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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10 Step Upper Body Pushing Progressions

10 Step Upper Body Pushing ProgressionsBy Logan Christopher Back in 8th grade my older brother started training me to get ready to go out for the football team in high school. He was a star player and hoped I would follow in his footsteps. Unfortunately, to say I was weak and unathletic was an understatement. When…

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Muscle Building Secret of an Escaped Convict

Muscle Building Secret of an Escaped Convict There’s an 8-second strength and muscle-building trick once used by a Russian spy to literally bend steel jail bars and rip open his heavy shackles to escape prison… not once, but 4 TIMES! Anyway… Research shows this single trick will explode your muscle and strength gains from your…

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Bored With Push-Ups? Try These!

Push-ups should build all-around 3 dimensional strength from every conceivable angle and hand position. If you’re bored with your current push-up regimen, give these a try and let me know what you think!   Screwing Push-ups Knife Push-ups Wrist to Fist Push-ups How to Train Wrist to Fist Push-ups Multi-Directional Push-ups Whole Body Plyometric Frog…

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How Warriors Train for ENDURANCE

Warriors Need to HIIT! High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is one of the best ways to train for endurance. It will enhance all 3 energy systems in the body, as well as prime the nervous system to recover automatically during lulls in activity. Simply put, HIIT alternates periods of high intensity exercise with periods of…

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The Future of Functional Training – Interviews with The Masters

Looking Towards the Past As humans we have a tendency to Romanticize things of the distant past – Knights in shining armor, damsels in distress, Prehistoric eating habits, the idea of the Noble Savage, Warrior Princesses… Perhaps it’s Disney’s fault. 🙂 Regardless, the past, especially the distant past was never all sunshine and rainbows –…

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The Aiki Push-Up

The Aiki Push-up is a literally a one-stop-shop in the study of internal power building. It was rumored to be part of Daito Ryu master, Yukiyoshi Sagawa’s secret training regimen. Here’s a video where I explain the purpose and it and how to do it. Watch carefully as the Aiki Push-up may look similar to…

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Isometric Breathing – Lessons from Martin “Farmer” Burns

Martin “Farmer” Burns was a world champion Catch-As-Catch-Can Wrestler as well as a coach of many other famous wrestlers such as the great Frank Gotch. In 1914, Burns published a 96-page mail-order course entitled Lessons in Wrestling and Physical Culture, which incorporated breathing techniques, calisthenics, stamina exercises, and wrestling techniques. It was made famous (again) in…

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The Failure of Yogic Breathing

There are many different systems of breath work out there that focus on relaxed breathing and stress reduction that also talk about how to increase breath control and expand the practitioner’s lung capacity.  Unfortunately the majority of these systems fall short due to the fact that they tend to focus the bulk (or all) of their work on…

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Santa Strength Workout

Santa Strength Christmas Workout    For all the readers of the Warrior Blog and visitors to WarriorFitness.org   I want to take this opportunity to say thank you for all your continuous and unflagging support of Warrior Fitness throughout the year.  Your feedback and participation through all your emails and comments both on the blog,…

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