Got Some Spare Time? Try Isometrics!
If you’re like me and can’t stand to waste any amount of time no matter how short, you’ll love how isometrics can fill in some strength gaps. Nowadays, my days are jam-packed full with work, meetings, conference calls, networking, family time, training time, teaching time, writing time, and oh yeah – a little sleeping in…
Yoga for Guitar Players
This is an article I wrote last year for my friend, Josh Sager’s kick-ass guitar blog, Fretterverse. I hope my Warrior Fitness readers enjoy it as well! Every guitar player knows that consistent practice is the key to becoming great. But what happens when your daily practice is causing you daily aches and pains? Give…
16 Minutes of Pure Torture
Hope the catchy title got your attention! Today we’re going to do a fun workout based on the Tabata Protocol. If you are not familiar with Tabata, please check out the Warrior Fitness Tabata Primer found here, What’s Tabata You? I highly suggest you warm up before doing this workout. In fact, I insist on…
What’s Hindering Your Performance?
What’s sapping your energy and, unbeknownst to you, hindering your performance in martial arts, athletics, or simply the daily art of living, working, and taking care of your family? Residual muscle tension, or tonus, is the continuous, passive partial contraction of muscles in the body that aids in posture and support. Unfortunately, any type of…
Push-ups as Breathing Exercises – Part 2
In our last article on breathing exercises, here, we introduced the concept of using the basic push-up form as a vehicle for training the breath. Today we will continue with the push-up as the outward expression, but take a look at different types of breathing patterns to increase the depth and complexity of the the…
The Top 7.5 Reasons Warrior Fitness is for You
Since Top 10 lists have been so overused of late, especially in the internet blog area, here are 7 and a 1/2 reasons why the Warrior Fitness program is for you. 1. No gym memberships required! Still paying for a gym membership you don’t use, or not getting the results you want from your gym? …
What is the Essence of Defense?
What exactly is the essence of defense? Suppose you took a martial art(s) and stripped it down to its core principles and functional movements to allow it to be employable with any tool whether it be empty-hand, blunt weapon, edged weapon, long weapon, hidden weapon, or improvised weapon? What you would have is a fast, effective,…
Push-ups as Breathing Exercises
Today we are going to talk about push-ups. I can hear the groans already. But these aren’t the dull, boring, uninspired push-ups you had to do in grade school gym class for some lame physical fitness challenge. Nor are these the repetitious calisthenics you had to do by the hundreds in Army Boot Camp. Today,…
Battling Demons
To get good at any discipline, you must practice every day. To become great, you must practice all the time. The problem is, with so many pressures, responsibilities, and draws on our time in daily life, how does one manage to train every day? For me, it’s a daily battle with my demons. These are…
Yoga – A System
Special thanks to guest author, Tony Notarianni for another excellent contribution! In my latest Yoga class I was about to leave and I felt like I had left something, twice I went back from the reception area and twice I found that all my possessions were with me. I left and returned home, and it…
Lost Empire Herbs
