Stadion's Sports and Martial Arts Training Discussion

1) The goal resistance and reps depend on your purpose, i.e., how much strength do you need in what exercise. If you do 30 reps easily with a given weight, then you likely can do 150% or more of that weight at a lower number of reps. If you watched Secrets of Stretching , you should understand what ...

To get “fully down on front splits” you need to relax more, or elongate further, your hamstrings, plus increase your ability to bend back your trunk, i.e., relax or elongate your hip flexors. To understand what I mean, read The Method of Testing Your Potential to Do a Front Split To solve your side-...

Recovered post of Sep 30, 2019 12:10 by Thomas Kurz You [ REG ] wrote: I've even tried doing the isometrics horse stance splits, but I get too sore the following days after doing them on my leg day That may be caused by either doing your isometrics too hard for your muscle's endurance or doing the i...

If this routine works for you, then it is Ok. If it has lost its effectiveness, then increase resistance in squats--but only as much as you can while keeping good form without difficulty. The right amount of resistance helps to increase your ROM, i.e., makes your squats deeper SAFELY. An excessive a...

Apply info from articles posted at https://www.stadion.com/sports-nutrition/.

Follow the sequence show on Flexibility Express: first side splits, because they are easier, then front splits.

For best results follow the sequence of exercises shown and explained on Flexibility Express.

For additional info on Flexibility Express, check these threads:

http://rosstraining.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=66551

http://rosstraining.net/forum/viewtopic ... 1&start=10

I get knee pain when I stretching for the side split. I'm not even close to the floor yet and am already experiencing knee pain and it's not just during isometric stetching I get it with relaxed stretching too, as soon as my legs reach a certain angle. Don't do isometric side splits but instead do ...

View YouTube video 7 Signs Of Overtraining by Alan Thrall and compare what you do and how you feel with what he says. For in-depth info on overtraining and ways of treating it read Science of Sports Training.

You are welcome. Now, do you have an answer for SDGWarr10r? I am sure he'd appreciate your opinion on his assumptions regarding learning techniques and getting better at a sport, as well as answering his question on realism in sparring.

You are where you are because you didn't lay foundation for practicing kicks (and for weightlifting either). To lay that foundation, first follow advice at https://www.youtube.com/user/posturedoc and then, when ready, directions at http://www.stadion.com/sequence-of-conditioning-exercises-for-fighte...

The schedule you quote is for people who train mostly once per day and applies to their main workout of a day (in addition to the main workouts, each day or on some days of a week, athletes may do auxiliary workouts as explained on page 59 of Science of Sports Training ). Each of these main workouts...

Hi; In the Stretching Scientifically Book_Page 4, it says: "An athlete's static active flexibility depends on the athlete's static passive flexibility and on the static strength of the muscles that stabilize the position." . Question : What do you mean when you say "the muscles that stabilize the p...

First Question: At this phase of training which we use lying leg raise for strengthening the hip flexors, do we need yet to do sit-up with weights ? ( I asked because of of saving time and energy and " get more with doing less" and because you said that the lying leg raise is more powerful than sit...

I know the book says to choose 1 exercise, but i must admit i have had even better results supplementing this horse stance exercise with weighted adductor flies using heavy ankle weights (increasing the weight i can handle over time). And now i even do my sets of adductor flies before i do the hors...