Description
TACFIT Barbarian (TBAR) presents my dedicated course for using the parallette bars for tactical fitness; including my unique amalgam of elements from gymnastics, hatha yoga, capoeira, sambo-wrestling, combat systema, parkour, wushu, vyayam, bboy, and even Russo-Cossack dance. But these primal movements involve more than random amalgamation from different cultural traditions.
They’re a specifically crafted system for progressive development of a universally critical strength technique, which gymnasts call “hollow body”, martial artists call the “power chamber” and military scientists call “battery position.”
It’s one of the most important positions for a martial artist, clubbell swinger, football lineman, yogi, kettlebell lifter, wrestler or gymnast. Masters have taught this primal position for thousands of years in yoga such as in mayurasana – the elbow lever, one of my favorite exercises.
There is an anthropological reason for the strength of this position: it is the primal fighting / defensive posture with which we evolved to instinctively protect ourselves. Biologically, it is the most effective position to absorb and deliver force.
We are neurologically wired to strengthen this “hollow body.” It is essential to perfecting a proper handstand, a strict pullup, as well as the body lever and back lever, the kettlebell rack position and the clubbell order position.
The physical range may not be as dramatic from a handstand to a fighting stance, but it is“resisting rotation” which correctly elicits the neuromuscular efficacy of the power chamber.
All four TBAR programs, and each of the 32 TBAR exercises, strengthen the power chamber to generate your fitness battery.
Band-Ageless developed out of a need to increase the traction on my joint mobility programs. Why?
Joint mobility to the arms and legs remains primarily “open chain” movement, meaning that it’s relatively unpredictable, like waving your hand, “goodbye” – whereas, “closed chain” movement is relatively predictable, like doing a pushup.
You know where movement will happen in the pushup in general, but not in the waving hand. This makes it peculiarly difficult to address deep tension in the arms and legs through joint mobility.
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