Living the Warrior Lifestyle

Years ago I wrote down what I considered to be the essence of living the warrior lifestyle and I called it “The Warrior Code” – original, I know! 🙂 Just so you are aware, here is my original “warrior code”: Warriors train to push their body and mind to the limits, and find new ones…

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Health Practices for the Pandemic

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius It’s pandemonium out there. Schools…

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10 Books Every Warrior Should Read

I am what you would call an avid reader. Some would even say my reading habit borders on a reading obsession since at any one time I can be found to have at least three, sometimes four books going simultaneously. I have several on my nightstand next to my bed, a couple on the coffee…

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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…

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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…

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Like Paul Freakin’ Bunyan!

I was recently asked how one should train their psyche for martial arts.  It seems like a weird question… Train your psyche??  Upon further reflection though, it’s actually a very astute question. Psyche is defined as the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious.  So training it must be essential.  How then do we…

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4 Levels of Preparation in Warrior Fitness

There are 4 levels of preparation within the Warrior Fitness Training System that are used to create a complete, comprehensive training program. In any complete training program they flow from one level to the next and back again effectively blurring the lines between them.  This allows the trainee a more holistic approach to training and accelerates…

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The Myth of Stagnation

Many people like to believe that if they don’t take the time to train themselves on a daily basis their skill levels will somehow remain stagnant, like on a plateau.  That their skills and abilities will somehow remain in stasis, neither improving or regressing until the next class, the next workshop, the next seminar, or…

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Top 10 Warrior Blog Posts of 2012

Who doesn’t love Top 10 Lists?   Earlier in the week when I began looking back over the Warrior Blog 2012 to put together my Year in Review post, it occurred to me that I should also do my very own top 10 list.  Why not?  It’s a great way to review and recap the most…

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Are You an Action TAKER or an Action TALKER?

This may be overly simplistic, but to me there really are only 2 kinds of people in the world. You are either an action TAKER or an action TALKER. And all of us immediately know the difference – it’s the “L”, right?  But seriously…

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