POLL - How much do you train?

At it's peak my training went about 3 days a week for 2 hrs. Which usually occured in the evening hours, can't do early morning breath training due to required formation running or calisthenics. Currently I have not trained at all in about three months! That's ok, because I get my Combatives level 2 in October. The deadly art of Husband-do Father-gung is more than satisfying....tho not street effective haha.

I don't practice at all and none of you weiners cam make me.

I think it is safe to say that i do not trainig enough ! I try to go to 2 classes a week and do a couple of weight training sessions at home. But sometimes I struggle with that ! Oh welll...... Must try harder..... again....

Cheers,

Jon.

Hey, I was only counting karate/kobudo when I answered. If you add up hours at the gym, my 6 hours a week doubles. At my age, keeping in shape will benefit me more than doing Seisan kata for the 102,941st time.

I'm doing 3-4 2 hour classes a week, plus 2 weight sessions and a few hours of personal practice. I have a jolly good rest on a saturday.

I train about 2 to 6 hours a day 6 days a week. On Mondays and Wednesdays I train shito ryu karate for a minimum of 2 hours. On Tuesdays Thursdays I train shaolin kempo I train from 4 to 9 ( some of that time I am teaching so I don’t know if that counts) on Friday I train in shito ryu with fumio damura at his school and on Saturdays I go to sparing class for 3 hours. I still find time to go to college and work a part time job and practice gymnastics as often as I can. Busy life

not to be rude saber, but I dont believe you you must be ripped.

I believe you Saber - i know someone just like you

I have 2 training sessions a week, one goes for 2-2.5 hours and the other 2.5-3 hours. I do at least 2 hours extra at home a week.

Teach twice per week, an hour each class. Train 3 times per weak about 90 minutes (I also train a "little" bit when teaching). I try to run at least 2-3 miles per day when time allows and I also try to get in about 20 minutes of wind sprints per week. I also throw in 15 push ups at every commercial break between 9 and 11 PM. All that and I still can't get rid of that little spare tire !

VDJ

On a weekly basis I spend about this much time on karate:

KEMPO
- as a student: 3 to 6 hours
- as an assisting sensei (depending on need): 3 to 8 hours
- practicing (drills & kata): 4 to 6 hours

KOBUDO (Go Ju Ryu)
- as a student: 3 hours
- practicing (drills, kata, self-defense) - 3 to 5 hours

RUNNING (5K or 10K runs)
- 4 to 6 hours

SIT-UPS/CRUNCHES/PUSH-UPS/FREE WEIGHTS
- 2 hours (only when I'm motived...)

READING/RESEARCHING MA MATERIAL (Hey! I count this as passive training )
- 8 to 12 hours

THINKING/OBSESSING ABOUT KARATE
- Constantly

GETTING A LIFE (Outside of Karate)
- Is there one????

I attend a 1 hour class 5x's per week and between practicing forms and dynamic stretching at home I do about 6 hours/week extra.

5x5 minute rds x 2times a week full out on heavy bag 5x3 minute rds x 2times a week techniques and straight blast entries 3x3 minute rds x 6times a week on speed bag 20-30 minutes x 3times a week on trapping on teh wing chun dummy 20-30 minutes x 2 a week on th e eliptical

i train for 4 hours a day from monday to friday, and on saturday i train for 6-7 hours.......now alot of people say it is better to train really hard for 1 hour then for 4 hours not training that hard, well i think it is better to train for 4 hours really hard then to train for 1 hour really hard which is what i do

Hi -

We may have crossed paths at some point. My main style of karate is Kempo, but I also do kobudo (Goju Ryu) and this
dojo is a CMAC member. Do you ever compete?

5 days a week, 2-hours a day

I train 2-4 hours for two days a week.I could go for more though.Every once in a while I'll train for 4 days a week for 2-4 hours.

I try to train 6 days a week and usually able to, unless wife has me doing honey do's But I train Shotokan 3 nights a week,,for apx 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours, and Wu Tai Ji Quan one night a week for 1 1/2 hour. I try to work out daily at home,,Tai Ji Quan in the morning,,, then later streathcing, kata , bag work and light dumbell weights..doing well at 63..hope to make it another 10 in Karate,, Tai Ji Quan,, will practice untill the very end :-)

Usually 2x 1.5 hour sessions karate and 1x 1.5 hour session kobudo a week.
When I can 1x 1.5 hour sessin jiu jitsu at uni, at least when the timetable lets me.

1,5 - 2 hours 5 - 6 times a week: streetfighting plus knifefighting plus a bit lifting

three two hour sessions in taekwondo a week plus the gym two or three days

5x's a week MA training for 1+2 hours
3x's a week stretching and toneing 1+2 hours
3x's a week weight lifting 1+2 hours.

I take the weekends off.

47MartialMan, what is so surprising? Streetfighting doesn't mean 6 days practice in bars or somewhere else (however sometimes it happens )

it was a joke mercen

I see

Hey!
I train 6 days a week, for about 2 hours a day...!
Don't think it's enough though, (I'm addicted)

This is a poll about martial arts training, not for picking up girls.

Of cource streetfighting can be practiced. Practice makes perfect

I've been training not only in martial arts or defensive training but also in weights, cardio and other forms of training. I've been doing good training at least 4 days a week for 1-2 hours a day. Could be better but with the job, Vol FF. and other stuff well you know.


I've begun filling out "training reports" to keep records of how long and when I train and what I train in. Anyone else do this?

I teach 3.5 hours a day/2 days a week
I train 2-3 hours a day/6 days a week
I weight train 1-2 hours a day/4 days a week

Yea...Martial arts is pretty much all I do

bump for the newbies

I train everyday for at least 1 hour lol people say i train too much but i think i train too little!

About as much as Van Damme did in Kickboxer. My master, Tiger Tanaka, forces me to train twenty hours a day, cook for him an hour, run down the mountain's 5,439 steps and carry a 5 gallon bucket of water balanced on the end of bo staff, making me start all over if I spill it. After that I get into my sleeping bag, actually a horse feed sack in his septic tank and he whips me to sleep with broken bottles.

Actually about an hour a day

Wow, thanks for the bump Harlan. I just worked out, to my horror, that I'm doing even more training than I was last time I posted. My schedule looks like this at the moment:

TKD: 2 hours /4 days per week
Judo: 1.5 hours/ 2 days per week
Weight training: 1 hour/ 4 days per week

I need to fit in more quality beer time.

I train almost everyday. So I said 6, theres usually something comes up that stops me. And I train for a little over a hour at home. And at class it is 2 hours.

<< I need to fit in more quality beer time. >>

After working up a good sweat you need to rehydrate, don't you?

I’ll admit that I am not training as often as I should. I use my lunch break to review forms and work with weapons (if I can make it home.). I wish my dojang had a lunch hour class for working people. Morning and evening are reserved for stretching and strengthening exercises. Mostly strange stuff –balancing water bottles in front stance or horse riding stance, working on the splits, etc.
The difficult part is actually making it to class. I try to get there at least 3 times per week. Evening classes last about 1 hour. Morning classes can last for approximately three hours. I prefer the morning class, but because of a demanding work schedule I don’t always have that luxury.
If I was doing was I should I would be attending every evening class during the week and at least one morning class. I was doing what I wanted I would set up a cot in the dojang and train all the time…there is so much to learn. Of course, my family and friends would wonder what happened to me.

lol haha yeah.

Well my grandmaster in tae kwon do lived in his dojo.

I am surprised to see that more people train 7 days a week (10% at this time) than 1 day a week (4% at this time).

To all the 7 day folks - STOP MAKING ME LOOKING BAD!!!!

Haha train more Matt. Well weight lifting is good too. Once I have nothing I am going to do
- Kungfu Class (Tuesdays, saturdays). Train on Thursdays, Fridays
-Gymnastics (Mondays, Wednesday) havent started yet
-Weight lift (Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays)

Monday, Wednesday, Friday = weight training
Tuesday, Thursday = plyometrics
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday - TKD
Monday, Wednesday, Friday = MMA
Sunday Rest
Training time per day 2-3 hrs

I just CAN'T get into any kind of regimen that focuses on weight/strength training; going to a gym, lifting weights/machines....it's so mind-numbing boring and makes me think of the body as a piece of meat. Yuck.

Wed/Sun: 2 hr classes
Sun/Mon: walk for a few hours
Tue/Thurs/Sat: 1/2 hr upper body weights, followed with a run through of all weapons and empty hand katas that I know.

Mon-Fri: have a clock on my work desk that rings every hour. I try to disengage from the station, mentally and physically, and have a list of '5 minute' ideas. Depending on the mood/weather, I'll either run through kata, stretch, sit-ups, do gong li, or walk the stairs in the building. We are lucky to have a 'wellness' program where I work, which encourages us to use the gym/walk/bike/swim for 1/2 hour.

i wish i could even choose 1 hr
my training time has dwindled down to nothing
many times because theres no one around with me to train with
or if there is I'm just too lazy to
but I do go to the gym so that I keep my body in good shape
actually im trying to improve my shape so yea

monday- 2 hours of classes
tuesday- 2 hours of classes
Wednesday- 2 hours of classes
thurs- 2 hours of classes

weights Friday Sunday And Tuesday

cardio most days Running!

thats most of the time!

I train 5 nights at 2hrs (Sun - thur) however this is affecting my energy levels, midweek i kind of crash a bit, i thought i was overdoing it looking at some of the other training programs, do most of you hold down full time jobs also?

Savate class, once a week for 2 hours.

Plus I usually try to do a bit of other exercise once or twice a week. Usually just some yoga or other stretching at home and a trip to the gym to do some cardio or weights.

I've been pretty slack recently, though. I've probably only been to the gym twice in the last month. Still, I almost never miss my weekly martial arts class.

Shills thats good training. If you need to though just bring down the amount of time to maybe a hour and a half. An extra half hour of rest is great when your not used to it.

I train about 3-4 times a week about 2 hours a session, i do practice my forms when i have some spare time.

Five one hour sessions scattered through the week
4 Aikido
1 Iaido