Battle Test - How To Train Like Your Life Depends On It
How would you train if you knew your safety - and often even your life - depended on it? Military, law enforcement, MMA fighters, mountaineers and many others must rely on both peak physical and mental conditioning to perform their job safely at the highest level. In this book, Arlo Gagestein, author of "Warrior Core: Core Training Secrets for the Modern Combat Athlete" and owner of premier performance training center, Competitive Edge Fitness, gives you insight into his strategies for preparing warriors for battle. The ideas in this book are drawn from interviews with dozens of MMA fighters, law enforcement officers, military veterans, mountaineers, sport psychologists, strength coaches, and physical therapists as well as years of reading research articles and biographies of warriors. The methods, drawn from his professional expertise as a fitness consultant and ground fighting instructor for his local police department, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach, a Licensed Sports Massage Therapist, a Sports Injury Specialist, an former assistant coach at a division 1 university.Battle Tested is packed full of training philosophy, personal assessment and corrective exercises, recovery strategies, immediate action challenges, a full year fitness plan for combat athletes, and a fitness program template that can keep you at the top of your game for a lifetime.If you are ready to abandon your everyday routine, for a unique, challenging fitness program guaranteed to keep you just outside your comfort zone, you have come to the right place. If physical and mental growth are more important to you than lifting chest on Monday - if you are ready to train to survive and thrive in the face adversity - this book is for you.
How would you train if you knew your safety - and often even your life - depended on it? Military, law enforcement, MMA fighters, mountaineers and many others must rely on both peak physical and mental conditioning to perform their job safely at the highest level. In this book, Arlo Gagestein, author of "Warrior Core: Core Training Secrets for the Modern Combat Athlete" and owner of premier performance training center, Competitive Edge Fitness, gives you insight into his strategies for preparing warriors for battle. The ideas in this book are drawn from interviews with dozens of MMA fighters, law enforcement officers, military veterans, mountaineers, sport psychologists, strength coaches, and physical therapists as well as years of reading research articles and biographies of warriors. The methods, drawn from his professional expertise as a fitness consultant and ground fighting instructor for his local police department, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach, a Licensed Sports Massage Therapist, a Sports Injury Specialist, an former assistant coach at a division 1 university.Battle Tested is packed full of training philosophy, personal assessment and corrective exercises, recovery strategies, immediate action challenges, a full year fitness plan for combat athletes, and a fitness program template that can keep you at the top of your game for a lifetime.If you are ready to abandon your everyday routine, for a unique, challenging fitness program guaranteed to keep you just outside your comfort zone, you have come to the right place. If physical and mental growth are more important to you than lifting chest on Monday - if you are ready to train to survive and thrive in the face adversity - this book is for you.
How would you train if you knew your safety - and often even your life - depended on it? Military, law enforcement, MMA fighters, mountaineers and many others must rely on both peak physical and mental conditioning to perform their job safely at the highest level. In this book, Arlo Gagestein, author of "Warrior Core: Core Training Secrets for the Modern Combat Athlete" and owner of premier performance training center, Competitive Edge Fitness, gives you insight into his strategies for preparing warriors for battle. The ideas in this book are drawn from interviews with dozens of MMA fighters, law enforcement officers, military veterans, mountaineers, sport psychologists, strength coaches, and physical therapists as well as years of reading research articles and biographies of warriors. The methods, drawn from his professional expertise as a fitness consultant and ground fighting instructor for his local police department, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach, a Licensed Sports Massage Therapist, a Sports Injury Specialist, an former assistant coach at a division 1 university.Battle Tested is packed full of training philosophy, personal assessment and corrective exercises, recovery strategies, immediate action challenges, a full year fitness plan for combat athletes, and a fitness program template that can keep you at the top of your game for a lifetime.If you are ready to abandon your everyday routine, for a unique, challenging fitness program guaranteed to keep you just outside your comfort zone, you have come to the right place. If physical and mental growth are more important to you than lifting chest on Monday - if you are ready to train to survive and thrive in the face adversity - this book is for you.