Is that like your lower abs?
Have you ever tried doing pushups to work your back and biceps? I find it mostly a bicep exercise myself …
****, Toby called it before me.
hangs head in shame
:mad: 10 fuking characters
You can do that, but at some point one will start to reduce returns on the other and vice versa. In all honesty, for a martial artist, having a good balance of strength and endurance is ideal, so a lot of people train concurrently. If you want maximal gains in one or the other, you’ll need to reassess at some point.
I told you guys it was getting Extrodinaire in here. Perhaps they’ve both merged into one super troll?
lower chest… under the nipples in the man titty region.
yeah i agree, it does rip the hell out of the bicep, i feel it along my mid back region, a prob area for me, it tends to tighten up a little to much.
Um… Toby… I’m scared.
It’s ok - we’ve briefly slipped into reverso world.
IP check? I’m guessing it’s Eyebrows’ brother.
Bodyweight exercises
There are various ways to do push ups. Wide grip push ups will work the chest and biceps more. Hands in close, running your elbows along the sides of your body will work the triceps. Try doing 10 regular push ups then flip over and do 10 good crunches (crunch up and squeze the abs) then flip back over and repeat. Do a total of 30 push ups and 30 crunches. Make all of them slow and controled.
There is an exercise on www.noweightsworkout.com called an “arm grab”. This exercise will increase your punching power by 50%. The Chinese exercises are all meant to increase fighting strength, so a arm grab is putting tension in the same manner as your punch, much like swinging 2 baseball bats when you are in the “on deck” circle, then you put one bat down and you’re swinging the 1 bat with more speed and getting more power.
The arm grab is pushed out in line with your sternum. When you punch in line with your sternum, your pectorul muscle becomes hard. That’s why kung fu people punch at the sturnum, karate people punch at the solar plexus.
Hope this helps
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what is pistols?
Great Bodyweight site
a pistol is a one leg squat where your free leg extends out in front of you. So when you are in the low position you kinda look like a pistol.
Like this –> http://spidersport.com/photos/exercises/pistol_galya_3.jpg
So you’re Steve Hamp are you? I was wondering what sort of fitness/strength/conditioning training you’ve had.
Also, your site says you’re a 6th degree black belt. In what style?
With most bodyweight exercises resistance from your own bodyweight stimulates the muscles no? So how is doing this exercise with your imagination going ot be better than doing it with a dumbbell in your hand? Not being a smartarse, just wondering about the mechanism of it.
Adding weight
To add light weight to these exercises are great. They have to be done without weight in the beginning to strengthen the tendons and the ligaments. Be careful not to injure the joints though. If you use weight with these exercises too early you will be building up the “belly” of the muscle. Doing the exercises without weight will build the tendons and the ligaments AND the belly of the muscle from the inside-out. Weights build the exterior of the muscle first, Chinese exercises build the interior of the muscle first.
Also, to double up on this post. I am a 6th Degree Black Belt under GM Gene L. Chicoine. Hsing-I is my favorite, but I also love Tai Chi, Shuai Chiao, and my first style, Preying Mantis. I am a ranked 6th Degree in Hsing-I and Shuai Chiao.
I have done the Chinese exercises as well as, Iron Vest, Muscle Restructure (also known as Muscle Change), the Iron Buddha program (which in my opinion) makes you go through forms with more power and helps with your endurance. I have trained my hand in Iron Palm for many years, and started Poison Hand about a year and a half ago. There is also a 2nd part to the Muscle Change, that I have been doing for the last 4 years.
I hope this helps,
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According to Pavel Dynamic Tension and virtual resistance exercises will build muscle andf strength,but you have to work against real ressitance from time to time to build bone and ligament strength.
Really?? On www.noweightsworkout.com those pitures are of me, how I look today. I’ve only done the Chinese exercises. I am 43 years old, and have been practicing the CMA since I was 12. I only learned these exercises and the Muscle Restructure (both 1 and 2) since meeting Teacher (GM Chicoine).
What I have gained and what I’ve seen others gain from these exercises are second to none. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have any problem with people who lift weights, I think weight lifting can be good for you-but, I don’t think too many people lift correctly and for the right reasons.
What I mean by the last statement is this: I am a MARTIAL ARTIST, I want to build strength for different reasons, the main one being to enhance my fighting skills.
Will weights do this for me? Sure, but with limitations. I dare any of you who are not farmers to go and work on a farm for a week, let’s see how strong you really are (me included). None of us would look strong to the farmers.
This is what they do, they have to be strong for the particular discipline that they do. We are not bodybuilders (unless this is your goals) this is not what we do. We are all MARTIAL ARTIST first.
I hope this helps
I agree
Steve I totally agree with you. Different things work for different people and you can get strong and develop a good build without the use of weights-even Arnold Schwartzenegger said so in his book “The Education Of A Bodybuilder” John McSweeney, A member of the martial arts hall of fame didn’t use weights and taught a system called “Tiger Moves” which was based on the ancient Kung Fu Tensing Exercises. John Peterson of Bronze Bow Publishing [link below] currently promoting that system. I am glad I came across your site. Andy
another thing about bodyweight exercises
Chinese Power Exercises are a great way for a mother or father and their kids to workout together. I have taught these exercises to children and adults who have been confined to a wheelchair. Most bodyweight exercises that are out there are push ups and squats.
I hope this helps
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Some people have built incredible strength with them
They appear on the various bodyweight sites from time to time