Sometimes our genius defies the laws of finite categorization.
Years ago I wrote down what I considered to be the essence of living the warrior lifestyle and I called it “The Warrior Code” – original, I know! 🙂 Just so you are aware, here is my original “warrior code”: Warriors train to push their body and mind to the limits, and find new ones…
When I first tested positive for COVID back in May of this year, I thought to myself, “this is going to be a cakewalk.”
After all, as a strength coach and martial arts teacher, I I was highly fit, in robust health, exercised daily, ate a very nutritious diet, and got plenty of fresh air and sunshine. And, at 49, I was relatively young.
I figured being quarantined would let me catch up on my reading, get some work done, and watch more Netflix! 🙂
Boy was I wrong!!
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,…
Get ready stay ready. There is no such thing as an off-season for a warrior. As a warrior, we don’t train with the goal of “peaking” for a particular event, fight, or game. That being said, our training requirements are also a little bit different than the average athlete. We must consistently train for multifaceted…
If I were to train you to survive the zombie apocalypse, how would I do it? Well, you will need to be all around functionally strong, possess no-quit endurance, and incredible amounts of sheer grit, or mental toughness! What determines whether or not you survive the approaching zombie horde? To me, it comes down to…
In the early morning hours of Saturday September 25th, 25 people from all over the Tri-State area gathered at the Martial Strength Training Academy in Branchburg, NJ for a Mace Training Certification Seminar. The group was made up of martial artists, fitness professionals, and regular folks alike who all had 2 things in common –…
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…
NEVER Cocktail Your Training – Here’s Why… Cocktail Training is a term coined by world renowned sports training expert, Dr. Tudor Bompa. It refers to mixing various exercise programs together, having arbitrary and even contradicting goals. The basic idea is this – if you don’t have clearly defined goals and progressions when you train, 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…
One of the biggest problems rampant among many types of fitness programs is that random training yields random results. It is difficult to measure progress when the parameters are constantly shifting. In order for the body to produce an adaptation for improved performance in life, sport, or martial art, we must apply specific stimulus as…
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