[]You can have a Kung fu contest, or Karate or aikido or whatever, and you can be the winner. The idea for this contest came to me from a guy on the web. He said he wanted to do his kung fu pattern 1000 times in 365 days.
Now doing a karate kata 1000 times in one year was a lot, but...it could be done. You could do it three times a day for a year, or ten times a day for 100 days, and it certainly seemed doable. So I queried him, and he said that it included a lot of other stuff.
The full regimen included running a thousand miles, do the martial arts form a thousand times, do 40,000 abdominals, and do 40,000 push ups. He even included read a dozen books, and then he added something that made me blink: ten thousand acts of random kindness. Man, now the program was looking a little difficult!
So I started considering his proposal. Half a century ago John Kennedy got everybody in America excited about walking 50 miles in 24 hours. And, the iron man Triathalon began because three athletes in Hawaii got together over how much swim, bike and run they could accomplish. So, even with ten thousand acts of kindness thrown in, the thing was something a person might be able to do.
Now, if you're attending college and don't have the time, you could set lower standards, and then do the real thing in a few months during the summer. Or, if you have to be at work a lot, maybe there's ways to get loose during the week for short work outs, and then do a master blaster on Saturday and Sunday. Or, maybe you've got the time and...why not just do it?
I mean, all you've got to lose is your belly and laziness and bad habits! Right? So why not?
So I figured you should include the following things in your program. Running, kung fu forms, and a full set of body exercises. Maybe run a couple of miles, do your kung fu form(s) 2, 3 5, or 10 times (depending on how many patterns you know), and do ten different body exercises twenty times each.
On the heavy side, maybe you've got those summer blues and want to lose them, run ten miles, do your kata 20, 30, 50 times each (depending on how many kata you know), do 50 reps of 10 types of body calisthenics. Man, that would knock the flab off you, make those muscles lean and mean, and give your attitude a sharp but pleasant edge of accomplishment. If you really want to slam...get a half dozen friends and really go for it!
So that's the contest I was thinking about. I think it is very possible, and it will result in a new and improved you. Whether you have a kung fu contest, or karate or aikido, you're going to have the best time of your life!
Now doing a karate kata 1000 times in one year was a lot, but...it could be done. You could do it three times a day for a year, or ten times a day for 100 days, and it certainly seemed doable. So I queried him, and he said that it included a lot of other stuff.
The full regimen included running a thousand miles, do the martial arts form a thousand times, do 40,000 abdominals, and do 40,000 push ups. He even included read a dozen books, and then he added something that made me blink: ten thousand acts of random kindness. Man, now the program was looking a little difficult!
So I started considering his proposal. Half a century ago John Kennedy got everybody in America excited about walking 50 miles in 24 hours. And, the iron man Triathalon began because three athletes in Hawaii got together over how much swim, bike and run they could accomplish. So, even with ten thousand acts of kindness thrown in, the thing was something a person might be able to do.
Now, if you're attending college and don't have the time, you could set lower standards, and then do the real thing in a few months during the summer. Or, if you have to be at work a lot, maybe there's ways to get loose during the week for short work outs, and then do a master blaster on Saturday and Sunday. Or, maybe you've got the time and...why not just do it?
I mean, all you've got to lose is your belly and laziness and bad habits! Right? So why not?
So I figured you should include the following things in your program. Running, kung fu forms, and a full set of body exercises. Maybe run a couple of miles, do your kung fu form(s) 2, 3 5, or 10 times (depending on how many patterns you know), and do ten different body exercises twenty times each.
On the heavy side, maybe you've got those summer blues and want to lose them, run ten miles, do your kata 20, 30, 50 times each (depending on how many kata you know), do 50 reps of 10 types of body calisthenics. Man, that would knock the flab off you, make those muscles lean and mean, and give your attitude a sharp but pleasant edge of accomplishment. If you really want to slam...get a half dozen friends and really go for it!
So that's the contest I was thinking about. I think it is very possible, and it will result in a new and improved you. Whether you have a kung fu contest, or karate or aikido, you're going to have the best time of your life!
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