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]
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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
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