Thread: How many of you do karate?

Big Time!!! I used to do karate and I was always complaining about how sore i was, LOL. Now I only do kickboxing/bag work/pad work. It's not as painful as kata LOL

When I was a teen I made it up to brown belt in Shotakan karate.

yes I train Karate and this does deter from muscle building a little.
speed is more important for Karate than muscle. also much power is generated from focus such as breaking a board that is only standing on edge, unsupported. This is easy if you have good focus but impossible if you use your strength from a weight training motion. Then the board just gets knocked away from you. The moral of the story is "being a freight train is only good if you have train tracks to go evrywhere you want." hehehehe.
So my muscle building is focused on joint strenght and trying to combine muscle development with a pyrometric motion and Im very intrested in growing in this area of training. most of the training I know is old school and rather brutal. This is good for pain theshhold developement but doesnt really make muscle. suggestions would be nice. my skin is rather thick so feel free to critisize if you must.

OOPS plyometric not pyro I guess my love for fire is showing

I had to change around my leg workouts and lower my lifting to 3 times a week. It was just too hard to recover trying to maximize both. I definitely feel your pain kid.