- One 10 minute workout a day and you can kick mr. T’s ass too
In the groundbreaking movie, “The Matrix” (too bad about those sorry sequels), Morpheus said, “Time is always against us”. In most aspects of our lives, that always seems to be the case.
Exercise always gets pushed to the back of the line when it comes to prioritizing things in our lives. Let me pose one question: Is there anything more important than your health? It is time that exercise, one of the two biggest components of your health along with nutrition, move up the list of daily priorities.
If you can find ten minutes, you can do a number of different workouts that will work you both aerobically (endurance) and anaerobically (muscular). The most important component of these types of workouts is intensity.
Intensity has a lot of fancy definitions. Mine is the furthest thing from fancy. Intensity is how hard or how little you bust your ass. Workouts can be low or high intensity. If you are going for a time limited workout as we are discussing here, you want to go high intensity.
That would be pushing a heart rate of 80-90% of your maximum heart rate (Quick formula: subtract your age from 220 and multiply that number by .8 and .9; that gives you the proper range of beats/minute you want to maintain).
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- Fitness is a key [but often overlooked] component of survivalism
I am privileged to be involved with DVM as the martial arts industry correspondent. That is largely due to my ownership of a martial arts facility. But that is only part of the Titan Fitness and Martial Arts business that I own and operate. I am a certified personal trainer and spend a large part of my work day training everyone from housewives to combat athletes in working toward their respective goals.
A large part of the “DVM Nation” consists of individuals that are in positions requiring physical and mental preparedness for the rigors of dangerous situations. Often times in any aspect of life, fitness is dismissed from the daily regiment. Whether it be an issue of time or lack of equipment, fitness will often get tabled for the Xbox.
The DVM Nation is located at various ports of call that may not have the traditional gym environment to work on a max bench press or a new personal record of treadmill. I am hear to tell you that your fitness does not require that type of pursuit.
I am a big believer that the best piece of fitness equipment is what nature gave all of us; our own bodies. That said, fitness pursuits do not require an equipment-laden, lycra-uniformed mega-gym (i.e. Bally’s and the like).
You only need a pair of sweats, a Tshirt, sneakers (preferably Nike [sorry, shameless product plug]), and you own imagination as far as the types of body weight exercises you can perform.
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- two female Israeli soldiers training in Krav Maga (keep your mind out of the gutter!)
It is an understatement that mixed martial arts has dominated the conversation where martial arts are concerned over the past five years.
Schools have been popping up everywhere emphasizing instruction in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Thai Boxing, and Boxing, the most notable arts making up most the arsenal used by mixed martial arts practitioners and fighters.
But UFC, Strikeforce, and Bellator contracts are few and far between. For most people, the primary aim of martial arts training remains the ability to defend one’s self.
MMA training sometimes misses the mark when we get down to where the rubber meets the road martial arts wise: neutralizing a threatening situation effectively, then getting the hell out of Dodge!
Enter Krav Maga.
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- Despite being a fighter in the hyped and highly commercialized MMA Industry Randy Couture still maintained his traditional Martial arts values
I have been involved in the martial arts business for over seventeen years, during this time I have seen many changes. The martial arts business, like any business has ebbs and flows with various trends taking the lead then vanishing in the face of the next new thing – Tae Bo fits that description. We are now experiencing something that is more than a flash in the pan or a trend. I submit that it has altered martial arts and its pursuit permanently.
That wave (a tidal wave) is Mixed Martial Arts or MMA.
The history of MMA has been well documented and, for most martial arts enthusiasts, witnessed first hand with its genesis occurring in the early 1990s. With its resuscitation from near extinction in the early 2000s, the exponential growth of the sport has put it in a path to possibly replace boxing as the nation’s favorite combat sport.
As an owner of a martial arts business, I have benefited from MMA visionaries, most notably Dana White, in bringing MMA into the mainstream creating a desire by many to pursue training and competition in this dynamic sport. I have seen the pursuit of the black belt supplanted by the pursuit of competition in the octagon as the primary goal of martial arts practitioners.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Thai Boxing, and general Mixed Martial Arts gyms are sprouting up at a faster rate replacing Tae Kwon Do as the fastest growing segment of martial arts schools in the country. More states are sanctioning MMA in the hopes of drawing revenue from the popularity of this sport. All these things seem amazing and positive on the surface…
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