Whistlekick Martial Arts Radio Podcast #77: Martial Arts Injuries
Channel: whistlekick
Date: 21/04/2016

We delve into the subject of recovery and rehab (rehabilitation) on today’s episode of Martial Arts Radio, we tackle the sensitive subject of handling the aches & pains that turn into worse problems. 

Jeremy Lesniak:

Hey everybody guess what, we’re back for another episode of whistlekickmartialartsradio, this time it’s episode 77. And as many of you already know, this is the only place to hear the best conversations about the martial arts like today’s show about handling recovery and rehabilitation with your martial arts training. I’m the founder here whistlekick but I’m better known as your host Jeremy Lesniak. whistlekick, if you don’t know makes the world’s best sparring gear and excellent apparel and accessories for practitioners and fans of traditional martial arts. I’d like to welcome our new listeners and thank all of you that are listening again. If you’re not familiar with our products you can learn more or buy over at whistlekick.com. Our past podcast episodes show notes and a lot more on a whole different website and that’s whistlekickmartialartsradio.com. Now from either site, you can set up for a great newsletter and you should\ because we offer exclusive content, discounts and all that to subscribers and is also the only place to find out who’s coming up as a guest on the show. Like I said, today’s episode is can a cover recovery and rehabilitation with respect to your martial arts training.

Now, let’s be honest injuries happen. If you’ve been training in the martial arts for any length of time, you’ve probably gotten hurt now whether it’s from not blocking as most of my instructors would’ve said you know, taking a shot that was a little bit too hard or placed where maybe it wasn’t intended or maybe it’s from some kind of overuse or something like that, you’re probably get to get hurt. At the very least you can get sore, if you’re never getting sore you’re probably not training hard enough let’s be real there right? Now sometimes that soreness is coming from overtraining, sometimes it’s related to your age, sometimes it’s poor movement patterns, differences in your body you know, if you are carrying around more weight you know, if you’re an overweight person, you’re gonna deal with some things that a lighter weight person will deal with. Now some people and this does still seem to be pretty persistent in the martial arts, will tell you just to train through it. And I’m here to tell you that that is not the best idea and were going to cover why as we get a little bit deeper into this. But, you know that’s really an old school attitude and anyone that knows me as a martial artist knows that I’m a traditionalist, I love deep stances I love the approach of what a lot of people would call old-school martial arts. But, I think that with new science with new understanding of the way the body works I think we can become not only better people and less injury prone, but better martial artist because we understand the body much better than we did a hundred or so years ago when most of the martial arts that were practicing were being developed.