There are types of not so intense stuff can be added in. I.e. technique training (forms, drills,etc), yoga, meditation, static stances (horse stance, zhan zhuang), or swimming. They all help and will not damage your body much. You can literally do horse stance (actually really intense but not in harmful way) for hours to increase your leg straight and agility and does no damage to joints if done properly. Do technique drills really slowly as you can feel all the excess energy used and gradually reduce it.
Being young, one can recover quicker from injuries and train more. However, small injuries add up very quickly. Over time they become old injuries due to lack of proper treatment and rest. Then those old injuries and strains will lead to a major blow out that will end your fighting days early.
Health is most important. Take it slowly with the intense stuff. Do the boring stuff. Itll save you a lot of injuries and you will be surprised at how helpful they are to a fighter. Theres so much more to training as a fighter than what is usually used.
Yes, it is too much especially when you start out after a prolong hiatus.
You need to rethink this. To be the best at anything is not a simple matter of quantity of training. Practicing 5-7 hours is totally a waste if you did not concentrate during all that time to do it right. You are thinking of "practice makes perfect" which is totally false. It is perfect practice that makes perfect.
You are also ignoring some facts with regard to health and fitness. Whenever you workout strenuously, it causes muscles and body tissues to wear down or breakdown. Training like exercises of any type does not build up - it is the rest you get that rebuilds and heals your body and in effect makes it stronger because your body likes to over repair damages so long as you provide it with good nutrition and get enough rest. If you train 5-7 hours everyday, you are never going to get enough rest so your body will never recover but steadily get weaker until something serious breaks down which is what an injury is. And one day of rest out of 7 is not going to work either.
The point is not just to work hard for your dream. This point is to do it SMART. It means to educate yourself to all the aspects of health and fits in addition to your martial art studies. It means to train smart and use your time efficiently so you get the most even with just 1 or 2 hours of training. Any fool can do something 1000 times a day, but what good is that if it is not done right? And even if you were able to do it right 90% of the time which means you messed up 100 times out of 1000, what happens if you messed up just once against an opponent in a match? Compare this to someone who trains totally focused on doing it right 50 times every time.
You are 15 going on 50. This is typical of someone your age who believes life is somehow passing you by, but in reality it has not. I know because I remember feeling like that at your age. You need to take a good real look at your life's plan and temper it with patience. You need to THINK how to do it right and the smart way because any other way is the long way.
Since you are going to be out of practice for a year, use that time to study and learn all you can about staying healthy. Start out by starting EACH day with a plan and a goal. Slowly and steadily work on rehab your injury according to whatever regiment your physical therapist gave you.
Nope, I used to train around 6 hours a day and aside from some bruises it was great. However, just be sure your doctor gives you the go ahead first, you don't want to ruin you career before it starts. Amituofo.
Nope. In China average training is 6-8 hours for a healthy person (not an injured one) and that is not even working for a championship. Just normal training.
Make sure you ease your way into your training. If you get re-injured it will be more of a set back again.
So be careful not to rush into it too fast.
Train smart. Not hard.
You're body needs to rest. If you don't let it rest, I guarantee you'll never make it because you didn't give your body time to build.
5-7 hours a day is too much
5-7 hours, 6 times per week on a yearly basis is way too much....Professional top athletes have an average of 23 hours per week training, for 7 years before they reach there....
You need to listen to your doctor. Depending on the injury, depends on whether it can take that amount if training.
Train what your teacher/coach says to train.
At your age though it does sound like a lot.
Training that much won't help you. It would just make you an idiot and worse.
My dream is to become a pro MMA fighter, one of the best in the World, and I know I have to Work extremely hard if thats ever going to happen. I didn't wrestle as a kid, I didn't train karate as a kid, I started at 15 years old, and now I'm injuried and I can first start when I'm 16?.
So... That sucks. I want to start as soon as I can and I feel I Waste my time right now, because of that damn injury. I'm thinking of, when I come back, I'll train 5-7 hours a day, but.. Is that too much? I want to be very good at all the elements in MMA, but is it overtraining if I start out after a year with training 5-7 hours 6 days a week?
