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johnwang wrote:After my senior SC brother had heart attack last Christmas (also after my 70 years old birthday), I start to pay more attention on health than just fighting.

oragami_itto wrote:I buried my cousin last weekend. Dead of a heart attack at 42.

Have you done XingYi Pi Chuan 1000 times non-stop? Please share your experience here.

middleway wrote:

Have you done XingYi Pi Chuan 1000 times non-stop? Please share your experience here.

Yep every year i do this in the morning for a week or two. I finished this period of training last week.

Experience is always different. But here is an interesting situation.

I was teaching Osoto Gari in Class and everyone was going down before the sweep. I wasnt particularly 'trying' to do this, it was just a result of the body method, structure and the grips ... so i had to really disconnect so that i could demonstrate the technique properly for the class. None of the people i was teaching even know what an internal art is let alone a Pi Quan so it was a good honest reaction to the applicaiton of the Pi body method.

cheers

Trick wrote:quality before quantity ?

Strange wrote:

Trick wrote:quality before quantity ?

very glib and good tongue-fu

quality before quantity ?

middleway wrote:

quality before quantity ?

Quality & Quantity

johnwang wrote:

oragami_itto wrote:I buried my cousin last weekend. Dead of a heart attack at 42.

I do believe if you can drill XY Pi Chuan 1000 times non-stop daily, your change of getting heart attack will be less. . . .

If you can drill any MA technique 1000 times daily, in 1 year you will drill it 365,000 times. You will be good in that move for sure.

Primal Nation wrote:The Development of Motor Engrams

Strength is largely a neurological adaptation. A huge piece of this is the development of motor engrams, which is really just a fancy term for muscle memory.

Each rep you perform builds or reinforces motor engrams for your lifting. As you perform a movement over and over (a deadlift for example), your body develops a motor engram that allows you to perform the movement with much less brain activity and input. This allows you to perform much more efficiently.

This is why it is crucial for you to focus on each rep and to reinforce good motor engrams. The more your technique breaks down, and the longer you go without correcting it, you are simply developing bad habits that will prevent you from lifting efficiently.

Research suggests that it takes 300-500 reps to develop a new motor engram, but it takes 3000-5000 to wipe out and re-teach an engrained one.

Think about that for a second.

Performing your reps flawlessly and focusing on technique, you can probably teach yourself a movement in about 4 weeks. Perform bad reps persistently without fixing the issue, and you are setting yourself back 10 times as long. . . .

Every Rep Matters

This is why you need to focus on your reps in training. The greatest lifters you will ever see focus just as much on their warm up sets with an empty bar as they do when they are dealing with serious weight.

If the weights start causing your form to break down, sometimes you can muscle through and set records; but don’t let it persist and develop bad habits…unless you want to spend months trying to reverse them.

Every rep matters…

marvin8 wrote:However if one practices XY Pi Chuan when tired, one can develop bad form and habits.