"How to Increase Stamina"

Action 1

Set some goals for yourself. Do you want to increase your energy, build muscle or increase your strength and endurance?

Action 2

Develop a training plan that is reasonable and achievable. To increase your stamina, you have to start small and gradually move up to the level you desire.

Action 3

Begin your plan with walking. Walking can improve the efficiency of your heart and lungs, increase your energy level, strengthen the muscles in your legs and help promote a good night's rest.

Action 4

Build on your walking or by running if this is something you want to do. Some people can't tolerate running as it is harder on your knees and joints than walking.

Action 5

Try riding a bicycle. It is important to find a form of exercise that you enjoy. If you enjoy what you are doing, you increase your chances of success and building on that success.

Action 6

Give swimming a chance as it is a great form of exercise that may surprise you. It is a low-impact form of exercise that tones your entire body and provides a great cardiovascular workout.

Action 7

Push yourself past your limits. Once you begin an activity, you will begin to notice it becomes easier and you feel better both mentally and physically. This is an important key to increasing your stamina.

Action 8

Walk longer distances, walk at a more brisk pace, run or ride your bike a mile farther than last week, swim more laps or increase the weight and/or reps in a strength building workout. Whatever your task, continue to build on it. You will see and feel the results.

Read more: How to Increase Stamina

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"How to Develop Stamina"

Action 1

Practice Bikram yoga. Bikram yoga is a specific type of yoga that is demanding to the cardiovascular system. This type of yoga is done in a room that is heated to about 110 degrees F. The sessions last about 1 hour or more. During one of these yoga sessions, the people in the session go through a series of postures and stretches that push the limits of endurance because of the heat and the pain.

Action 2

Start a weightlifting routine. Even though people tend to think about aerobic activities when they think about gaining stamina, the right kinds of weightlifting workouts can improve a person's muscle tone as well as his stamina. To increase stamina, free weights, fitness equipment, and your own body weight can be used. Your own body weight is used when doing exercises like push-ups and pull-ups.

Action 3

Take a hike. Although a hike can be an enjoyable experience, it also can do quite a bit to improve your stamina. Because the hike occurs in the outdoors and is often in an area that is surrounded by trees and plants that give oxygen, your lungs will be able to expand thanks to the large amount of oxygen in the air. Oxygen is healthy for the alveoli that help you breathe.

Action 4

Do Pilates. Pilates is an exercise that focuses on strengthening the core parts of the body, such as the stomach and the lower part of the back. Pilates is designed to help a person's body be more aligned. Pilates is similar to Bikram yoga in that it can be difficult, but very beneficial in increasing stamina.

Action 5

Relax. Although this seems counter-intuitive to developing stamina, the fact is that breathing deeply and taking small naps can help recharge a brain and a body enough so that it will be able to improve stamina. A person who sleeps regularly and well has a higher capacity for gaining stamina than those who do not sleep well.

Read more: How to Develop Stamina

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Need for Stamina!!

After a tiring day at work on Wednesday (23 June 2010), that evening I was planning to have a slow and easy TKD session with my usual training partner. To my surperise - my TKD master Mr. Lim mentioned that he wanted to have a sparring and conditioning training instead of the usual "all level" training.

We warm-up by playing football and then we started wearing our sparring gear. I cracked jokes with the Senior Instructor that both she and me should take a photo together as we look like a great couple in sparring gear. So cool and macho!!

I was a bit playful when the sparring practice start. My first training partner was Dawn ... it was okay ... I can take it. Then the 2nd partner ... a young Korean lady ... still can take it .... then with my TKD Master Lim ... all hell broke-out ... he was kicking and chasing me all over the training area. I was totally out of stamina and sweating like a broken water tap! Then we change partner again ... this time with Stephanie (a small size lady) - I think her maximun heigh was around my shoulder level (I am standing at about 176 - 177cm). We started sparring and counter each kick - I felt like I was negative -110% out of stamina ... then change partner again ... this time it was a guy - I "tot" I am done for it this time but surprisingly he told Master Lim that he injured his leg while training with his previous sparring partner. Happily I sat down on the mat and rest. After the sparring session - Dawn came over to me and asked why all my training partners were all female while her training partners were all male? Deep inside my heart tell me that I was very lucky ... cos' it has been almost 1 year since I stop jogging or join any conditioning training ... I just focus on wieght training and lossing weight.

The next day at work - I plug into the Internet and search to article on "stamina" ... to my surprise I come across 2 articles ... (i) How to develop stamina? and another (ii) How to increase your stamina?

I will post the above article in the coming blog!

Lesson learn from this experience ... no only I need to go for weight training, control my diet, and TKD - I also need to train on my stamina and reflex!!

Stop Working “IN” Your Martial Arts School

Here is another great tips from an "online" article about people interested in opening their own martial arts schools .... I censor some of the "sell talk" ... enjoy reading ....

Stop Working “IN” Your Martial Arts School (01 June, 2010)

 

When you started your martial arts school you were already an expert in your art. But you probably knew very little about actually running a business.

So you had to learn to do everything – the filing, bookkeeping, data entry, setting appointments, computer maintenance, etc.

You took everything on and soon found that not only were you not spending time on growing your school, you felt like you didn’t want to give up control of any part of your business to someone else.

But it is important for the growth of your school that you stop spending time on things you should not be doing – even if you are good at them and enjoy doing them!

You need to understand the importance of letting an expert handle those things that you should not be doing so you can focus more on growing your school.

You might have one or two people helping out at the dojo, but do you continue that policy consistently through out your business? Take a quick assessment:

• Do you keep your own books?
• Do you answer the phones, read your own email and mail?
• Do you handle customer service calls yourself?
• Are you the web master for your school website?
• Do you maintain your student database yourself?

 

There are many other, similar questions I could ask but I think you see my point. If you answered yes to any of these then you are still working IN your school.

 

Working IN your school is doing anything that is the day to day operations of your business.

 

Working ON your business is doing those creative things such as marketing and sales strategies, finding ways to increase student retention – anything that grows your martial arts school.

 

Most people get this – in theory. But they can’t get past it in practice. You feel stuck in that place, bogged down with day to day stuff and fires that continually need to be put out – not knowing how to get out. Not knowing where to start.

 

An example: ... You can repair your own car or computer or remodel your own kitchen but first you will have to learn which tools to use, how to use them, make mistakes, go through the whole trial and error thing – or you can hire someone to do it for you.

 

..... censor x 2 ... "just sell talk" ....