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Good point, well made. Hip rotation is everything in punching power. I feel lame for not mentioning it mad



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~looks~ Ohhh right yeah. Brain fart blaugh

nice ones! I'm especially fond of punching in water and the paper trick. hadn't done anything serious with weights

what is a good starting weight and method to start with?

Join a boxing gym.

Also something I forgot, when you start to weight lift, you have to do weight lifting that will work your whole body. Not just your upper body muscles. Lifts/workouts that should be done are squats, bench press, shoulder press, shoulder lift, bicep curl, quadracep lift, tricep push down, military press (shoulder press and military press are slightly different), roman chair, dead lift, clean and jerk (do this once a week, and do it explosively and at a very low starting weight. The weight of the bar is fine.), situps, lunges, pushups, pullups(do this with a back pack and at a low weight in the beginning), and so forth.

Workouts that can be done without weights that are good to do a lot of with no weights are situps, crunches, pushups, squats, pullups, roman chair, lunges, and so forth. Doing large amounts of reps with any of these workouts with no reps build lots of power, speed, and endurance in your muscles. The only one that should be down once or twice a week is lunges. This is because your knees need time to rest.

Now there are tons of lifts that can be down. If you want to learn about them, I suggest getting a few books on weightlifting that decribes the many types of lifts that can be down. Also if anybody wants to know more on different lifts just ask me. I was on the weight lifting team in highschool, and I took weight lifting as a class 3 times, and I have been strength training and weight lifting since I was 10. I also read Mens Fitness, fitness journals, Mens Journal, Muscle Magazine, and so forth.

Now since it is weight training for martial arts, you need to do mainly endurance lifting. The lifts should be done with correct technique, and slowly. Reps should be down at very low weight and anywhere between 50-100 reps per set. 50 is a good starting number. If that is too much for ya go with 25 reps. Have 5-10 minutes of rest between each workout. You should do endurance lifting really fast only once a week. For when you do speed endurance have 10- 15 minutes of rest time. Heavy lifting for muscle should be done 1-2 times a month. With heavy lifting have 15 minutes of rest, then do the second set. During the rest times do something like stair master, jumping exercises, jump rope and so forth. Or any polymetrics. When you finish your 2nd set take a 10 minute break and go onto the next work out. do upper body one day, and the next heavy lifting session do lower body.

Heavy endurance lifting is something that should be done once every two months for the most part. Heavy endurance lifting is lifting very heavy weight more than 4-6 reps per set. The amount of reps done is 10-14 reps. And you only do one set. No more. If you want to do 2 sets, go ahead, but you then need to low the amount of reps. Example if in the first set you did 14 reps, you do only 10 reps. And when doing heavy endurance lifting always have spotter. You will need that spotter the whole time. Also have 20 minutes of rest inbetween each set. During those sets do any type of cardio.

I hope that helps.

oh lol.

But ike I said, when you do weight lifting you have to workout the whole body you can't just do punching routines.

But start out with 1/2 punds in each hand, and do punching drills slowly to start up, and do different drills every few sets.