I can’t wait for these workouts to kick off here next month! These workouts will run every Monday and Wednesday at 5:30pm , putting 5 Combat Fitness classes/workouts on our regular weekly schedule. The other 2 workouts are our Tuesday and Thursday 7:15am Combat Fitness 12 Tribes Circuit workouts, and Saturdays Qualifiers Only Module Workouts at 9:15am

S.U.B. MACHINE workouts are intense 30 minutes workouts that are organized in very specific 4 weeks muscle group programs that are designed to target those muscles specifically in addition to the fat burning element to this method of training.

If you train here at HQ’s you are in for a treat!!!!   More info about this program at the school….

11 weeks of getting up at 5a.m. to workout are finally over…all that attended the bootcamp did Great , both Black belt candidates JB and Luis added a few lbs of muscles for their upcoming Black Belt test at ….. All Eyes on the Conference now!!!

This year’s bootcamp was my warm-up program for my next personal 6 weeks training camp leading right into the week of the conference. This program I will do by all myself even-though a few of my black Belts have already asked to join on the training, but this one I will do solo…anybody who truly knows me, knows I push myself much harder when I train by myself.  I am stronger than ever at 205lbs, in the next 6 weeks I intend to gain 8lbs of muscles and lose 4lbs of fat, bringing me up to the 207lbs to 210lbs window at full capacity of my attributes!!!   2012 is going to ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Next week is Green Week with Cardio only, time to let the Inflammation go down and let our bodies detox!

On October 10th 2011 eight people, including myself , kicked off my annual Combat Fitness Boot-Camp. Typically this is the training regime leading into the conference and that is how I personally gear up for it physically. If you have witness out HaganaH Black Belt test , you have seen it is in no way an easy task. And months of physical preparation is required, even out of me!

The first 4 weeks of the Boot-Camp were “Loading” weeks, or what I call Great White Shark weeks. Then we had a week of rest and kicked up back into training on week number 6. The current three weeks, week 6/7/8 , are “Agility” weeks, or what I call Tiger Shark weeks. Concentrating the training on specially designed circuits putting emphasize of a 60% to 40% pulling to pushing ratio and a 70% to 30% two hands exercises to single handed exercises. After that it will be a one week of eating only Green, our Detox week. On that week we only do steady low impact cardio. Then finally it will be our last two weeks , the “Speed” weeks, or what I call the Mako Shark weeks.

Sore, pulled and even torn muscles, bruises, cuts and even broken bones….all these are “Dents” in your armour!

How Many Dents Do You Have In Your Armour Mofucker?!?

10 weeks of hell……less sleep, more work load, less calories, more soreness and less mercy. This boot-camp is going to be savage, I am stronger than ever, but I still want to turn it up a couple notches. I stand 200lbs solid right now at about 15% body fat. My goal for this year at the end of the boot-camp is to stand solid at 205lbs at 12%body fat. Can’t wait!!!

He has been there from the very beginning and has always been around since then : Pain!

Pain is my validation………………….if I feel today the workout of yesterday, it was a good workout. I am still sore from Saturday’s morning Combat Fitness workout-it was Savage!!!

Tomorrow is Monday…..grinds starts all over again

to all that were in the storm this weekend, I hope this one passed you safely

“Logistics dictate Strategies,

Strategies dictate Tactics

and Tactics dictate Attributes”  which at the bottom of this principle, Attributes, it connects it to the previous Armour I talked about.

In Israel we say “you can’t fight the ocean, but you can fight the fish” , it is related to crowd and riots, in other words no operator can fight the entire riot, he has to pick and choose who he fights in the crowd per objective of the overall mission at hand.

Personally to me Combat Strategy has always been related to the game of Chess. The piece in the game to move first is never the King or Queen….its a simple pound, however, that first movement has a specific objective: to occupy the center of the board. Every move there after will become a sequence of events!

Strategy in Combat is also related to understanding “Odds” or what Randy Coutoure relates as “The Risk VS Reward” concept. When I took his Xtreme Coutours Camp in Las Vegas a couple years ago , when he said “Risk vs Reward” on shooting for a takedown, I smilled. Made me think of how I think in numbers about odds and possibilities of approaching each attack- it was the same principle in different words and different combat arenas- but still the same principle!

For “Odds”, which is related to luck, I play Backgamon. Or Shesh Besh as us Israeli call it. It is my favorite game since in Israel it is literally the National board game of choice by the Israeli people. Shesh Besh forces you to calculate the odds on the board and makes you manage the risks you take. It is a game of luck as much as it is a game of wit.

The first Israeli Counter Terror and Warfare Course was GREAT!!!!  ( I will post a detailed post of that on the haganah blog soon…)

a few weeks ago I said I will have great news after having a great staff meeting here at the school…

Here it is : the news for the young generation in our school, our kids program have merged!    and for the adults, HaganaH Black Belts and FIGHT Instructors  now have a BJJ classes!

In other words every kid in our program gets both HaganaH Youth training and RFLX Wrestling training  both straight from the source. The kids are eating it up!!!!!!!!!    we have implemented a split schedule for the kids program. Every class starts with a general warm-up with all the kids for the first third of the duration of the class. Then we split them up into 2 groups; one group works on the HaganaH mat and the other group works on the Wrestling mat for the second third duration of the class. And then finally we rotate the 2 groups for the last third duration of the class. The kids LOOOOOOOOOOVE John Clarke!!!!!!!

For the Black Belts and FIGHT Instructors BJJ classes run twice a week in the evenings. Tuesday evening uts a GI class and Thursday evening its a NO-GI class. The summer is coming and those BJJ class will kick everybody’s ass since I am running this school the “Old School” way, with no aircondition on….doing BJJ with a GI in a 110 degrees is like being in a sauna for 3 hours LOL

HaganaH Combat Systems : Where The Young Get Strong, And The Strong Stay Young

Also, coming soon :  S.U.B. YOGA….Power Yoga/Bikram/Ashtanga Style.   more details to come…

Who ever knows me knows I always think in 3’s , just like there is 3 Points Of Referrences in F.I.G.H.T. for years now my personal training has envolve 3 different divisions of education and training. While they are 3 totally different divisions, they 3 must intergrate into one, and the balance between the 3 is super important! A lot of people end up developing one more thatn the other two and the imbalance is their ultimate weakness.  Today I am only mentioning the physical armour, next time I blog on this subject will be about Strategy Armour…and finally I will blog about the mental armour.

1) Physical Armour : this is where , for me, Combat Fitness comes into play…can I run fast in a chase? can I jump up or down in case of an emergency? can I lift heavy to clear something? Can I push a car that’s broken down? Can I climb a wall? Can I knock out a guy thats heavier than me? Can I Handle the grappling strenght of a wrestler? Can I hold my breath under water? and the list goes on…as you can see , I only concern myself with functional real life issues, not how I look. Those who are consume with how they look already failed, because the theme of their Physical Armour is based on appearance and not on the actual functional purpose of this armour. Thousands of words could be written on functional strenght training and this subject is indeed very complex. Here at the HaganaH  National Headquarters we follow 12 different Combat Fitness modules workouts :

1) Combat Fitness Circuit Class*

2) King Kong**

3) Godzila**

4) Hunter**

5) Ghengis Khan**

6) Longhorn**

7) The Engines*

8) The Gladiators*

9) The Shadow Boxer**

10) The Chairs**

11) The Big Wave*

12) The 35’s*

1 “*” means a total random workout, in other words the stations/exercises are random and never the same.

2 “**” means its a set workout, with a specific target skill/attribute development

with 3 Combat Fitness workouts a week, we shuffle those modules constantly!

I also break this down in 3 circles, with the physical armour being the outer circle, the strategy circle being the midle circle and the mental armout being the inner circle that’s the closest to your inner core.  I will talk about this at the conclusion of this “3 Armours” posts.

Have a Kick Ass day!!!