Originally Posted by
hulkout
Kung Fu or any other martial art will NOT burn a significant number of calories or get you in hard condition. It's great for all kinds of stuff that you can't see with the naked eye. Speed, coordination, reflexes, chi, ging, etc. But if you think that you'll lose tons of weight and get rock hard like Bruce Lee just form Kung Fu, you are badly mistaken. Unfortunately, most traditional martial arts guys don't take conditioning very seriously and that's one of the main reasons why a lot of them suck so badly. A lot of traditional guys seem to be full of sour grapes when talking about guys who spend lots of time with conditioning. When is it ever an advantage to be fat? I don't care if you say your chi and ging are really good, being in shape is always better than not being in shape. Don't listen to the fatasses. If you want to be the best you can be, You MUST work hard on aerobic conditioning, flexibility, and strength training.
When I first started longfist, I witnessed a guy who lost 65lbs in a year doing nothing but training and changing his diet. That said, we did plenty of calesthenics and conditioning.
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