1. Get Stronger.Whole body strength, along with mobility, is the foundation for all athletic movement. Being strong makes everything else easier. Your conditioning, your skill acquisition, your endurance, all become quicker and easier to attain and maintain once you have a solid base of strength. Don’t underestimate how important it is for a warrior to be strong. Continue reading
There’s no denying it, men as a whole are getting weaker.
To our own detriment as a society, as a nation, and as a world, we are progressively getting more and more comfortable with our weakness.
It has become habitual for us , and what is habitual becomes normal. But to be weak is not normal nor natural and should never be accepted as such.
The sad fact though is that it’s now considered almost abnormal to see a man in good physical condition over 40. Sometimes even over 30. Continue reading
Here on the Warrior Blog we spend a lot of time discussing many different aspects of proper warm-ups, joint mobility, injury prevention, stress management, effective methods of recovery and restoration, and also proper programming of workouts. All this stuff is critical to know, to understand, and to put into practice in our daily training.
That being said, sometimes you have to just throw all the rules out the window and go completely ninja on your fitness training!
For one day a week, take the science, the perfect programming, the rules of the road, and throw them out the window. Go all out – balls to the wall or nothing at all – and push your limits. Test yourself. Push the edge. Find the threshold you think you know and blow past it. Don’t worry about over-training or over-stressing your CNS – sitting on your butt behind a desk all day is under stressing it, which is much more dangerous. Feel the sheer exuberance of completely letting loose! Revel in the adversity and become a better person for kicking its ass.
Fade to black as our scene shifts to inside Warrior Fitness Gym…
…. my muscles quiver like jelly and my breath comes in ragged gasps as I struggle to get it under control. Sweat soaks my shirt and pools under my feet on the mat. Every muscle feels the ache of being thoroughly pushed, man do I feel the burn! I am so tired that just continuing to stand is a huge effort.
As I stand there having conquered my Limitless Training Day, a buzz begins to slowly fill my body. A smile spreads across my face. The buzz builds to a surge and energy floods my body. A feeling of being completely and totally alive overwhelms the soreness and tiredness. Limits successfully pushed again.
This is for all the Dads out there.
Our kids depend on us for all sorts of basic survival needs – food, clothing, shelter, etc. But what about one of their most critical survival needs? The need to grow up with a role model who will teach them through example. Continue reading
I never allow my clients to slump, sit down, or lie down crumpled in a heap after an exercise, set, or workout. They know my rationale is partly physical, but mostly mental. You see, it’s critical to never allow the workout to beat you, no matter how tough it feels. Continue reading
Lately I feel like a fire’s been lit under me in my training. Somehow through sheer persistence, perseverance, and being too dumb to quit, I feel like I’ve broken through to a new level. And this level is more difficult than the one before. New levels always are.
Sometimes I think people have the impression that if you keep training in something long enough, like martial arts or strength training, then it somehow gets easier as you get better. I don’t think this is true. At least it’s not true for those who continue to push themselves to break limits. Continue reading
At no time in history has there ever been more information, research, in-depth studies, and knowledge-sharing available than the present moment. Those who are still waiting for the latest “fitness secret” to be revealed to the public have missed the boat, in my opinion. Continue reading
If muscle confusion has you confused, don’t worry because you’re not alone. There has been a lot of misinformation regarding this pseudo-scientific training method bandied about the past couple years over the Internet, as well as in local personal training studios, gyms, and bootcamps. Hopefully this article will help clear up some of the major myths and misconceptions surrounding muscle confusion. Continue reading
Many trainers and coaches tend to look at the current rage of joint mobility protocols as recent innovations in sports science and training. Everyone is talking about mobility for health, mobility for prehab or injury prevention, mobility for warm-ups, mobility for fending off the ravages of aging. Everyone is talking about the benefits of increased range of motion for sport performance and martial art training enhancement. And, just to be perfectly clear, this is a good thing. They are all correct. Mobility training is the rage for a reason. Continue reading
Remember back when you were a little kid and your father always looked like this physically imposing, towering figure of a man? You had this perception of your dad as a super-human figure who could pick you up over his head and put you on his strong shoulders to be able to see the world. Standing on the shoulders of giants, indeed. Continue reading