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Thomas Kurz's Column
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Articles from
Thomas Kurz's column on training:
1. Misconceptions on Stretching and Flexibility and the
Method of Testing Your Potential to Do a Side Split (Box Split or Chinese Split)
2. Difficulties with Doing a Side Split
3. The Method of Testing Your Potential to Do a Front
Split
4. Kinds of Flexibility and the Right Role of Splits in
Taekwondo, Karate, and Kickboxing
5. Right Stretches for High Kicks with No Warm-Up
6. High Kicks with No Warm-Up: The Right Body Alignment
for Great Height and Power in the Side Kicks
7. High Kicks with No Warm-Up: The Right Body Alignment
for Great Height and Power in the Roundhouse Kicks
8. Questions and Answers on Practicing High Roundhouse
Kicks
9. Stretching and Injuries
10. Questions and Answers on Injuries
11. Questions and Answers on Injuries (continued)
12. A Well-Run Workout: The Warm-Up
13. How to Select Exercises for a Warm-Up
14. A Well-Run Workout: The Main Part
15. A Well-Run Workout: The Cool-Down
16. Examples of Good and Bad Workouts
17. Weekly Training Schedule
18. Principles of Conditioning for Sports and Martial Arts
19. Sequence of Conditioning Exercises for Fighters and
Martial Artists in Long-Term Training and in a Single Workout
20. Beginning Strength Exercises for Abdomen and Lower
Back
21. Advanced Strength Exercises for Lower Back — Your
Best Insurance against Back Pain
22. Martial Arts and the Squat
23. Strength Exercises for Hip Flexors — the Main
Kicking Muscles
24. Questions and Answers on Strength Exercises
25. More Questions and Answers on Strength Exercises
26. Advantages of High Repetitions and Deep Breathing
During Exercise
27. Questions and Answers: What Exercises to Do and When
28. More Questions and Answers on What Exercises to Do and
When
29. Rules of Thumb for Conditioning
30. Age and Stretching
31. Gender and Stretching: Are Women More Flexible than
Men and Can Women Benefit from Tom Kurz's Stretching Method?
32. What It Takes to Train Right for Strength, Power, and
Flexibility in Sports and Martial Arts
33. Errors in Stretching for Sports and Martial Arts
34. Errors in Training for Endurance in Sports and Martial
Arts
35. Errors in Training for Strength in Sports and Martial
Arts
36. Errors in Training for Speed in Sports and Martial
Arts
37. Errors in Training for Technique in Sports and Martial
Arts
38. Individualization of Training in Sports and Martial
Arts
39. Individualization of Fighter's Instruction
40. Individualization and Accessibility of Training
41. Gradual Increase of Training Loads
42. Three Methods of Gradually Increasing Training Loads
43. Practical Application of Principles of Training I
(Applying principles of individualization and accessibility of training and the principle
of gradual increase of loads in endurance training)
44. Practical Application of Principles of Training, Part
II (Applying principles of individualization and accessibility of training and the
principle of gradual increase of loads in strength training)
45. Practical Application of Principles of Training, Part
III (Applying principles of individualization and accessibility of training and the
principle of gradual increase of loads in technical training)
46. Practical Application of Principles of Training, Part
IV (The principle of continuity and systematicness of the training process)
47. Practical Application of Principles of Training, Part
V (The principle of economy of effort)
48. Sports Psychology and Rational Training
49. Functional Training
50. I Told You So . . . About Warm-Up
51. Can You Have Too Much Flexibility?
52. Good Exercises and Bad Exercises
53. Common Errors in Basic Kicks: Front Knee Kick and
Front Thrust Kick
54. Common Errors in Basic Kicks: Side Kick
55. Common Errors in Basic Kicks: Roundhouse Kick
56. Common Errors in Basic Kicks: Hook Kick and Back Kick
57. Common Errors in Punches: Basic Normal-Fist Punch
58. Common Errors in Punches: Causes of Errors
59. Common Errors in Punches: Missed Opportunities at
Close Distance
60. Who Will Win?
Mental Training Makes Winners Future articles:
61. To be announced...
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