First In Martial Arts For Kids

Martial arts training at peak performance levels is the best way to prevent disease, as well as to stimulate positive changes in the body’s natural healing systems.

Our current lifestyle of Lazy-boy chairs, remote controls and S.U.V.s does not challenge us to move, yet our biological need for physical movement is still the same as when time began. Martial arts training can strongly influence the function of most of the human organ systems and much of the chemistry of our brains and bodies. The changes brought about by martial arts training are dose responsive, but maybe not in the way you believe.

In fact, twice as much is twice as good only up to optimal levels. Beyond that actually tempts an over training response in the body and a decline in physical and mental health. Martial arts training, as well as other exercise forms, dosage combines distance (or time), intensity and frequency — how far, how fast, how often. An additional factor may be technique, which determines the muscle groups and total muscle mass used in the exercise.

For example, kicks work your leg muscles but also increase aerobic capacity. Taking into consideration the type and dosage of martial arts training, it affects the body and its systems in numerous positive ways.

About the author: Multi-arts Grand Master Richard Hackworth is a Natural
Health, Holistic Nutrition, and Naturopathic Medicine research specialist
living in South Korea who is the best selling author of “The Ancient Art of Herbal Medicine”, “Age Reversing Secrets to Look and Feel Younger”, and author of “The Minimum Wage to Millionaire Course”. Hackworth is the host of “The Richard Hackworth Show” on the Action Radio Network. He can be reached via his website at www.RichardHackworth.com

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