No matter what sport you compete in, you’ll probably agree that conditioning plays a huge factor in how an athlete performs. If athletes aren’t conditioned properly, they’ll never achieve peak performance in their sport.

Think about it – the only part of our anatomy to touch the ground when we run or jump – and most of us spend little to no time developing strength, mobility and proprioception in the feet.

Just your everyday gym rat that is willing to kill or die for his beliefs.

Just your run of the mill health club vigilante.

Time to start paying as much attention to the brakes as we do the engine.

One of the toughest aspects of fight preparation is weight cutting.

In this final installment, I asked Martin more about cornering his fighters and the prep before the final walkout.

In the second segment of this interview, we talk about a coach’s mindset.

After taking off our shoes, we got started.

The future of mankind starts with you.

Just your average obsessive-compulsive iron warrior.

Every man in some way is your superior.

Sports, physical training, and coaching have been my life for the last three decades. From the time I started playing soccer when I was five years old until today, many of the life lessons I’ve learned have either been found on the field, in the dojo, or in the gym.

Over the last decade of training, I’ve had many people throw several different training “myths” out at me. Whether it was “lifting stunts your growth” or “eating too much protein shuts down your kidneys” or “too much strength will hurt your martial arts,” I’ve heard them all. Two myths I hear most often are regarding soreness and training.