Asanas for the Airborne and the Work Worn
If you're like most people these days, there are times when your body aches from overwork, your head throbs from daily pressures, you're tense,...
Combat Triage: General Conditioning: Focused Breathing
Last weekend I watched a great little movie called: From Mexico With Love. I was happy because it had a very happy ending, but...
3 Stretch Yourself: Your Potential to Do a Front Split
Stretch Yourself: Testing Your Potential to Do a Front Split
This is the third installment of my column on training that appeared in May 1999...
When Personal Training Gets Too Personal
Women Fall for their Personal Trainers and Here’s Why
What is it that really turns sweaty strength training sessions into steamy afternoon rendezvous? (Read More)
When...
NFL Stars Train Tae Kwon Do at Young Brothers Institute
NFL stars train Tae Kwon Do with Young Brothers Institute in Pittsburgh that could resemble an NFL training camp. Some of the most famous...
Warrior Training with Traditional Martial Arts Part 2
Physical Development and Training
I like to approach training as a concept with stages which I think in a detailed and outlined fashion, can be...
Combat Triage: General Conditioning: Hips, Shoulders, Legs and Neck
All fighters like economy of movement. Make something complicated and there goes your reaction time. It's the same thing with foundational training. As a...
The Pilates Martial Arts Connection
Mind, body, spirit, focus, concentration, diaphragmatic breathing, precision, and fluidity these are some of the terms commonly used in the martial arts. But did...
Martial Arts Strength Training
People involve themselves in the martial arts for any number of reasons. I would like to think that the arts have something for everybody....
Weight Training for Martial Artists
I expect to get two responses to my discussion of weight training for martial artists. One will probably cry, “Perish the thought. Martial arts...
7 Stretch Yourself: High Kicks with No Warm Up – Roundhouse Kicks
High Kicks with No Warm-Up: The Right Body Alignment for Great Height and Power in the Roundhouse Kicks
This is the seventh installment of my...
Combat Triage: General Conditioning: The Fighter’s Repose
Downtime Training: The Fighter's repose is about training your body to repair. For the true fighter, there is never any real off-time. When a fighter...
Instructional Video – Athlon Rub Thai Oil Massage for Muay Thai
Athlon Rub Thai Oil: Instructional Athlon Rub Thai Oil Massage for Muay Thai
Kru Yai Jenypher Lanthier of York Muay Thai in Toronto, Canada demonstrates...
CrossFit Training Abuse
CrossFit training abuse runs rampant and here is what has been discovered about the program's unsafe practices.
Any exercise program is open to abuse by...