Mike Lee Kanarek Blog

this weekend I was teaching a seminar in NY, it was a great seminar, great people and great energy on the mat!

As always I started with a solid 45 minutes Combat Fitness workout, what I call “paying your taxes”      during that session I explianed that to me Combat Fitness is like the ammo you have for your machin-gun, doesn’t matter how good your machine gun is if you have no ammo!

Then we moved on to advanced FIGHT materials…this is where I introduced the concept of ” a book versus a machine”. If you are learning more and more techniques but your body is not combat fit and can not perform those techniques, in other words you only know the technique, you don’t own it. Then, you are a book that constantly adds more pages to it. Now, if you learning more and more techniques and you are Combat Fit, in other words you can perform them in training and where it counts the most : under pressure. Then, you are a fighting machine that keeps on getting better!!!

so the question is :  Are You A Book , Or Are You A  Machine???

***on the other hand: did you know that it only take 2 table spoons of machine/engine oil to contaminate an entire drinking water supply for a full size combat ship?

And that only includes my personal training, not me teaching classes!

One of my motto’s here at the National HaganaH Headquarters is ” Where The Young Get Strong , And The Strong Stay Young “…to get strong is one thing, but to stay strong is a completely different story!

On my last travels when I was in Columbia MD one of the guys that attended the Combat Fitness Workshop I did at Juan Ponte’s Max Muscle nutrition store asked me : ” Are you really 43 yrs old? ” I said : ” Yes” …then he said : ” It must be genetics lol ” I said : ” Oh Nooooooooooo….wasn’t easy to get where I am, and its even harder to stay here , its all about discipline and Knowing where to focus your training ” that naturally lead to his next question : ” What do you do on a regular base for workouts ? ”

here is the answer :

I do cardio on an empty stomach monday, tuesday, thursday and friday first thing in the morning. One week 2 HIIT sessions and 2 regular pace sessions and then alternate the days of those sessions the week after. Only then my day starts…

Monday mid day I lift heavy: 4 weeks chest, 4 weeks back and 4 weeks arms cycle.

Tuesday evening Combat Fitness – Module1

Wednesday morning Kettlebells heavy : 300 Swings , 100 Snatches and 20 Turkish Get-Ups in preparation to my RKC

Thursday evening Combat Fitness – Module1

Saturday morning Combat Fitness – Module2 including a S.U.B. add-on outdoor module

the above is my Combat Fitness and Conditioning weekly training with taking every 13th week off to rest and restart/retwig the next 12 weeks cycle

FIGHT monday morning with training partner

FIGHT wednesday morning with training partner

the above is my FIGHT personal weekly training , that does not include Kick-Boxing/Muay-Thai, BJJ/Ground Survival-Fighting, ITK/Combat Shooting

those who have been around long enough can tell you I was not always at the level of conditioning I am now at….actually, far from it. Took me 4 years to get it right and get where I am….but now , I will ALWAYS stay where I am!!!

Hope this helps some of my students or Instructors design their training routines….have a Kick Ass day

ITK knife versus knife

great weekend in  Rhode Island, Boston and Maryland!

This last weekend was packed with teaching HaganaH and Combat Fitness…

It all started in Easton MA teaching a “Counters and Insurances” seminar on friday night. I loooove this material, its when things go wrong in your initial defense to street scenarios , knife defenses and gun disarms. Very dynamic material, the students did great!!!  it was 3 hours lond with a cruel first “30 minutes of Combat Fitness taxes” and then 2 and a half hours of the counters and insurances….those 3 hours flew so fast, it was a Blast!!!!

Then it was a full day of training in Boston teaching a ” Mutiple Attackers and 3rd Party” seminar. Again the day started with a “30 minutes of Combat Fitness taxes” workout Ha Ha…then it moved on toadvanced FIGHT materials of  multiple attackers and 3 rd party all day long. This was a very technical seminar and a lot of material was deployed!

on saturday evening I caught a quick flight and off to Maryland Columbia I was…  I went to visit Juan Ponte, a former student of mine here at the National Headqaurters, who opened a Max Muscle Nutrition store and did a Combat Fitness workshop at his store friday to introduce CF to Columbia MD. The workshop included a lecture explaining what Combat Fitness is all about and how it was formulated in the passed few years by James Cooper and myself…then it was a Combat Fitness savage workout S.U.B. style, in the parking lot!!!!!!   31 people started, 21 finished!!!!!!!!!!

overall it was a Blast of a weekend….came back home sunday night , and before I knew it it was monday and the grind started all over again, “The Best Never Rest”!!!