Aikido Fitness Training

Beginning Strength Training
by Brooks Kubik

"To be successful your training must be a HABIT. It must be something you do on a regularly scheduled basis—like clockwork—come heck or high water."

7 steps to building the training habit, including a super-simple, super-effective workout you can do at home or at the gym, 3 days a week.

Conditioning

Interval training—the real aerobics. Intervals are short periods of high intensity exercise, alternated with periods of recovery. Benefits include cardio-vascular conditioning, production of new capillaries, increased oxygen delivery ability, improved performance, and weight loss.

Exercises, workouts, interval timers, and recommended reading.

Sample Interval Workout

CST Bodyweight Glide. Free video tutorials by Coach Ryan Murdock: 6 movements designed to work the body core in all 6 planes and axes—the "6 degrees of freedom". Total workout time: 11 minutes.