Single Focus Part 3

A few weeks ago I started a series on key areas you should focus on as a martial artist.

You read about Speed development and its importance in Single Focus Part 1.

Then you learned how injecting Emotional Intensity into your training guarantees results and drives you to follow through on the goals you've set in Single Focus Part 2.

This next key area of development is one that requires your full attention.

When you've acquired it, it will make everything else you do that much easier and effortless.

It is the root of power.

Have you guessed what it is?

Yes, it is none other than Flexibility.

A loose, pliable and flexible body can generate more power.

It has less chances of getting injured.

You'll learn faster. What? How can flexibility help with that?

One of the challenges most beginners have to face when starting any area of martial arts, be it standing up, on the ground or with weapons is dealing with stiffness.

By learning to relax and avoid being rigid when first learning the techniques, you'll be teaching your nervous system and muscles faster and in a more effective manner so you can integrate the techniques and start using them with more speed and power.

Learning to stretch and acquire joint mobility is also a natural stress reliever.

What you can do mentally when stretching is think of stress as being trapped in a sponge. The sponge being your muscles.

As you stretch, you feel and visualize stress being squeezed out of your body until the last drop. Continue to do this with each body part that you are stretching. I've found this method to be highly invigorating while also feeling like you've had a weight lifted off your shoulders.

When cooling down after a workout and going through some of the exercises covered in our Flexibility Series DVD, the mental clarity and calmness you feel should be something everyone gets to experience.

This key area of development needs to be part of your training routine but not any kind of stretching, learn how to stretch your whole body and double your flexibility over night by following some of the steps outlined in our Flexibility Series.

Make this one of your main focus areas and everything else will suddenly be much easier.

Master Yourself,

Sibok M

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