BATMAN DARK KNIGHT WORKOUT and book review or becoming batman. Part 1

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have you always wondered how Batman could do all the things he was able to do??

What would it take to become Batman?? Who strong would you have to be how long woulg you have to train? Wait traits would you need to pull this off?

To investigate whether someone like Bruce Wayne or anyone for that matter could physically transform himself into a one-man wrecking crew, I turned to my friend E. Paul Zher, associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and a 26-year practitioner of Chito-Ryu karate-do. To take on this question Paul Zher has writen a book Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero due out in October.

what would his physical abilities be like? .

Batman would win, place or show in every event in the Olympics. So he would have the ablities of an amazing athlete.

How long would it take bat man to train???

18 years+

Why such a long training time? Batman can't really afford to lose. Losing means death—or at least not being able to be Batman anymore. But another benchmark is having enough skill and experience to defend himself without killing anyone. Because that's part of his credo. It would be much easier to fight somebody if you could incapacitate them with extreme force. Punching somebody in the throat could be a lethal blow. That's pretty easy to do.
But if you're thinking about something that doesn't result in lethal force, that's more tricky. It's really hard for people to get their heads around, I think. To be that good, to not actually lethally injure anyone, requires an extremely high level of skill that would take maybe 15 to 18 years to accumulate. However it woudl only take 3-5 years to get to his level of strength.

What's a realistic training regimen?

I didn't give a training manual in my book, so you can make one up Paul, but he'd want to do specialized weight training to build up an ability to work at a really high rate for maybe 30 seconds to a minute intense invervals (the maximum time period associated with his fights).

One of the early comics shows him holding an enormous weight over his head. That's not the right kind of adaptation toward punching and kicking. He's got to make sure he's doing all the skill training at the same time so that he's actually using the (physical) adaptations he's slowly gaining. In conventional martial arts, when people take weapons training, you're doing a kind of power-strength training.

So Paul some thing like kettlebells could work well to build this type of strength. Or even trorque blades or clubs.

So what would Bruce Wayne's body look like?

I looked up what DC Comics and some other books said (about Batman's physique). I settled on the estimate that Bruce Wayne started off at about six-foot-two and 185 pounds. I gave him a body fat of 20 percent (slightly below average) and a body mass index of 26. Let's say after 10 or 15 years, after he's become the Batman, he's weighing about 210 pounds and has a body fat of 10 percent. He's probably gained 40 pounds of muscle. His bones will actually be more dense, kind of the opposite of osteoporosis.

how fast is hie reaction speed. reaction speed?

There is evidence that experts in something like football or hockey have an improved ability to perceive movement in time. In the book I use the example of Steve Nash throwing the ball, even though he can't see where the receiver of the pass is going to be. Experts are able to extract more information faster than others. It's almost like their nervous systems become more efficient.

How would Batman get enough rest?

The difficulty for Batman is he's going to be trying to sleep during the day. He's going to be really tired, actually, unless he can shift himself over to just being up at night. If he were just a nocturnal guy, he would actually be a lot healthier and have a lot better sleep than if he were doing what he does now, which is getting some light here and there. That's going to mess up his sleep patterns and duration of sleep.

How many of us do you think could become a Batman?

If you found the percentage of billionaires and multiply that by the percentage of people who become Olympic decathletes, you could probably get a close estimate. The really important thing is just how much a human being really can do. There's such a huge range of performance and ability you can tap into.

Thanks Paul for your great answers.

so tomorrow we go to the batman strength work out.