Owning the Battlefield: Self-Defense StrategiesPhilosophy

Martial artist kneeling in a fighting ring, showcasing intense focus and determination, embodying the philosophy of self-defense and resilience in martial arts training.

Owning the battlefield…strategies for self-defense

In the United States Army, we often talked about “owning the battlefield” or in some cases controlling the battlespace. The Air Force typically gains air superiority while the tankers and infantry must hold key points of terrain. The Navy, of course, dominates the oceans and provides additional support to the coastline. In Martial Arts, do…

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Maximizing your workout in a thermogenic state

Anyone can Google the average caloric burn for the major forms of exercise and easily discover that on average a person can burn 500 to 700 calories per hour. That research would indicate that on the surface it doesn’t matter whether we are running,, swimming, lifting weights or engaged in some form of high-intensity interval…

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Young martial artist delivering a powerful kick to a heavy bag in a training studio, emphasizing fitness and power development in martial arts.

Developing Power

Power is essential in martial arts. For those of you who might read this statement and think developing more powerful kicks, more powerful punches, or even more powerful throws is something you can’t live without, let me just say that I like how you think. Typically, we think of heavyweights as being the guys with…

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Illustration of four human figures in red, green, and orange, representing various body types and fitness levels, symbolizing the concept of metabolism and caloric burn in fitness and martial arts training.

Stop Struggling with Weight and Listen to Your Body

The body is a calculator. In very general terms, if you put fuel in, then the body has to decide (yes, decide) what to do with that fuel. The major options follow: The body can burn that fuel. We call this metabolism or metabolic burn. This is how we stay alive, and it is the…

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Top 5 reasons people love group fitness

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Leveraging Martial Arts Power for Strength and FitnessTrying Isn’t Doing

I always hear the same thing from good people who want to feel better about failure. They say “I’m trying or I tried.” They might say, “I’m doing my best or I did my best.” While I agree that we need to avoid injuring our ego (or in layman’s terms avoid beating ourselves up), I…

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