Stadion's Sports and Martial Arts Training Discussion

Thomas Kurz wrote: And who but you yourself chooses the dance and sets the tempo? Unfortunately Thomas, the rules of a ballet class set the tempo and dance. The structure of the ballet class is set with high intensity or medium intensity exercises with many stops and starts. It does not burn very ma...

Dragon has convinced me to stick to strength training. However I only have the Stretching Scientifically book and it does not detail exercises for strength other than the Dynamic exercises. Are there others I should be doing? I regularly do core strengthening exercises. There was something mentioned...

Thank you Dragon. I use to cycle very regularly and was actually more flexible than I am now. It seemed to be the best exercise to get me really warm for stretching. I could hold my legs much higher and do the splits. But as I have lost some flexibility I am worried about cycling being damaging this...

Yes that helps! Thank you!

ps: love the ballerina picture!

Thank you for your honest reply. I didn't mean to imply that building muscle bulk was easy. And I think it is safe to say that a female ballet dancer's notion of muscle bulk is NOT the same as an athletic man's understanding. In the past I have built too much muscle bulk by rollerblading because it ...

I am new to the Stretching Scientifically book and I am abit confused about everything I have read. The book seems to focus on building strength through weight lifting exercises and isometric stretching in order to gain flexibility. However, I am a ballet dancer and the notion of lifting weights giv...

Not to be redundant with another cycling question, but you mentioned that alternating cycling with another form of exercise can help decrease the tightening effects of cycling. I am a ballet teacher who has just begun a cycling regime as suggested in a dance conditioning book. It reccomends 30 minut...