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Interesting views from a controversial man.
GM of Hadaka Korosu
http://www.t-nation.com/readArticle.do?id=885647
Interesting views from a controversial man.
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I like some of Chek's work and disagree with some as well. I wholeheartedly agree with bringing spirituality into exercise and also on the fact that many people are running a tenuous line between overtraining and being healthy. I used to work out so much that it was common for me to get little colds. I was just constantly beating my body down and never letting it recover.
Working out for us laymen should be a quest to be a healthy and well-conditioned as possible, but too many strength train in a way that is not conducive to healthy living into old age. Bodies, which may have been in peak condition at 30, will start breaking down from over-use and misuse by 45. It's one thing if you are a professional athlete and your performance dictates your career. You can at least make an argument for practices like that. For people who are just training for fun, recreationally, or for "health" there is really no excuse.
GM of Hadaka Korosu
Sometimes people forget that pro sports and health are NOT the same thing.
Many athletes sacrafice their health for their sport.
Keeper of Useless Facts
I have to agree with this. If htere is one stament that could actually cover fitness metality in the US, this would be it.Here in the United States, we've compartmentalized our lives. People act like idiots at work or grunting silverback gorillas in the gym, then go to church and act like goody two-shoes. All I'm really teaching is to carry it all within you. Don't segregate it. Let the best parts of you shine through in everything that you do.
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Also very quotable.
and this sounds like great advice:Almost every American older than 35 in this country has a defective digestive system. They're going to have to eat even more protein to even break it down, because if it's going out your butt, it's not making it to your cells!
Drink half your bodyweight in ounces of water a day. If you weigh 200 pounds you have to put 100 ounces of water into the system a day to effectively clean it, detoxify it, and energize the body.
Last edited by Becca; 08-28-2007 at 10:46 AM.
Originally Posted by Oso
choppin dat pork
Last year i used to correspond with a guy in canada, a former (current?) pro-muay thai guy who used to fight in thailand. In a nutshell: he overtrained muay thai & weights while ate way too little (coach's orders) and his body shut down on him.
He had to take off from exercise for a good year and got back into health with Chek's methods.
It was fun corresponding with him because he was a different viewpoint than I'd been hearing in gyms all over the place. Ultimately, I couldn't make a lot of the changes Chek advocates- and didn't agree with a lot of them. Before I could really even try it out, all that drama happened last year so I pretty much forgot about it. Some of the things the guy said about my ex & how I thought about myself in that relationship, turned out to be very prophetic.
Maybe I'll give it another look-see one of these days.
I am pretty sure now that schedules I was maintaining before were more than a little due to supplementation (which I think Chek frowns upon); so I dunno.
-Jack Dempsey ch1 pg1 Championship FightingWhat would happen if a year-old baby fell from a fourth-floor window onto the head of a burly truck driver, standing on the sidewalk?
It's practically certain that the truckman would be knocked unconscious. He might die of brain concussion or a broken neck.
Even an innocent little baby can become a dangerous missile WHEN ITS BODY-WEIGHT IS SET INTO FAST MOTION.
GM of Hadaka Korosu
Do you mind if I ask who the MT guy in Canada was?
choppin dat pork
Mark Brackenbury
He also is a big Dr Mercola fan.
I met him on axkickboxing message board just after I moved last year:
http://message.axkickboxing.com/prof...ay&name=Mark+L.
class act guy.
if i had the money, time, and motivation i think giving his methods a shot would be interesting- at the very least it'd be something new to try.
-Jack Dempsey ch1 pg1 Championship FightingWhat would happen if a year-old baby fell from a fourth-floor window onto the head of a burly truck driver, standing on the sidewalk?
It's practically certain that the truckman would be knocked unconscious. He might die of brain concussion or a broken neck.
Even an innocent little baby can become a dangerous missile WHEN ITS BODY-WEIGHT IS SET INTO FAST MOTION.
GM of Hadaka Korosu
Ah Mark, he further west than I, never had the pleasure.
Registered User
hahaha i was gonna say there's this guy on ax who's always plugging chek and loads of other kooky stuff
i have his book "eat move and be healthy" and overall i really like, again things i disagree with, and its only an entry-level book but... i like his holistic approach (for want of a better word)
choppin dat pork
hahahahahahahaha i was gonna say there's this guy on ax who's always plugging chek and loads of other kooky stuff
yah khun kao on ax is/was my coach.
also good friends with ryukyu damashi.
actually got some correspondence from JWP offa there once.
that was teh awesome.
-Jack Dempsey ch1 pg1 Championship FightingWhat would happen if a year-old baby fell from a fourth-floor window onto the head of a burly truck driver, standing on the sidewalk?
It's practically certain that the truckman would be knocked unconscious. He might die of brain concussion or a broken neck.
Even an innocent little baby can become a dangerous missile WHEN ITS BODY-WEIGHT IS SET INTO FAST MOTION.
Cybernetic Polymath
I spent a bit of time at a Chek certified gym in Nelson, BC. There was a lot of focus on postural work and core work, with personalized stretching as the foundation. There was no single standard stretching routine, like in a lot of Martial Arts School warmups or Yoga classes. After an hour long assessment, everyone was given very specific exercises designed to lengthen the shortened, tight muscles and shorten the lengthened, loose muscles that hinder proper posture, movement, breathing, core connectedness, and the like. Overall, I quite enjoyed it, and am happy with the effects. I highly recommend it.
Christian
"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own." -Cicero
GM of Hadaka Korosu
The simple fact that there wasn't a "standardized" stretching regime speaks volumes about how far ahead of the curve they are.
Registered User
pork,
i'll have to look out for those posts... i dont post on there, just read it occasionally for the news etc. the interclubs i'm supposed to be doing (when not injured or untrained) are usually advertised on there too...
sanjuro,xiao3,
thats definitely the way forward. i think its a good thing having a 'core syllabus' if you will of stretches or warm up but i think real progress always depends on looking at the individual and customising the training from there... its the future, just expensive and/or difficult to set up...
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