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A delightful conversation about getting past Training Plateau’s in your Karate Career - http://ping.fm/LJa3f

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Check out Sensei Nelson Alersh of the Golden Tiger Shotokan Studio - Great Quote by Karen Eden on the home page http://ping.fm/sd6kp

The Twenty Precepts of Gichin Funakoshi: And other essays on the philosophy of Karate Do (Paperback) - Vincent A Cruz http://snipr.com/l263o

wow - that was a great weight training workout. Bench press, lunge-walk with dumb-bells, butterflies and more. Nice tired muscles.

Not so much shotokan karate recently, achilies tendon issues are keeping me off the dojo floor. :-/ So I do strength/flexibility for now.

Heading to the Gym for a Chest/Legs strength training routine. I just make it up as I go, alternating chest and legs, finish with abs.

Shotokan Sr. Kata Workout

Yesterday I attended the first karate class I’ve been at in this calendar year.

The preparation workouts made a big difference in how well I did during the karate class for sure.  The stationary bike, the stair climbing, swimming laps and the weight training gave me better stamina than most of the regulars in the class.

We started with a light warm up then repeated Heian Yondan three times with some tips and corrections.  Followed the same routine with Heian Godan, then moved on to the bulk of the class where we repeated and focused on Sochin, Jion and Nijushiho for the remainder of the 90 minute training session.

My karate legs are where I need to focus my training.  Mostly it’s my flexibility.  So I’ll be working on strengthening all the core muscles and spending time with the relaxing 30 minute static-active routines suggested for increasing flexibility at the end of a workout.

Until next class…

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