Ask Yourself Better Questions
Do you ever talk to yourself? Of course you do. I don’t mean the talking out loud like the crazy lady down the street talking to yourself, I mean the normal everyday conversation that goes on inside your head. Ever notice that most of your thinking is done in the form of asking yourself a…
Life Advice from Musashi
If you are not already familiar, Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, c. 1584 – June 13, 1645) is arguably one of Japan’s most famous swordsmen. He is the author of Go Rin No Sho, or The Book of 5 Rings, one of the most widely read yet probably least understood guides to strategy ever written. The Book of…
What Muscles Does This Work?
As humans we have a unique, sometimes almost obsessive need to catalog, categorize, and label things. Exercise is no different. In the midst of a tough workout session, almost invariably someone will suddenly stop and ask the pressing question – “by the way, what muscles is this working?” Why do our brains do this? In…
Become Unreasonable
Being reasonable gets you mediocrity. Being reasonable gets you the status quo. Nothing great has ever been achieved by men and women who were reasonable. Every major (and most minor) human achievement has been accomplished by unreasonable people. It was unreasonable of Thomas Edison to fail over 10,000 times before creating the incandescent electric light…
You Are Already Masterful!
A long time ago, Socrates said, “Learning is remembering.” Famously, Michelangelo “saw” David trapped within a solid block of marble. According to him, he did not so much sculpt David, but rather liberated him from the prison of stone. What if you too are already a masterpiece that is simply trapped inside your own block…
The 3 Paths of Warrior Fitness
The 3 Paths of the Warrior There are 3 Paths of the Warrior, along with the 4 Levels of Preparation, that form the basis of the entire training system. While each path is unique with its own individual strategies, methods, and characteristics, they are also so deeply interconnected that the sum of the whole system…
Ninja Nutrition Manifesto
As a big thank you to my readers for all your support and feedback, I have put together a new guide to nutrition that I am giving away here! Introducing the Ninja Nutrition Manifesto – Assassinating Poor Eating Habits One Person at a Time! To download, please click Ninja Nutrition Manifesto <<======= Also, as a bonus check…
4 Levels of Preparation in Warrior Fitness
There are 4 levels of preparation within the Warrior Fitness Training System that are used to create a complete, comprehensive training program. In any complete training program they flow from one level to the next and back again effectively blurring the lines between them. This allows the trainee a more holistic approach to training and accelerates…
Where Do You Locate Your Control?
Ever feel like everything is spiraling out of control? Like the only thing that actually responds to you the way you want it to is your TV remote, and lately even that is on the fritz? How do you reign it all in? The answer is simpler than you think… Internal of External? Your locus…
Primum Non Nocere
“First, Do No Harm” This fundamental precept of medical ethics should apply equally, and perhaps even more so, to the fitness industry. We, as trainers and coaches, who are dispensing knowledge, skill, and advice to our clients and the general public should be held to the same ethical standard as the medical community to first,…
Lost Empire Herbs
