426 - Stop 2: Functional strength building drills
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The following solo and partner exercises are to build not only muscle strength but also ligament and tendon strength from the fingers to the upper arms and shoulders.
Each drill has several variations to increase the potential for strength development as well as extensive notes with important performance points for quick mastery.
The partner drill also benefits from not suffering the abstraction of some athletic conditioning ideas that, while effective, fail to resemble certain instances or possibilities of physical fighting.
The main area of interest here is to give task-specific strength for hand-contact fighting, specifically grabs using the quality known as crushing strength that looks at the following problems ( but obviously has great carry-over use to other aspects of fighting including striking).
The Force Necessary “Stop Two” problem area of:
Fingers to fingers
Hands grabbing fingers and hands
Hands grabbing wrists and the proximal part of the forearm.
There are also varied weapon grabs and other problems to consider here as well as separate ideas like weaponising clothing, striking and the mauling of skin/flesh, and so on.
Exercises for building functional strength
The first idea is a very cheap and effective solo drill and leads on from another conditioning idea found in my book “Self Defence - volume two”.