7 Health Benefits You Will Gain from Martial Arts Training

Whether we’re talking about traditional disciplines Karate, Taekwondo, Jujutsu or Judo or a more modern combat sport such as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), boxing or Krav Maga, martial arts provide the perfect platform for becoming a healthier and fitter individual.
Whichever martial art you prefer to practice in, there an abundance of benefits to be gained – especially when it comes to your health & fitness. On this post, I’m sharing with you the top 7 health-related advantages that martial ...

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7 Essential Tips to Keeping Hydrated When Martial Arts Training

7 Essential Tips To Keeping Hydrated When Martial Arts Training

Summer seems to have arrived here in Edmonton with temperatures reaching the 30’s. This is great for the sun worshippers and there is nothing better than a nice day, rather than the typical Canadian weather. But we must remember that keeping hydrated is so important to your health, especially if you are doing a physical activity like martial arts.

If you don’t drink enough water, especially in hot weather, it can have ...

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Martial Arts Offers Brain-Boosting Benefits

…As well as increasing physical fitness and mental health, martial arts can boost brain cognition too

We are all aware that exercise generally has many benefits, such as improving physical fitness and strength. But what do we know about the effects of specific types of exercise? Researchers have already shown that jogging can increase life expectancy, for example, while yoga makes us happy.

However, there is one activity that goes beyond enhancing physical and mental health – martial arts can ...

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5 Reasons Why Kids Thrive with Taekwondo

5 Reasons Why Kids Thrive with Taekwondo

Sometimes a confident and self-assured preschooler will meet grade school and find that many of the lessons learned there have been forgotten by older kids. Likewise many students making the transition from elementary to middle school find the rules that they once understood change yet again. Bullying is a factor in development at all ages, and while a recent Department of Education study shows that there is a decline in bullying, the ...

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5 Reasons Why Kids Thrive with Taekwondo

5 Reasons Why Kids Thrive with Taekwondo

Sometimes a confident and self-assured preschooler will meet grade school and find that many of the lessons learned there have been forgotten by older kids. Likewise many students making the transition from elementary to middle school find the rules that they once understood change yet again. Bullying is a factor in development at all ages, and while a recent Department of Education study shows that there is a decline in bullying, the ...

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Instructor’s Corner – Simplify Your Life

“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

Simplify Your Life to Improve Your Life

If you want to improve your life then it’s tempting to want to add more. One problem with this may be that you don’t really have the time or energy to do more though. And so your efforts to improve become short-lived.

Adding more and more just creates more ...

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Effort – Are You Trying Your Hardest?

Effort

“Are you trying your hardest?”

It may seem like you hear this question a lot, especially from certain people. Your coaches, teachers, instructors and parents want to know whether you are trying your hardest to accomplish the tasks in front of you. They want you to measure your effort. Are you working as hard as you can, or are you working hard enough to stay out of trouble? Giving 100% of our effort is just one way to show ...

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Re-invent Yourself Daily

Life unfolds. Each and every day we awake to an opportunity for re-invention. The wonder of the whole adventure is that we get to do a “re-take” on who we are, each and every day. We are not our past; the past is simply a name for the series of paths and choices we made to arrive here in the present. We ARE exactly who we continue to CHOOSE to be.

A lot of people leap at ...

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Get Past Your Resolution Road Blocks

The New Year is creeping up, and it’s that time of year where the words ‘New Year’ are always followed closely by ‘Resolution’. One of the most common New Year Resolutions out there is weight loss. Although every resolution is unique, most of them share one commonality; almost everybody sets one & almost everybody fails. There are a multitude of reasons why we don’t succeed when it comes to fulfilling our resolutions. So what can we do about it? Listed ...

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