Intelligent Tension For Striking
How intelligent is your usage of tension in striking? All too often in training our punching and kicking techniques, we find what I’ve come to label as “dumb tension”. This is used by martial artists across the board either accidentally through lack of understanding of how the body should work, or taught and passed down from…
The Importance Of Isometrics
Thanks to Benjamin Bergman for this great guest post! In most training methods, you learn to train the big muscles in the major muscle groups or for most in the gym, they isolate the muscle to a certain degree. Many neglect those little muscles that keep you intact and help avoid injuries. When you do your…
Healing Yourself With Mobility – Part 2
Healing and Protecting the Lower Back Guest blog post by Eric Guttmann, U.S. Navy Officer, Author, Fitness Enthusiast and More! In my last article I mentioned how I healed a sprained ankle myself using joint mobility. Now whenever something happens I can quickly and easily fix it myself. For example I was training my heavy…
My Heavy Metal Strength Meditation
Guest blog post by Eric Guttmann, U.S. Navy Officer, Author, Fitness Enthusiast and More! Its amazing what you can pick up when you are paying attention. At the 2012 Super Human Workshop I overheard Bud Jeffries tell one of the participants that if she wanted to get conditioned to work up to 50 tire flips. …
Little Dragon
I just finished watching, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, for probably the 10th time since it came out in 1993. It still amazes me that in such a short life, Bruce was only 32 when he died, he was able to have such a huge impact on the world. Bruce was my childhood hero. The…
Healing Yourself with Mobility Part 1
Guest blog post by Eric Guttmann, U.S. Navy Officer, Author, Fitness Enthusiast and More Healing an Ankle Sprain I frequently attend health, youthing, anti-aging, and training seminars along with travels all over the world regarding health practices. I always make it a point to ask both presenters and experts in the audience what is…
The Holy Grail of Training
Guest blog post by Eric Guttmann, U.S. Navy Officer, Author, Fitness Enthusiast and More Being in the Navy allows you to meet a lot of interesting people with different backgrounds, training experience and skills sets. One thing that you come away with when interacting with people who are doing the tough, physically demanding jobs that…
Time to Reorganize Priorities
I spent all morning today running around with my 4 year old doing a bunch of errands. We went to Story Time at Barnes & Noble (she loves that!), then to the bank, to the post office (where I shipped out one of the last paperback copies of Warrior Fitness: Conditioning for Martial Arts!), then…
Why Should YOU Train Like A Warrior?
Upon hearing the name of my gym, Warrior Fitness Gym, and my 30 year martial arts background, many people become hesitant and ask me, “Do I need to be a martial artist to train with you? Do I have to be a warrior?” The answer to the first question is no and the answer to…
Why Eating Bitter is so Sweet
The Chinese martial arts have an expression, chi ku, which means to “eat bitter” or “eating bitterness”. It is frequently used by the master to express to the students training under him the fact that if they want to become masters of the art in their own right, they must suffer first. The training is…
Lost Empire Herbs
