WRITING ON MOVEMENT, STRENGTH AND LONG-TERM PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

I’ve had the privilege to train with some extraordinary fighters. Tough. Skillful. Ruthless. My first real exposure was in Israel, when I joined a Russian gym filled with exceptional young boxers and one very harsh coach. Every session was a test of survival. The internal culture tested you constantly. Respect could only be earned in front of an aggressive partner. Nothing else mattered. It absolutely produced enormous, brutal gains. You became sharper. Harder. Faster. You be

Meditation. Who came up with this nonsense idea that you have to sit down and listen to yourself? It sounds like punishment. First, you have to sit in school and listen to the teacher and now do it voluntarily, to yourself? That’s what I thought in my late teens. One of the unexpected benefits of growing up behind the Soviet iron curtain, protected from spiritual teaching. Have I changed my opinion? Not entirely. I still believe that a person living in their natural state do