Benefits of Karate
Benefits of Karate
Fitness and Overall Health: Karate training improves flexibility, strength, coordination, and endurance of an individual. Karate's punches, thrusts, kicks, blocks, sweeps and throws tones the whole body in an explosive and dynamic workout.
Stress Reduction: In addition to the stress reducing benefits of any physical activity, Karate also improves concentration and awareness of mental attitudes that can cause stress.
Self-Confidence: While all physical activities improves feelings of well-being, Traditional Karate places special emphasis on building character, and focuses on increasing self-confidence, awareness, and perseverance through repetitive physical and mental exercises.
Self-Defense: Traditional Karate is the best martial art for self-defense because it focuses on actual defense skills rather than sport oriented techniques that are found to be impractical and inefficient in actual combative situations.
Physical benefits include:
Cardiovascular exercise
Coordination
Flexibility
Self-defense
Stress relief
Aerobic activity
Develop quicker reflexes
Plyometric explosiveness
Mental benefits include:
Self-discipline
Perseverance
Humility
Responsibility
Self-esteem
Self-confidence
Awareness
Practicality in judgment
