In many martial arts and in some chinese exercises they promote hitting your body on places such as your kidneys and your heart, how healthy is this for your body? I know that bones grow stronger under stress, is this the same for muscles, and if so is this also true for your organs in some way???
Hitting your body?
This wouldn't be something I'd recommend. There have been some cases of sudden cardiac death after a blow directly to the chest (such as a baseball), so I'd say for sure not to purposely strike the heart. As for the kidneys you could end up bruising them, which could impair function temporarily ( I think permanent damage could result if there were enough bleeding).
As far as strengthening your muscles resistance would be a wiser choice. (Such as weight lifting.) You can't "strengthen" your kidneys, and hitting your heart won't strengthen it, you improve the health and function of your heart just by doing regular aerobic activity that causes your heart rate to increase.
If you decide to do these exercises please make sure you are under the supervision of a very well trained specialist. Good luck and good health!
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