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I know a couple of people who have had a problem with tendon inflammation in the hip due to practicing a lot of kicks. Your doctor would be able to diagnose that. In that case you would probably need to perform some rehab exercises to strengthen the tendons in the hip. Again, your doctor would have to recommend exactly which exercises would be appropriate for you. If what you are experiencing is tendonitis, then stretching could actually make it worse. So it’s that much more important that you get checked out by a doc. The sooner the better.
Actually, isn’t your question more of a trademark question than a copyright question?
You can search patents and trademarks online here:
There are several trademarks for Krav Maga.
Go to a doctor. \”Bone on bone\” pain is never normal.
If you want to increase your range of motion, stretch every day (only after getting completely warmed up). Ask your instructor for some stretches you can do at home, or try a yoga class or DVD.
I know for me there was a mental barrier when I first started training, about being a \”nice\” person. I was hesitant to get aggressive in drills.
I had to learn to appreciate the aggressive, angry side of my humanity before I could overcome that barrier in class. It’s about realizing that there is a time and a place for anger and aggressiveness and it’s not in conflict with being feminine or being a nice person. Once you make that mental breakthrough, you will find a way to tap into your survival instincts.
You should see an orthopedist so they can evaluate the severity of the problem and pinpoint the exact cause.
I’ve had this same problem. I took about a month off from all training with arms (Krav training, heavy bag work, and lifting weights), to allow the inflammation to go down. After all the pain was gone, I started training again, but I didn’t (and I still haven’t) gone back to the level of training I was doing that caused the elbow problem. I had been doing heavy bag work several times a week, now I do it maybe once a week to lessen the impact on my arms. I am lifting weights more, to strengthen my tendons and therefore increase the amount of impact my tendons can take without complaining.
This strategy has worked well for me, but everyone’s different — if I were in your position I would look for another doctor, one who takes a more sympathetic view towards your training. And in the meantime, if you still have pain, you haven’t taken a long enough break from punching, holding mitts, lifting heavy weights, etc. The more you inflame your tendons by not stopping the activity that aggravates them, the longer your recovery will take.
I hope your doctor has told you to do wrist curls and reverse wrist curls – but don’t do them with heavy weights until you are 100% pain-free.
Not trying to be sarcastic here, but, I think the answer is (or one answer is) practicing Krav Maga.
I’ve been in the fight or flight situation several times, more times than I should have (and not as the person initiating violence). I have experienced freezing up while someone pounds on you, and that is no good. I’ve made up my mind that I will never do that again. Sometimes I do have doubts about whether or not, should I ever be in that kind of situation again, I would fight back or freeze up. I even have dreams about it. When I have doubts, I think about my Krav training and everything I’ve learned, and my confidence returns. For me personally, gaining the confidence to fight back has been the number one benefit of Krav training.
I do Krav in my sleep too, or so I’m told. I don’t think it’s abnormal. But my boyfriend is sick of getting kicked and punched in the middle of the night. 😆
Recent research says that too much water during intense exercise can be a bad thing – at best, it makes you slower. At worst, it can be life-threatening:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14/health/14water.html?ex=1114228800&en=b69b67acda66e5b4&ei=5070
This study is in reference to marathon runners, but a krav workshop + test is about as long as a marathon.
If your wrist pain is associated with hooks and uppercuts, you should have someone watch you punch and tell you if your wrists are perfectly straight. It could be a mechanical problem rather than an impact problem.
I have a similar problem, though not so much in the wrists, on the outside of the forearm near the elbow. You have to rest it. The more you keep putting impact on your arms with the inflammation, the longer it will take to heal. You really should not do any punching or push ups until the pain is completely gone.
I like to train hard too, but I quickly realized that I was doing too much and my body could not handle the amount of impact I was putting it through. Every body has a limit on how much impact it can handle. With training you can increase that limit, but it happens slowly and if you do too much at once — you get these types of injuries.
It will probably take at least two weeks of rest before the inflammation is really gone, and after that you have to resume gradually, or else you will just re-injure yourself again. I suggest, when you resume your training, when the pain is gone, very light punching to see how your arms can take it. Shadowbox, or hit pads but don’t hit full force.
I also suggest picking up a book called Listen to Your Pain. It has some very good rehabilitation suggestions for all types of injuries. You might want to look into cross-frictioning massage as a way to reduce the scar tissue on your tendons and help the healing go faster. Keep up the anti-inflammatories, and daily ice packs, REST your arms, and work on your kicks for a while.
Here’s one that one of the instructors here shared with me, an ancient Chinese proverb, if I remember correctly.
Deny your art for one day, and it will deny you for two.
Translation: don’t skip class.
I like premium boxing (HBO,Showtime) because you get to hear what the trainers have to say in the corners between rounds. That is the fascinating stuff – the adjustments to strategy that boxers make in the middle of the fight. You get more of a behind-the-scenes look at the fight. On basic cable boxing, they use the breaks between rounds for commercials, and it’s not as interesting, IMO.
Of course, I think the contender would be better if they focused more on the sport rather than the family drama – the \”I’m doing this for my wife and kids\” routine, but I guess that would be asking for too much.
