Taekwondo is different from general sports activities, doing intense activities makes the amount of calories burned per hour 600, and to lose one pound of weight 3500 calories are burned, so if you practice one hour a day you can lose one pound in a week.
Kickboxing is different from weight exercises that show strength, not conditioning large, prominent muscles. Rather, it turns weak fatty tissue into muscle, making the body light and agile.
The muscles developed through weight exercise pull apart the gaps between blood vessels, and since the number of blood vessels remains the same, new blood vessels cannot be replenished between the dilated ones. The result is that difficulties occur in removing excretions from the body through oxygen absorption and blood flow. Therefore, unnecessarily large muscles should be worked to grow into flexible muscles so that the body gets more blood and improves maximum staying power and health.
The practice of Taekwondo is to make the muscles of the lower abdomen stronger by kicking, flashing the waist, attacking or defending with one hand so that the other hand is pulled in the opposite direction. Moreover, by the action of lifting and kicking, exercise the muscles of the side waist and inner thighs.
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Taekwondo is especially good for women for the reason that as mentioned above it can fully exercise the lower abdomen and waist as well as the thighs, evenly developing the muscles of the whole body and keeping women young and beautiful. Taekwondo can restore the sagging abdomen and waist, as well as the muscles of the inner thighs, after childbirth, and has a unique effect on rebuilding a healthy body and a balanced body shape. In this way, Taekwondo is the most ideal martial art for maintaining health and female beauty.
In addition, Taekwondo has the following benefits by increasing the pulse rate and increasing the oxygen demand of the heart and lungs over a long period of time through scientific training and extensive whole body exercises.
- 1. makes sleep restful and easy to eliminate excrement.
- 2. Strengthens the heart and is able to resist any shock.
- 3. Supply more oxygen and make body tissues healthier.
- 4. Increases blood supply, especially increases red blood cells and hematocrit.
- 5. Dilates blood vessels, reduces resistance to blood flow and lowers blood pressure in the heart dilator.