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bifco
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Wasn't sure where to post this question so thought i would post it here. Is there anyway that a person could raise their pain threshold?
I do Goju Ryu Karate and we do several conditioning exercises that I don't think raise your pain threshold, but teach you what you body can and cant take - or what pain you can ignore and what pain you need to pay attention to and stop training.
Some of the exercises include performing a regular block with your partner facing you and blocking in the opposite direction, so your forarms clash. If you do it hard and repeatedly it bruises, but after several sessions you will find you can take more punishment to the blocking part of your arm for longer and with greater impact.
Another example is both of you doing low kicks into shins or thighs. Don't do it fast with the intent to hurt your partner of course, but make sure it lands with a thud.
Basically keep up with training, doing exercises like these and hitting punching bags etc. This will not only build up muscle and an impact tolerance, but I have read that over time (a long time) it also encourages the body to increase bone density. This is why martial artists can break bricks, and rugby players can take tackles that would seriously injure a normal person.
The key, as with everything else fitness related, is to keep on training, and eventually the body will respond to the additional weight you are asking it to push, or the greater impacts you are asking it to take.
I do Goju Ryu Karate and we do several conditioning exercises that I don't think raise your pain threshold, but teach you what you body can and cant take - or what pain you can ignore and what pain you need to pay attention to and stop training.
Some of the exercises include performing a regular block with your partner facing you and blocking in the opposite direction, so your forarms clash. If you do it hard and repeatedly it bruises, but after several sessions you will find you can take more punishment to the blocking part of your arm for longer and with greater impact.
Another example is both of you doing low kicks into shins or thighs. Don't do it fast with the intent to hurt your partner of course, but make sure it lands with a thud.
Basically keep up with training, doing exercises like these and hitting punching bags etc. This will not only build up muscle and an impact tolerance, but I have read that over time (a long time) it also encourages the body to increase bone density. This is why martial artists can break bricks, and rugby players can take tackles that would seriously injure a normal person.