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End of Summer 50% OFF Sale!

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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
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  • 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…

 

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

Take advantage of technology and save on shipping with our e-book version of Warrior Fitness: Conditioning for Martial Arts. Instantly downloadable to your computer upon purchase. No shipping cost. No waiting. Instant access! 

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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

  • WF UG Cover1Specific 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!

Buy Now for only $25 $12.50 USD!!

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Martial Power Cover1Martial 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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Fitness Dangers for Bujinkan Students

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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.

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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….

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My First Fight

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I’ll never forget my first fight.  In fact, the thought of it even now gets me all worked up.  I’m not sure exactly how old I was, maybe 6 years old, but I know I was in 1st grade.  This little boy, who had a reputation of being the class bully, was picking on a girl I liked.  Her name was Autumn.  She had bright blue eyes and hair so blond it was almost white.  My first crush.  Continue reading →

Imagine You With Less Pain

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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 →

Why I Hate Working Out

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It may sound strange coming from a guy who’s entire professional life revolves around fitness and martial arts, but I actually hate working out.  Is this some sort of blasphemy against the almighty deity of fitness?  Is it hypocrisy?  Do as I say, but not as I do?  Nope.  Not even close. Continue reading →

To Stretch or Not to Stretch

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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 swears that stretching is an absolute must prior to any activity (up to and possibly including sex) as it is a way to warm-up the muscles to prevent injury.

So, who is right? Continue reading →

A Word on Recovery

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Training harder demands training smarter.

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 feet they start the same cycle all over again.  Why? Because maybe, just maybe they weren’t pushing hard enough or using enough brute force last time to succeed and this time will be different.  Riiigghhht…

How about this instead?

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With It or On It

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The ancient Spartan maxim, “with it or on it” is a very stark reminder that we must be fully committed to whatever battle we are waging.  The full meaning of this phrase that Spartan mothers used to say to their sons before heading off to war is, to either come back with your shield – as a returning hero – or come back upon it. 

There is no middle ground. 

No room for wavering or debating. 

No having your cake and eating it too. 

When moving towards a goal, there must be no hesitation in your actions.

In the Bujinkan martial arts that I study, there is a similar saying, “Hell gapes beneath the upraised sword, step in to heaven.”  This may seem like crazy advice, after all who in their right mind would step forward when faced with an opponent armed with a 3 foot razor blade?!  But in training, through experience, one comes to understand and realize that the safest place when facing an upraised sword, paradoxically, is to move forward and step closer, thus finding “heaven”.

Again and again throughout warrior cultures, from ancient Greeks to Japanese Ninja and Samurai, we see this idea of complete and utter commitment, 100% determination in moving forwards towards our goals, no matter what they are.

So how about you?  How committed are you?  How much do you talk about taking action rather than actually taking action?  Do you step forward into heaven and achieve your goals when confronted with difficulty and adversity?  Do you walk the razor’s edge in life, or just in your mind? 

It’s time to step forward.  Take action.  With it or on it.

Click HERE to take action on your health and fitness goals today!

I Need Your Help!

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This is going to be a different post for me today.  A little off track from my usual fitness, nutrition, budo, and motivational fare, but definitely a necessary, maybe even vital topic.  First of all, I just want to say thank you to all my Warrior Fitness blog readers and subscribers.  Whether you are one of the many readers who have purchased my Warrior Fitness book or Striking Power e-book or not (yet! :)), you guys make this blog a sustainable enterprise; without you all, I’d just be talking to myself!  I’m grateful that what I write and how I write it resonates with you and also may benefit you in some small way.

I Was Embarassed!

This brings me to the reason for this post.  A few weeks ago at the Underground Strength Coach Certification, see my review HERE, I was talking with Zach Even-Esh about some new product ideas I had for Warrior Fitness.  I had been thinking for a while about tons of new product ideas I’d like to develop for Warrior Fitness and wanted to bounce some of them off him.  Well, what he said to me blew my mind!  Zach said, “Do you know what your readers want?”  I kind of stammered and looked at him a little confused and said, “Um… well, no.  What do you mean?”  He continued on and told me that while I might know what type of products I wanted to create, wouldn’t it make much more sense to know exactly what my Warrior Fitness readers want and need in a fitness or martial arts product and create something great that specifically meets their needs?  I was stunned.  Flabbergasted actually.  It made so much sense and was such a common sensical approach; I’m embarrassed to admit that I’d never even stopped to think about it.  Sorry guys!  So, in an effort to correct my oversight, what I’d like to do is get your opinion on this…

What Would YOU Like to See?

What type of new Warrior Fitness product would you, my readers, like to see?  What areas in your strength, endurance, conditioning, flexibility, mobility, breath control, agility, do you feel need the most attention?  What part of your martial arts training do you feel can be enhanced by fitness training?  Ukemi – rolling, leaping, falling, changing directions rapidly, taihenjutsu?  How about structural strength for kamae?  Creating and sustaining Flow?

Some areas for consideration (but by no means limited to these!) are:

  • Bodyweight training
  • Kettlebell training
  • Sandbags
  • Old school strength training
  • Odd objects – tires, sleds, stones, logs
  • Ninja fitness training
  • Conditioning
  • Fat Loss
  • Any combination or other!!

Also, think about what format you’d like to receive the product in – book, e-book form, DVD, downloadable video?

So in effect what I’m asking is – please help me to help you!  Let’s get a dialogue going and keep it going.  If I don’t know you, I’d like to.  Any ideas are welcome!  You can respond in the Comments section below, through my Facebook page (hey, do me a favor and “Like” it while you’re there!), email me, or heck if you want to discuss something shoot me an email and I’ll give you my phone number – whatever it takes to really make you a viable part of Warrior Fitness.

Thanks!

Jon

What Does a Ninja Need?

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Historically, ninja were the consummate combination of super spy / super soldier.  They possessed outstanding levels of fitness due to their intensely physical training and highly demanding mission requirements.

Their levels of fitness and training have been the subject of many stories and the genesis for many myths surrounding them.

How did they do it?

How did they train?

What type of methodology did they employ since creating this kind of warrior certainly required a very diverse fitness profile?

Ninja fitness needs were much more multi-faceted than most physical pursuits.  They had to be as they were at once a combination of Olympic decathlete, Navy Seal, and martial arts master rolled into one.  Let’s examine this a little more closely though, what kind of qualities did they possess and what did they need to be able to do?

Ninja Must Possess …

  • Strength
  • Agility
  • Coordination
  • Excellent balance
  • Flexibility / Mobility
  • Whole body power
  • Endurance

Ninja Must Be Able to….

  • Move silently
  • Run fast
  • Walk far
  • Leap high
  • Climb trees, walls, castles fortifications, etc.
  • Wield weapons
  • Fight unarmed – striking, kicking, grappling, locking, choking, etc.
  • Roll / fall / dodge / avoid
  • Crawl
  • And more…

As you can see from the 2 lists above, the ninja had a wide range of skills and abilities that had to be supported by a comprehensive fitness program keeping him at the top of his game.

Remember that for a ninja, fitness wasn’t just a nice to have; it was an absolute necessity to accomplishing his mission and getting him home safely.  And the kicker is, they did it all with little to no fitness equipment.

Certainly a 16th century ninja did not possess a Gold’s Gym membership.  Nor did he own an Olympic weight set or have a stair master at his disposal.  And, while kettlebells and dumbbells would have been great, he most likely had never laid eyes on either one.

So here we have one of the most highly trained and fit agents the world has ever seen created without the use of modern training equipment or modern training methods.

What might some of this training looked like?

I’m glad you asked.  One of my favorite scenes in Hatsumi Sensei’s early Bujinkan training videos (DVDs now for you younger folks!) comes from Shinden Fudo Ryu.  Here’s a short clip I found on Youtube.  This stuff is seriously old school!

“One trains using the things of nature to make the body strong” – Hatsumi Sensei

What if we were to take the spirit of historical ninja fitness training and combine it with a little modern sports science and know how?

Modern methods allow us to take advantage of periodization, or programing and organizing training, to create a comprehensive fitness plan which will apply logical sequences to get the most out of each session.  Protocols like HIIT, high intensity interval training, will be utilized to maximize both aerobic and anaerobic endurance in the same short, high intensity session.

Advances in recovery work from such sessions will allow us to recover faster thus making gains greater, and increasing our overall general physical preparation (GPP) will allow us to push higher into more sophisticated training.  Effectiveness and efficiency will be combined in order to allow for shorter training sessions which maximize the use of one’s time.

As the ancient ninja did, we will create a strong, supple, highly conditioned warrior and accomplish this with little to no fitness equipment.  We will, as Hatsumi Sensei says in the video clip above, use the things of nature to make the body strong.

If I were able to point to just one resource for the warrior that combines old school training with modern sports science, I’d look here… Ninja Missions <<==