Workout for Charity!

Burlington Catholic Charities and Warrior Fitness Gym Present…

Workout for Charity!

  • Support the March Against Hunger Campaign
  • Burn Fat
  • Build Muscle
  • Get Toned
  • Feel Great
  • Build an Appetite While Helping to Feed the Hungry

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Come and join us on Saturday, April 14th at 11:30 AM for a Bootcamp Style Workout at Warrior Fitness Gym in Hainesport, NJ.  All proceeds will go to support the March Against Hunger Campaign at Burlington Emergency and Community Services.  This workout is open to all.

Date & Time:          Saturday April 14, 2012.  Registration begins at 11:30 AM.  Workout will be from 12 to 1 PM.

Location:                  Warrior Fitness Gym
                                      Hainesport Business Complex
                                     4004 Sylon Blvd.
                                     Hainesport, NJ 08036

 

Suggested Donation: $25 per person (100% of all proceeds will go to March Against Hunger Campaign)

Too far away to make the workout?  Show your support by donating online here:

For more information or to preregister,please call Jon Haas at (609) 556-8712 or email me HERE.

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 myself with this as the center piece. [Read more...]

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 this year.”

Sound familiar?  But what happens to all those firm, committed resolutions?  [Read more...]

Warrior Fitness Gym Open House!

Please join us on Saturday, January 7, 2012 for an open house

Warrior Fitness Gym
Hainesport Business Park
4004 Sylon Blvd.
Hainesport, NJ 08036

  • Free Trial Classes!
  • Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu Demonstration!
  • Grand Opening Special Sign-up Savings!
  • Refreshments!

Schedule of Events

Time

Session

10:00 AM Warrior Fitness Group Class
10:30 AM Bujinkan Martial Arts Demo
11:00 AM Little Warriors Class
11:30 AM Bujinkan Adult Martial Arts
12:00 PM Warrior Fitness Group Class
12:30 PM Bujinkan Martial Arts Demo
1:00 PM Little Warriors Class
1:30 PM Bujinkan Adult Martial Arts

For more information about the gym including class descriptions, times, and membership options, please check our Warrior Fitness Gym page HERE.

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 risky.  Unbelievable hard.  But they must do it.

Hopkins tells him – “What one man can do, another can do!”

Now, most of us will probably never be in a situation where we must kill a bear for survival.  But look at it as a metaphor.  The bear is any seemingly insurmountable task in your life.  Any goal that you long to achieve, yet seems unconquerable.  Doesn’t make a difference what it is – what one man can do (or woman, we’re equal opportunity here!), another can do!

It bugs to no end when students place highly skilled martial artists like Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, or Masaaki Hatsumi, head of the Bujinkan Dojo, or even Bruce Lee, founder of Jeet Kune Do on pedestals and hold them up as unreachable and impassible icons.  Are they great?  Yes, of course.  Are they worthy of our respect and admiration for their skill and achievement?  Hell yeah!  But are they an enigma?  Are they once in a generation geniuses that the rest of us mere mortals cannot hope to reach?  No.  Not at all.  They are men.  Human beings like you and me.  They put in ungodly amounts of hard work, study, and practice to reach the peak of their craft, but what one man can do, another can do.

Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he successfully created the light bulb.  No, that’s not a typo.  Thousands.  What if he gave up after the first failure, or the hundredth, or even after the thousandth failure?  Where would we be?  In the freakin’ dark, people, that’s where!

Do you want the martial skill of a Hatsumi?

The legacy of a Steve Jobs?

The money of a Bill Gates?

The body and fitness levels of an elite athlete?

The strength of a world champion strongman?

Go out and get it.  What one man can do, another can do.  Why can’t you?

 

8 Reasons Why YOU Need Striking Power

Remember, striking power is not just about hitting harder; it’s about hitting smarter.  Here’s a few reasons why this program is something you should incorporate into your martial training:

 

  1. New, innovative exercises to push through plateaus in your training and stave off boredom.
  2. The right tools for the job – low tech / high yield!
  3. Teach your body how to increase force production through stored elastic energy rather than recruiting more tension.
  4. Efficiency is the key to preserving energy levels.  Efficiency is defined as useful work over total work.
  5. Coordinated whole body power in 3 dimensions.  Life, sport, and martial art happen in 3D – the same old 2 dimensional exercises are NOT up to task!
  6. Specifically develop angular and rotary strength to augment and assist prime movers.
  7. Target postural and stabilizer muscles to strengthen structure behind the strikes.  You can‘t fire a cannon from a canoe!
  8. Solo training is the key to martial greatness – how do you train?

Want to know more about this unique Warrior Fitness product?  Click HERE!

The Results Are In!

Thanks to everyone who responded to my I Need Your Help post last week.  I received a ton of replies via email, which was really cool! 

 

 

 

 

The Top 5 Responses for new Warrior Fitness products you would like to see:

 

 5.  Warrior Warm-up (Warrior Fitness style junan taiso)

4.  Sandbag Training for Martial Arts

3.  Kettlebell Training for Martial Arts

2.  Warrior Bodyweight Workouts

1.  Ninja Fitness

If you have any additional suggestions, comments or variations on the above 5 topics that you’d personally like to see, let me know – don’t be shy!  Email me here, hit me up on Facebook here,  or even drop a Comment below. :)

Luckily, I’ve already been hard at work on a couple of these topics and will begin fine tuning based on your responses.  It also seems that about 99.9% of you out there prefer an e-book or downloadable video type format, which is great.  This is gonna be fun!!

One last thing – I really enjoyed the interaction with you guys over the past week – I hope you did too.  Let’s keep it going!  The more you guys get involved, the better this blog (and subsequent products produced) becomes!!  Thank you!

 

I Need Your Help!

This is going to be a different post for me today.  A little off track from my usual fitness, nutrition, budo, and motivational fare, but definitely a necessary, maybe even vital topic.  First of all, I just want to say thank you to all my Warrior Fitness blog readers and subscribers.  Whether you are one of the many readers who have purchased my Warrior Fitness book or Striking Power e-book or not (yet! :) ), you guys make this blog a sustainable enterprise; without you all, I’d just be talking to myself!  I’m grateful that what I write and how I write it resonates with you and also may benefit you in some small way.

I Was Embarassed!

This brings me to the reason for this post.  A few weeks ago at the Underground Strength Coach Certification, see my review HERE, I was talking with Zach Even-Esh about some new product ideas I had for Warrior Fitness.  I had been thinking for a while about tons of new product ideas I’d like to develop for Warrior Fitness and wanted to bounce some of them off him.  Well, what he said to me blew my mind!  Zach said, “Do you know what your readers want?”  I kind of stammered and looked at him a little confused and said, “Um… well, no.  What do you mean?”  He continued on and told me that while I might know what type of products I wanted to create, wouldn’t it make much more sense to know exactly what my Warrior Fitness readers want and need in a fitness or martial arts product and create something great that specifically meets their needs?  I was stunned.  Flabbergasted actually.  It made so much sense and was such a common sensical approach; I’m embarrassed to admit that I’d never even stopped to think about it.  Sorry guys!  So, in an effort to correct my oversight, what I’d like to do is get your opinion on this…

What Would YOU Like to See?

What type of new Warrior Fitness product would you, my readers, like to see?  What areas in your strength, endurance, conditioning, flexibility, mobility, breath control, agility, do you feel need the most attention?  What part of your martial arts training do you feel can be enhanced by fitness training?  Ukemi – rolling, leaping, falling, changing directions rapidly, taihenjutsu?  How about structural strength for kamae?  Creating and sustaining Flow?

Some areas for consideration (but by no means limited to these!) are:

  • Bodyweight training
  • Kettlebell training
  • Sandbags
  • Old school strength training
  • Odd objects – tires, sleds, stones, logs
  • Ninja fitness training
  • Conditioning
  • Fat Loss
  • Any combination or other!!

Also, think about what format you’d like to receive the product in – book, e-book form, DVD, downloadable video?

So in effect what I’m asking is – please help me to help you!  Let’s get a dialogue going and keep it going.  If I don’t know you, I’d like to.  Any ideas are welcome!  You can respond in the Comments section below, through my Facebook page (hey, do me a favor and “Like” it while you’re there!), email me, or heck if you want to discuss something shoot me an email and I’ll give you my phone number – whatever it takes to really make you a viable part of Warrior Fitness.

Thanks!

Jon

Warrior Fitness is Now Underground Strength Coach Certified!

There are great new things happening here at Warrior Fitness!  The first being I am now a certified Underground Strength Coach.  This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend Zach Even-Esh’s Underground Strength Coach Certification at the world renowned Underground Strength Gym in Edison, NJ.  What an amazing weekend – I’m still sore!

Zach is a top notch educator, motivator, and coach.  The man not only knows his material, but can walk the walk.  He lives the code and it shows through in everything he does.  Each person received individualized attention and feedback as well as group instruction from both Zach and his coached. The level of coaching expertise all weekend was top notch.  Zach not only taught the participants his Underground Stength system, he created an experience.    

As a quick recap, here is what we covered:

  • Introduction to the Underground Strength Methods
  • Warm Up & Physical Preparation Methods of Eastern European Athletes
  • Underground Baseline Workouts
  • Program Design Methods for all Clients
  • Odd Object Fundamentals
  • Integrating Old School Bodybuilding and Powerlifting
  • Underground Business Strategies
  • and Tons more!

We learned tons of exercises and variations, as well as progressions and regressions to help make them adaptable for all levels of clients.  Together we designed and vetted several workouts for various types of athletes and individuals, then did some of them ourselves!  As you can see, this was no simply sit on your butt and listen to a bunch of people talk followed by a multiple choice test certification seminar.  All the participants were in the trenches going through the adversity together, getting their hands dirty, learning the system by doing.  The level of energy this created in the gym and camaraderie between the attendees was awesome!

Huge thanks once again to Zach and his team of coaches, Big Mike, Travis, and Jen C., from Crossfit Central in Texas to help out with the certification!!

Want to know more?  Start by checking out Zach’s Underground Strength Manual HERE!

 

Product Review: Door Gym

Recently the nice folks over at Karate Depot sent me a Door Gym to review.  The cool thing about the Door Gym is that it is designed to be used with a multitude of different exercises, not just pull-ups.  This is the perfect piece of equipment if you are into minimalist training and need one tool for multiple tasks! 

Door Gym is very easy to install.  It requires no fasteners, no nails, no screws, and can be installed in the door frame and removed in about one second.  Yeah, it’s that easy!  My wife also loves the fact that it wedges in and will not mark or damage the door frame.  Plus, it took me all of 5 minutes to put it together right out of the package.  Which, if you know anything about my assembly skills, is saying a lot!

Door Gym Exercises

  • Close grip pull-ups / chin-ups
  • Wide grip pull-ups / chin=ups
  • Hammer grip pull-ups
  • Commando pull-ups
  • Hanging crunches
  • Hanging leg lifts
  • Static holds
  • Virtually any type of deep push-up
  • Situps
  • And more…

A great idea for those short on time is the grease the groove method.  Simply install the Door Gym in a door frame that you pass frequently during the day.  Each time you pass it, bang out a quick set of pull-ups or chin-ups (or whatever exercise you choose).  Over the course of a day you will incorporate a ton of volume without burning out.  Try it!  You can be creative, have fun, and get a great workout at the same time with this piece of equipment.

At $49.95, the Door Gym is a great investment in your health and fitness.  Highly recommended by Warrior Fitness!