Martial Arts Home Training Program

What does your at home martial arts practice look like?

How can we position ourselves to take advantage of the time outside of class to make those gains in ability?

Let’s explore a checklist to build for your at-home-training routine.

First we start with a light warm up routine- some stretching, light walking, or limbering movements. Enough to warm up the joins for flexibility and to get the blood flowing.

Next is the foundation of movement- every martial art, school, style, or discipline has a series of basic movements, of fundamental movements found in the art. These movements teach you how to move, and in the Japanese arts this is known as the kihon- the basics.

What are these movements in your art of study?

Identify and explore them.

After building on the basics, next explore lessons from your last class or training instruction. What skills were being worked on? What lessons in class? This time spent is to position yourself to be ready for the skills presented in the next class, building on those lessons.

Now with these two lessons, we build on a third- what skills or requirements do you need to be working on for your next rank or promotion in the martial arts? Build and work on that…

…ending with a light cool down and a few minutes of meditation or relaxation to let the movement-muscle memories sink in.

What does your solo practice look like?

See you on the mat!