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Get Beach Fit – Warrior Style!

Summer is coming and, hey, let’s face it – even warriors need to look good at the beach, right?!  So, if you’re going to workout with the intention of getting is shape for summer, why not do it in a  balanced, functional manner that syncs up with and supports your other activities rather than distracting…

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The Sanshin of Warrior Fitness

A short introduction may be necessary for those readers not familiar with Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu.  Sanshin no kata is a basic training exercises within the system that templates movement patterns for Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu.  In English, it translates to “form of three hearts”.  These three hearts are mind, body, and spirit.  All three must be…

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Got Some Spare Time? Try Isometrics!

If you’re like me and can’t stand to waste any amount of time no matter how short, you’ll love how isometrics can fill in some strength gaps.  Nowadays, my days are jam-packed full with work, meetings, conference calls, networking, family time, training time, teaching time, writing time, and oh yeah – a little sleeping in…

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Yoga for Guitar Players

This is an article I wrote last year for my friend, Josh Sager’s kick-ass guitar blog, Fretterverse.  I hope my Warrior Fitness readers enjoy it as well!  Every guitar player knows that consistent practice is the key to becoming great.  But what happens when your daily practice is causing you daily aches and pains?  Give…

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16 Minutes of Pure Torture

Hope the catchy title got your attention! Today we’re going to do a fun workout based on the Tabata Protocol.  If you are not familiar with Tabata, please check out the Warrior Fitness Tabata Primer found here, What’s Tabata You? I highly suggest you warm up before doing this workout.  In fact, I insist on…

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What’s Hindering Your Performance?

What’s sapping your energy and, unbeknownst to you, hindering your performance in martial arts, athletics, or simply the daily art of living, working, and taking care of your family?  Residual muscle tension, or tonus, is the continuous, passive partial contraction of muscles in the body that aids in posture and support.  Unfortunately, any type of…

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Push-ups as Breathing Exercises – Part 2

In our last article on breathing exercises, here, we introduced the concept of using the basic push-up form as a vehicle for training the breath.  Today we will continue with the push-up as the outward expression, but take a look at different types of breathing patterns to increase the depth and complexity of the the…

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The Top 7.5 Reasons Warrior Fitness is for You

Since Top 10 lists have been so overused of late, especially in the internet blog area, here are 7 and a 1/2 reasons why the Warrior Fitness program is for you. 1.  No gym memberships required!  Still paying for a gym membership you don’t use, or not getting the results you want from your gym? …

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What is the Essence of Defense?

What exactly is the essence of defense?  Suppose you took a martial art(s) and stripped it down to its core principles and functional movements to allow it to be employable with any tool whether it be empty-hand, blunt weapon, edged weapon, long weapon, hidden weapon, or improvised weapon?  What you would have is a fast, effective,…

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