A Word on Recovery
Training harder demands training smarter. We all know people who think they can continue to grow and continue to make gains indefinitely by simply pushing harder and harder in their training day in and day out. But what always happens to them? Injury, burn out, sickness, stagnation. Then what? Well, once they get back on…
Prepare Yourself Every Day
Ever have one of those days when nothing goes right? The alarm clock is blaring yet you hit the snooze again for the 5th time dreading the prospect of getting up and facing the day. When you finally drag yourself out of from under the covers and realize just how late it is, your heart jumps…
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…
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? …
Your Keys to Progress
How many people do you know who rarely, if ever, get the results they are seeking from their exercise regimen? You may be one of them! The question is, why don’t you (they) get results? These people may be “exercise nuts” or “gym rats” or even “exer-holics”, or they could just be fascinated with the…
Morning Wake Up Routine
Ever have one of those mornings when you have to be up early for work or school, but simply can’t summon the energy to start your day? This is a routine I have been using successfully for years to shake out the cobwebs and get me moving on the mornings when just a cup of…
So Ya Wanna Be a Ninja?
Masaaki Hatsumi, Grandmaster of the Bujinkan Dojo, once stated, “endurance is of primary importance for the ninja.” One definition of endurance is the ability to resist fatigue. Looking at the kanji (Chinese character) for Nin, there is the ideogram for “sword” over the ideogram for “heart” giving Nin a meaning of, “even though you hold a sword…
8 Ways to Fit in Your Fitness
It’s often been said that if you want something done you should give it to a busy person. While this may be true of some busy people, namely the ones who are highly motivated, highly productive, and highly efficient, what about all the other busy people? What about those who are busy through poor time…
5 Ways to Help Decrease the Stress
Today’s corporate warriors are often besieged with too many tasks, meetings, email, cell phone calls, pagers going off, Blackberrys buzzing, etc. Individually, these things are not significant, but when combined together in a constant barrage, all day long, they produce a cacophony of stimulation which, if not addressed through specific countermeasures, can cause a significant…
Warrior Fitness Book FAQs
1. Are the Warrior Fitness workouts applicable to beginners? Absolutely! The workouts in the Warrior Fitness program are completely scalable based on your level of fitness. Each exercise is explained step-by-step. 2. Is nutrition covered in the book? Nutrition is an important aspect of a complete, healthy lifestyle, but is not discussed in the Warrior…