Stadion's Sports and Martial Arts Training Discussion

Thanks for the reply. At the moment I do dynamic stretching after a quick warm-up followed by kicking exercises followed by static stretching. I am seeing good results with stretching twice a day at the moment but it is too soon to tell if it will plateau. I incorporate several static stretches but ...

I was wondering if it would be deemed better to perform the same stretch 3-5 times or 3-5 different stretches that largely target the same area. For example, rather than assume a Chinese box splits position with the hands on the floor for support several times, could you perform that stretch once bu...

I may be wrong in this but I treat the isometrics as a strengthening exercise (albeit at the extreme ROM). If I do all the exercises first and then stretch, I find I start to cool down a bit. I sometimes go into a wide horse stance but havn't tried weighted deadlifts. This routine takes me over an h...

No thoughts?

Oh, I forgot to add this is to enhance my martial arts practice. I do upper body weights on a different day.

I was wondering if I could get some feedback on my stretching routine. At the moment it looks like this: Loosen up/Warm up Squats 3-5 sets 50kg as many reps as possible (50kg is the max available- I need to buy more weights, so I opt for higher reps each workout to overload) Sidesplit isometrics 3-5...