Progression

I have planned a progressive program beginning of this year and up to now, I can see improvement in their performance. The way they perform poomsae and kicks have improve beyond my expectation. This is the progression that I am looking forward to but this is much better.

Not only their performance is improving, their training attitude has been affected as well. The students are training better now. They really put their effort and heart into it. Let just hope that it can only get better....

High Intensity Workout

It is not easy to incorporate high intensity workout into a normal taekwondo class. The workout has to be functional and specific to the taekwondo training. However, recently, I managed to come out with a series of high intensity workout to be incorporated in the taekwondo class.

The workout comprises power, speed, muscular strength and endurance and energy system. So far the students are adapting well but of course for initial part, muscle soreness is unavoidable and only a matter of time before their body can take it.

Also at the ending, they have to do at least 3x50 crunches and 2x50 back extension before we do some static stretching to end the class.

Squat-Knee-Raise

Until now, I am still going through the basic but now with more intense physical training. Many times coaches conducted physical training in Taekwondo but not able to transfer the physical training to Taekwondo techniques or movement which then affect their performance.

Functional training is when the training is able to transfer to taekwondo performance. As Taekwondo stress a lot to the lower body, then it is just logical that we have training to the lower body which consequently able to transfer to taekwondo movements. For lower body training, I am doing squat knee raise which more specific. In squat-knee-raise, in the extension process, only one leg will be extended while the other sill remain in the bent position. The extended leg is to push the other knee up.

Then combine this exercise into a kick, it can be either front kick or roundhouse kick from the guarding block position. This squat-knee-raise is to exaggerate the stretch-shortening cycle of the quadriceps to enable the execution of a more powerful kick. Also this require the movement from the hip to lift the knee of the back leg while pushing from the front leg. The power from this training is totally beyond your expectation.