A Quick Conditioning Program and Two Updates

I hope this finds you all doing well. I’d like to answer a quick email question and then give you a little update about some DVDs and then give you quick program to try today.

First every so often we get email from people that says something like this:

“I emailed you and asked you a question and you didn’t respond to me. Therefore I’m insulted and don’t understand why you didn’t drop everything immediately and answer.”

You have no idea how much I wish I had the time to answer every single email I receive, and we do answer everything we possibly can, but you have to understand that it’s a significant volume of email. Most of the time I don’t even get to read many of them much less respond when they come in. Have some reality about things. Don’t get angry or take it as some personal insult if we can’t respond to every question or comment that everyone makes. It simply isn’t possible, but stick with it because over the course of time your question will be answered either directly or in something we write about.

Secondly, we had a question about the DVD we’re sending out to the first group of customers who ordered Martial Arts book. I apologize for it not having gone out. We were ready to send it for finalization, but then my life was put on hold for several weeks now due to my father’s stroke. His rehab is progressing to the point that I will be able to have the DVD out soon.


Third, a quick program for you to try. This is a nice little change of pace kettlebell routine. It’s really a combination of two programs one from Jared Savick, US Kettlebell Lifting Champion and Dan John, US Heavy Events Masters throwing champion.

Jared posted a challenge of clean and jerking one-armed a 40kg kettlebell as many times as possible in ten minutes. I just did 100 reps, I didn’t really count the time. Dan John wrote about a kettlebell and sled workout where you do one high rep set of swings, 20 or better followed immediately by a sprinting sled drag. Either drag the kettlebell or a sled, etc. This should be a sprint not a slow-weighted drag or walk. I did three rounds of this, used about 180lbs in the sled, sprinted 50 yards, 25 down and 25 back.

The combination of these two makes for a great little conditioning workout. It’s fast and you get to move some moderately heavy weight and breathe really hard when you sprint. The swing spring combination really cranks up the posterior chain, ham string and hip work. It also pre-exhausts your lungs before you ever even start the sprint.

Give it a shot. It’ll definitely give you your monies worth.


By the way if you would like to see any of our other kettlebell based routines or some really interesting combined strength and conditioning work, check out Twisted Conditioning II and Super Strength & Endurance for Martial Arts.

Powerful info for making you powerful.

Twisted Conditioning II
Super Strength & Endurance for Martial Arts