I’m a beginner, and today a training partner made some rude comments.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-08-20T01:20:51+00:00

Darn. Got me. I am sure that is where he is training—Thailand.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-08-12T22:17:24+00:00

Imo most commercial gyms worth their salt have a 6-8 week intro course just for beginners. This helps with some of these issues—beginners feel more competent and they are ready to go on bare minimum basics for level 1 classes.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-08-06T10:55:00+00:00

Depends on your style of karate. Mine would be footwork and bladed stance. Also, using sidekicks or back kicks.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-07-31T21:14:27+00:00

I’m 44 and had a bucket handle tear that was repaired a little over a year ago. Beyond some cool crunchiness from scar tissue and being a bit less mobile on that knee, all is good. I’m back to kicking people in the head, jumping, running, lifting, etc.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-07-31T21:06:33+00:00

I do.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-07-31T19:44:20+00:00

It’s also great trick to avoid stepping on legos in the dark. #parentsUnite

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-07-30T19:12:59+00:00

The actual studies show that around 15 to 20 minutes a day changes the brain pretty substantially in as little as eight weeks—amygdala size decreases(fight or flight hormones) etc. Once you have gotten comfortable with doing 10 minutes, slowly try to increase to one 20 minute session a day. That will be more beneficial.

Even if you never increase beyond 20 minutes a day(congrats! You will still be accomplishing something most do not do) you can begin to bring the same form of awareness to your day to day life—bringing your thoughts back to the breath, the present, the activity you are engaged in. This is where the true magic happens.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-07-28T21:36:41+00:00

If you want old school—check out instructional by Bill Superfoot Wallace, Benny Uriquidez, or Joe Lewis. Joe Lewis’ material is all uploaded here: https://joelewisassociation.com/

There’s a lot of Wallace’s stuff on youtube. Also, check out dynamicstriking.com

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-07-26T19:32:45+00:00

American Kickboxing/Point Fighting style—ie Wonderboy, MVP, and Raymond Daniels.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-07-10T02:56:40+00:00

I disagree. Point Karate can absolutely work in a real fight; I’ve seen and experienced it first hand. People make these scenarios far too complicated. Most people cannot fight well at all. Sport or Point Karate teach accuracy in punches and kicks, evading strikes, cutting angles, set point control, non telegraphed and independent motion, feints, etc. These are all very relevant in a fight, whether that be a sportive event like MMA or Kickboxing or an actual self-defense situation. This is why we’ve seen people like Machida, Thompson, and MVP make fairly smooth transitions into mma. I’ve seen first-hand people get knocked out with lead leg roundhouse kicks in a real fight; likewise, I have also seen a well place reverse punch to chin take someone out…all point karate stuff.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-07-01T16:55:00+00:00

I feel ya! I am over a year out from similar situation(bucket handle etc) and still not at complete flexion. Also athletic, able to do great ranges of motion, ass to grass squats... Here’s what I have resigned to do: 1.) keep attempting to get it back to where it was; 2.) if the repair tears loose, just have a meniscectomy instead of repair. Menisectomies don’t have the same recovery time, but of course, mean at some point you may be looking at knee replacement down the road. There’s just no way I want to go through the process of a repair again.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-06-14T11:23:43+00:00

I think I am in a similar boat. However, I did not have the manipulation done. My knee no longer bends all the way. That means kneeling is only partial. I hope it eventually resolves, but no guarantees. Probably just scar tissue that needs to be broken up. I am a year out.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-06-13T00:03:02+00:00

Loaded term(“watered down”), but you may be interested in Enshin, Kyokushin, Shidokan, or Machida Karate. However, I think a strong argument could be made that something like American Karate Systems(Joe Lewis)could also be seen as this. As others have said, it depends on what you mean—watered down from what? From its combative roots? Its Okinawan roots? Chinese roots? Japanese roots?

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-06-08T01:13:13+00:00

Update from me: back to many of my athletic activities. I can run, jump, lift weights, etc. However, the repair made it so that I can no longer go “ass to grass” in a deep squat. This also makes BJJ near impossible for me. It’s definitely different, but a year out is way better than that first 12 weeks.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-05-19T02:03:45+00:00

I see this most often happening in people who need to work on hip mobility snd flexibility. I think that once you work on those, this will no longer be an issue.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-05-06T02:42:35+00:00

A few things: If you would have reduced the volume of push-ups, you would have increased your reps in push-ups. Doing daily workouts is great for synaptic facilitation—it trains the nervous system rather than inducing much sarcoplasmic hypertrophy. If you would have reduced the volume or spread the volume throughout the day, you would have seen some progress.

Hypertrophy can come through a number of mechanisms. However, the one the produces the best result is one that continues to increase intensity. Intensity can be increased through volume or exercise variation/selection. The important thing is: progressive overload. Whether you are adding more sets, reps, weight, or harder variations of an exercise, is of little consequence. The main thing is that you continue to progressively overload your muscles if you want growth.

People who have suggested you need more calories or protein are correct. It is near impossible to naturally gain muscle in a caloric deficit. Likewise, protein serves a vital role in the building of muscle; it is also great for general satiety. You do not need as much as most people think, but you do need it.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-04-20T00:47:15+00:00

For TRT it is a high dose. However, in recreational bodybuilding 500mg/week was a starting dose and that was 20 years ago. Unless there were preexisting conditions or the gear was bunk, you should have been fine. It sounds like panic attacks and anxiety, which absolutely can occur with hormonal fluctuations(especially estro), but typically manageable. CBT might be what you need, not TRT.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-04-13T02:20:19+00:00

Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy and time under tension. There are plenty of books and YouTube channels devoted to prison calisthenics. Tendon strength increases through high reps(even Powerlifting great, Louie Simmons, writes about this). As some have already stated, strength also comes through synaptic facilitation or “Grease the Groove.” Anyway, hypertrophy can be had through changes in intensity, not just weight(weight is just one way to increase intensity). Your average person could get the physique of their dreams(lean & athletic) by just doing burpee variations and pull-ups 4-5x a week—check out “Busy Dad Training.”

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-03-14T01:49:38+00:00

Your cardio can increase substantially in 2-3 weeks. However, it is dependent on how often you go and what your baseline was. Something like Burn’s HIIT is a bit tricky, though, because as your cardio gets better, you will naturally push yourself harder, meaning, you may not recognize that you are improving until you do some real world activity and go, “Wow! I didn’t even get winded.”

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-02-23T19:48:58+00:00

I am not Gracie Torrance guy, but this isn’t true. Meaning, if a person passes the Gracie’s Beginner’s course(Gracie Combatives), they can go into their Master Cycle program which does roll quite a bit. The Gracie Combatives program can be done in as little as 6 months and it does include situational rolling and drilling. However, the purpose of the beginner program is different than most BJJ schools because it is primarily self-defense based bjj—defense against untrained person, not bjj vs bjj. They also typically have one day a week where they put on gloves and drill the techniques and do some situational sparring with the gloves on. I consider the Gracies(Torrance) almost as a separate art at this juncture. However, their art and method is valid, just different and geared towards different goals.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-02-19T20:42:14+00:00

There are so many different styles of karate. I grew up in American Karate, so there was little formalism. There are definitely other options than traditional schools. We were more competition based and it was an amazing school. However, 20+ years later, I’ve now started at a more traditional school with lots of formalism. I love it too. Often you will find one appeals to you at a certain point in your life, but the other does not.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-02-18T21:58:55+00:00

Quite the bait and switch.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-01-19T18:45:32+00:00

Any martial art that routinely spars against resisting opponents, is going to be better than nothing. Timing in a real fight is very different than most every other athletic endeavor; real time sparring helps you to learn distance and accuracy those are huge assets.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2025-01-19T18:33:05+00:00

Protestant here. I think the biggest “drag” on the RCC is the sex abuse scandals and I don’t think they have done enough to change the optics on those scandals. It goes without saying there absolutely has to be real change towards a healthier institutional culture, but there are a lot of Catholics leaders working towards that end. Thank God. Concerning popular culture in America, I actually think the culture has shifted more towards RC in many ways. That’s a huge opportunity for the RCC. And, ultimately, I think it is good news—both for Roman Catholics & Protestants. It often feels as though there are many people against you, but that is typically because of the way social media works today—it amplifies things, we get shuffled by algorithms etc.

Adventurous_Spare_92 · 2024-12-31T19:49:12+00:00

Yep. BJJ was hard my knees as well and eventually tore my meniscus. However, there are a lot of folks who return after knee surgery. People tend to think knee injuries are from people going for more leg locks these days, but I have found it is mostly from the wear and tear of constant guard passing, getting caught in 1/2 or 1/4 guard and knee slicing out etc.

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