I am as guilty as the next guy for spending too much time crowing about toughness, intensity, and perseverance during a training session, and not enough time discussing the importance of rest and recovery from those sessions. So let take a break from the “Go hard or Go home” and talk about strategy for getting [...]

I received an email the other day from someone in the area who said he was an active member of a special operations unit with multiple combat deployments and 15 years of service. First and foremost, I must express my gratitude to him and those like him who serve to protect our safety and liberty. [...]

 
There are several different facets to the mental training that is developed at Warrior Training Ground. One of the most critical is attention to detail. Now, there are no uniform inspections or verbal commands to repeat here so what am I getting at? Most people in the fitness industry will tell you that “form” is [...]

 
It doesn’t matter if you are S.W.A.T., Fire & Rescue, Medic, Spec Ops, Rangers, etc.  Every operator knows damn well that chaos seldom happens in a nice climate controlled environment.  This Fact is an integral part of the Warrior Training GroundSM course design.  Extreme Conditions TrainingSM (XCT) is NOT simply a train in the heat ’cause you [...]

In part one of this series I discussed the kettlebell for what it is. The point was to remove all of the emotion and bias for the time being and simply identify its fundamental characteristics as a thing. Not and exercise. Not a philosophy. Just a thing that has both unique and similar properties to [...]

I completely get the “sellability” of the home exercise video. The concept has been around in one form or another for like 40 years. I also have to applaud the shrewd business decision to piggy back on the whole “cross training” craze and packaging it into a video series. In addition, P90X actually does do [...]

 
Whenever I tell my colleagues about Warrior Training Ground and what type of training we do here, I generally get a raised eyebrow followed by questions mixed with confusion. “An RTS® instructor using kettle bells?” Anyone familiar with RTS® or MAT® and the brilliant education available there can understand why the question is asked. Anyone [...]

At Warrior Training Ground, we don’t do 1 rep max testing or establish fitness baselines with a battery of common benchmark lifts or runs. So the question came up, “How do you measure progress?” The easy way is to point out the obvious. I.e. 6 weeks ago you were spastically learning a Kettle bell snatch [...]

An article about the Army’s new fitness testing came across my desk the other day. I have to say I am proud of the Army for deciding that the bar was too low and added some more applicable measures to its “combat readiness” testing. The thing that bugs me is that a good many new [...]

There are groups of people who NEED to be prepared to participate (and prevail) in unimaginable chaos. These people go about their typically thankless jobs of putting their lives on the line so that the rest of us can rise and sleep with little more to worry about than our boss, or car, or spouse, [...]