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    Physical Preparation: Formidable Fighter, #2
    Physical Preparation: Formidable Fighter, #2
    Physical Preparation: Formidable Fighter, #2
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    Physical Preparation: Formidable Fighter, #2

    By Martina Sprague

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    Outlasting your opponent in competition or learning to combat a bigger person under stress requires hard training. You must be physically fit, strong, and powerful. Supplemental strength training in addition to your martial arts training will help you develop the toughness you need to equalize or overcome the power of a bigger opponent. Strength also helps you win in competition and establishes your reputation as a formidable and competent student of the fighting arts. When you are physically unfit, your martial arts techniques become sloppy, slow, and powerless. You should therefore value physical strength and fitness as highly as you value good martial arts techniques. Your supplemental strength training should complement the martial art you are studying; you should never lose focus on the fact that you are training for a combat art and not just for getting into better shape. Formidable Fighter: The Complete Series, a compilation of all 14 books in this series, is available in both electronic and print format.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartina Sprague
    Release dateApr 11, 2018
    ISBN9781386779360
    Physical Preparation: Formidable Fighter, #2
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    Martina Sprague

    Martina Sprague grew up in the Stockholm area of Sweden. She has a Master of Arts degree in Military History from Norwich University in Vermont and has studied a variety of combat arts since 1987. As an independent scholar, she writes primarily on subjects pertaining to military and general history, politics, and instructional books on the martial arts. For more information, please visit her website: www.modernfighter.com.

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      Physical Preparation - Martina Sprague

      Preface

      The Formidable Fighter Series is a series of booklets for martial artists desiring to learn the concepts that create formidable fighters in the training hall, competition arena, and street. Each booklet is between 5,000 and 10,000 words in length and includes fighting scenarios, training tips, and illustrations. Physical Preparation, the second booklet in the series, deals particularly with how to develop strength and endurance suitable for the martial artist through the use of bodyweight exercises. Since the advice is not style specific but explores the underlying concepts of personal combat, it is applicable to students of most martial styles.

      The greater physical shape you are in, the less likely you are to sustain an injury, because your body is better prepared to handle the stress of training. Superior strength and conditioning give you an edge that can act as an equalizer against a bigger opponent. If you follow the instruction and tips in the Formidable Fighter Series, you will learn how to develop your physical strength and mental tenacity and triumph as a fighter in the training hall, ring, and street.

      What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists . . . and it becomes available only when you are in a state of mind in which you know exactly what you want . . . and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

      —Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, Scotland-Born Inventor and Pioneer in the Field of Telecommunications

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      It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

      —Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Statesman, Author, and Politician

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      For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself.

      —Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, and Philosopher

      Outlasting your opponent in competition or learning to combat a bigger person under stress requires hard training. You must be physically fit, strong, and powerful. Supplemental strength training in addition to your martial arts training will help you develop the toughness you need to equalize or overcome the power of a bigger opponent. Strength also helps you win in competition and establishes your reputation as a formidable and competent student of the fighting arts. But physical toughness without mental toughness, and vice versa, is useless. For example, if you are physically strong but lack mental determination, you will wimp out and be unable to fight the battle to the end. If you are mentally strong but lack physical conditioning, you simply won’t have the capacity to combat your opponent in any fight that lasts longer than a few seconds. Engage in an all out grappling match with a partner and you will be surprised how exhausted you are after only ten seconds.

      So you see, it is not all in the technique. When you are physically unfit, your martial arts techniques become sloppy, slow, and powerless.

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