The advanced group of martial arts at the Kaizen Centre Birmingham is a specific class for those students and clients who have progressed as far as black belt/instructor status. Many of these accomplished athletes have been training with Darryl Canham, the Kaizen Centre founder, for well over a decade.

Martial Arts Concepts

In this class, the systems of Karate, Aikido Te and Aikijutsu are invariably moved aside and other skill sets are explored. The levels of conditioning and fitness are pushed to much higher levels and as well as some serious graft going on, there’s plenty of challenge, camaraderie and laughter!

In this class, even more emphasis is placed upon partner and application training. It’s intense, but safe!

With over 25 years experience in developing training and conditioning strategies, our trainers can prepare a fitness plan and coach a client remotely.

As busy lives make ‘getting to the gym’ harder and harder, online personal training and performance coaching can help clients take charge of their fitness plans. This enables them to achieve their goals in a convenient and easy way, with an individual and personalised plan to fit around their lifestyle.

This not a software system. You genuinely get a one-to-one relationship with a coach. Places are limited.

Personalised Personal Training!

A plan is developed from an initial consultation regarding ambitions, lifestyle habits and expectations. This will include a thoroughly considered monthly exercise programme, including rest and recovery advice, programme modifications and measurement tools. Nutritional advice and motivation is all part of the service!

International Online Trainer

We currently have online clients as far as Valencia and Barcelona, as well as on our doorstep in Birmingham.

This flexible and tailored system of training means that you are not tied to time, but you will be driven to get the most from your programme. Options for gym, home and outdoor training can easily be included into a plan to ensure that when travelling, be it business or pleasure, there’s simply no holding you back!

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Our local clients often head into the Kaizen Centre once a month or once every few months to establish correct technique and form, to measure progress and to fully develop their understanding of the programme ahead.

Phone, text and Skype support is there when you need it. Let’s get to it!

What is HIIT?

High Intensity Interval Training is a foundation form of training here at the Kaizen Centre Birmingham. It’s found in our martial arts classes and certainly in the MetCon Fitness sessions. But as it’s such a popular global fitness term and a much loved and hated style of training, we’ve given it it’s very own page and place in the schedule.

You’ll be alternating between moderate and high intensity levels of exercise, raising your heartbeat during the high effort phase and then taking short periods of recovery to increase the efficiency of your energy systems.
The sessions, include a thorough warm up, mobility, tuition of correct exercise technique, then…. We HIIT it!

What’s great is that the class itself is shorter, because of its intensity. Perfect for a lunchtime blast and giving you a guilt free evening off.

HIIT Classes Birmingham

Every session is different and will tax your mind, body and spirit to new levels!
Beginners are encouraged to have a go, but start by working within their limits. And the results are great: Overall body conditioning, fat burning, metabolism booster and a full on buzz after a session. Just make sure you bring a towel!

From a performance enhancement point of view, HIIT style training has been around for a long time and is utilised by sportsmen and sportswomen across all disciplines. So if you want to be like the best.. Train like them!

Kinesiology taping was first introduced by acupuncturists and chiropractors in Japan and now is used by health and performance specialists around the world to treat injuries and improve athletic and functional performance.

Whether you’re an injured elite athlete, an aching gym goer, an office worker struggling with workplace mechanics or a senior citizen with mobility issues, Rocktape can bring great benefits in pain relief, recovery and performance.

RockTape can help alleviate pain.

Taping can interfere with pain signals, ‘turning down’ the pain that injury causes.

Decompression of an inflamed or swollen area.

By lifting the skin and the layers beneath it, the by-products of inflammation can be more easily removed from the area, again relieving pain and promoting recovery.

Taping can delay the onset of fatigue.

Research has shown that particularly during a rehabilitation phase of training, RockTape helps pick up the lack of strength that injured and surrounding areas can exhibit.

Balancing and normalising muscle tone.

Injury and illness can throw the whole body out of synch, switching muscles on and off, out of their normal firing sequence. Taping can bring an inert muscle back to life and calm down a muscle that is simply overcompensating for another, restoring balance and function to normal levels.

RockTape’s unique 180% elasticity, allows for more movement than other taping products.

This allows for a fuller range of motion and a better distribution of load and physical stresses.

With a vast array of experience in fitness coaching and in business, there is the opportunity to work with a variety of coaches, mentors and professional people who can help propel you to a new level of ability and sports performance, self confidence, health and fitness, people who can facilitate changes in lifestyle through motivation strategy, life coaching, even business and stress management practice.

Kaizen Centre Birmingham

Kaizen Centre is all about continuous improvement in all aspects of life. Full Stop!

Lifestyle will mean something different to everyone. You choose your ambition and if we can help get your there, we will do our best. And if it’s beyond us on site, we have sport psychologists and life and performance coaches who are fully equipped with skills to evolve your ambitions into realities.

Kaizen Self-Defence is a strand of the Kaizen Centre developed because of the need for quality corporate self defence courses.

We have worked with many companies and institutions around the midlands to provide various styles of course to differing groups of people.

The Dance Clinic is an associated brand to the Kaizen Centre and operates both from the performance centre itself and it’s own studio on Carver Street. With a wealth of experience in the dance industry, the team works with companies and schools, with dancers of all ages and styles and offers injury repair and rehabilitation, as well as dance specific strength and conditioning programmes.

Dance injury treatment

We don’t do dance! We do dance performance enhancement! Team members have vast experience working as integral members of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, both as performers, performance enhancement coaches and injury specialists. Like all athletes, dancers of all ages who work at their limits will get injured and need a sound strategy and development plan to get them back to the top of their game.

The Kenjutsu and Iaido classes stands alone at the Kaizen Centre, as a niche interest class for enthusiast practitioners of the budo arts.

Iaido Birmingham

Non-combative martial arts, the practice of Japanese sword technique and methods and the art of drawing and cutting are both deeply rooted with tradition and spirited practice.

Whilst much homage is paid to the historical roots of the subject, these styles of swordsmanship have been evolved into a more modern cinematic style of practice.

Kenjutsu Birmingham

Forms (kata) are used to create precision cutting and control against imagined opposition, bringing the forms to life and ensuring that each type of cut and technique has relevance in the arena of imagined combat.

Beginners start with a wooden sword (bokken) and eventually can progress to the use of a blunt edged sword (iaito) as their ability grows and their technical prowess improves.

Iaido and Kenjutsu are profoundly spirited and self-reflecting subjects, but when combined with a flair for fight choreography and a bit of imagination, the forms and practice really come to life and brings modernity and excitement to a traditional budo martial art.

The Kaizen Centre has an on-site treatment room and operates an injury clinic as Elite Injury Solutions.

Elite specialise in the repair and rehabilitation of all manner of chronic and performance hindering injuries.

From injuries occurred during training and competition to longer term legacy issues and issues suffered from the things like RTAs and impacts, twists and falls, Elite can not only assess the issue and it’s root cause for treatment.

It also has a network of high skilled and recommended Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, Surgeons and other healthcare practitioners to whom they can refer if the issue needs greater investigation and further diagnosis.

PURE Combatives is a Self-Defence class designed to teach you the fundamentals and advancements of self-protection and intervention skills. Active and experiential, you’ll get to learn and practice all kinds of movement patterns, avoidance skills, grab releases, counter and pre-emptive strikes, appropriate kicks, throws and more. Suitable for both men and women.

Self defence classes in Birmingham

This is not martial arts. It’s not competitive. It’s practical, useable knowledge and skills that could be a lifesaver one day!

If traditional styles are not for you and you want to progress under a more relaxed structure, this is the class for you.

It’s for anyone who wants to learn how to protect themselves, to establish positive lifestyle habits, to prevent encounters and to feel more prepared and switched on should there be a future incident. Training is dynamic and we put the graft in!

Partner training is the core basis of the session, the application of skill and technique as well as combat fitness workouts, pad work and situation simulation drills.

Personal safety skills

We stress that this is not an intimidating class and those less confident or beginning their training can start at any time and will be under the guidance of an instructor who will help them build both a great foundation of combative principles and their self confidence.

Once a person is keen to up the ante, we create drills and situations where their knowledge is tested and put under a little pressure to ensure best practice and the appropriate reactions to threat and attack.

Learning self defence

No-one is going to get it right 100% of the time and everyone improves through the discovery of their own fallibilities. Mistakes are our best source of learning, we train, analyse, discover and train again.

As well as it’s serious side and the stressed importance of the reasons behind learning, the culture of fun and camaraderie make the lessons non-intimidating and the students and instructors alike get stuck into the enjoyment of a really interesting subject.

For those motivated by personal achievement, there is the ability to be certificated all the way to instructor level.