A Warrior's Thougts on the Martial Arts

I'll have to skip swimming today. Yesterdays strength training left me sore and tired. Getting up at 6 to begin the day by teaching two classes didn't exactly help that fact. Now if there was nothing more to do for me today, I'd force myself to swim. Still having three classes and a nightly meeting with my good friend and mentor Ronny ahead of me, however, I'll have to conserve my energy. Obviously I still need time to get fit for the volume of training my program has me go through every week. Still, I'll try to catch up on that workout before the week is over. In between the classes I've yet to teach today I'll be doing some tennis ball work to help me be fit again tomorrow. By the way, there was an article in a local newspaper about my dojo today. I'll post the scanned image in the evening. So long, take care

There it was again. The familiar bag on my door that brought me the newest issue of the "district news". Out of pure boredom while riding the bus, I took a lot at the magazine. I'd rather I didn't. I don't usually fret about other people in the fitness industry, but today's experience was too much for me to remain silent. On the cover page I found a teaser for an article that deals with the first "Power plate" studio in the district. In case you don't know, a powerplate is a vibrating device onto which one steps in order to "train". The basic concept is that the body will reach with muscle tension to stabilize itself on the vibrating surface. This, in turn, is - of course - believed to strenghten the muscles and burn calories. Combined with basic calistenics and isometric holds, this training method has been employed by some professional athletes as a supplementary tool. Remember those "perfect abs" electro-muscle-stimulation ...