Conditioning and taiso
Welcome to Jeff's conditioning pages! This contains information about taiso
a
form of conditioning used in jujutsu, a Japanese martial art
that emphasizes
grappling and throwing. It gives a great workout. A really brief
summary in a nutshell is here
Introduction and general comments
Introduction
Rolling your own workout
Scaling
it up or down
Cycling
your workouts
How to get hurt
The basic exercises
General exercise comments
Bodyweight
exercises
Dumbell
exercises
Heavyweight
exercises
Middleweight
exercises
Lightweight
exercises
Random
exercises
Two
partner exercises
Stretching
Cardiovascular
training
Hypertrophy -
how to
get bigger
A Hypertrophy Program
Some common combinations
Combinations
What follows is totally geeky stuff,
discussing why I decided to do it the way I have
and giving some of the physiology of muscles as background. You don't
need this, but
is included for those that want to know.
The problem - what taiso does in the
framework of training.
Introduction
Why not just lift weights?
What
we want to accomplish
General muscle physiology facts
Muscle
types
Hypertrophy
or how muscles get bigger.
Training
muscles for size and strength
Sequence
of firing for muscles
Caveats. This site is for
reference for my students,
for me to finally organize my thoughts and for the curious. I am not a
trainer, I am an athlete who has come up with a pretty useful training
plan for myself
and my students.
In the spirit of being completely forthright and clear, I
will just give the translation of the standard legal disclaimer:
Anything you use from this site is at your own risk, it serves
absolutely no purpose of any sort, is strictly informational and you
are a dummy for listening to
me.
I'd also like to thank two of my
training buddies who demonstrate several of these. Nathan Ali and
Alexander D'Erizans. Good job dudes, and thanks!