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No More Boring Workouts

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Tom starts his journey super-motivated. He follows his new workout routine religiously. He arrives at the gym at 5pm every day. He hits the treadmill, lifts weights, uses the Nautilus equipment, then the cardio machine. He does this five days a week. And Tom hates it! He’s sore and exhausted, but not seeing much change in his body. He doesn’t feel any motivation to go to the gym. Before long, he starts looking for excuses to not be at the gym.

Sound familiar? If it’s any consolation, you’re not alone! Workouts can get monotonous and downright boring very quickly. Further, getting stuck in a rut causes your intelligent body to adapt and become accustomed to the workout, gradually burning fewer calories and building muscle less efficiently.

The result? You go through boring hours of intense exercise, which does little to no good in the end. This can throw you off-track if you’re working out with specific goals. Boring traditional exercises will help you stay healthy, provided you can persevere through the boredom. But if you’re exercising to lose some flab, baby weight, to reach your ideal body BMI score, those monotonous workouts will get you nowhere fast.

Variety really is the spice of life, more so when you exercise

Working out with a friend or a new group of workout buddies alleviates boredom and motivates you to push yourself harder. However, a routine sport or activity will affect your body with fewer positive effects as the same muscle groups are required every time. It’s a good idea to introduce variety in your workout routine.

Add outdoor activities with friends, family members or pets, such as jogging, hiking, trekking, or bicycling, which gives your works different muscle groups, entertains the senses differently, and carries other benefits like fellowship with others. If you’re running already, change your route, or choose a more steep slope for the workout. Similarly, switch schedules, routines, intensity, and length of workout and “cheat” days intermittently to have your body un-learn the stimulus. Aim for a switch every six weeks at least.

Martial arts is the end of painfully boring workouts for adults

To bring the fun back to your fitness routine, introduce martial arts into your weekly workout routine. Martial arts training is the fun way to give your whole body, including muscles that typically don’t get exercised on the treadmill, a thorough workout. You’ll lose body fat while increasing the health of your heart, lungs, blood vessels, and body tissue. An average person expends 600 calories in one hour of martial arts!

But this is not all. Martial arts training also helps learn valuable life and survival skills. You learn
how to respect and tolerate others, how to keep your cool but command respect, and how to fight for your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness when needed. You learn patience and perseverance while building discipline, integrity, knowledge, and honor. So say goodbye to boring, ineffective workouts by replacing them with exciting, fun-filled, stupendously beneficious martial arts training.

Martial Arts to Lose Weight

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Being overweight can take a serious toll on your health and quality of life. Weight loss is critical for improving cardiovascular health, general fitness, and resistance to or control of deadly diseases and conditions. The challenge for most people is finding a sport or exercise form that they can and will keep up. Unlike running or walking which can be rather solitary, martial arts are a fun way to lose weight. You have the support of your fellow students and your coaches to keep you going. So you don’t have to go it alone!

Burn fat and calories

A typical martial arts workout will burn between 300 and 900 calories an hour, depending on your body weight. Whether your sport of choice is Karate, Taekwondo, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Judo, Jiu-jitsu or Krav Maga, you can count on burning off more than you would with a walk. Most people burn about 500 calories in an hour long session. To lose weight, you must burn more calories every day than you take in. Losing a few pounds can be a game changer.

Tone up

Martial arts are excellent for toning muscles. Most forms are highly aerobic activities that utilize almost every muscle group in the body. Sessions usually begin with a warm-up, followed by
a routine of moves that work on your upper body, lower body, or core. Besides burning up calories, your training will help improve muscle tone so your body gets more efficient at burning fat. And that will make each minute of your workout count for more.

Get disciplined

A side-effect of learning a highly disciplined martial art, is that it brings that discipline to your weight loss too. You will think twice before you binge once you’re following a regimen. Being active and following the martial arts routine will also slowly make your cravings go away. With more to focus on, food will seem like a distraction you can manage to avoid.

Not all martial arts have the same focus and effects on fitness

Some forms of martial arts help you burn calories faster. Whether you’re looking to lighten the scales or tone up in general, choose something that’s more intense.

Muay Thai involves a lot of kicks and movement. Workouts while training are tough and sparring is even more demanding on the body.

Like wrestling, Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu blend aerobic exercise with strength building. Taekwondo requires a balance of speed, power, and flexibility and gives you a good leg and cardio workout. Karate is a good core workout but doesn’t do so much for your lower body. Kung Fu is highly aerobic and requires jumps, kicks and general agility. Fitness kickboxing can help you quickly drop pounds.


Martial arts at the gym

Many schools and gyms offer MMA, kickboxing, or Krav Maga in addition to a traditional martial arts training program for different ranks and age groups. Professional martial arts schools that focus on a single or combination of styles will always put safety first. Most gyms and schools will welcome a visit or offer a trial class (or several) for free or at low cost.

Martial Arts Give Your Body a Dynamic Workout Every Time

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Martial arts consist of a set of vigorous physical training methods and combative sports that were originally practiced in countries of the Far East and Middle East centuries ago primarily for self-defense. They include some similar and some unique styles such as Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Judo, Kendo, Ninjitsu, Aikido, and many more. Martial arts are practiced by all ages across the world for self-defense, physical fitness, mental health, entertainment, leadership training, and competitive sports – even as a series of Olympic games. They help to build your mental, physical, and spiritual health for a longer life and better quality of life.

Martial arts and dynamic workouts

A dynamic workout includes all exercise forms like cardio, physical strength, flexibility, endurance, mental acuity (focus, reaction, stamina, etc.), and spiritual well-being in a single workout routine. Martial arts training is a great way for adults to have a dynamic workout several times a week. Various styles like Karate, Judo, Kickboxing, and Boxing enhance your stamina and build up strength in the upper and lower body as a regular practitioner. Martial arts also require a lot of focus as you need to be able to concentrate on your opponent’s moves and plot and execute a counter attack. Training sessions of martial art athletes are planned in such manner that their focus increases on improving strength and conditioning of the body.

Dynamic workouts help to focus body energy towards completion of rigorous exercises on a consistent basis to improve proficiency and endurance. This helps martial artists execute fast, accurate, and powerful strikes and kicks to targets, sparring partners (with self-control), and to bad guys in case of a self-defense situation.

Most martial art styles also focus on developing upper and lower body muscles as practitioners frequently hold, balance, shift weight, and move in fast, low, and guarded stances – at the ready for explosive action. Martial arts develop core strength too, as it is required for proper execution of many techniques with maximum force. This core training that helps practitioners maintain or regain their centers of balance in a fight.

Other benefits of martial arts

Martial arts provide overall health benefits to practitioners besides the great physical fitness achieved through regular workouts. Training is a tremendous help in building an individual’s self-confidence and mental power. Martial arts help to maintain a disciplined way of life in order to reach personal, motivating, achievable, and trackable goals. You can also learn how to defend yourself and others from violent attack at a moment’s notice. They are great for burning body
fat and achieving a well-toned body. Martial arts also help to increase productivity and lengthen attention spans in most students.

Practicing martial arts is a great way to have a healthy workout for your body and mind. Training does not get monotonous or boring because there is so much to learn, and so many ways to practice and compete. The knowledge and abilities stack up on each other as you advance in rank and belt color, making your self-confidence, your skills, and your potential a force to be reckoned with in all segments of your life! Now that’s what I call a dynamic workout!

Lose Those Extra Pounds with Martial Arts

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Most martial arts consist of both armed and unarmed combat skills that originated, flourished, and evolved in the Middle East and Far East starting centuries ago. These include various styles like Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Muay Thai, and Jiu-Jitsu to name just a few. Martial arts are now practiced all over the world for self-defense, health, fitness, and sport.

Fat burning with martial arts

Studies show that you need to burn 3,500 calories in order to lose one pound of body weight. For example, if you want lose one pound of body weight in a week then you need to burn 500 calories a day more than you take in for seven straight days. Learning martial arts is a fun way to lose that weight because intensive training typically burns more than 600 calories in an hour. Kickboxing is said to burn more than 750 calories per hour. Depending on the type of style you choose, you will be able to shed of a lot of excess body weight and mass. Boxing is said to be one of the best forms of martial arts to shed body fat. It involves rigorous sessions that focus on cardio. Intensive training is possible in any discipline, and most styles train both sides of the body equally while strengthening muscles throughout, including the arms, legs, torso, abdomen, and more.

Other styles of martial arts like Karate, Tae Kwon Do, and Judo are a fun way to shed those calories while learning and practicing self-defense techniques. They can help you form a tone, shapely body, a sharper mind, and a renewed sense of self-confidence.

Other benefits of martial arts

Martial arts have a lot of benefits other than just losing weight. They are of tremendous help in building your overall self-confidence. Martial arts help to maintain a disciplined way of life as practicing them must be done consistently for steady progression through the ranks and belt colors of most styles. Martial arts are dynamic workouts for the body that improve cardio, mental strength, physical strength, and spiritual well-being of individuals who train together. Martial arts also increases focus, productivity, and stamina in most practitioners.

Learning martial arts is a great way to lose weight and excess fat from all over the body. With regular training you tend to develop a heightened awareness, quick reflexes, and strong muscles to evade or defeat opponents of even greater size than yourself.