1. Don’t ignore pain!<\/b>
You can’t wish pain away! Ignoring an injury only leads to a worse injury or more injuries. Pay attention to the signals your body sends. Ice and Ibuprofen after training are essential, if that doesn’t help stop training for a few days and see if it improves. If it doesn’t seek medical attention. Usually it is simply a pulled muscle which will improve with rest and care. Remember “Ice is Nice<\/b> so when in doubt apply some.
\n2. Do stretch before and after you train!<\/b>
Stretch before and after you train. Dynamic stretches are best before you train with static stretches after training. Dynamic stretches increase the blood flow to the muscles.
\n3. Don’t warm up to much!<\/b>
Just break a sweat anything more is a waste of energy you need for competition or serous training. A good warm up consists of 5-10 minutes of stretching, exercises and technique drills.
\n4. Do leave the Dojo behind!<\/b>
What happens in the dojo, stays in the dojo \ud83d\ude42 During heavy training periods you will live, eat and breath the martial arts but this can’t last forever, it wouldn’t be healthy. Like anything you need to take a break which at the minimum should include a consecutive two week period where you do NO training and don’t think about training either…in other words, relax.
\n5. Do reduce joint impact.<\/b>
Many moves we practice are high impact, these wear on the joints and cause long term damage. Reduce the amount of high impact training you do to avoid future problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1. Don’t ignore pain!You can’t wish pain away! Ignoring an injury only leads to a worse injury or more injuries. Pay attention to the signals your body sends. Ice and Ibuprofen after training are essential, if that doesn’t help stop training for a few days and see if it improves. If it doesn’t seek medical