MT: For all the women

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For all the women By yumiko14 - 03-15-2008 01:59 PM

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In class, I've recently began noticing that we're working on out arms a lot. We tend to do 200 push ups (twice a week) on average (in sets, of course), and also a lot of other upper body workouts. Being the only female in the class at the moment, I'm not going to say anything, nor would I even if there were more females, but I'm realizing more and more every day that I'll have to choose: karate and very muscular arms, or less karate and not so muscular arms.
Now please, don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to complain or anything. I'm honestly leaning toward the karate and muscular arms, but friends and family think that it will effect me negatively in more than one way. One person said It would probably hinder my ability to do karate in the future, especially if i don't balance the workout out. I should probably mention that I go to four classes a week, and one sensei teaches two of the classes, and another teaches the other two. I'm finding that my second sensei tends to do a lot of upper body work. I really would like to continue going to all four classes, but I'm still debating. If I were to cut down, I'd probably only go to two or three classes per week, which for someone like me, will probably be very hard. Any thoughts?


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