” He was never blessed with superpowers. It took him 15 years to hone himself into a physical marvel and scientific and deductive genius.” (M. Vaz on Batman)
15 years on and I spent last night reading for three hours on kinesiology. That was classified as my recovery period as I had spent the morning doing a set of ten 40 metre sprints with intermittent bursts of skipping rope between sets. There was no interest in body weight training as I was still sore from training with Jesse Glover on Saturday.
Homeostasis is the point which the body tries to maintain in order for the cells to function properly. It is the “set-point” at which the body attempts to remain.
Whilst the media seems to suggest that stress should be avoided, for elite athletic training, the converse is true. That is, that through the rigours of training, execise and calisthenics we become stronger and more efficient. Our body is driven out of homeostasis through intense training. It then adapts to that training (when done time and again)learns to achieve homeostasis quicker, therefore creating a stronger set-point state.
The two principles that facilitate the body to become stronger and more powerful (power is defined as ability of the body to move ballistically) are;
i) overload – adding greater degrees of resistance/loads/weight; and
ii) specificity – making the training as specific to the sport as possible
This is the first of my attempts to draft a succint article which will help indicate the way I believe training should be carried out, for the specific context of martial arts and combat.
Keep reading and note;
“The revolution will not be televised”
