In Delhi NCR Knockout
Fight Club is a reigning champion which aims at empowering individuals from
various walks of life and helping everyone to be a better version of
themselves.
At
Knockout Fight Club one can learn self defense, Pro and Amature MMA , Wrestling
, Tae Kwon do and many other forms of combat arts.
Muscle memory is a common
phrase that people go to to explain why they are so good at martial arts, and
although this sweeping term often is misused, it is a useful way to help
contextualize what is going on in your body after hours and hours of training.
Through repetition of a set of muscular actions, that muscle (or group of
muscles) will eventually react to a stimulus in a predictable and reliable way.
It is as if those muscles have ‘remembered’ what to do and the movements become
automatic. But in reality, it is still your brain doing the work and many argue
that it’s not muscle memory at all, but just regular memory that skips your
conscious side to get shit done. As Master Onion from Parappa The Rapper might
say – muscle memory it’s all in the mind!
Our muscles are controlled
by our motor system (the brain, neurons and muscles) and when we want to move a
muscle the brain send a message to those muscles and asks them to contract.
Repetitive patterns like walking or blinking eventually become unconscious
actions, controlled by the brain but with no conscious input needed.
When we learn a new skill
or a new fighting style in the gym, this is what can happen too. Right right
left enough and you’ll do it without thinking. Just one order from your
conscious brain and bam bam bam, right right left in perfect succession. Other
skills take a lot longer to master, and some are just impossible to master to
such a degree, but that all depends on what type of communication exists in
your brain as an individual.
In reality, fighting
techniques are more likely related to motor memory than muscle memory but we
won’t bore you with the science. The truth of the matter is, is that everyone
who learns martial arts has some degree of muscle memory after they train for
long enough, and this has two major benefits.
Firstly, although you (on
the most part) have to consciously think about that next strike, once the order
has been made your body can react in a split second without you having to
think. Secondly, it frees up conscious space for you to begin learning and
mapping another strike or technique that can then one day become an unconscious
action too.
In martial arts, the
quicker you can attack the better. So if your muscles are poised to go, then
you’ll have nothing to get in the way of that perfect strike, each and every
time. There’s a reason that repetition is so important in martial arts.
Just remember, to have
good muscle memory, you need good muscles so don’t forget leg day and hit the
gym hard to energize those guns of yours and get practicing. Repetition is one
of the pillars of martial arts too, so relish it and don’t resent it, your
muscles will be proud and you’ll find yourself using techniques efficiently and
spontaneously in the ring, further improving your game no end.
In order to adopt these
features in training one can join any of our regular classes at our gyms across
Delhi , Gurgaon and Noida.
We
have over 10 gyms currently in Delhi NCR.
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