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Warrior Walking: Roman Centurions & Speed Across the Board by Mark Hatmaker

  The following is best viewed as a companion piece to the following offerings: ·         Warrior Walking, the Only Cardio You Need for Combination Fighting, Physical Culture and Attacking the Outdoors ·         Burn Some Fat, Build Some Stamina, See the World! ·         The Rocky Mountain Iron Man: A Portrait in Warrior Walking ·         Warrior Walking: Cardio, Fat Loss, Problem-Solver, Relationship Binder, Escape Protocol & More ·         The Original Roadwork Walking, when performed correctly, has copious endurance records. That is, account upon account of astonishing distances travelled. Be these records scrupulously observed and sanctioned by various organizations or anecdotal accounts of tremendous distances covered in remarkable time by warriors, explorers of the past and present. For some, these endurance feats raise few “ Huzzahs!” in present day society as the fashion for speedier endeavors has overtaken the “exercise” fashion of the moment we live in.

Old School Fighting Weight: Part 2: Range Limits by Mark Hatmaker

  [Consumption of Part 1 of this material is recommended before proceeding. Click the link to view Part 1: Old School Fighting Weight: How Do You Measure Up? ] Before plunging on to the Range Guidelines, keep the following mind… This is not BMI . ·         The Ranges are based on an extensive survey of Old School Physical Culturists, Combination Men, and fit Indigenous Populations. Taken from a survey population of 19 th and early 20 th century athletes. ·         All are pre-1936 so guaranteed drug-free. ·         When I say drug-free, I mean just that, benign substance or otherwise, that includes no creatine and not even a daily vitamin. ·         To some, perhaps many, the Ranges may seem on the low-side but… ·         Keep in mind we are surveying populations of realistic natural limits. ·         Populations of functional limits—that is each athlete/specimen included in the survey is not there simply because they looked Instagram good, but because they boxed wel

Burn Some Fat, Build Some Stamina, See the World! by Mark Hatmaker

  Pre-Manatee Dive Hippie [The below is a wee extract from our Original Roadwork volume Unleaded:Warrior Walking, the Only Cardio You Need for Combination Fighting, Physical Culture and Attacking the Outdoors.] Injury Cause or Injury Side-Effect ·         All athletes are aging athletes. ·         Each second is one more tick of the entropy clock. ·         Nobody gets out of here alive. ·         Sure, a long life is something to aspire to but if it comes at the expense of excessive loss of health or independence, well for most that is not a future anyone wishes for themselves. ·         Athletes/humans will experience injury and ailment over a lifetime. ·         Our job as wise athletes, wise humans is to maintain [and increase where we can] our health, while kyboshing injury and ailment as much as possible. ·         While we have little control over the luck of the genetic mutation draw that is many forms of cancer or hereditary maladies, we can very much control s