Jan 9th, 2005 by doug in Karate Workouts
Warm up first.
Arnold DB Press – 4 x 35ea x 5
Lunge Squat – 4 x weightless x 5ea (Knees sore!)
Stiff Leg Deadlift – 4 x 35ea x 5
Seated Toe Raise – 4 x 95 x 5
Total time in the weight room about 25 minutes.
After that:
Kata – 5 Heian Sho-dan.
Front stance with front punch and [...]
Jan 8th, 2005 by doug in Karate Workouts
Warm up first.
Front Pulldowns – 4 x 90 x 5
BB Bench Press – 4 x 115 x 5
Alt DB Curl – 4 x 40ea x 5 – heavy
BB Shrugs – 4 x 135 x 5
Kata – 4 Heian Sho-dan and 1 Heian Ni-dan.
Crunches – 3 x 15
Horse stance with front punch 10 single pucnh and [...]
Jan 7th, 2005 by doug in Karate Workouts
Today was my first day back at Friday night class. My Sensei’s pushed us hard tonight with a lot of stance work.
We warmed up with shifting, jogging, strecthing and then the horse stance with single punch, double punch and triple punch.
First was horse stance with our partner holding his hand over our heads and [...]
Jan 6th, 2005 by doug in Karate Workouts
Warm up first.
Arnold DB Press – 4 x 30ea x 5
DB Squat – 4 x 40ea x 5
Stiff Leg Deadlift – 4 x 30ea x 5
Seated Toe Raise – 4 x 85 x 5
Total time in the weight room about 30 minutes.
After that:
Kata – 4 Heian Sho-dan and 1 Heian Ni-dan.
Jan 5th, 2005 by doug in Karate Workouts
Last night was my first night back to class after the holiday break.
We did some new moves that we have not done before. It was interesting to learn new things since I am now an orange belt but I was having a little trouble getting coordinated.
I did notice that since I stopped smoking my endurance [...]
