Muscles behind a strike?

Question

Hello. I have noticed that by pivoting on your foot and hips from a punch that you can get more power. But is it possible to benefit your strikes a bit more, like working the muscles? If so, what way should the muscles be worked? Endurance? Speed?

Also, if you do endurance workouts and eat a lot of meats, etc. Can you still bulk up since you're tearing muscle?

Thanks

Answer 1

hey

well if you concentrate on whats your trying to hit and move all your body weight into it it should make it  stronger

Answer 2

Building muscles are very important. There are techniques that increases the power of your strikes but in my opinion, that's not enough. I see a lot of professional fighters, especially the best that's training like h**l and they do a lot of weight lifting too. I don't think knowing a thing or two about how to punch is going to get anybody anywhere without doing those kinds of things. Because all martial artists at some point knows this. So if both equally knows the same amount of techniques, who ultimately ends up having more power? You lose speed when you lift weights because you lift it incorrectly. It's already scientifically proven that you can gain more speed and more power by lifting the weights "correctly".

Training:

Anyways, for starters, doing twisting sit-ups(although it's not weight lifting), is very good to increase your punching power. Just like how pitchers throws a baseball, the energy to throw that ball also comes from twisting the body. You can also get more speed by doing a trunk twist.

Having a strong wrist can also connect to having a heavy punch, and for this, I would suggest a wrist curl and a reverse wrist curl.

Another great training method is the concentration curl. This can make your arms to stretch out faster and increase the power in your punch.

PS: Get a dumbbell that you can at least and/or only lift up to 10 times/reps. You can use the same weight and keep increasing the number of reps, or you can keep switching to a heavier weight every time you become capable of being able to lift up to 10 reps with each weights. Both methods are being used and it's proven to be effective. Also, both methods are being used by some of the people in the Olympics.

PSS: Look at how far these "you don't need weight" people have come to, and then look at fighters like Wanderlei Silva who's training 7 hours a days and lifting a lot of weights during that training. Look at people in the Olympics. They don't necessarily lift huge heavy weights depending on the type of event they're entering but they're still lifting weights. Since back in the days, even Okinawa Karate includes a lot of weight lifting using traditional/old hand-made weights. I'm actually very surprised and irritated for getting two thumbs down for saying the fact. Also, weight lifting doesn't necessarily means that you use stuff like dumbbells. Things like push-ups are weight lifting too since you're lifting your own weight.

Answer 3

I second pugpaws2 on his satement!...... The muscles are the entire body!