Life Fitness Vol 2: Tracking Workouts

Warriors and Civilians
As a Martial Artist I have spent a great deal of time over the last 6+ years training. In the prior 4 years I was a Marine and I spent all of that time training. It has only just occurred to me lately to study training. The more I learn about training the more I meet people, either in person or on the net, who fit what I would call the Warrior mindset.In the Marine Corps, the warrior mind set was a given. I was an infantry man for 4 years and my job was combat. Even though I never saw combat it was my life. We trained daily to fight, shoot and win. It was what we did.During that period of time I never stopped to consider when, where, how or even Why? It just was. Lat

Crossfit
I have written several times about different aspect of workouts that many people over look. I want to take a break from that and skip ahead to one of the most comprehensive workouts around....CrossFit.CrossFit is the exercise sport. There is even a CrossFit Games where you can compete.So what is CrossFit, it Functional Olympic Lifting, body weight exercises, and Gymnastics strength building, all done at high intensity.The exercises are designed to use your whole body in natural Core to extremity motion that builds upon the natural efficiency of body mechanics. The idea is that if Force= Mass x Acceleration, t

Post fight
So I realize how horrible I am at updating this thing and I apologize.That being said I figured that I would blog a bit about my fight.For me fighting was a very surreal experience. I have wanted to do it for so long and I guess the part of me that doesn't believe in myself figured I never would. I owe it to Joe that I took the opportunity when it came because he said one day not too long ago, "why haven't you had a fight yet, you keep talking about it." and it really made me think.