5 Ways to Increase the Effectiveness of ANY Exercise
Last night at the gym as I was having a post-training conversation with one of my students, and he asked me – “how do you know how to make every single exercise we do more challenging???” It’s a good question, is it not? How do you take ANY exercise and make it more effective? Well,…
Which Warrior Fitness Program is Right for You?
I get asked this question all the time – Jon, which one of your programs should I start with? And the answer is, it depends on your goals. So in this article I’m going to give you a set of general guidelines to help you decide which program is right for you. Quick disclaimer before…
This Mistake will Tank Your Fitness Training
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 their…
There is No Off Season for Warriors
Get ready stay ready. There is no such thing as an off-season for a warrior. As a warrior, we don’t train with the goal of “peaking” for a particular event, fight, or game. That being said, our training requirements are also a little bit different than the average athlete. We must consistently train for multifaceted…
How to Train for the Zombie Apocalypse
If I were to train you to survive the zombie apocalypse, how would I do it? Well, you will need to be all around functionally strong, possess no-quit endurance, and incredible amounts of sheer grit, or mental toughness! What determines whether or not you survive the approaching zombie horde? To me, it comes down to…
The Effective to Efficient Continuum of Training
What’s the difference between being effective in your training and becoming efficient? When you first started to drive a car, you sucked at it, right? You couldn’t turn on the radio and the turn signal at the same time, and I’ll bet when you tried to wave at someone outside on the sidewalk, you turned…
NEVER Cocktail Your Training… Here’s Why
NEVER Cocktail Your Training – Here’s Why… Cocktail Training is a term coined by world renowned sports training expert, Dr. Tudor Bompa. It refers to mixing various exercise programs together, having arbitrary and even contradicting goals. The basic idea is this – if you don’t have clearly defined goals and progressions when you train, you…
3 Things I Do Every Day for Recovery
I’m looking at the calendar and this year is winding down quickly. I swear, once we hit September the whole thing just seems to fly by! And, since this year has been crazy (to say the least) for most of the world, I won’t be sorry to see it go! But before the year ends, I’ll…
“He Opened My Eyes to Budo…”
Way back in 2009 I started studying this weird, rarely talked about, even more rarely taught aspect of traditional martial arts called internal power. To say it opened up my worldview when it came to martial arts training would be a huge understatement! Now, to put it in perspective, I’d been training in martial arts since…
A Stronger Core, NOW
So, I’m in the middle of training one of my oldest clients and one of the exercises in the set happens to be a push-up on a medicine ball. Now, we’ve done this exercise at least 100 times together, but this time as I demonstrate it she makes an astute observation – “your core is…