What is Specific Physical Preparation for Martial Arts?
Every once in a while it’s fun to think about how much the exercises we train on a daily and weekly basis actually translate, or carry over, to the activities for which we’re training. Depending on your training program this can either be a great way to confirm that you are moving in the right…
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…
The Downfall of Functional Training & How to Fix It
What Functional Training Has Become… The field of functional training has degenerated into seeing who can perform the most meaningless stunt while looking the coolest (ahem… sometimes). These exploits may look impressive to the uninitiated or easily amused, but they have virtually no carry over and zero application to movement in real life, on the…
What is Fitness?
Fitness is probably one of the most controversial topics bandied about in social media, magazine articles, and by know-it-alls across the planet. Just about every type of training under the broad heading of fitness has its own staunch supporters and sycophants, as well as its haters and rabid detractors. Nothing really has a place of…
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…
Bored With Push-Ups? Try These!
Push-ups should build all-around 3 dimensional strength from every conceivable angle and hand position. If you’re bored with your current push-up regimen, give these a try and let me know what you think! Screwing Push-ups Knife Push-ups Wrist to Fist Push-ups How to Train Wrist to Fist Push-ups Multi-Directional Push-ups Whole Body Plyometric Frog…
The Aiki Push-Up
The Aiki Push-up is a literally a one-stop-shop in the study of internal power building. It was rumored to be part of Daito Ryu master, Yukiyoshi Sagawa’s secret training regimen. Here’s a video where I explain the purpose and it and how to do it. Watch carefully as the Aiki Push-up may look similar to…
New Exercise – The Sword and Shield Protocol
Let’s talk about what it takes to achieve success in your fitness and martial art training… Here is the Warrior Fitness simple formula for training success: Specific Training + Frequent Practice = RESULTS Here’s an example of my Daily Personal Practice from earlier in the week that works on specific movement patterns I am trying…
What is the Warrior Fitness Difference and How Does It Benefit YOU?
Why should you chose to train Warrior Fitness Training versus any other type of fitness program out there, including making no choice and doing nothing? Training for the Total Human Warrior Fitness is the product of decades of training in the martial arts and the art of strength. In its simplest form Warrior Fitness is…
Kata (Alone) Will Never Build Internal Power
Trying to develop Internal Power by training kata (alone) in martial art is problematic. On one hand, you may inadvertently have minor success in creating some internal connection over the course of 20-30 years of training, but you will most likely have no idea how you did it, no idea why it worked (minimally at…
Lost Empire Herbs
