Category Archives: Mind

The fit Warrior has a focused mind and realizes a sustainable, healthy lifestyle. Fitness and exercise myths, fitness methodology and goal attainment, and our personal philosophies are shared.

FREE Stay at Home Workouts

Since all the gyms are closed and we are all stuck working out at home for the foreseeable future, I want to hook you up with a free copy of my WarFit Combat Conditioning program. This hard-hitting program will build serious functional strength, torch fat like nobody’s business, and prepare you to face anything –…

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Health Practices for the Pandemic

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius It’s pandemonium out there. Schools…

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21 Day Wuji Standing Meditation Challenge

21 Day Wuji Standing Meditation Challenge Why Wuji? The health preserving and sustaining effects of Wuji Standing have been documented in hospitals and medical clinics across China.  The reason this practice has such a profound impact on health and recovery from exercise is that the standing meditation acts like a system-wide reboot for the whole…

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Top 30 Testosterone Boosting Foods

It’s no secret that our manhood is in jeopardy. Lack of proper nutrition and exercise, processed foods, and environmental toxins are all conspiring to plummet men’s testosterone levels to an all-time low. Optimal levels of testosterone are absolutely necessary to help us burn fat, build muscle, reduce depression, be successful, and, all other factors aside,…

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On The Habit of Excellence

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” –  Aristotle   Lately I have been thinking about the virtue of excellence. This wasn’t always an important virtue to me. When I was younger (and dumber) I believed that I could get by on just being adequate at things…

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The Top 3.5 Reasons Training is Hard

The other day a student said to me during training: “This is hard.” My reply was, “Well of course it’s hard. You don’t come to me to learn how to do things you’re already good at, do you?”  But why is this difficult? In my experience,training is hard for approximately 3.5 main reasons… 1. You are…

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Musashi’s Rules – “Forge Yourself in the Way”

If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing every day. Musashi instinctively knew this.  He became the greatest swordsman Japan ever produced by practicing what he preached. The concept of forging oneself through the rigors of daily training was so important to him that he made it a rule for those who would follow his…

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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 END of Warrior Fitness?

I almost dissolved Warrior Fitness last year… When I began this journey back in 2008 my only students were martial artists. My first book, Warrior Fitness: Conditioning for Martial Arts, was written for martial artists. But since then I have radically expanded my own training (to be discussed later) and my student base. My clients…

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Psychological Barriers to STRENGTH

You are already strong enough to lift a car. Did you know that? It’s true. So why can’t you access that strength all the time? The reason is that your nervous system limits the amount of strength you can use in every day life. If you were truly able to access 100% of the muscular strength you…

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