Tools of the Trade
Every warrior requires certain tools to assist them in honing their craft. Each tool is utilized in a specific manner to create a specific outcome. In the upcoming Warrior Fitness Guide to Striking Power, we will use several different tools to accomplish the task of super-charging your striking effectiveness. The Warrior Fitness Guide to Striking…
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…
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…
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? …
Push-ups as Breathing Exercises
Today we are going to talk about push-ups. I can hear the groans already. But these aren’t the dull, boring, uninspired push-ups you had to do in grade school gym class for some lame physical fitness challenge. Nor are these the repetitious calisthenics you had to do by the hundreds in Army Boot Camp. Today,…
Fitness Requirements for Bujinkan Martial Arts Training – part 2
In part one of this series, here, we discussed why it makes sense for Bujinkan practitioners, and indeed all martial artists, to include a fitness regimen as part of their training. We also reviewed the basics of General Physical Preparedness (GPP), and why it is necessary. Today, I’d like to talk about some specific examples…
Warrior Fitness Recommended Equipment
A question I often receive through email (which, by the way is great, please keep them coming!) is whether or not Warrior Fitness is strictly a bodyweight training system. In short, no it’s not, but let me expand on that. Bodyweight training is an outstanding way to exercise. It requires absolutely no equipment, no gym membership,…
How Dense are You?
In today’s hectic world it seems we are all continually struggling to fit more and more into less and less time. Whether it’s squeezing more work into a 9 to 5 day, cramming more activities into a 2-day weekend, or condensing a week’s worth of email posts into a digestible digest version, it seems we are all…
Lost Empire Herbs
