Description: 

In a fight, the physical quality of conditioning is the linchpin of your ability to execute your skills with impunity. Without strong conditioning, it will be difficult to frame, hold, strike, block, counter, shoot, hold, perpetually circle/move, or engage in powerful and quick exchanges that–while only lasting seconds long–can heavily influence the outcome of the fight, match, or roll that you are engaging in against a resisting opponent.  

Measurable

This program uses 2 pre-assessments that act as benchmarks for which to measure performance against throughout your completion of the program, and will also be tested out in a post-assessment should you choose to see the entire block through to the end of week 8.

Simple

Every protocol/movement in the training program has a personal video created for it, not a copied and pasted 6 second internet video of a human in neon leggings more expensive than my foodshopping bill executing a squat under the conditions of near panic-inducing lights and music. For the more complex internal work, I’ve uploaded a full training rationale as to how it works, how division of sets/reps works, and why it is even necessary. Years of explaining these things to people that hate the physical training end and only want to hit people as hard as possible has paid its dividends. 

What Do I Need?

Heart Rate Monitor (Nike Run Club app is easy to use and free to track pace and distance in real time, and the heart monitor you purchased should have an accompanying app to use to track average heart rate during sessions).

Kettlebells (Light, Medium, Heavy–pairs preferred for light and medium but all of the work can be done with a single if that’s your only option)

***for the circle of death, it calls for an “impossible” sized bell. You could either facebook marketplace a bell 2 sizes up from your usual heavy swing weight, or duct tape a weight plate to the heavy bell ghetto style***

Ab wheel

Malleable Training Contexts

Sessions can be completed anywhere. The majority of my MMA fighters have too many other places to be (work, gym 1, gym 2) and have to train at home in order to leverage out just a bit more sleep and less of a blow to the gas tank, as do my hobbyist jiu-jitsu athletes, as well as myself, and this has resulted in world class work being adapted for execution in a parking lot of an apartment complex or at a corner at Crunch Fitness. Whatever, wherever.

Fight Specific

This absolutely does not mean you’ll be doing hip escapes while holding a weighted mannequin head. But what it does mean is that the entire purpose of my company has always been to zero in on the physical and bioenergetic qualities that need to be polished in order to have someone become relentless. Rock solid principles, minimalist methods, and tested at all levels from my living room, to the IBJJF Black Belt Worlds Finals, to the cage in amateur and professional settings.