Strengthening parts of your body

[aku aku]

Oooo! an iron brain sure would help with headbutts!!! But hey, you have a point in your post, but isnt it because of the bones getting the damage and filling it with calcium the reason why there more brittle? as calcium is much more brittle than bone itself.

I have a feeling it doesn't work that way. The bones would become more dense but I don't think it's accurate to say the bones are filling up with calcium. Calcium is only one part of the process.

By the way, I asked a physical therapist if practicing breakfalls, like in judo, would build bone density and help prevent osteoporosis and he said it would. Bone is a living tissue, just like muscle. If you stress it, it becomes stronger. If you don't stress it, it becomes weaker. That's why astronauts lose bone density after being in space.

[Ghost]

Full contact sparring.

[kanik]

Full contact sparring.

Indeed! Its the only way to go =D


Nad to the other guy... Yes, sressing bone increases density, but smashing bone on somthing hard is not good for it. If your gonna hit a brick wall 1000 times a day, your gonna damge your hands. They may be stronger, but in the long run will be weaker, and its not only the bone that gets more damaged. Think of all the poor hardworking nerves, what did they ever do wrong to deserve being slammed into a hard inanimate brick??

[freefighter2010]

years i saw film called Kick boxer and theres a part where the fighter is smashing his shins against a large pillar before his fight. I spoke to a guy who had been out there and he told me that guys actually do that and calcium deposits build up in thier legs.

[Funkasaur]

find a nice rock to punch, not hard of course. unless you think you can punch it into dust.

[Paul-M]

You shouldn't hit your legs or hands on something harder than bone. The idea of conditioning is to deaden the nerves so you don't feel pain, you do this by hitting something harder than the nerves but if it is harder than bone then you could splinter bones and cause major problems in later life. People who say you should hit stone pillars and trees and shit are wrong, these are myths, they come from two places.
The first place is Muay Thai practitioners back in the day before bags were widely used, they used to kick banana trees. Banana trees are soft and change shape when you hit them, NOT AT ALL like your oak tree out your garden, kick that and your just screwing yourself for life.
The second place is Shaolin monks, sure they used to punch stones but not very often, they would more often use bags of iron filings or wooden boards, and whenever they hit stone they would use herbal medicines to stop any damage and do things like sewing to make sure they didn't lose their dexterity and get big clumsy calloused hands.

Just use something like a punch bag, doing a few rounds on a bag without gloves is great for conditioning fists, and when it gets easy you can fill the bag with iron filings or marbles or something.

Sorry if the way I write is boring, lol, but just had to get that out there, hitting stones is NOT helpful.

[Scott McElroy]

Strengthening parts of your body

Calcium build up do to an injury will make your bones stronger in most cases. Calcium build up within the joints of the body will cause arthritis later on in life. The key is longevity here!! Punching a board wrapped with rope will make your punches a lot stronger but will cause possible irreversible damage later on in life. There are better ways of conditioning your hands than this.
First off, power comes from within!! Starting with your internal organs. build yourself up from the inside out. Do this with partner breathing exercises daily. Have a partner stand on your stomach as you breath for 5 min. This is one of the best core training exercises there is hands down. When you can do this for twenty min. or more you will have a upper body that can take most anything thrown at it. Make sure to breath full breaths while your partner is standing on you.

Train all aspects of your grip; crush grip, pinch grip, sustaining grip and exercises for wrist strength. This will leave you with hands that are extremely strong yet nimble!! You wont end up with arthritis with this type of training and you will be delivering punches and strikes that are way more powerful than someone that punches boards wrapped with rope!!! The muscles, tendons and bones in your hands will be much more dense, A term that we call heavy hands.

Here are the differences; A person that punches hard objects will have hands like normal hammers. Yes these hands are very dangerous and if you get hit with them you would know it!! Later on in life this person will very likely be unable to train any longer due to arthritis. So this person can say; back in my day i was one dangerous opponent!!

A person that trains their body and hands properly will have hands like sledge hammers!! If you get hit with one of these you will not know it! You will be out!! Later on in life this person will still be able to train and throughout their life will remain a dangerous opponent.

It has been written by many notable iron game writers that should a person train their hands, wrists and forearms to their ultimate potential, the results would defy belief!!!

All the best my friends,

[kanik]

Well think of it this way... Many karateka and gung fu practitioners have done conditioning all there lives and have had no major or crippling permenant damage. Like has been stated, its all good so long as the object is not harder than bone. Or, for example, if you were to hit a brick and it was to break, or a board, or multiple boards, or other objects, if it breaks it shouldnt be bad for you. Breaking is a great and inexpensive way to measure your strength. Conditioning is necessary and just strengthening wont allways do it and is easier to lose.