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Fitness for martial arts doesn't mean just strength or aerobic capacity. It also requires flexibility and agility. Please don't ignore stretching--both in order to be better, and also to train safer. Injuries often inhibit, even preclude, eager training. (Said by the guy who's not trained seriously for a month while nursing a shoulder injury.) When I moved ...

Training Martial Arts Without Coaching is Not Recommended I came to the same conclusion you did in this answer on Stack Exchange Fitness: skill development without a partner and without a knowledgeable instructor is very hard, slow, and prone to producing bad habits instead of ability, so you're better off becoming a beastly physical specimen instead. Your ...

Your sensei is correct and it will take patience and practice. That is true of all things in life. For meditation / breathing. Sit in seiza. Either rest your hands in your lap, or hold your hands up, interlock the pinky, ring, and middle fingers. Extend your index fingers up and press your thumbs side by side. Breathe slowly in through your nose, and ...

Disclaimer: I am a beginner in both judo and physical culture. My views on strength, conditioning, and technique should be viewed with skepticism. You're right that training once a week is insufficient. Most people won't see much progress in either physical condition or skills at less than two days a week minimum. I'll address solutions in the context of ...

Doing Luta Livre helped my back and posture problems a lot. A lot of different muscles are used in both static and explosive manner. Luta Livre is -just like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu- a submission wrestling sport, although in Luta Livre no gi is worn. The athletes usually wear tight-fitting clothes like fight-shorts and rash-guards. Apart from that the two ...

Reducing stress, eliminating back pain, and improving fitness have little to do with martial arts styles. Instead, they have a lot to do with the physical culture that a given school adheres to. In terms of strength, if a tai chi school has newcomers master one-leg squats, stone lifting, barbells, or gymnastics alongside forms practice, that could help. If ...

You need to work on this enough to lose all the superfluous tension in your body. If you really want to work on this, then just do standing practice. Stand, feet approximately shoulder-width apart, and then scan your body in horizontal slices (along the sagittal plane) feeling for tension. Go from your head to your toes. I would recommend trying to limit ...

Your centre is nothing more than the centre of mass of the human body. It could refer as well to the line of symmetry of the human body. I suggest you picked a book on human anatomy. The Body In Motion by Theodore Dimon is a good starting point. If you really wanted to go down the mystical route, then Oomoto might be the sect for you. It was very ...

For chin ups, do as many as you can (starting with the one) from a dead hang, then jump yourself up to the top and hold yourself as long as possible, and then slowly lower yourself down. Assuming you give yourself enough rest (in days), you should be able to see an improvement of 1-2 per week. Squats will be hugely useful for a lot of Judo techniques. If ...

I highly recommend BJJ or Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. I sit on an office chair all day and use to have lower back pain. I even have an inverted table. I train BJJ and muay thai. But, BJJ movements feel similar to Yoga. There is a lot of stretching, and isometric contractions of the muscles. Plus being in the gaurd, and being in someones gaurd you are ...

Relief from Work Stress? I would suggest you to learn free style. Keep learning moves that enhance your flexibility. Start with front kicks,side kicks, round house kicks and other good kicks that will get u ready for some art that suits you. Then you can decide which art you would want to learn. You could try aerobics or yoga for starters and then a few ...

Exercises to do You should develop the primary physical attributes for combat sports: strength, power, mobility, conditioning. This will involve learning: you should not restrict yourself to exercises which "can be done alone by someone with no or little experience". (Much of this answer is cribbed from my answer to a similar question.) Therefore, you'll ...