A Glimpse Into Internal Power Training – The Push Test

The push test is a very practical way of testing the quality of one’s solo training for internal power.  As explained in Weakest Direction Theory is BS, the body, when properly trained, acts as an omni-directional structure.  This allows the practitioner of internal power to neutralize any incoming force by diffusing it throughout the structure…

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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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Weakest Direction Theory is BS

Warning: The following post is going to conflict with the most basic, fundamental principle you “know” to be true in martial arts.  Chances are you learned this principle on your first day of martial arts class.  Since that day you have repeated it almost every class.  You have taught it as truth to every new…

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My Morning Routine

For the past several weeks there has been a running theme interwoven throughout my blog posts.  That theme has been practice, Daily Personal Practice (DPP), to be precise. I’ve gotten several questions about the details of my own DPP since I refer to it several times in my writing.  So I figured I would pull…

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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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Holiday Belly-Busting Met Con

If you’re like many people perhaps you’ve over indulged a little bit this holiday season.  Too many great meals and even greater desserts maybe?  Well here’s a quick metabolic conditioning workout to help you out.  The great thing about metabolic conditioning workouts is that, unlike traditional aerobics, they stoke the fat burning furnace and keep…

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Get A New Body in 2012

Every year millions of people worldwide make firm, committed New Year’s resolutions. “I’m going to get in shape this year.” I’m going to lose x number of pounds this year.” “This will be the year I reclaim my health and fitness.” “I’m going to join a gym this year.” “I’m going to cut my carbs…

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A Word on Recovery

Training harder demands training smarter. 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…

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10 Minutes and a Chair

So here is the challenge, you have only 10 minutes to train and the only piece of equipment available is a dining room chair. Are you prepared? Can you rock a great minimalist workout with this limited time and equipment? Or, should you just use the chair for a short snooze? Here’s one answer:

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Why Can’t You?

One of my favorite motivational quotes of all time comes from Antony Hopkins in the movie, “The Edge”.  They are stranded in the woods and he is tyring to  psyche up Alex Baldwin’s character to help him kill a bear.  Killing a bear seems like such an impossible task.  It’s fraught with danger.  It’s incredibly…

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