opposed to martial arts or combat sport is that the skills are based on gross motor movements- they are the LAST to deteriorate. So, if you can walk, you can do an edge of hand or a point kick to the shin (or thrust a knife or use a firearm). The day you can't do those things- well via con dios brother. You won't have to worry about protecting yourself.
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