The Body of a Knight

Introduction

Welcome to the fitness and nutrition portion of our page. The training I like to do is very natural, and accommodating. I’m worked with young children, senior citizens, conditioned combat athletes in their prime, and everywhere in between. The basic exercises that will be made available through downloadable video clips will help give you a good foundation for strength that will allow you to move on to more difficult to accomplish exercises. Please, if you find something difficult, do not get frustrated. If you find even the most basic exercises shown to be difficult, or impossible, use the contact information provided on the website.

My approach is very natural. One does not need to make hours of time available to get a solid, full body workout, with incredible results. Also, you will not need any equipment to perform what will be shown on video; just your own body. Certain variations might require one or two chairs, or maybe a pull up bar which can usually be found at an affordable rate. But while these things may be of assistance, they are by no means required to perform what will be shown on video. While some of the exercises might look difficult to do, many have actually been used to rehabilitate injuries.

The goal is to condition the entire body, building raw, explosive, and also endurance muscle. I will show you a variety of ways you can work out. Some training methods can actually be used exclusively for awesome results. To begin, I want you to picture a goal. It might be to put on 30 pounds of muscle. It might be to lose weight. You might just want to be able to regain your flexibility from 10 years ago. However, if you are already fit and strong, you might want to increase your functional strength for sports, or practicality. Whether you want to be able to see your toes when you look down, or to perform 10 one armed chin-ups, these exercises will get you there. But first, you need to begin with your goal in mind. Focus on what you would like to achieve, have an image in your mind of what you want to attain, and get excited able it. Get excited about working out, it will bring you closer to this goal. By doing this, you will enhance the speed with which your goal becomes your reality.

When you train, it’s not how long you work out, but how hard you work during the workout. Yes, I propose you being able to get a full-body workout, in 15-20 minutes. That’s if you’re advanced. To start, even 2 minutes might be enough. But you have to work to achieve it. For example, Doing 100 pushups is great. But if it takes 3 hours, that adds up to a lot of wasted time. In the beginning, you might not be able to do 5 push-ups at a shot. So, you’ll do what you can do. I’ll give you several styles, and you do your best with them. Do one set, keeping form proper, rest for a second or two, do another set of the same style, or a different one. I’ll focus more of how to improve in the videos; I just wanted to give you an idea.

These exercises you’ll be using are not some new-fangled fad routine. Everything I will be showing you are time-tested to give incredible results. Some you are most certainly familiar with. Others may seem very alien. Others still may look crazy. But you’ll build up, and I promise you, follow this program faithfully, and you’ll be able to climb the ladder. You’ll move from the simplest variations to incredibly advanced exercises rapidly. Some of these exercises have been used by wrestlers for centuries, others, by gymnasts. Some were designed by early American strongmen, while others, beasts in the wild, and even some used by traditional martial artists. Do not be intimidated. Your endurance, strength, speed, flexibility, agility, coordination, mental focus, and discipline will jump through the roof, so long as you follow this program faithfully, and actually DO THE EXERCISES. You’ll get results, no matter what you do, so long as you do it. But these exercises cannot fail to give you results you’ve never dreamed possible. To think, all without going to the gym, and spending all day isolating muscles.

If you’re still not sure about this, let me explain two stories of former students of mine. The first was an older man. He had a gut, knee problems that plagued him his whole life, and back pain from when he used to lift weights. I started him doing exercises that increased his endurance, as well as repaired his long abused knees. These exercises strengthened the tendons and ligaments, as well as all the little muscles in the leg that we never really target through standard exercises. He soon lost weight, his gut went down, his endurance exploded so that he could keep up with his much younger opponents, and best of all, no more knee pain, nor back pain! He complained initially about cracking sounds, and pain, saying the exercises were hurting him, and doing no good. I assured him they would, and I was right.

The next person I’m going to talk about was the most fit person I’ve ever met. He was in his 20’s, a college wrestler. He wrestled his whole life. He still competed in grappling tournaments, and did very well. When he was training, he would switch between 3 younger, fairly fit guys who all had weight on him, from 20 pounds, to 80! Yet he could stay aggressive against them, when they switched every minute! This was even before I started working with him. He asked me to train with him so he could do better against more experienced grapplers who had size on him. So I got started, saving the less impressive looking exercises, because I wanted to try and feel him out. Next week, he was saying he had never been so sore. Then week by week, we’d train, and though I only got one day with him a week, and he was missing other workouts, he was still gaining leaps and bounds, and he was doing much better in his grappling rounds than ever before, skipping several other conditioning classes a week, just so he had the energy to work out with me! He requested not to do some types of exercises because they would wear him out too quickly, even though they didn’t involve moving.

To conclude, anyone can benefit from these exercises, and get in the best shape of their lives. So long as you follow my advice in the videos, and stay faithful to your practice. As with any exercise program, you should check with your doctor to see if you are healthy enough to begin training. That begin said, I hope you enjoy the videos. With time, I will replace these videos with higher quality productions.

To begin, I want you to make sure you’re drinking enough fluids. Don’t go easy on yourself, and stop after every set and every routine for a drink. But if you’re busting your humps, and sweat is pouring down, and your mouth is dry, by all means take a drink. But know yourself, know if you can push it more. Next, it’s time to stretch. Some people tell you not to stretch cold, which in a way is true. If you’re going to jump right into a split, or straddle without doing anything to get ready, then you’ll tear something. If you’re going to do ballistic stretching, and just through your body to get farther in a stretch, you’re going to get hurt. Take your time, start with easier stretches, reach for your toes with straight legs, then do it feet shoulder length apart to each leg, and then center, and so forth. If there’s enough interest I’ll do an introduction to stretching video.

This concludes the introduction. Any questions, or comments, feel free to contact me via email, and I’ll be able to help you out. Good luck, and let the training begin.