For example, many of the stretching and limbering exercises that martial arts classes practice during warm-ups are derived from yoga, and these work on joints, tendons and muscles. With these ...

Wooden martial-arts sticks, ... The class includes stretches and yoga exercises — down dog, child’s pose, cobra, Figure 4, bridge, sit-ups and many others.

Monday: Weights (maximum strength) + technical training in martial arts. Tuesday: Yoga or stretching + flexibility and mobility work. Wednesday: Complementary sports (swimming or climbing ...

What it’s like: Students prepare for class with traditional martial arts stretches, which entail warming the muscles in the ankles by rolling them in their sockets clockwise and counterclockwise.