Warrior Wellness as core of Circular Strength Training®?

[SteveB]

Coach Sonnon:

For months now I’ve had the sneaking suspicion that Warrior Wellness is the “Rosetta Stone” connecting all of your teachings. I have to admit that I can’t quite see the whole picture, but everything from Body-Flow to Circular Strength Training® to Fisticuffs and beyond seems to draw from the same well. During our last session together you made the comment that Warrior Wellness is the absolute core of your own practice. With everybody and their brother releasing “Joint Drill” tapes these days, can you PLEASE be as specific as possible about why you consider WW to be the vital core of your system? And is it merely the joint mobility aspect, or is there something else going on as well?

Steve Barnes

[crubio]

Steve,

At CST Gamma coach showed us how to use DROM to increase form for Circular Strength Training®. It was a stunning display of tying WW in with CST.

As an aside, as you may know I train competitively with KBs. After a two week hiatus from sport-specific training, all I did was WW every day, when I returned to training my RT hit a perfect 10 every practice right up until competition. I had never hit perfect 10s in RT before. This was a direct result of improving my breathing, structure and movement through WW.

At the CST Gamma coach showed us many ways to refine technique using exercises from Z, WW, and BF which has taken my CST and weightlifting training to all new levels. My form is better, I injure myself less, and I am getting a more functional body. I am becoming more agile and string at the same time. Amazing Stuff.

[Scott Sonnon]

I don't mind that so many people find Warrior Wellness to be the most effective joint mobility program ever created, because it then continues to infiltrate every aspect of inefficiency in their lives.

Because of the Sophisticated Training nature of Warrior Wellness, several characteristics exist beyond that of 'mere' Joint Mobility (Joint Nutrition and Lubrication): Coordination Training (improving the flow of biomechanical efficiency), Mechanoreceptive Enhancement (increasing the clarity and granularity of the Kinesthetic, Position and Force/Tension senses), Neuroendocrine Re-absorption and Discharge ("Stress Release"), Dynamic Relaxation (Residual Muscular Tension Release), and Movement Re-education (Sensory Motor Amnesia Awakening) to name the major benefits.

However, as you have obviously taken note, this course comprises the core competencies to all of my martial art training. Of course, I consider other courses central and necessary (such as Be Breathed and Prime Your Bioenergy), but Warrior Wellness remains the necessary and sufficient competencies of every aspect of education in my martial art approach.

The "industry" only begins to understand the actual nature of Specific Physical Preparedness (SPP). Right now, they think of it as some form of "Sport Specific Training." I suspect this misunderstanding developed because most coaches and trainers cannot fathom the implications of SPP. Not to be harsh, but I suspect their misunderstanding is due to lack of personal mastery. One can be an expert at a particular sport and not be personally masterful. We see this time and time again - the disparity between the very skillful and the talented.

Furthermore, we see an influx of strength and conditioning personnel attempted to impose upon martial art education their notion of General Physical Preparedness. These industry 'professionals' view martial art education as merely the inculcation of a family of skills - like any 'sport.' What they misunderstand, what they cannot know as 'outsiders' to serious and prolonged martial art education is that martial art is first and foremost about developing the individual, rather than merely the entertainment of sportive skills. This is not to denigrate sport at all. I am sportsman myself. However, sport directly intends to promote game, whereas martial art intends to promote personal refinement.

One of the major confusions people experience regards the misunderstanding of Work Sophistication (SPP) for Sport Specific Training. Work Sophistication intends to move from Recovery of natural abilities (removal of performance impediments, mitigation of attribute deficits, and restoration from limiting preconditions) to Coordination (synergistic amalgam of one's natural capabilities) to Refinement (efficiency, harmony if you will, of energy output with every task encountered.) The genius of Warrior Wellness regards this process of Incremental Progression of the individual in a way that does not impose a rote program of exercises.

Underpinning Warrior Wellness, you will find Work Sophistication AND Performance Enhancement... for martial art education. It runs throughout my entire library of foundation resources. I pray that people may someday see that I did not create Warrior Wellness to teach martial art. I used my martial art resources to teach how Warrior Wellness sophisticates one's personal mastery through diligent practice.

I have heard from some people that they feel my system is too complicated. They don't understand my system. If they understood, they may say it is too simple, with an elated smile upon their faces. Yes, it is sophisticated, because we increase in the refinement of our abilities, our personal mastery, over time and practice. Warrior Wellness is the most fascinating program out there because it is both simple and promoting sophistication.

In other words, Simply Sophisticated.

In the near future, RMAX.tv Productions will be releasing Freedom By Degree - a course exhaustively demonstrating the theory and application of Work Sophistication through Warrior Wellness (with approximately 40% new exercises).