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MARTIAL ARTS
Supplementary resistance training is necessary to increase the strength and velocity of balanced, well-timed technique.
Your dedicated skill practicing educates your reaction to threatening or non-threatening situations. You build a foundation of techniques so they become automatic. Then you enhance the movements by making them faster and more powerful.
This almost sounds like our discussion of training skills on the basketball floor. Very similar. Learn the move, perfect it, and then make it stronger.
The many disciplines of the martial arts require the basics. Strength, endurance, speed, power, balance, and good timing. They need total body cooperation. Your exercises correspond directly to the movements of your art. Your body weight is the essential form of resistance. So.....
Add natural, co-operative body weight, via the SmartVest, and apply resistance directly to technique. Then discard your SVest, and the result is an increase in force and velocity. We call it contrast training or loading/unloading. You trick your brain into being prepared for the movement with resistance, but it has been minimized. This develops speed and quickness.
Wear your vest during daily activities for extended periods. If it works for basketball, football, and track athletes it will work for you. This can increase the height of your jumps. No kidding. Read secret-weapon subject.
Progressively add weight to your cardio conditioning workouts. Your endurance will sky-rocket.
We might suggest you use functional amounts of vest weight that allow you to move at top speed.
Speed is the critical power factor.
The equation for power: P = 1/2MV2
P=power M=mass V=velocity.
If you increase mass by a factor of two, power is also increased by a factor of two. Enhance the speed by a factor of 2 and resulting increase in power is a factor of 4. By wearing the SVest, your increasing the mass without effecting speed, and then by unloading you pick up speed. Plus, your brain thinks the additional mass is still there. A win-win.
One last thought. Balance. The SVest weight dispersion is off the shoulders, and directed to the core. This helps to maintain a low center of gravity, without effecting your mobility. Your strong stance and equilibrium will allow you to deliver effective kicks, blocks, and punches.
All we need is your height, weight, and actual waist size.
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