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What Are the Functional Movements? Are You Doing Them?
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What Are the Functional Movements? Are You Doing Them? Are the movements you do functional? Are they helping you move in your personal and professional life? What exactly is functional training or the functional movement patterns of the human body? Personally, I break down workouts into the following events: push, push, full, leg, core, cardio (run, ruck, swim). However, the more widely accepted seven functional movement patterns are explained with more detail versus my over-simplified explanation. You will see my five exercises placed into the seven functional movement patterns however. The Functional Movement Patterns are the following: Hip Hinge –...
One Step At A Time - One Meal At a Time
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Focus on the Step in Front of You - Not the Whole Staircase Looking from the top of Haiku Stairs in Hawaii One step at a time will get you to your goal faster than sitting still worrying about the goal. Too many fail to realize their initial goal because they did not start moving forward. Maybe you don't have the best plan at first, but you can adjust course easier than you can create momentum to get moving. Besides our plans look like this: As General Patton...
Wait - It's All Preparation and Mindset? Always Has Been
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Wait - It's All Preparation and Mindset? Always Has Been Your preparation matters - so does your mindset. In fact, you cannot get through challenging selection programs without both. Preparation takes time and patience and there is a four step process to prepare for your journey. Mindset or mental toughness is part born in you and part developed through hard work, trials, dealing with failure, and consistent effort and work ethic. How big is your WHY? You can be the most prepared tactical athlete out there crushing physical standards like a boss, but when pain / injury sets in and...
Four Steps to Get Prepared for Spec Ops Profession
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Four Steps To Preparing Fully for Any Spec Ops Profession Often people will waste time during the preparation process and fail to work on weaknesses and maintain strengths they need to endure selection. Some won't even realize they have a weakness - the reason why is they did not understand the standards or their own abilities. That is why the first step before you join the military unprepared is to ASSESS YOURSELF or you can use the Funny or Die line of Check Yourself Before you Wreck Yourself: Jeff Nichols and I did a podcast on these four steps and...
Warrior Workout Vol 2: 100 Workout Ideas for the Seasonal Tactical Fitness Periodization System
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Need ideas for Stew Smith's Seasonal Tactical Fitness Periodization System) - this book has 100 ideas for you to add to your current training / programming. This is ideal for those who like to make their own workouts, don't feel like following a multi-week schedule. Warrior Workouts, Volume 2 features over 100 all-new workouts designed to simulate the year-long periodized training of Navy SEALs and special forces elite. Learn how to use periodization for any tactical profession to improve performance as well as create longevity in a physically challenging profession.Combining a wide range of exercise information with tailored progression plans from legendary fitness...