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One other consideration -

If you hurt your lower back and are out of commission for a couple weeks, there's a real good chance that the multifidi have lost strength. These are the small muscles...

This is not unique to the UK. There have been similar moves in the US and elsewhere. Do a search for Codex Alimentarius.


PLC

Cool. Nothing like some good bruises to get you to go from bashing the dummy to playing sticky hands with it. The feeling that you want to get is that when you push against the dummy, it pushes...

Originally posted by Toby
...when I push on it and around it, it moves with a "crunchy" sensation.


I hope you mean that the skin over the knuckle moves, and not that the knuckle moves when...

Originally posted by CD Lee
What is the overiding reason that the breath needs to be coordinated in a strike?


The muscles of the abdomen and ribcage that are used for exhaling forcefully will...

Originally posted by IronFist
But I thought the wrist was straight during a backhand?


Yeah, it's supposed to be straight. Here's a better description.


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Tennis elbow is caused by hitting the ball backhand with the wrist flexed. (Martial artists might do the same with a weapon.) This causes a high-impact load to be placed on the muscles and tendons...

I deally, you would have been doing rehab exercises early on, like passive range of motion (moving your ankle with your hand) and then active range of motion (moving your ankle with your ankle...

Having flat feet could cause you to roll the knees inward and put more stress on them, but that's not a given. Press the knees outward and make sure your they're pointing in the same direction as...

Oops. Sorry about that. Take a look at this picture. http://www.uoregon.edu/~athmed/aclrehab/antmus.jpg

Vastus medialis and lateralis are two parts of the quads (quadriceps muscle). Notice the...

If you have problems with patellar tracking (not staying in its groove) then you need to educate your quads as well as strengthen them. Here's an exercise for that.

Sit with your knee bent and...

If you hold a stretch for 20-30 minutes, you'll cause plastic deformation in the connective tissues. That means stretching them beyond the point where they can rebound, otherwise known as loss of...

The other part of this that really didn't get mentioned is that stance training puts your joints into ranges of motion where they don't ordinarily go. This will result in lengthening of some...

[QUOTE]Originally posted by IronFist

To anyone who doesn't believe in weight training and getting strong, what are you going to do when a 300lbs dude is sitting on your chest?

Use secret...

**** the censor!

I think the results of such training will depend on how they are practiced. Compressive forces on bone will cause remodeling of the trabeculae - the bone builds itself up along the lines of force....

Here's a pretty good explanation with some pictures - http://www.jointhealing.com/pages/shoulder/rotatorcuff.html

You can do a google search for rotator cuff exercises and find a few descriptions...

Iron Fist,

Yeah, connective tissue holds the muscle fibers together so it's one muscle and not a bunch of spagettti. Tendon is also ct, and that's the part that generally tears when you go too...

Yes. Normal stretching causes elastic deformation of the connective tissues. Like a rubber band, everything will return to its normal length. If you go past the limit, you will cause plastic...

Vash,

I do that with rubber bands. I prefer to exercise functional groups rather than isolating individual muscles.


PLC

The way to burn fat is to use your anti-gravity muscles for 20-30 minutes at a time, at least three times/week. This causes the red fibers (slow twitch) to make more of the enzymes that burn fat, so...

Strength can be lost pretty quickly with disuse. I'm a skinny guy like you, and I've noticed that when I lose it, it comes back pretty quickly when I start exercising again.

As for those fat...

I think total calories consumed vs. expended per week is more significant than the time of day when you get it. Conservation of energy, ya know? You can burn it now or later.

Merry and FP - when...

The problem is not in people on special diets, but in people who follow guidelines that have been pushed for the last 20 years even though there's no evidence to support those guidelines.

From the...

Here's a link to the original article by Noakes.

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/327/7407/113