Brand New Services from Warrior Fitness!

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Jon

Warrior Fitness is going mobile!!

You may have heard the news that I am closing the physical location of Warrior Fitness Gym this week. This is not a bad thing. The Warrior Fitness Training System existed prior to the gym location (I wrote the original Warrior Fitness book in 2008), and it will go on after it.

Now that I am no longer shackled to a brick and mortar location I have the ability to expand my global reach and provide even more coaching, teaching, and results to you.

This change allows me much greater adaptability and mobility to train my local clients here at home and also frees me to teach more workshops, seminars, and classes in other locations, both here in the US and abroad.

With that preface, I am introducing 3 brand new services from Warrior Fitness:

1) Local Warrior Training.

There are 3 new options here: Weekly Warrior Bootcamps in the park (see Class Schedule HERE) and Warrior Personal Training at your home, office, or other location. Corporate Warrior Training is also available – short, intense, highly effective workouts for the busy executive and employees to train both mind AND body!

Email me for details on scheduling and pricing.

2) Seminars and Workshops.

Topics include:

Warrior Fitness Training,
Building Martial Power,
Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu,
Building Power and Flow in Taijutsu,
Women’s Self Defense,
Combat Conditioning,
Introduction to Internal Power for Bujinkan Martial Arts.

Email me for details on scheduling and pricing.

3) Online Coaching Opportunities.

I will put together an individualized program specifically tailored to you and your training goals. Check HERE for all the details.

End of Summer 50% OFF Sale!

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Jon

All Warrior Fitness Training System Programs are 50% Off!

Sale ends Labor Day, September 2nd, at midnight!

Ninja Mission Program 1 – “The Sword Master”

You will train like the ninja of feudal Japan preparing body, mind, and spirit through rigorous physical training and martial practice. Every Ninja Mission will include:

Brand New Combat Conditioning Workouts!
Solo Training Drills for Building Martial Flow & Power!
Advanced Breath-work and Energy Drills!
Ninja Flexibility Training!
Ninja Weapons – Unique Drills for Flow & Power!

In This Program You Will Receive:

Ninja Foundations Workout Video 1
Ninja Foundations Workout Video 2
Ninja Sledgehammer Workout Video 1
Ninja Sledgehammer Workout Video 2
Ninja Metabolic Conditioning Workout Video 1
Ninja Metabolic Conditioning Workout Video 2
Ninja Flexibility Video
Ninja Mobility Video
Sword Flow Drills Video 1
Sword Flow Drills Video 2
Sword Flow Drills Video 3
Sword Flow Drills Video 4
Sword Cut Flow Video 1
Sword Cut Flow Video 2
TenChiJin Breathing Video
Ukemi with Sword Video
Ninja Challenge Video 1
Ninja Challenge Video 2
Ninja Mission 1 Calendar (PDF)

This program contains over 95 minutes of video footage plus a complete calendar of how to put it all together.

No guess work involved!

All of this is instantly downloadable for you upon purchase!

The entire 30 day program of daily ninja training is now available to you for just ~~$40~~ $20!!!

Your Mission, Should You Chose to Accept It….

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By Jonathan Haas
Forward by Jack Hoban, Shidoshi

Since ancient times, stories have abounded about the legendary physical prowess of martial artists.

Today’s lifestyle, coupled with a lack of knowledge about how to combine fitness and budo, has led to a rapid decline in martial artists levels of strength and conditioning.

Warrior Fitness will help you and your students attain a new level of strength, flexibility and endurance — quickly and with little chance of injury.

Warrior Fitness combines old school fitness with modern exercise science.

Warrior Fitness covers:

Flexibility
Joint mobility
Flow drills
Breathing exercises
Strength exercises
Conditioning exercises
Recovery
And much more…

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Warrior Fitness Guide Striking Power – Level 1 (e-book)

by Jonathan Haas, 9th dan Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu and certified Underground Strength Coach

Specific Physical Preparedness for ALL striking arts from old school Traditional Martial Arts to modern MMA!
Learn how to build a powerful structure to stabilize punches, kicks, and martial movement!
Discover how to use low-tech, high yield tools to strengthen strikes throughout a range of motion!
Sledge Hammer for force production, rotational strength, grip strength, and old school conditioning!
Medicine Ball for explosive strength and rotational strength!
Resistance Bands for force production, rotational strength, increased stabilization!
Bodyweight Exercise and Isometrics for structure and stabilization!
Discover how to use Intelligent Tension rather than general tension to power strikes!
Learn Breathing and vibration exercises for recovery and restoration!
Pure, 100% actionable content – no fluff, no BS, no filler!
Sample Workouts!

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Martial Power Program

High-Intensity Fat-Burning Circuits: each Martial Power Workout can be completed in less than 30 minutes, yet those 30 intense minutes melt fat faster than hours of mind-numbing cardio-style exercise.
Complete Joint Mobility warm-up program and Active Recovery: specific low-intensity mobility exercises will increase your level of readiness by stimulating blood flow to prepare the body for work while lubricating each joint.
Real Martial Applications: each exercise has been carefully selected to create the highest level of specific conditioning while building and reinforcing your martial skill sets.

The Martial Power Program includes:

4 Video Workout Briefings that will help you BUILD LEAN MUSCLE and TORCH FAT so you can train like a true NINJA while building up more strength, conditioning, and powerful athleticism! ($97 Value)

Video of Jon’s Personal Joint Mobility Routine. This is the routine from my daily personal practice that will prepare the body for training, increase local blood flow to muscles, and aid in removing toxins from the body! ($37 Value)

Martial Power Program Manual That will lay out the workouts, 8 week programming schedule, pictures of the exercises, and advice on active recovery training. ($37 Value)

**BONUS Video on Sanshin no Kata Training Drills That Will Take Your Training to a Whole New Level and Increase Your Martial Power! ($37 Value)**

You Will Be Transforming A Whole Lot More Than Just Your Body… You’ll Be Transforming Your Mindset, Mental Toughness, and Martial Skill As Well!

The Martial Power Program ONLY $37 $18.50!

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Learn unique and powerful breathing exercises drawn from martial arts, qigong, and yoga that will teach you how to Adapt AND Perform Under Stress!

Evolve Your Breathing Program

Evolve Your Breathing Video containing Jon’s private Breathing Workshop for Warrior Fitness Gym clients only, complete with detailed instructions and demonstrations of each breathing technique. This course is about how to use the breath to aid the body in adapting to and performing under stress!
Evolve Your Breathing Manual containing background, detailed written instructions, how to incorporate these powerful techniques into your daily routine, basic programming information, much more…

Get your copy NOW and start improving your performance today!

Evolve Your Breathing Package only $49 $24.50!

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Breathe Through Your Heels

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Jon

Chuang Tzu (c.370-286 BC) said, “The breathing of the superior man comes from his heels, while men generally breathe only from their throats…”

When performing these types of exercises it is important to realize that breathing is not simply a mechanical process where we see our lungs operating as a kind of bellows, drawing in and pushing out the air. Rather, we should understand that breathing is a complete physiological process of cellular respiration – our entire body breathes!

Mental imagery or visualization can aid in increasing the effectiveness of the above exercises. When inhaling, imagine the body filling up with calm, relaxing energy; feel it permeate the entire body, pouring through every cell. When exhaling, visualize all the metabolic waste products, stress, and unnecessary tensions being exhaled from the entire body. It’s a very simple add-on, but it works wonderfully. Give it a try!

From my book, Warrior Fitness: Conditioning for Martial Arts

Want to be a truly Superior Man? Learn how to Evolve Your Breathing!

How to Train More Every Day

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Jon

The only way to go from average martial artists to outstanding is to train more. You may be limited in how many classes you can attend on a weekly basis or how many seminars you can attend on a monthly basis, but you are not limited in how much solo training you can do on a day to day basis. The key to greatness lies in solo training. This is how you build yourself up to mastery. Step by step, session by session, day by day. There is no other way.

That being said, I humbly offer the following 4 suggestions on how to train more every day.

1) Awareness, Awareness, Awareness

Keep your eyes, ears, and senses open to your surroundings. Make it a habit to not allow anyone to sneak up on you or surprise you. Make a game out of knowing where people around you are, even if you can’t “see” them.

2) Don’t Just Walk, Ninja Walk!

Take the opportunity no matter where you are to practice your balance, footwork, and movement skills. This doesn’t mean you have to stalk your boss in the company restroom – unless you want to get fired! But when you move, whether it’s in the office, walking down the street, in the grocery store, or out in the woods, pay attention to your balance, body control, and coordination. Raise and lower each foot purposefully. Do not let your walking be “controlled falling”.

3) Mini Training Sessions

All of us seem to think that if we can’t dedicate a solid hour or so to solo training than we just don’t have the time to do it. My solution for you is this – train in 5 minute increments. No matter who you are and what type of work you do, you have 5 minutes to spare during your day. If you look for it, you probably have many blocks of 5 minute increments during your day. Don’t waste them! Use them to train. In 5 minutes you can practice all the Sanshin No Kata 5 times each side. In 5 minutes you can do 100 push-ups (maybe!). In 5 minutes you can practice ukemi. In 5 minutes you can do a flow drill. Be creative, figure it out! All those mini blocks of 5 minute training sessions add up to huge amounts of time over a week, month, year, and decade. You’re in this for the long haul, aren’t you?

4) Set a Goal

Figure out what your own personal training goals are and write them down. Give yourself a deadline to achieve them. Add actions steps to help you reach each one. Develop a plan of attack and hold yourself accountable. Need help developing a plan? Ask me. I can help you. It’s what I do.

How Natural is Your Shizen No Kamae?

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Jon

This may come as a shock, but I believe many people training in the martial arts today are doing shizen no kamae (natural posture) wrong. How can this be? After all, aren’t you supposed to be just standing there naturally? Well, yes and no.

The problem stems from the fact that even though this is a “natural” posture, there are not that many people who stand naturally, naturally. We need to be taught how to be natural; or perhaps it’s better to say we need to unlearn and strip away from our bearing all that is NOT natural to find a true shizen no kamae.

TenChiJin

In order for the body to be supported with minimal effort and tension, 2 forces that act on us all the time must be understood and mastered. The 2 forces I am referring to are Ten (heaven) and Chi (earth). Ten and Chi are controlled by Jin (man) standing in the middle of the 2 – TenChiJin. Ten, the force of heaven, is gravity pulling the whole body down towards the earth. Chi, or the force of earth, is support pushing the body up opposing the force of gravity.

The body itself though must be conditioned to manipulate these 2 forces (there is a kuden). When the body is properly conditioned it then acts like a tensegrity structure – bones act like compressive struts pushing out while connective tissue pulls in. This combined with an understanding of how the forces of heaven and earth work create a profound neutral within the body, or zero state.

How Do We Stand?

In practical terms though, how should we stand? Let’s start with the head and work our way down…

Lift upwards slightly with the crown of the head allowing the chin to lower.

This straightens the vertebrae at the back of the neck. Shoulders are back and down sitting on the spine.

The back should be flat.

Do not tuck the pelvis.

The spine should be suspended from above like a skeleton hanging in a Science classroom.

Do not have the arms lay flush against the body.

There should be a golfball sized space under the armpits.

The bottom of the spine pulls straight down from the tail bone.

Feel like you are sitting on a high stool.

Allow the knees to bend slightly.

Feet should be shoulder width apart and pointed straight forward as if on railroad tracks.

Legs should feel like they are squeezing a beach ball.

Remember though, the ball puts outward pressure on the legs as they squeeze in.

Both directions, not just one.

The weight is carried in the hollow behind the balls of the feet. In Chinese Medicine, this is known as the yongquan or bubbling well point.

All of the above points must be maintained to have a truly “natural” shizen no kamae. Oh yeah, last point – RELAX! 🙂

The Secret to Becoming a Great Martial Artist

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Jon

There is one very special, not so secret, secret to becoming a great martial artist. Want to know what it is?

Do the work.

Train every day. Yes, every day. Great martial artists train all the time. Not once a week. Not every other day, not just during class. Every day. Multiple times a day.

The not so great martial artists are content to train only in class or at seminars. They spend lots of time thinking about training, maybe, but the actual doing, not so much.

For you the process is simple – not easy. Daily training. How do you do this? Figure it out. You don’t have to think about when you’re going to take a shower during the day or brush your teeth, you just do it. Make your training a priority and get it done. While others are busy doing other things, you are training. While others are busy daydreaming about training, you are training. While others are busy running their mouths about training, you are – you guessed it – training.

Soon it will begin to show. The difference may not be too apparent at first, but consistency of training will win out. It may not be so obvious in a year, or even 2. But after 5 years it will be very noticeable. After a decade, you will be miles ahead of the rest of the martial arts landscape.

You will move better.

You will feel different when they touch you.

You will have power in motion and in stillness.

You will stand out, not because of ego or anything like that but because the work you put in day after day, week after week, month after month, and year upon year will cause your skills to grow exponentially. The growth and development created simply by training every day will become self evident.

So ask yourself – do you want to be a mediocre martial hobbyist (not that there’s anything wrong with that), or do you want to be legendary?

The choice is yours. As for me, F__k being mediocre. 🙂

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5 Reasons to NOT Train with Me

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Jon

A bit tongue in cheek, but here are 5 excellent reasons why you should NOT train with me:

1) If the price of your gym membership is the only deciding factor in where you train, please go to a commercial gym.

2) If you do not care about ever achieving your fitness goals or getting results from your training, please go to a commercial gym.

3) If you do not appreciate hands-on instruction and lots of personal attention and accountability, please go to a commercial gym.

4) If you do not care about learning correct movement, form, and exercise technique, please go to a commercial gym.

5) If you have no interest in experiencing the powerful results conferred by properly designed training programs based on years of experience and learning, please go to a commercial gym.

5.5) If you are perfectly content with being mediocre and never, ever challenging yourself or pushing your limits, please go to a commercial gym

If however, none of the above fit or describe you in the slightest, than I implore you to experience the difference here at Warrior Fitness Gym and come train with me.

What Business Am I In?

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Jon

The text for this post came from a speech I gave last week to my BNI (networking) Group…

You may think you know and understand the business I am in, being that I own a gym. Perhaps you think I am in the business of helping people lose weight, or get in shape (whatever that means). Or, maybe the business of helping people get stronger or improve athletic performance. You would be wrong. Certainly those things are components of what I do, but they are not the complete picture.

Without stepping on the toes of my friends in the financial planning and life insurance industries, I will unapologetically tell you I am in the business of Long Term Care. How can I say that?

Fat loss, muscle gain, increases in flexibility, mobility, and performance are not end goals, in and of themselves. They are ALL merely byproducts of better movement. Whether you are an athlete, martial artists, soccer mom, or business man, and everyone in between, better movement will always equate to better performance, better body composition, and better health.

Exercise Improves Life

Exercise improves all facets of life. People who exercise regularly are better at their jobs, kids do better in school, they get sick less often, and in general have much higher levels of energy and health. Exercise does not just improve your biceps, it improves your brain. That pump you feel in the muscle when doing a curl is caused by blood flow. That blood flow is not isolated, that is physiologically impossible – it increases all throughout the body, including the brain. Think about this – your head is roughly 1/8 of your entire body. If you simply sit at a desk and work with your mind all day long, no matter how smart and productive you may be, you are only using approximately 1/8^th of your entire potential. Descarte was wrong – the mind is not separate from the body.

I say I am in the business of long term care because I teach you much more than mere fitness. I teach you how to train for life. People do not stop moving because they get old. They get old because they stop moving!

Warrior Fitness is not a set of disparate parts cobbled together, but a system based on my life long experience as a physical culturist. To be able to recreate what I have put into it, you would have to study Japanese, Chinese, and Russian martial arts, strength training, bodyweight exercise, Kettlebell training, oldtime strong man training, sports science, yoga, qigong, etc…

I have put in all the work; done all the research, experimented with the protocols and the programming. I have given my clients, both locally here at Warrior Fitness Gym, and worldwide the product of it all– a fully developed, cohesive system of training the body, mind, and spirit for health, fitness, and performance – Warrior Fitness

Fitness Dangers for Bujinkan Students

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Jon

Martial artists need to be extremely cautious when choosing a fitness program to compliment their training. While the right program can support, enhance, and protect budo practice, the wrong one can just as easily derail it.

Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu relies on relaxed, whole-body power devoid of excess muscular tension to properly execute its techniques.

Think About This

Think about this – each and every action you repeat over and over again encodes in your nervous system and creates change in your body, no matter how you value that change. Meaning that if you want to train yourself to move softly, subtly, and with relaxed power for your martial art practice yet you perform high tension power lifting exercises at the gym, guess what gets carried over to your budo? Yup. Too much tension.

If you are working towards using your whole body as a unit in budo practice so that when one thing moves, everything moves (can you do this?), but you perform bodybuilding style splits and isolation exercises in your strength training, what do you think happens to your functional integration? Yup. Bye-bye.

The critical thing to note here is that, as stated above, every action you do, no matter what your opinion of that action is, has an affect on your nervous system. When 2 actions compete, both lose out.

Shouldn’t your supplementary training and fitness support and enhance your main goal of becoming a more proficient martial artist? If it doesn’t, you might want to ask yourself what is more important to you? These are tough questions for a life long, committed budoka to wrestle with – trust me! I know. I walk a thin line in my training every day. But I made my choice long ago… You see, I love fitness, but budo is in my blood.

So when you go looking for a strength and conditioning program to support and protect your martial arts practice, remember something – I have been there, done that, and got the t shirt (several, actually).

Already Done For You

The research has been done. The exercises, protocols, and programs have been rigorously tested. The results are in. I have created several Done For You programs that I KNOW will change your Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu practice for the better. As a 20+ year veteran of the Bujinkan (I started training in 1989), I have put together these programs for you – Bujinkan students and teachers alike. It’s all here….

Who is This Program for Anyway?

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Jon

It recently came to my attention (yesterday, as a matter of fact) that several people are under the impression that my Evolve Your Breathing program is only meant for a small demographic of the population, ie – male martial artists.

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but the last time I checked 100%, that means ALL, of the population breathes – am I right? 🙂

So why would someone assume that a program on breathing exercises for health, wellness,performance, and stress management, applies to just a limited segment of the population?

Let me help – No matter who you are and what sort of activity, sport, or martial art (or none) you are engaged in, your breathing is an essential, and I mean critically essential, component of that activity.

Want to make it better? Get Evolve Your Breathing. Period.

30 Day Money Back Guarantee

To make this an even easier decision, I am so sure that EYB will increase your energy levels, improve your response to stress, and speed your workout recovery that I am offering a 30 day money back guarantee.
Try Evolve Your Breathing for 30 days and if you don’t like it, I will give you 100% of your money back no questions asked. (well, I might ask one question, like – did you actually try it???)

Take the Evolve Your Breathing 30 Day Challenge today!

PS – You can also get Evolve Your Breathing at 50% off the regular price when you purchase it as part of one of my Budo Packs!

Warrior Fitness is going mobile!!

1) Local Warrior Training.

2) Seminars and Workshops.

3) Online Coaching Opportunities.

All Warrior Fitness Training System Programs are 50% Off!

Sale ends Labor Day, September 2nd, at midnight!

Ninja Mission Program 1 – “The Sword Master”

In This Program You Will Receive:

Your Mission, Should You Chose to Accept It….

By Jonathan Haas Forward by Jack Hoban, Shidoshi

E-Book Version Only $25 $12.50 USD via PayPal (no shipping cost!):

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Warrior Fitness Guide Striking Power – Level 1 (e-book)

Specific Physical Preparedness for ALL striking arts from old school Traditional Martial Arts to modern MMA!

Learn how to build a powerful structure to stabilize punches, kicks, and martial movement!

Discover how to use low-tech, high yield tools to strengthen strikes throughout a range of motion!

Sledge Hammer for force production, rotational strength, grip strength, and old school conditioning!

Medicine Ball for explosive strength and rotational strength!

Resistance Bands for force production, rotational strength, increased stabilization!

Bodyweight Exercise and Isometrics for structure and stabilization!

Discover how to use Intelligent Tension rather than general tension to power strikes!

Learn Breathing and vibration exercises for recovery and restoration!

Pure, 100% actionable content – no fluff, no BS, no filler!

Sample Workouts!