Tip. #1 Warm up with slow motion exercise and speed up gradually as you loosen up. This process has become more important as I've gotten older. Before and after an exercise session, you should perform a general stretch routine to help break up adhesions and feed muscles with blood to help speed recovery. The combination of flexibility and strength together will make a significant difference in effecting your technical performance. As strength training builds muscle it limits overall range of motion. Stretching can counter this effect by limbering up muscles as they become larger.

Tip. #2 It may be necessary to reshape your attitude and perspective. In our cravings for perfection, we sometimes place a heavy emphasis on rank, titles, or goals that don't necessarily relate to meaningful life-goals. Aim higher at achieving a sense of over-all health and self esteem in addition to competitive rigors. It's easy to avoid what is necessary to take care of yourself and to take short cuts. Martial arts are a discipline, which should compliment your lifestyle of fitness and long life. Instead of rationalizing your un-healthy choices or using past accomplishments as an excuse for not making effort, take responsibility for yourself. In other words, exercise accountability.

Tip. #3 Martial arts are generally not most efficient aerobic activity. This is primarily because as you get better at it, you learn to pace yourself during execution of moves. Stacked against other aerobic exercises, martial arts activity scores low because practitioner is usually not in constant motion. So, change that by engaging in non-stop aerobic exercise for 30 minutes at least three times a week. Your heart will love you. To avoid boredom and gain maximum calorie burning, try to diversify your sessions every week or two. In violent conditions, normal breathing is altered which can adversely affect your performance. Good conditioning is not only beneficial for your physical well-being, but also reduces panic, distress, and anxiety.

Self-Stimulation For those who are rageaholics, expressing anger is self- stimulating. It triggers compulsion for more anger. For example, let’s pretend that we are going to provide treatment for alcoholics. On way to treatment center we stop and buy a case of beer. When we get to meeting, we tell alcoholics in therapy that they just need to do a lot of drinking to get it out of their system once and for all. This is similar to when therapist tell men with rage problems, “You just need to express yourself and get it out of your system.” It is just as absurd. The more alcoholics drink, more they want. The more ragers rage, more they want to rage.

Compulsion Anger addiction or “rageaholism” is compulsive pursuit of a mood change by repeatedly engaging in episodes of rage despite adverse consequences. Rageaholics continue to rage compulsively without regard to negative consequences. Compulsion or loss of control is inability to stop expressing anger once we have begun. The inability to control angry words is a certain sign of rageaholism. Loss of control--that is addiction.

Obsession Rageaholics are frequently preoccupied with resentment and fantasies of revenge. Those thoughts sometimes rise powerfully and allow no other thoughts to enter. The force of anger is sometimes irresistible and followed by action. Therefore, preoccupation with “wrongs” of others and revenge continually leads to rage. Progressively, these thoughts crowd out all others until our life becomes chronically revenge-oriented. At that point, anger controls our thoughts.