"If you need perfect conditions to start, it means your success is conditional. If you want unconditional success, then be willing to start in under any circumstance" - Alex Hormozi Hardest part in our fitness/ninja journeys is often starting. We have our built in excuses. "I'm too busy. I've got kids to take care of. I'm too tired after work. It's the holidays - I'll start next year." ❌ The truth is even if you finally had 0 excuses, you would most likely fall off the moment times get tough - what needs to change is our mindsets. A mindset that says "no matter what, I'm doing this." This is the mindset that creates discipline, consistency and most of all RESULTS. 💯 This week, don't make any excuses. Get started now 💪

So as someone that trained in a variety of modalities, I've been wrestling with the question that has turned into a constant online debate - Which is better for building REAL strength, whether its for martial arts, or real world in general - bodybuilding training (i.e hypertrophic training) or functional training (full body movements, kettlebells, explosive exercises, etc)? 🤨 The truth that I've come to is - you need both. And the level of each varies for the goals you have 🤷🏽‍♂️ Bodybuilding training has gotten ALOT of hate for being impractical in the limited movements it trains, overvaluing size of the muscles over functionality, creating slowness and stiffness, and also being popularized by a community of ridiculous looking roid heads ❌ While some of it is true, it still retains its value in one simple truth: Hypertrophic training creates bigger muscles. Bigger muscles leads to more potential strength. The key word here is "potential"💡 In other words, HT creates the "hardware" for your body. Functional training doesn't do this. It doesn't make you notably bigger or really change your appearance much - so it can be hard to see results ❌ But the key difference is how it makes you FEEL when you do certain movements. Which is stronger, smoother and faster at that movement! 🏃‍♂️‍➡️ Functional training recruits the muscles you already have to engage in full body and explosive movements, and trains them to be better at these movements. Simply put: It takes your potential strength focuses it into REAL applicable strength 💪 Essentially, FT creates the "software" that programs the "hardware". This is nuanced of course. End of the day - someone who lifts a bunch of weights is generally stronger than someone who doesn't. Until that person has to perform a certain important movement they are not used to, against someone who trains that movement regularly 🏋️‍♀️ That's why you need both as a martial artist and an athlete - larger muscles that are trained to perform applicable movements makes you a force to be reckoned with 💯

Hey guys, so I want to share the biggest tip that has improved my understanding of mobility and getting more out of my range of motion and thats - focusing on strength 💪 OVER just stretching 🧘 I've spent years stretching my hips only to get barely noticeable improvement on my range of motion ❌ Yet once I was started making my hips STRONGER, my ROM improved dramatically without having to get warm and stretch for a bunch of time 🤯 This is because a stronger muscle can actually HANDLE going further in range rather than stretching a weak muscle that may temporarily REACH it - which is what often leads to injuries! 🤕 The best phrase I've heard on this that I'm stealing, "Stretching rents range of motion, strength buys it!" 💰 🚨 That's why I created a 20 minute Hip mobility flow video in the classroom here that covers several hip strengthening exercises (and some stretches) to build strength in these weak areas and actually improve your range of motion 🚨 Check it out on the classroom tab under the Mobility category and let me know what you think! 😊

"Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth" - Mike Tyson 🥊 We all have goals and timelines in our training, with that comes the plan we love to strategize on. "I want to lose X weight by this date... I want to lift Y weight by this time... I want to prepared and ready to participate in Z event at this time...I just have to do XYZ for this amount of time and I'll be ready!" Then you get punched in the mouth, AKA: something doesn't go as planned, the schedule gets thrown off, someone doesn't do what they say they'll do, injuries occur 😫 It sucks. Its annoying. Its frustrating. And its also part of life. Plans fall apart all the time. The question is, what will you do when that happens? How will you adapt to it? 🧐 There is no winning, no well earned victory, without the grit to overcome unforeseen challenges 💪 So this week think - what ways will you need to adapt and have grit to power through some unforeseen challenges?

What's up guys! Hips and lower back has always been a major weak point for me as it gets incredibly stiff and hard for me to perform my ninja kicks 🦵and it's something that I'm working to improve on since I started this community! That's why I made a video providing a quick 15-20 minute workout for hip strengthening & mobility that has been personally helping me for: ✅ better range of motion ✅ Developing strength & power ✅ Creating a "bouncy, elastic" feel to my kicks like a strong rubber band. I will attach the video below here and in the classroom! Let me know what you think of the video and if theres other parts you'd like help developing strength and mobility in!