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How often have you heard stupid lines like this…
"You don’t need strength, just technique."
I can’t believe this hogwash is still floating around, but alas, it’s like a rash that won’t go away. It’s a line meant to tell you that you don’t need severe effort based, physical training and make you believe that there’s some magic technique that will give you the ability to physically dominate another human being. That is not the case, never has been the case and never WILL be the case.
"Real strength isn’t that important."
Another load of bologna. Why then in ALL the ancient martial systems did they devote so much time and effort to strength and conditioning? Physical training for the purpose of building a superior body was and is a cornerstone of all the ancient martial systems. Anybody who says different either has no idea what they’re talking about or is looking to take your money.
"Weight training will hurt you or make you slow"
Couldn’t be more wrong. Pure propaganda. Properly done weight training will make you immeasurably more resistant to injury and make you faster. The fastest people in the world weight train. Why shouldn’t you? Also all the great martial systems have some type of weighted progressive training and when I say weight training I don’t mean it in the locked in, nautilus machine mind set. I mean lots of different kinds of resistance that can help you build strength from any angle and endurance for any situation.
"Let’s do some functional training, here… sit on this little rubber ball and hold these two little pink dumbbells."
I almost can’t dignify this one with a response. There’s nothing wrong with balance training or with trying to be innovative, but when you water crap down it just becomes watery crap. This type of training is not and won’t give you the real world horsepower to back up any kind of martial prowess. It’s serious training for serious people. Real world exercises with real weight and using the most hardcore training strata such as barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, bodyweight exercises, strongman exercises, etc., are what is and what creates truly functional strength.
"It’s all or nothing. My way or the highway. If you use anybody else’s training system it’ll kill ya. Certainly cripple you and most of your relatives. It’s bodyweight only (or substitute your favorite dogmatic training group), or death!"
The martial world, and especially the martial training world is full of this kind of dogma. "Our art is the only and best art!" It only follows and is motivated by a sales perspective that the next coming claim was, "If you don’t train the way we do you’re not going to get anything out of it, you’ll be lucky to survive it and you’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny." When you study the training of the ancient arts you find exactly what we find today and you find what is the universal formula for super human performance. Low reps, high reps, heavy weights, light weight, full movements, partial movements, high level conditioning, odd implements and unique exercises.
No system that gives true development or gives you the possibility of super strength and endurance is without these facets. However it is much easier to sell you just one facet and promise that it will deliver all of the performance you would get if you trained them all. Having only one piece of the puzzle doesn’t make you very likely to solve it does it?
"Just do a regular bodybuilding workout. It’ll make you look pretty and the rest of your martial training will take care of making you physically tough enough."
This one is more a paraphrase of a prevailing mindset than anything you’ll hear someone say flat out word for word. But it’s maybe twice as insidious as any of the myths being regularly dropped around martial arts training. Why? Because this one tells you that you can train like an idiot and as long as you’re doing something you’ll get the results you want. That’s like saying that working for minimum wage will make you a millionaire. It also carried the implication that as long as you "look" like the modern ideal of the bodybuilder you will carry all of the performing qualities of a serious martial artist. In fact, many of the martial artists I know for some inexplicable reason train like bodybuilders. Consequently they hit like eight-year old girls and stay hurt most of the time. None of the old masters and few of the current crop of high-level fighters look like the supposed ideal of bodybuilding, because that look highlights features that make you weak and has nothing to do with how you perform physically.
That doesn’t say that by training with the exercises and ideals put out in this book that you won’t look better. You probably will. But what you WILL be able to do is hit crushingly hard, grapple with the strength of an orangutan, lift things that you never thought possible and function with more endurance than anybody you know. Strength and conditioning that you never knew you could achieve tailored to bring about your ultimate martial success.
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