Stadion's Sports and Martial Arts Training Discussion

The pillow helps my legs stay up. What exercises can I do for my lower back?

[quote="Tomas"]Cyan, If you want to do front and side splits without little or no warm up, you should do : 1. joint rotations ( 1 minute); 2. aerobic activity (to get your blood flow; 5-7 minutes); 3. dynamic stretches ( leg swing forwards, backwards, side; untill you fell it is enought); 4. some st...

[quote="dragon"] Make sure that your lower back maintains contact with the ground throughout.If your back starts to arch stop the exercise and concentrate on overall conditioning exercises first(squats,back ext.,leg raises,etc). Dragon.[/quote] I've been doing my adductor flyes where I have a pillow...

What strength exercises are there for the knees?

How long would it take to develop enough strength for the splits if you did strength exercises every day, which I might start and do, just adductors flys. And for developing strength for the splits, do you always need to use weights. Im thinking about doing 1x200 adductor flys, the endurance way, an...

I also have a question for stregthening those muscles. Can you get one of those exercise balls and put it between your knees then squeeze the ball. It should strengthen your inner thighs? It will strengthen your inner thighs but not through a full range of motion. Dragon.[/quote] What do you mean b...

I was thinking about getting ankle weights for adductor flys, but the only ones i found on ebay were 0.5Kg each. Is that enough to develop strength for the splits?

So basically strength keeps for improved position? My adductors are weak. Yesterday at the end of my Taekwondo lesson, I did the stretches for the side split, the one where you try and pinch the floor and about half an hour later at home, I tried to do that stretch again but my muscles were sore and...

Can you do the dynamic stretching in water? Plus will doing some strength excerises in water be good, since there is, like, more weight, and that it would be easier. For instance, with strengthening your inner thigh by holding your leg out to the side (if it does strengthen your inner thigh), the wa...

dragon wrote: Ballistic movement:-Imagine holding a baseball bat and performing a controled strike-this is dynamic.
Nowimagine performing a correct baseball swing(twisting your body,swinging the arms)-this is ballistic.

Dragon.

So your saying every baseball player is making their muscles weak?

What exactly is ballistic stretching. I know its got something to do with forcing your muscles into a stretch. Can you give me some examples of ballistic stretching. For instance, with your leg raises.

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Heres a link to the total gym 1000. The pulleys will be whatever height the support is: lowest you lift 4% of your body weight, highest you lift 60% of your body weight.

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It not the exact machine but notice the leg part.

I forgot that my brother had a total gym 1000 sitting in his bedroom closet, I hope you all know what it is. Now I know how the pulleys are just for gripping with your hands, but could you do leg strength training with the 1000 or not. He also has a more gym like strength machine down stairs as well...

Do you do strength exercises before isometrics or after?