21 Day Wuji Standing Meditation Challenge
21 Day Wuji Standing Meditation Challenge Why Wuji? The health preserving and sustaining effects of Wuji Standing have been documented in hospitals and medical clinics across China. The reason this practice has such a profound impact on health and recovery from exercise is that the standing meditation acts like a system-wide reboot for the whole…
Breathing for Strength, Vitality, and Performance
For millennia breath control exercises have been the secret weapon of advanced yogis, qigong adepts, master healers, and warrior-monks to forge phenomenal strength, super human body control, and extraordinary vitality. When disciplines such as yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Internal Martial Arts, and Qigong have been successfully used over thousands of years to heal the…
The Failure of Yogic Breathing
There are many different systems of breath work out there that focus on relaxed breathing and stress reduction that also talk about how to increase breath control and expand the practitioner’s lung capacity. Unfortunately the majority of these systems fall short due to the fact that they tend to focus the bulk (or all) of their work on…
To Stretch or Not to Stretch
When it comes to the question of stretching, there are opinions all across the spectrum. Some experts contend that you should never stretch at all since it deforms the tissues, destabilizes the joints, and makes the body more prone to injury. Then, on the completely opposite side of the scale, is the other camp which…
Warrior Workout in the Park
This past Saturday was a beautiful fall day here in Jersey. A perfect day for a Warrior’s Workout in the Park! This workout was directly inspired by Zach Even-Esh’s Ultimate Underground Strength System. Warrior Workout 15 minute warm-up – mobility, movement, animal crawls, band work, breathing exercises followed by… 1) KB Clean & Press –…
Yoga for Guitar Players
This is an article I wrote last year for my friend, Josh Sager’s kick-ass guitar blog, Fretterverse. I hope my Warrior Fitness readers enjoy it as well! Every guitar player knows that consistent practice is the key to becoming great. But what happens when your daily practice is causing you daily aches and pains? Give…
Yoga – A System
Special thanks to guest author, Tony Notarianni for another excellent contribution! In my latest Yoga class I was about to leave and I felt like I had left something, twice I went back from the reception area and twice I found that all my possessions were with me. I left and returned home, and it…
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…
Makko-ho: Five Minutes Physical Fitness Book Review
Makkō-Hō is a system which through regular practice can produce a huge range of benefits for just about anybody at any age. This book gives a good clear breakdown of the four main exercises and also some detail on the science behind the purpose and results of the exercises.
Training as You Grow Older
One of the greatest challenges a long term fitness enthusiast faces is the debilitating impact of age. Certainly everyone understands the concept but what does it actually mean? The average person has a higher metabolism when they are younger, a faster recovery rate, greater use of energy stores and suppleness around the joints. So why…
Lost Empire Herbs
