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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Imperfect Training for Injury Prevention

“All-round sports training must include the capability of coping with unexpected and sub-optimal conditions” – Mel Siff, PHD author of Supertraining   In a recent post, Are You Practicing Wrong, I covered why I think the idea of “perfect practice” is utter nonsense when it comes to training yourself how to improve at pretty much any…

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The Warrior Workouts – FREE Resource from Warrior Fitness

The Warrior Workouts A Free Resource Brought to You by Warrior Fitness… The following is a free preview of my upcoming program of the same name, The Warrior Workouts. This sample program consists of a complete 4 weeks of training and is designed to give you a taste of the various types of training methods…

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Top 7 Exercises for Warriors

Here is the list I put together of my Top 7 Exercises for Warrior Training.  Not that these are the ONLY exercises you should do or would ever need but, if I were forced to narrow down my selection to my top 7, these would be my picks. The great thing about this list is that…

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The 4 Top Strength Training Myths for Women

When talking about strength training for women there are several pervasive myths that seem to never go away.  Here are the four  most common ones. I’ll Bulk Up.  This is probably one of the most pervasive, albeit incorrect myths out there.  Women simply do not have the correct hormone profile to build huge, bodybuilder type…

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After Class at Warrior Fitness Gym

Training here at Warrior Fitness Gym is so much fun that sometimes after classes I find myself still wanting to train.  Well, last night was one of those nights. I’ve been playing around with 2 handed clubbell training in my own daily personal practice so I figured I’d put together a quick, impromptu workout for…

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Combat Conditioning Seminar

COMBAT CONDITIONING SEMINAR Learn Exercise Programming and Secret Conditioning Techniques by 2 of South Jersey’s Top Strength and Conditioning Coaches. On February 25, 2012 Coach Jon Haas and Coach Christopher Lopez will blow your mind. *** You Will Learn How To: (1.) Use Proper Warm Up Techniques to prepare you for Combat based movements  (2.)…

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Ninja Stars and Strength Training

Yesterday I decided to do something a little bit different in my workout.  As an experiment, I wanted to look at the effect lactic acid build up in the muscles had on my ability to throw rubber shuriken (ninja stars) and hit a target.  The theory being that as fatigue in the muscles increased, throwing…

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A Day in the Life…

At the suggestion of my good friend, and West Coast Buyu, Dave Furukawa, I am presenting a look at one of my daily workouts.  Please see Dave’s comments on my previous post here for reference. This is a record of my activity from yesterday, Memorial Day 2010: Morning Life begins early here, even on long holiday weekends,…

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Sometimes It’s OK to Not Follow the Program

Every have one of those days when no matter how fun, exciting, and productive your workout program happens to be, you just don’t feel like doing it?  I don’t mean out of lack of enthusiasm or laziness here though; motivation is not the problem.  You’re energetic and ready to train, but really just want to…

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