the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

most effective leg strengthening for an internal artist:

We'll I'll just say maybe try doing the long form many times in a row. you'll get stronger for sure if you have the discipline to pull it off.

short forms don't cut it.

But if the short form is done many many many times in a row, wouldn't that do the trick too?

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When short form was mentioned I thought 37 rather than 24 step
I feel the 24 is lacking in many ways
In our school we don't move out of a small horse stance for the first hour
We do shift weight but don't unbend the legs or move foot position
Next we have quite a few walking exercises without hands
Followed by continuous walking hands
This is followed by form and then pushing so the legs get quite a workout
Years ago I had a Jow gar friend ring me up
He made new students tell them why they left their last school
He said what do you do to your students
One guy said the reason he left my school was pain
Too much leg work

Walking.

I would just do more walking.

Well, the event was this weekend.
Two of us had to give up after 40 miles, due to heat strokes (all the tabata squats in the world couldn't prevent that sadly). The third of our group joined another group and made it.

Thank you again for all the good ideas!

Nice. Forty miles is still pretty good.

Just curious, where did the event tale place?

Squeeeez wrote:Thank you for the excellent ideas so far!

The details:
You get a map, and then you have 25h to complete 80km through the mountains. So squats and low walks are definitely going to be helpful.

Then during the training walks so far, the feet and ankle tendons started to say hello, so that seems to be a weak point, not sure how to strengthen them specifically though.
And it's interesting - it was never a problem during the training so far, but then again I've never trained for 7-8h straight

I did 70KM in (I think) around 15 hours in a Volksmarch back in 99. No preparatory training of any kind. Light snacks and candy along the way. Once I stopped the legs got really crampy though and I pretty much immediately went to sleep. It was on city streets, too, not through mountain trails.

Squeeeez wrote:Well, the event was this weekend.
Two of us had to give up after 40 miles, due to heat strokes (all the tabata squats in the world couldn't prevent that sadly). The third of our group joined another group and made it.

Thank you again for all the good ideas!

Oh well at least you tried.

Peacedog wrote:Nice. Forty miles is still pretty good.

Just curious, where did the event tale place?

It was in Switzerland, not quite in the alps but definitely not flat either

oragami_itto wrote: did 70KM in (I think) around 15 hours in a Volksmarch back in 99. No preparatory training of any kind. Light snacks and candy along the way. Once I stopped the legs got really crampy though and I pretty much immediately went to sleep. It was on city streets, too, not through mountain trails.

Nice! Congratulations, then.

Oh well at least you tried.

We did manage the full 80km a few years ago but being a student I was training a few hours every day then, and also about 20kg (40lbs) lighter

Leg and foot strength is still, in my opinion, one of the bases of not only martial arts but mobile life in general.

Squeeeez wrote:Well, the event was this weekend.
Two of us had to give up after 40 miles, due to heat strokes (all the tabata squats in the world couldn't prevent that sadly). The third of our group joined another group and made it.

Thank you again for all the good ideas!

Awesome job showing up and doing your best. Now you will be better prepared for next time!

Take care,
Greg

leg-back connection.. walking on ass =)
great for the illio-sacral-joint