What will happen to my body ?

[kh_s]

So let`s say you`ve been involved in your martial arts for not very long (4-5 months). But all of the sudden you decide to stop. Your arms and body have shaped up. (muscles formed, six pack can show) Will you get fat ? I`m skinny so would I lose the tiny muscles I have and have my bones stick out ?

But if you stop, would this be enough for at home:

Pushups:

1 set of knuckles
1 set of diamonds
1 set of [insert whatever pushups here]

Crunches:

Got any advice you can give me ?

Lunges:

I do 3 sets of 20 (no weights) I`m not sure if thats okay.

And I can skip rope at home to.

[seeker]

I don´t think the results will last totally because you are probably not consuming as much with that home training as you are with the martial arts training. And you won´t see more results

[Biker]

Muscle does not turn into fat. If you eat right and continue with some amount of exercise it's doubtful that you will get fat. Doing light exercise will help to keep the musclular gains you have made, but you may need to do more. Each individual is different. When I quit working out, I lose size in a hurry. Other people seem to lose it slowly over the course of years.

[Sean J]

True muscles do not turn into fat. But around your muscle tissue there is a lot of fat that does not necessarily show. There has to be - it is the fuel tanks of the muscles. Once training intensity decreases muscle mass starts building off in a matter of 48-72 hours.

But the fat stays.

That is how lots of people came to believe muscle turns into fat.

[Seiryuzenshin]

I once read that the maximum you can go w/ out working out before you start losing muscle mass and strength, is approximatly four weeks. Once this time is up, your muscles start to deteriorate.

The other thing is, if you go from say, a "level 8" working out in the gym and in class, down to a "level 5" at home, you are not going to keep the mass and strength you have built up. This is because you are not exerting yourself like you did, so you don't need as much strength/mass. The body only gains what it needs, as far as strength goes. Hence why you "level up" when you are looking to increase.

As to the suggestions, if you are honestly going to quit but would like to keep in shape, you'll still need a streching routine along with a conditioning routine (thats how I look at it, anyhow).

Do some light stretching before your workout to warmup, then continue with the workout.

For the workout, excersises you might include:
Plyo-Pushups
Burpees
Box Jumps
Jump Rope
Sprints
Gassers
"Quick Feet"
Step lunges
etc...

There are variations to those excersises that make them more difficult, such as doing burpees underneath a pullup bar so that when you jump, you do a pullup.

Then follow up with a short cool down, and go immediatly into stretching for flexibility.

-Sei

[Kilo5518]

muscles

Stetching and continued conditioning are a must. I think you probably need to add a lot more to what you listed to replicate most martial arts classes. Most people say that when they took or taking martial arts they were in the best shape of their lives. This is usually due to the way most martial arts are geared. They effect the entire body not just concentrated weight exercises or cardio. While your out I would recommend Matt Furey's combat conditioning book. It will run you about thirty dollars and its a no frills book but it has plenty of exercises and pictures. Most of the exercises are geared to fight conditioning. With these and a good diet, you will maintain or exceed your current level of fitness.

[kh_s]

Well, you see it is the reason why I quit my classes. 1) No Thai Boxing 2) Barely trained punches 3) All kicks.

It clearly said on their Advertisement 'That they also train in the art of Thai Boxing' I tried one of their advanced classes and said they do more Thai Boxing classes there, but all we did was knees, and what ? 10 repetitions each side ? And they went on to kicking again.

The body workouts that we did were sets of 3 with 10 reps of pushups, and 3 sets of 10 V-ups, crunches after that, and maybe 30 lunges, they would make us run from the other side of the gym and back from where you started.

I don`t know what to say about this class but, Maybe mediocre, or just simple not decent enough IMO. I was there for 4 months, didn`t really notice I have got stronger at all, but *slightly* improved balance. When I was in grade 3, I was able to do a jumping spinning something kick which I dunno what it is called, with no training or anything. I will exactly spin 360 degrees in the air and look exactly from where I was facing at when I land.

[Builderofmuscle]

Oh, wow how amazing! C'mon man, you were in 3rd grade. 8 years old. You were a little kid. You were at ur peak at flexibility and agility (without training, that is) Have u seen little kids? If you trained they could probably beat the best track stars.

You got it all wrong. U definately have to diet. And workout, preferably with weights, but bodyweights are good too. You're quiting just because they don't practice punching or thai boxing? Well... maybe that'll come later, u just have to be patient. Maybe u will realize all that kicking was actually good for u.

Besides, how many times did u go to the advanced class? Once? Maybe they don't ALWAYS do Thai Boxing. I remember I had to wait an entire year, probably even more before we started circuit training. Maybe they just don't think ur ready for that.

[kh_s]

Well the thing was... The instructor focused too much on TKD and I think he likes going to tournaments, I`d have to say his classes were pretty darn good for a TKD class, but you see, that is the problem.

[terry]

If you are under 15 years of age you should only do resistance training with body weight. No more. Heavy weights, such as squats, can compress the relatively elastic bones in your spine and stunt your growth.

[kh_s]

WTF !? Stunt growth from squats!? Please tell me Weighted squats will only stun, because I have been doing squats without weights. This is important for me to know !