Did You Know that Martial Arts is One of the Best Exercise Programs for Health?

Kung Fu has a long history. Kung Fu-like exercises were first recorded in the 2600 B.C. in the Yellow Emperor’s book of Medicine. These animal-like exercises were designed to keep the body healthy, strong, and free from disease.

Kung Fu became famous around 500 A.D. The monks at the Shaolin (Young Forest) monastery would fall asleep during the long hours of meditation, so the head monk introduced two health applications called the Muscle Change Classic and the Marrow Washing Course in order to strengthen the monks. Later the monks added the movements of the five animals to their work out: the tiger for strength, the crane for balance, the snake for breathing, the leopard for muscle tone, and the dragon for flexibility.

This gave them a complete exercise regimen for strength, muscle tone, and flexibility. The monks also gained the added benefit of developing concentration and discipline. Because the mind participates in the exercise, you’ll exercise both the mind and the body together and in harmony. As you already know, there’s been a lot of research on keeping the mind active because it increases the blood flow and keeps it free from disease. No other exercise course does that!

In addition, the movements are circular. Everything on your body is circular: your arms, legs, head, hands, and even your toes.  Therefore, the ancients felt to maximize the health benefits of Kung Fu, all the movements should be circular like the way your body is made.  Does that make sense? These circular postures develop and maximize the real benefits of Kung Fu for you.

Have You Ever Got Bored from Ordinary Gym Workouts?

I imagine you’ve tried a lot of gym workouts.  You probably started out strong each time but got bored and frustrated and eventually stopped going.  I’ve got good news.  It’s not you, it’s the gym   You can get a lot of frustration at the gym, but what you can’t get are the results that Kung Fu offers.  In the gym you’ve got to lift weights, do a bunch of stretches, jump on some cardio machine. . . When you do these things separately they work against one another.  So while you might be making progress in one area you’re counteracting the progress you just made in another and you’ve got your body working against itself.

Kung Fu Offers a Better Way…

Kung Fu training offers a better way…  It builds strength, flexibility, and cardio-vascular health simultaneously in a coordinated manner so that development in each area complements the development in the other two.  This means that you can work at a pace you can handle and still get the full benefits of training without having to jump right in to a super high-intensity work out.  This doesn’t mean we won’t push you sometimes, it just means that we’ll never push you to do more than you can handle.  We know that as long as you just do as much as you can today, you’ll be able to do a little bit more tomorrow.  And I promise that if you do that consistently, the results will be amazing.  There is a student of ours who is a perfect example of just that.

Read this Great Success Story…

In 2007 he suffered a serious lower back injury and was forced to undergo several major surgeries, which left him with 2 metal rods and 8 screws in his back.  Although he could stand on his own his doctors told him that that was the best he could hope for and that he would never walk again.  Despite all of this, he was determined to recover fully.  He spent the next six years doing gym workouts on his own and got to the point where he rarely needed the wheelchair; but his progress was slow and frustrating.  He came to us in 2013 in almost constant pain.  Significant weight gain had put a halt to his progress and was threatening to put him back in the wheelchair.

Lost 33 Pounds…

When he first began training with us he was only able to do about 10 minutes at a time before having to sit down and take a break.  But over the next month, just by going at his own pace and doing as much as he could, he worked his way up to doing a full 45 minute class without a break.  After two months he had lost 33 pounds.  A short time later he was completely pain free and was able to go off his pain medication.  After six months of Kung Fu training he was working out at a level of intensity that was second to none, had made more lasting progress than in previous six years in the gym, and had done what his doctors had told him was impossible.