As many of you know from my other thread, I just recently started studying Ninjutsu in Ottawa, Canada.
This teacher took me under his wing and I'm now part of his small class and the more I train/study, the more I relate to everything and feel like it's the right martial art for me.
The thing is, yesterday I injured myself in my upper back (probably stretched a muscle or something, nothing really intense) while receiving a technique during practice, and it raised a questionning in my mind concerning my general physical health/condition. I told my teacher about it and his reaction was that he remembered to make me (as well as a few other beginners) sign a paper that states I'm aware of the risks and that makes him immune to lawsuits coming from injuries & $h*t, which I found kind of insulting at first but this is not my main point here.
What I'm getting at, is that my teacher never says anything about body conditioning/workout/exercise, which I find odd since the guy is ex-military. When I asked him about it a week back, he just told me to do pushups and some hiking (which I do everyday with my 2 dogs).
I understand ninjutsu techniques tend to use your body/weight as a whole so you don't need to pack a ton of muscles for the punches/kicks/throws to be effective, but I'm still looking to achieve physical health/fitness through training.
My question is this : Aside from technique practice, what kind of workout/exercise do you guys do to condition your body in order to perfect your art? What are your everyday routine, eating habits, activities outside the dojo? Also how do you prepare yourself before a class, what kind of stretching, breathing techniques, relaxation, etc.?
I've been through 2 of Hatsumi's books already and he never said anything about body conditioning either. There is this one called "The Grandmaster's Book of Ninja Training" in which he briefly says that Takamatsu Sensei had a really hard training routine compared to what budokas do nowadays, without explaining much.
I'm trying to get into this, I think it could be interesting and useful to talk about here, for both beginners and advanced students.
Thanks.
This teacher took me under his wing and I'm now part of his small class and the more I train/study, the more I relate to everything and feel like it's the right martial art for me.
The thing is, yesterday I injured myself in my upper back (probably stretched a muscle or something, nothing really intense) while receiving a technique during practice, and it raised a questionning in my mind concerning my general physical health/condition. I told my teacher about it and his reaction was that he remembered to make me (as well as a few other beginners) sign a paper that states I'm aware of the risks and that makes him immune to lawsuits coming from injuries & $h*t, which I found kind of insulting at first but this is not my main point here.
What I'm getting at, is that my teacher never says anything about body conditioning/workout/exercise, which I find odd since the guy is ex-military. When I asked him about it a week back, he just told me to do pushups and some hiking (which I do everyday with my 2 dogs).
I understand ninjutsu techniques tend to use your body/weight as a whole so you don't need to pack a ton of muscles for the punches/kicks/throws to be effective, but I'm still looking to achieve physical health/fitness through training.
My question is this : Aside from technique practice, what kind of workout/exercise do you guys do to condition your body in order to perfect your art? What are your everyday routine, eating habits, activities outside the dojo? Also how do you prepare yourself before a class, what kind of stretching, breathing techniques, relaxation, etc.?
I've been through 2 of Hatsumi's books already and he never said anything about body conditioning either. There is this one called "The Grandmaster's Book of Ninja Training" in which he briefly says that Takamatsu Sensei had a really hard training routine compared to what budokas do nowadays, without explaining much.
I'm trying to get into this, I think it could be interesting and useful to talk about here, for both beginners and advanced students.
Thanks.
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