Hi all, new to the forum and looking for some advice.

I am trying to gain some fitness before I start martial arts classes. I have started reading Master Wong Kiew Kit's art of Shaolin book and he says one should be able to do horse stance for 5 minutes before you even start classes.

At first I struggled to do 30 seconds, after about a week of training I have increased my time to 3 minutes. However yesterday my legs felt dead, I am struggling to do 1 minute 30 seconds now. Should I rest for a day? or should I practise everyday, if i should practise everyday how should i break up my training, for example how many minutes in total a day should I be in the horse stance?

hope that made some sense. look forward to your replies. Thanks