Category Archives: Body

The fit Warrior requires a strong body to move freely in the world. Bodyweight conditioning, strength training, fat loss, flexibility, martial arts, yoga, and joint mobility are covered here.

5 Ways to Increase the Effectiveness of ANY Exercise

Last night at the gym as I was having a post-training conversation with one of my students, and he asked me – “how do you know how to make every single exercise we do more challenging???” It’s a good question, is it not? How do you take ANY exercise and make it more effective? Well,…

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Which Warrior Fitness Program is Right for You?

I get asked this question all the time – Jon, which one of your programs should I start with? And the answer is, it depends on your goals.  So in this article I’m going to give you a set of general guidelines to help you decide which program is right for you. Quick disclaimer before…

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This Mistake will Tank Your Fitness Training

We all know people who think they can continue to grow and continue to make gains indefinitely by simply pushing harder and harder in their training day in and day out.   But what always happens to them?   Injury, burn out, sickness, stagnation.   Then what?   Well, once they get back on their…

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The Paleolithic Origins of Standing Postures

The origins of standing practices are lost in the mists of time, but one can easily imagine that they began with ancient hunters as a way of attuning to their surroundings and gathering deep reserves of energy and strength while becoming invisible to the prey they hunted.   As they were used by hunters, warriors,…

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The Effective to Efficient Continuum of Training

What’s the difference between being effective in your training and becoming efficient? When you first started to drive a car, you sucked at it, right? You couldn’t turn on the radio and the turn signal at the same time, and I’ll bet when you tried to wave at someone outside on the sidewalk, you turned…

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3 Things I Do Every Day for Recovery

I’m looking at the calendar and this year is winding down quickly. I swear, once we hit September the whole thing just seems to fly by! And, since this year has been crazy (to say the least) for most of the world, I won’t be sorry to see it go! But before the year ends, I’ll…

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“He Opened My Eyes to Budo…”

Way back in 2009 I started studying this weird, rarely talked about, even more rarely taught aspect of traditional martial arts called internal power. To say it opened up my worldview when it came to martial arts training would be a huge understatement! Now, to put it in perspective, I’d been training in martial arts since…

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A Stronger Core, NOW

So, I’m in the middle of training one of my oldest clients and one of the exercises in the set happens to be a push-up on a medicine ball. Now, we’ve done this exercise at least 100 times together, but this time as I demonstrate it she makes an astute observation – “your core is…

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FREE Stay at Home Workouts

Since all the gyms are closed and we are all stuck working out at home for the foreseeable future, I want to hook you up with a free copy of my WarFit Combat Conditioning program. This hard-hitting program will build serious functional strength, torch fat like nobody’s business, and prepare you to face anything –…

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Health Practices for the Pandemic

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius It’s pandemonium out there. Schools…

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