Hi, I am 1st degree Black Belt in Rhee Taekwondo, i joined because i wanted to lose some weight and for fitness, once i started i then start doing gym to be able to be more powerful, and also started running for lose more weight. As i progressed thru the coloured belts, i just wanted to lose more and more weight so that i could be fast enough for go for my black belt, and sure enough 32kg and 20 months later (would have been 17 months in the Master came for grading when he was meant to, which also would have meant that i would have achieved my black belt 1 month quicker than my husband). I haven't improved my flexibilty from doing this martial art, as i used to do gymnastics, but since i have start cycling i have lost some on my flexibilty because i haven't been stretching properly. The best thing to do to improve flexibility is to stretch whatever ways you can while watching TV.

I am now an assistant instructer and i teach many women that have joined to improve the lives, at the moment their goal in weight lose but i know some of them want to improve the flexibility once they've lost some of the weight

I paid $30 to became a lifetime member of Rhee Taekwondo in Australia, then i used my husbands own uniform (usually about $65) and $40/month for training fees, but if you don't go for a month you don't have to pay for that month, or if you go one night in the month then you pay about $7. However I have heard the local Karate brand charges about $100/month direct debit out of your account, and is about $100 to join and about $180 for the uniform. So check around to see what Martial Arts are around your area, and they may have a 2 nights free deal like we do.

Good luck and I hope you join some form of Martial Art, it is very injoyable.