Move Jutsu

I don’t have love handles but that’s because I know how to get rid of them. So listen and I’ll tell you the exercises to sort them out.
First some important info…
Quit Crunching
For starters doing a 100 crunches every morning won’t do you any good. All you’re training is the stamina of your abdominal muscles. That [...]

Here’s the top 3 forearm exercises for boosting strength, muscle and stamina. This is from personal experience as well as cold hard fact.
If you want more on the science and anatomy see another post.
Here I detail the top 3 best forearm exercises.
3. Wrist Twist
This is a beast and can be done in a few different [...]

I’m noticing a hefty weakness in my skill during fights and it really hit home when we were doing basic warmup kicks yesterday. In southpaw stance I couldn’t mai geri (front kick) for shit. It was pathetic and so I’ve decided to start drilling from all sides, angles and positions every moment I get. Doing [...]

If you don’t want to take up Ashtanga yoga to improve your balance then I’ve put together a quick list of alternatives. But first, it’d help to go over what balance is and how it works. That way you can be smarter about how you train.

Whats Involved
Most people balance using their vision as a guide [...]

These have got to be one of my favourite exercises of all. Pull ups and all their derivatives, chin ups, wide and narrow grip, using a towel, assisted and non assisted.
Pull ups help a huge range of muscles but especially target your latissimus dorsi (see pic), biceps, deltoids (shoulder) and pectorialis (chest).  They hit [...]

This took some time to put together as I had to balance my limited time in the morning, sleep requirements, boredom, and motivation.
If you’re anything like me then you’re probably horrendous in the morning.  Doesn’t matter how much sleep I get, I HATE the mornings like hell.
But here’s my new routine and I guarantee you’ll [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post I had to shuffle the days a bit and today was the first go on my new toy (see pic).  A bucket of sand!!
I’m always on the look out for new methods of working out to keep myself fresh.  Nothing worse than getting bored of workouts – motivation [...]

Once again I’ve decided to redo the programme.  Its getting increasingly difficult to keep tabs on what day has what – even when its in my face on the wall every day.
Another problem I’m having is the clashing with ju jutsu and ken jutsu.  If I’m doing a 5 or 6 day split then its [...]

I dunno why but I love hammering the forearms with everything I can.  It really makes you feel like you’ve worked out when you can’t type or write after wards.
So as you’d expect I’ve collected quite an array of different forearm exercises:

Wrist Roller (AKA: Forearm Killer): I won’t bother explaining this all over [...]

I couldn’t bare to do nothing all day so I did some work on the core and my forearms:
Forearms

Forearm Killer: 1 + 3 + 2 reps
Wrist Twist: 10reps x 3 sets

Core (3 circuits)

Crunches: 10 slow and controlled
Flag (kinda): This was hard and not entirely well executed but it certainly worked my abs.
Plank: 60 secs

Other than [...]