overstreched muscle, fixed with massage

basically, i drift away with my thoughts while working out, then i start doing pull ups and "pumping" my way through repetitions withouth taking care to descend and pull myself up without excessive, erratic motions

when my joints are most worn, I do isometric calisthenics

they are brutal but very easy on joints

if I had to boil it down to one sentence, the key to making calisthenics not gay is to do isometrics

holding half a push up for 5 minutes is infinity times harder than just doing 200 of them

and less taxing on joints

before retiring

my secret to developing self-confidence in combat

it really does approach weight lifting levels of hardassness if done right

strenghten your forearm !

yeah

I do grip exercises every pull day

what are you, military? MMA? boxing?

I'm sort of self-taught in boxing for years

boxing

Though I'm looking towards possibility of learning a proper martial technique

what does that mean

"proper martial technique"

Boxing is done within confined set of rules which are excellent to learn striking properly

But are not as applicable to real life as other techniques

you genuinely believe boxing is not as applicable to real life as some martial art from asia?

on what basis do you believe that

Boxing has a strictly limited sense of blocking

Due to wearing large boxing gloves which aid in blocking strikes towards your face

IRL you have open fists

what was the worst you fucked someone up in boxing

I've never "fucked someone up" in my connotation of the phrase

because your thought process here is giving me doubts

I see

okay then

I mean... I don't know how to say it... you are aware, right, that gang bangers are hospitalizing and killing people regularly with no more than boxing and high school wrestling

just knowing basic western fight sports can literally make you a ghetto warlord

True that

but take into account

that anybody who has a really developed, powerful strike

Muay Thai and jewjitsu are a good combo

is a warlord for anybody without any practice

Agree with exi that boxing and wrestling are enough tho

because even the msot simple strike can be devastating to someone who is clueless in fighting

so basically you are going on the theory that somewhere some secret master exists who would kill all of detroit singlehandedly