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Old School Combat PT: Training Template Precis by Mark Hatmaker

 


We shall cover a bit of old School Training Packaging here.

But first, a wee bit of background.

For the new Black Box direction, we have chosen all old-school, all effective, zero-sport, if it ain’t what the old-timers espoused I ain’t doin’ it,

This dictum holds for armed and unarmed combat as well as for the physical training.

[This also holds true for the “interior” training, see The Suakhet’u Program for this esoterica.]

This hard left turn has worked a bit of a wonder on this Old Man’s body. If you minus out all of the accrued bumps, bruises, breaks, lost-teeth, knee surgeries etc. I’m in the best shape of my life at 55 years-of-age.

I re-iterate, it is done with…

·        No weights.

·        No “other sport” cardio, that is, no running, biking, treadmills, or any other “cross-training” activity of that ilk.

·        No repetitions higher than 20 on most challenges.

·        On most exercises no sets higher than 2.

·        No dieting—I kid you not, last night’s meal was Grilled Chicken with Rustic Mustard Sauce, three servings of ultra carby potato salad, a huge salad covered in cheese, bacon and copious bleu cheese dressing, and two big honkin’ servings of Halloween ice cream cake.

[For more on this see Old-School PT: The Negative Injunctions.]

So, what exactly comprises such an Old School PT Program?

Sorry to disappoint, I will not go into specifics, just as with all things Black Box related, we will make that proprietorial to the pony-uppers who join our RAW Subscription Service.

What we will do here is to give a broad general outline of how the Old School PT Program is laid out.



The Program in Precis

Training Days: 3 days-on/1-Off. Rinse-wash, repeat.

Daily: A 3-minute synovial fluid wake-up call I do outside with the morning sun [It’s part of The Suakhet’u Program.]

Followed by 1 minute of flexibility training. [That’s right, I said one minute.]

Locomotion Round: Each training day uses one unusual “travelling” or “stealth walk” skill to wake up Old Man joints. There is a rough dozen of these that are run on a revolving basis.

Three Days Per Week: A revolving menu of strength exercises in all 12 Domains of Strength as prescribed by the Old Timers.

Gear Required: You, a wall, a bar/branch/sailing boom, or the like.

The Strength Days are alternated with…



Three Days Per Week: “Shock Training.” These are the explosiveness, balance, fear-testing and agility days. A revolving progressive template of 6 Broad areas to keep the whole animal engaged.

Added into the mix are 6 Classes Old School Bracing Exercises that temper the joints and provide a bit of structural support for fragile areas.

Combat Cardio

I do not do any additional “cardio.” The Old School PT huffs and puffs the system enough as it is.

But…

I do perform the following each training day.

A Minimum of One Round each [BTW- No round is sportive]

·        Street-Dentist Boxing to the keep the hands alive and on-point.

·        “Low Dog” Kicking for Rough ‘n’ Tumble “Dogfights” or “Kwip’u su’anir’u” which loosely translates as “smoke-kicking” in reference to its hard to see coming nature.

·        Down & Dirty-A round from the Frontier Rough ‘n’ Tumble arsenal that is pure OD killin’ or maiming material. No prep strikes, just the spikes.

·        Wrestling-Both on the feet and on the ground, all quick kills or vicious counter-grappling or anti-grappling rips.

·        Tomahawk/Trade-Knife—I hit a round here on a revolving basis.

·        Frontier Firearm—I rotate through six-gun, lever action rifle, and double-barrel stagecoach gun.

Round duration is 5 minutes for some days, 3 for others, and some days are 1-minute sprints. Just what the Old Man feel like that day.

If we minus out the rounds, no training day exceeds the 30-minute mark.

I repeat. No dieting, no weights, no pounding the pavement, mindless hours on a fake bike, pretending to row, hours in the gym, and all the other noise that we’ve been led to believe that are musts.



I bought that noise myself for decades.

I was wrong.

The Old Timers were right.

The Old Timers are right.

[We’ll be laying out these exercises and progressions in The Black Box Project.]

In The Black Box Project we provide old-school combat nitty-gritty straight from the historical record.

For skinny on The Black Box Project

[For techniques, tactics, and strategies of Rough and Tumble Combat, Old-School Boxing, Mean-Ass Wrestling, Street-Ready Frontier Scrapping & Indigenous Ability culled from the historical record see the RAW Subscription Service, or stay on the corral fence with the other dandified dudes and city-slickers. http://www.extremeselfprotection.com

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