Tampa (BLOOM) – Martial arts have long been associated with self-defense and combat skills. However, the benefits of martial arts training extend far beyond the physical ability to defend oneself.

Walkers, runners, swimmers, bikers and practitioners of other sports usually tout their top benefits as stamina, weight loss and muscle tone. But when Bradenton’s Marshall Gier, 20, was asked to share ...

When I was an undergraduate in the late 1980s, I did several research projects on the physiology of martial arts. At that time, there was literally only a handful of published scientific research on ...