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Combat-Fitness & Conditioning

Battling Ropes® Video Vault

If you’re sceptical about how a piece of rope can give you the best workout of your life, check out these videos and see the Battling Ropes in action! John Brookfield & Coach Bruce Pahl prev12next TitleJohn Brookfield & Coach Bruce Pahl Runtime2:41 Views4,359 TitleBattling Ropes Training System Synopsis by Dr. Mike Martino Runtime4:11 Views7,667 [...]

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Battling Ropes® Tsunami

by John Brookfield October 1, 2009 Battling Ropes

The Battling Ropes® Tsunami is quickly becoming the wave of the future when it comes to a standard way to test an athlete’s ability to maintain and sustain velocity and power. “This has been a great eye opener to a missing link in training, which is the ability to maintain and sustain velocity and power [...]

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Fooling The Body: The Jeet Kune Do of Working Out

by Izzy Barish September 29, 2009 Combat-Fitness & Conditioning

If you are an athlete that is training for a sport the best thing to do is train for that sport by practicing that sport. If you are a golfer play golf and practice specifically the basics of teeing off, chipping and putting and playing golf games. If it’s tennis you practice your back hand, [...]

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Sandbag Training For Martial Arts & MMA

by Josh Henkin September 24, 2009 Combat-Fitness & Conditioning

Times are changing, the strength and conditioning field is evolving quickly. With these changes the martial arts are finally receiving the attention they deserve. At the same time this is a challenging time as the martial arts has one of the richest history of sports performance training. Many martial artists have been turned off by [...]

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Official Battling Ropes® Q&A

by John Brookfield September 20, 2009 Battling Ropes

The Battling Ropes System® allows the world-class athlete or competitor to push their limits to the point of failure in a safe manner. But, the Battling Ropes System® is also user-friendly enough for the average person wishing to lose a few pounds and get in better shape. This training will give anyone great results whether [...]

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Battling Ropes® Testimonials

by Coach Bruce Pahl September 20, 2009 Battling Ropes

Ingrid Marcum, CSCS, USA Weightlifting National Champion, USA Bobsled World Team member, IngridMarcum.com – “As an athlete who has trained at an elite level for almost 30 years, it takes a lot for a new training system to impress me. But within just a few sessions, John Brookfield’s Battling Ropes training system had clearly improved [...]

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Strength Training For The Martial Athlete

by Coach Bruce Pahl July 20, 2009 Combat-Fitness & Conditioning

This is a topic that I am very familiar with and passionate about. I’ve personally been strength training, weight lifting and bodybuilding for over 30 years. My type of training has changed depending on what my goals were at that time. In this article titled strength training for the martial athlete I hope to give you [...]

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Choosing A Martial Art For Health & Fitness

by Coach Bruce Pahl July 12, 2009 Combat-Fitness & Conditioning

If you are thinking about choosing a martial art as a way to improve your health & fitness, get into better physical condition or to get rid of some of extra weight that you have put on, then this article on choosing a martial art style or system for health and conditioning can provide you with some fundamental knowledge so that you [...]

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Take Your Martial Arts Skill To The Next Level

by Coach Bruce Pahl May 9, 2009 Combat-Fitness & Conditioning

What makes a great boxer or wrestler great? Why is Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods so much better then all other players? What differentiates a pro athlete from an amateur? The answer… Attributes. Attributes are the foundation of all skill. It’s what makes skills or techniques work. you cannot hit a home run without speed and power and [...]

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