Dead Nurves?
I have been hitting my knees with metal nunchuks on each knees about 300-350 times, i did this about 3 or 4 times, then i stoped after hearing that doing is bad and just kills the nerves and that i should just do heavy bag training. Is the time that I have done it was enough to do some serious damage that could effect me later? Becasue when i was doing it, the last few days felt like when i was hitting my knees with the metal nunchuks i felt less pain, but as i said before i stoped after 4 or 5 days of doing it. Whas that enough to do some serious damage, please post serious answers, thanks
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Nerves regenerate after a while, just give them time, and don't hit t hem with hard objects again, it'd just damage your knees and give you bumps.The way you train them is with a heavy bag, with a surface that gives in as you hit.
Closing your fist before impact equals more power?
Give yourself time to heal, then see if training with the heavy bag works.Taking Muay Thai, will that help me and some how let me use my own boxing style?
Instead trying to destroy the nerves, just control the pain in your mind.Once the knee heals from your latest attempt to condition it start using a heavy bag or sparring partners to condition the leg. Practicing hitting with the leg/knee instead hitting the leg with an object.Make the weapon (knee strike) effective first. Worry about the pain from striking something later. Cowboy up and work through the pain. Be mentally tough.
In time the pain of contact will not be a factor.
You can cause nerve damage that way. If you still have normal feeling there, you are probably OK. Training of the type you described is used in some styles but is dangerous in the long run.
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It takes only seven pounds of force to break the human knee, and even less to knock off the knee cap. Never train your knees by whacking them with solid objects. First I must state that it is physically impossible (this isn't counting chi and internal martial arts) to actually strengthen your knee bones or joints. Bones are only strong when you have a healthy diet, and then that's as strong as they get. Joints, however, DO NOT get any stronger. You must avoid damaging joints at all costs, because that is what will disable you for life. Additionally, the most important and complicated of all the joints is your knee joint, it is actually five joints combined into one designed to give us the strength and flexibility to do all the amazing things humans are capable of doing with less friction then if you rubbed ice on ice. You can only hope to toughen the outer skin and strengthen the muscles and ligaments that wrap around your knee.To strengthen the outer skin you canroll up a thick newspaper, or other rough paper, and whack yourself in the knee with enough strength so that it just stings. Do this 50 to a 100 times probably about 3 times a week, at first. Increase the number per week and the strength of the hits. It's important that you use newspaper or some other "giving" object so that even a full force hit would not do more damage than cutting the skin. When you can do this full force 100 times, 7 days a week and feel nothing and bear no marks, your skin will be pretty tough.
To strengthen the muscles use leg exercises, especially squats. You can use weight machines or barbells at a gym if you like, but it is important that the exercise motion involves bending of the knee with pressure on the leg. To strengthen muscle you need to lift a weight that you are only able to do maybe 10 repetitions at the most of, and then do three sets, with the last set probably only being 8 reps. Raise the weight as it becomes easier. Probably the best way is to strengthen your ligaments, that is the connective tissue from bone to muscle. Strong ligaments will firmly hold your muscles onto your bones thereby making your knee structure tighter and more dense. To strengthen ligaments you do the same exercises as above but with a weight that you are only able to do maybe 2 or 3 reps on, and only do like 2 sets. This tricks your body into thinking that you might pull your muscles right off of your bones (which is extremely difficult to do) so your ligaments will thicken and tighten.
Give yourself 2-3 weeks to recover from your "nunchuk training," see how you feel, and try some of these tactics.
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