Growth Mindest: The Power Of Yet mindset /ˈmʌɪn(d)sɛt/ noun 1. the established set of attitudes held by someone. One of the most important elements in success is your mindset. As a martial arts student, it can be very easy to feel a lack of progression. Students can often feel frustrated by a bad training...
New Junior Classes Starting Soon… We try to give our members the best possible experience every time they walk through the Academy doors. Our classes are always fun, educational, and energetic. Our staff are friendly, approachable and aim to solve any of your problems before they arise. And our facility is always clean, tidy, and well...
30 Exercises You Can Do Anywhere One of the most common excuses I hear from people why they can’t exercise is they don’t have the right equipment or can’t get to the gym. In reality, the human body is the only piece of equipment you need to do a killer workout. This short video (1 min 34 sec)...
A Letter On Balancing Needs One of the most challenging aspects of running a professional martial arts school is balancing the needs of everyone involved. We must balance the needs of a business, the needs of the student, the needs of the coaching team and in the case of our younger students, the...
Improving Our Training Environment If you’ve been into the academy recently you may have noticed a new addition to the training areas. There are flags between the two gyms. I wanted to take this opportunity to explain why we’ve put these up. Our goal is to provide the best possible training environment for our students. An...
Review from Chaddlewood Primary School A few weeks ago instructors from Masters Academy Plymouth took part in the Chaddlewood Primary Schools activity week. They taught the small groups of students some basic martial arts techniques and introduced them to some of the benefits martial arts has to offer. Here is a review from one of...
Kick This Summer Off With A Bang Whether you want to lose weight, build muscle, learn self defence or just get out of the house and do something good for yourself, our Kickstart Programme will help! We’ve put together an 8 Week Adult Programme to encourage people like you to get into martial arts...
High Intensity Training or Slow, Steady State Cardio: Kickboxing The growth of CrossFit as a form of exercise in popular culture reflects a new fitness craze: high intensity interval training, or HIIT. If you’ve hit the gym in recent months you might recognise the acronym: right now, it’s the biggest fad in fitness. There’s no...
Kids Martial Arts Summer Camp 2015 To date we have run over 10 highly successful martial arts holiday camps and we can honestly say that this years is going to be the BEST ONE YET! This year we are holding 2 camps: Camp 1: 28th / 29th / 30th July Camp 2: 25th / 26th...
Kickboxing for Fun and Fitness: Cardio that isn’t miserable. One of the reasons that so many people fall off the fitness wagon is because motivation, for most people, is not a renewable resource. In general, motivation spikes when someone starts a workout regimen, and then slowly tapers off as the workout becomes stale. This is...
