Karate & TKD can be learned by books, but I think you can't learn past yellow belt level. White belt techniques can be learned - lunge punch, reverse punch, knife hand, basic palm strikes and blocks - same with the basic front snap, round house and side kick.
Without any experience it would be difficult to perform more advanced techniques. Get an instructor.
If you're attempting to learn chin na and shuai jiao, you definintely need an instructor as the moves are complicated and difficult to visualize without any previous grappling experience.
Stick with your conditioning and practice your basic karate and tkd techniques. Then find instructors in karate, tang soo do, tkd and Chinese Martial Arts.
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