Here is an interesting article, describing the statistical study of a correlation between the capability of a person to do push-ups, and a risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD).

Some quotes:

“The findings suggest that higher baseline push-up capacity is associated with a lower incidence of CVD events. Significant negative associations were found between increasing push-up capacity and CVD events. Participants able to complete more than 40 push-ups were associated with a significantly lower risk of incident CVD event risk compared with those completing fewer than 10 push-ups.“

Karate itself is (beside many other things) a good conditioning system. Paying attention to kihon is a way to condition the body adapted for karate techniques. However, if there is a single additional exercises needed to be added to karate training, it must be push-ups.

Oss!