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The Ancient Greek Warrior & The Mescalero Warrior, Part 2 by Mark Hatmaker

 




THE MESCALERO MOUNTAIN TEACHING

“Climb the Mountain. If it is rocky, climb the Mountain. If it is hard, climb the Mountain. If it wakes fright, climb the Mountain. The Mountain is the Way.”

Indigenous Tribes of the Americas are full of such youthful “hardship” training. Practices designed specifically to build physical and mental fortitude, dare I say, forge a Warrior Spirit.

We find this echoed perfectly in practices 300 centuries ago in Ancient Greece.

THE HERCULES ROAD

“Prodicus, who, besides his discoveries in grammar, is the author of a popular and edifying fable which has served in many schoolrooms for many centuries. It tells how Heracles once came to some cross roads, one road open, broad, and smooth and leading a little downhill, the other narrow and uphill and rough: and on the first you gradually became a worse and worse man, on the second a better one.”—Gilbert Murray, The Five Stages of Greek Religion [1925]

 

To Forge Yourself into a Greek Warrior or Apache Avatar

Unleaded Whole Hog Blocks 1-6

[A li’l sneak peek of where all of you on the Whole Hog Journey are headed.]

Block 1: The Base

·        Establishing a Responsive Ready State

·        If you have already been training for more than 6 months, skip this Block and move on to the others.

Block 2: The “Seated” Torso, Power & Fast Feet

·        We move into fine-tuning Core Exercises and re-build our approach to Legs beginning with Zero Weight…

·        Moving to weight as an Option after 4 weeks.

·        Think Zero Weight Leg Development can’t be done?

·        Take a gander at Bobby Pandour and others of the early cadre who felt heavy weights were a detriment to true “to the bone” development.

·        This Block also approaches a balanced development of the lower leg with an eye on improving fast footwork and shifting speed.

·        Gear Required for this Block: Pull-Up Bar

·        Optional Gear: Weighted-Vest, Plyo Box, Nordic Bench, Tib Bar. [Substitutions are provided.]

Block 3: Seizing & Retention Musculature

·        Deep in the scientific weeds on how to build self-bolstering pulling/seizing/retention strength.

·        Gear Required: Pull-Up Bar, Barbell, Dumbbells.

·        Optional Gear: T-Bar Row Attachment

Block 4: Punching, Pushing, Staving Off Power

·        We build radial power from the waist-up in all functional planes.

·        We move into 3/2 Sequencing still Training 5 Days per week.

·        At this point you will still be training 5-Days per week and likely taking less time then the first month of Block 1.

·        Gear Required: Dip Bar & Resistance straps.

Block 5: The Tarzan Twelve

·        4 Explosive Exercises for the Lower Body.

·        4 for the Upper Body.

·        9 “Feat” Isometrics for Complete Body Tensile Strength.

·        1 Salto Movement for Spinal Resilience.

·        We discuss “How” to do these.

·        The “6-Second and No-More” Rule.

·        Where to Program each into the 5 Day Training Plan

·        Gear Required: Pull-Up Bar.

·        Optional Gear: Parallettes, Bench, a single 10-pound dumbbell.

Block 6: 31-Point TMC Mobility-Flexibility & The Tactical 9

·        A 31-Point Toe-to-Head Pliancy thru Strength Set using Tonic Muscle Contraction.

·        This is NOT passive stretching.

·        A 9-minute/9 fight-flight functional movement set to torch bodyfat.

If one is using the Unleaded Program but is NOT a Combat Athlete, then we recommend Unleaded: Warrior Walking as an adjunct to speed along fat loss.

THE ENTIRE SERIES IS NOW AVAIALBE IN THE STORE

Other than that, Blocks 1-6 for a 6-Month journey. Consume the free Unleaded “Feastin & Beastin’” Tips along the way to bolster your “Why we do it this way” and “Common Man” Diet” alterations and you’ll be cookin’ with gas!

As for Training Materials Historically Accurate, Scientifically Examined, and Viciously Verified in the Comancheria Living Laboratory, well, see the following resources!

Resources for Livin’ the Warrior Life

The Black Box Store

https://www.extremeselfprotection.com/

The Indigenous Ability Blog

https://indigenousability.blogspot.com/

The Rough ‘n’ Tumble Raconteur Podcast

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fTpfVp2wi232k4y5EakVv...

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