ive been hit in the gut twice. once it was repeated shots and i couldn't continue. this was one of the first times i sparred. recently my coach let me spar muay thai and there was one kick that really got me and i had to stop for about a minute. What are some exercises that can help prevent this from happening again??
Do alot of sit ups, not just sit ups, but alot of ab exercises. Your core is very important, once you build up your core, you can tighten it up when you know a blow is coming to the body, that generally will stop the wind from being knocked out of you.
Quick point about ab work. Contrary to what a lot of people think the rectus abdominals is a fast twitch dominate group. Yet for some reason that I can only hold up as tradition people train it like it is a slow twitch dominate group. Weighted crunches, weighted leg lifts. In short it will respond best to weight not reps. Now the obliques are slow twitch and respond best to frequent high rep training like most people do.
It's something I've put into my workouts, very effective. I'm 14, I sparred with a guy of 20 who was about 10kg heavier than me, both going full out, and he got me with a killer body shot that put me down for about 12 seconds. I was angry at that and that's when I took my core more seisously. My view is always look to improve, adding weight works better than reps imo
Higher then your hips pal, russian twists are a good exercise- as are anything that involves rotation of the torso. The Obliques are important because they play a massive role in the rotation of the body when delivering punches. You will work them simply by punching correctly. Note you have inner and out obliques which work in opposite directions. This is partly why a left hook is a very, right sided punch. Windigo- I find your posts fascinating and insightful. Who are you and what are your quals?:good
Thanks Windigo. Where do you tend to pick up your information? I'm currently going through a Strength and Conditioning Degree manual- i'm a qualified Personal Trainer but I too love the science of it all. I think the body is an amazing creation. I really like your posts, of possible in future will you provide links to your arguments where possible. Thanks Jeff
Everywhere I can get it. Simply stopping by your library once a month and reading the journals, which you wont find at boarders, will do wonders. I have to read the technical journals anyways, and buying them is expensive, so reading any studies on diet and exercise that might be out in the JAM etc isn't much of a stretch of my time. If you are into sports training you should also look and medical and biological journals. Too much of sports science is more wishful thinking than science. There are a lot of things taken for granted in the field that are simply false. Skill transference comes to mind. I've had to tell many a coach 'No! There are no brains in your muscles and the cerebral cortex does not work that way!' Thats one of the hard part with links. I don't get much of it on-line. I read it, you know paper and ink :scaredas:. Journals don't come on-line for free. Some times trough younger researchers will post presentations etc on youtbue and thats nice but a lot of the older baby-boomer scientists who run the labs simply aren't with the technology. You will read a great study and they dont have any multimedia to go with it all you can find is the abstract to the paper you already read and you are like "dumbassess".
