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The One Thing You Need To Know To Have The Most Powerful Punch In The World!
Power, in the Martial Arts, especially martial arts like Kenpo or Shaolin is often measured by how hard you can hit. Thus, people beat the stuffings out of the punching bag and the Makiwara, and they do push ups to strengthen themselves, and…and they are doing it all wrong. You see, there is one essential thing that they don’t understand, and so all their push ups and punches are having less effect than they would wish.
I want to make a point here…and I can only do that by asking you one specific question. Where, during your punch, do your arms bear the most weight? The answer is obvious, they bear it at the end of the punch, when the arm is nearly extended.
So why do you need to work your arm across the whole range of motion? Being strong at the beginning or middle of the push up is not where you need the strength. Concentrating your work out through the whole range of motion of the arm is not putting energy into the impact part of the punch where you need it.
So, when you do a work out, make it gentle and general, and build up your body and your arms as a whole unit, then concentrate your efforts on the end of the punch where you need it. This is easy to do, you can do it for just about any exercise in existence. All you have to do the motion of the exercise where the arm is nearly extended, and concentrate your training on that part of the exercise.
Let’s say you’re doing that mainstay of all exercise, a simple push up. Do the push up until your arms are almost full length, and that’s where the real work out starts to occur. Do as many six inch push ups with the arms almost at full length, as you can, fast, concentrating on keeping your belly taut and having excellent form.