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Benefits of Goya-Ra-Ru Martial Arts Training

Introduction

Some of the benefits or martial arts training are listed below. We’re not going to claim that we’ll turn you into “an ultimate fighting machine” or make you “one with the universe” but believe that martial arts training does offer one of the broadest ranges of benefits of any activity.

The text below relates to adults. Benefits to children might be slightly different, for example improving mental concentration, discipline, respect and attention span.

Self defence

Arguably ‘self defence’ could be said to be more about using your head than your physical body. For example avoiding certain areas of town at certain times of the day could be far more useful than spending years developing the perfect strangle hold.

However, in the context of a typical martial arts class, self-defence usually means learning how to physically disable a potential attacker. It follows that in effect, many martial arts techniques must actually be attacks. In our classes an example of this would include developing the ability to deliver powerful strikes and combining this with knowledge of where to direct these strikes.

Improved fitness

There are several factors of physical fitness including Stamina (cardiovascular and muscular endurance), Suppleness, Strength, Skill and Speed. Goya-Ra-Ru Martial Arts training pretty much covers all of these to some degree.

Aerobic capacity or cardiovascular endurance (CV), is the ability of your heart to pump blood around the body and get oxygen to your muscles. It dictates how quickly you’ll ‘get out of breath’. This will improve significantly with training, or for those very ‘fit’ individuals, at least help maintain it. The benefits CV training brings include, fat loss, increased glycogen stores and increased recruitment of muscle fibres.

Muscular Strength is the ability of your muscles to exert a force. Development is generally achieved via resistance exercises such as free-weights, resistance machines and body-weight exercises. The exercises performed in class are largely body-weight exercises. This means that the emphasis will be on improving muscle ‘tone’ rather than muscle size. You won’t walk out the class looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger, but may at least walk out with ‘buns of steel’.

Muscular Endurance is the ability of a muscle to repeatedly perform an exercise without fatigue. Muscular power is also important to martial arts training. Here we develop certain muscles to work at speed. Speed involves rapid muscle contraction and is import for many martial arts techniques such as throwing a punch or kick. Benefits of muscle development include, building stronger bones, reduced back pain and increase joint integrity.

Further benefits of martial arts training . . . . .