GRACIEMAG Columnist Martin Rooney has a challenge for you.

Can you do 100 push ups in 4 minutes?

But wait, there’s a twist.

Watch the video and take the challenge.

GRACIEMAG columnist for the past 10 years, Martin Rooney is one of the highest authorities in high-performance training.

Now he wants to share his incredible knowledge gathered in decades as coach of some of the world’s greatest athletes.

To do that, he prepared the Coaching Greatness program.

Let him explain what is all about.

“Coaching Greatness is your ultimate resource to improve in the essential skills and mindsets of coaching to help you help others to become more. With over 60 videos totaling 10 hours of content, you will see Coaching Greatness is unlike any other product out there. Because Coaching Greatness examines the less explored, yet necessary strategies needed to become a more effective coach, you will gain an advantage over those that lack this information.

Great coaches are not born, they are made. While you can agree many athletes are born with physical attributes that can lead them to greatness, a great coach requires much more than natural skill and talent. You may understand training, rehab, nutrition, and how to run a practice, but in today’s need for performance, that is not enough. Coaching Greatness will improve areas like your enthusiasm, empathy, leadership, goal setting, and engagement in order for you to improve the lives of others.

If you deal with people on a daily basis, you are a coach. Whether you are currently a coach, trainer, therapist, teacher, parent or athlete, or co-worker you will benefit from the material in this course. Throughout your day, you are given constant opportunities to either coach someone up or down. The most successful coaches in any industry are the ones that have the ability to improve someone’s performance when they spend time together. Coaching Greatness will make you one of those coaches.”

Click here to know more.

For the last 12 years, I have had the honor to share my training philosophy with you in GRACIEMAG.  If you have been a reader of GRACIEMAG, then you should be familiar with my system and column Training For Warriors. The TFW program was born by training Jiu-Jitsu athletes such as Renzo, Roger, Rolles and Kyra Gracie as well as Ricardo Almeida, Braulio Estima, and Romulo Barral.   Over the years of training the best athletes in combat sports, however, I realized the results I produced were available for anyone.

Ricardo Almeida, Martin Rooney, Frank Edgar

If you have read my work, you have hopefully come to the realization that TFW is different than traditional fitness programs.  While most programs seem to be created for losing some quick weight or the promise of bigger arms, TFW instead was created as a lifestyle guide for people looking to find their way both in and out of the dojo.  This system is a combination of fitness and philosophy designed around the tagline, “Bring Out The Warrior Within.”

Rooney and the Gracies

Over the last two years, I have received emails from all over the world asking if there was a way to do my TFW Training Course online. Back in September last year, I started building an online version so I could reach people unable to attend a live event, share my training philosophy and impact more lives.

In exciting news, after 11 months of development and refinement, I have finally finished the program.   As you know, everything I do is of the highest quality and this program would not be made available unless it met my standards.  I poured all of my energy into this and I am excited to share it with you and the GRACIEMAG network.

Martin Rooney and Roger Gracie

I have created a free training video course if you would like to learn more about the TFW philosophy and system.  If you are a combat athlete, trainer, coach or even fitness enthusiast, you will benefit from this free course.  To access the free videos, all you have to do is click one of the links on this message.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE FREE COURSE

As a result of the years spent creating the GRACIEMAG articles, I have grown not only as a trainer, but also as a person.  Without you to read them, this would not have been possible.  Thank you, enjoy the course and I wish you continued success on and off the mats.

Yours In Strength! 

Martin Rooney

The man who trained multiple MMA, BJJ and Olympic champions has turned 42 this Sunday, August 4.

To celebrate the date, here’s a quick video where Martin explains his Training for Warriors system.

If you want to know more about it, log on to trainingforwarriors.com.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb15L5c6ZuU

Rooney among the beasts, in Thailand. Photo: Personal archive.

The new book, set for release in the USA on May 1^st, is called “Ultimate Warrior Workouts: Fitness Secrets of the Martial Arts”, and is the fruit of three years of travel and adventure in the life of Martin Rooney.

I went to Brazil and trained Jiu-Jitsu at Gracie Barra, trained judo and karate in Japan, muay thai in Thailand, sambo in Russia, kickboxing in Holland, boxing in England and wrestling in Iowa” Martin Rooney

“I’m really excited about the new book. There are 384 pages and more than 1,500 color photos with loads of secrets for readers,” Martin tells GRACIEMAG.com. “In putting together the book, I traveled to various different countries to train in the martial arts that make up MMA. And I took part in the physical conditioning preparations for each art, too. I went to Brazil and trained Jiu-Jitsu at Gracie Barra, trained judo and karate in Japan (at Kodokan and the Japanese Karate Association), muay thai in Thailand (Fairtex BangPhli), sambo in Russia, kickboxing in Holland (Mejiro Gym), boxing in England and wrestling at the University of Iowa, here in the USA. I spent months abroad training and gathering information.”

Beyond the training and secrets of each martial art, Martin describes how each fighting style is performed, the philosophy behind each style and presents a variety of different teachings from the grandmasters of each martial art. The book moreover offers readers a six-month exercise program and a dietary plan.