how to increase my kicking speed and more powerful?
hi all... im doing taekwondo...(green belt lv.2)
and im gona increase my kicking speed and the powerr...
what exercises may help???
or u have any idea for it??
im 190 pounds
This subject comes up often. Here is something I wrote on the subject of speed.
Speed depends on several things.
1) The fastest techniques are the ones where the body is as relaxed as possible just before the technique is executed. Any tension is the muscles that are used before the technique is launched will hinder its speed.
2) All movements involve two kinds of muscles the muscles that do the movement are known as the agonistic muscles. The muscles that hinder the movement are called the antagonistic muscles. In kicking and example is the front snap kick. When kicking the muscles doing most of the work are the muscles on the front of the thigh(agonistic). the muscles on the back of the leg are the antigonistic muscles. To have a fast front kick, you must tense the agonistic muscles as fast as possibles and at the same time relax the antagonistic muscles so that they do not hinder the movement. In reality other muscles are use for the kick too but lets keep it simple for now.
The problem is that there is no quick way to teach the muscles to be tense or relaxed. What you can do is to practice slowly and concentrate on doing the movement exactly as it should be. Over time you can slowly increase the speed of the kick. Over time your kicks will get better. As I said there are no shortcuts. Be sure to stretch too since this will effect speed as well.
Power can be increased by increasing the speed of a technique. Physics states that if an object doubles its speed the force(power) increases by a factor of 4. So if you double your speed your power increases by 2 X 2 or 4our times. If it was possible to triple your speed your power would increase by 9 times (3 squared or 3 X 3).
Even small increases in average speed will increase power a good deal. Say you only increase you speed by 25% then the increase in power would be 1.25 squared or 1.5625 times more power.
Hope this helps!
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