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Dear Friend,
Let me tell you upfront:
Your chance to reach your peak physical potential is slim to nothing - no matter how hard you train – and it’s NOT because you didn’t follow the rules.
The fitness industry does not want you to know that … but if you learn the facts behind human conditioning and how your body is programmed to thrive, you will shake your head and realize that almost every popular exercise program today, including resistance training, is in the best case only partly beneficial. It can NOT and will NOT yield the results you deserve.
You will be surprised to learn how your fitness goals may have been compromised by false ideas. Yes, even your desire to build big muscles needs to be re-examined.
The truth is: Virtually all exercise programs today are missing one fundamental principle – a biological principle that without it, human fitness has no purpose, and training regimens are rendered useless.
That principle is –
Whether you know it or not, your survival dictates everything that you do. Like other species, you are inherently programmed with a primal survival machinery, responsible for keeping you alive at all times, and particularly in times of adversity.
That inherent machinery enables you to swiftly react to danger, fight or flee if necessary and endure extreme physical hardship. If repetitively triggered, it will increase your mental and physical readiness, boost your energy, improve your muscle performance, and increase your immunity to disease.
Your vitality depends on your survival machinery - this is how your body is programmed to thrive. But there is more to it -
If pushed to its extreme limits, your survival machinery will kick in to unleash supreme physical and mental power, far beyond even your own imagination. Yes, the same survival mechanism that makes mothers lift cars over trapped babies, can potentially work for you!
And that’s exactly what modern fitness fails to acknowledge.
Modern fitness programs have been miserably failing to even recognize this principle. Your survival machinery remains dormant due to inadequate physical activity and wrong nutrition. Most fitness programs today are simply not sophisticated and challenging enough to target that. Their training and nutritional protocols lack solid principles. Their impact is random, limited, or counter-effective.
The vast majority of gym members are not in any viable shape. Just go to any gym in your area and check for yourself. You’ll notice how most trainees look soft in spite of training hard.
Even more disturbing is the fact that those who look big and muscular are not necessarily those who perform best – a strange yet highly notable phenomenon…
This is exactly the one thing that bodybuilders are afraid to admit and muscle magazines will never print:
The muscle and fitness industry does not want you to know this. Biologically, an overgrown muscle can be a liability! This is the undeniable reality that fitness and muscle magazines will never print.
A typical bodybuilder’s body is actually built to be slow and dysfunctional!
If you examine how the human body and muscle have been primarily structured to endure hardship, you’ll realize that today’s muscle guy wouldn’t possibly survive extreme primordial conditions that existed millenniums ago. His big type II B muscles would have reached a state of paralysis if engaged in survival activities. The muscle type product of today’s bodybuilding is known for its inferior capacity to sustain strength.
From an evolutionary point of view, the bodybuilder’s body type would be rendered FAILURE. If it did exist in the past, most likely it would have become extinct. This is not a teaser! Hall of fame boxing coaches and martial arts masters have been already aware of this phenomenon.
A fighter or an athlete who exclusively follows a bodybuilding routine will sooner or later realize how detrimental it is for his speed, explosive power and endurance. Bodybuilding is not a sport. Its premise is primarily visual, not performance.
Conversely, your need to be in a prime fighting shape is neither aesthetic nor professional – it is an inherent biological need. This is how your body is programmed to survive.
Don’t take my word for it. Just look at the mountains of examples out in the real world. The ultimate survival professionals are the men and women fighting for our freedom in the Armed Forces. From the greenest recruit to the elite of the elite, you would never catch them following a bodybuilding routine because of what’s at stake. Sure, many are as big as bodybuilders, but they are equipped with strong, functional muscles built for survival, not for show.
The survival of the species depends on its ability to initiate and sustain fight or flight activities. Each species has its own unique fight or flight program. Watch how puppy dogs and kittens are playing – jumping, striking, wrestling, biting or scratching each other – spontaneously practicing in accordance with their inherent survival mechanisms – preparing themselves for becoming independent adults, capable of living in the wilderness.
Our species is not different from other animals. Fight or flight activities are the origin of all human exercises.
You can’t deny your own nature. You must train and eat in accordance with your innate survival program. This way has proven to keep the human species alive and thriving on this planet since primordial times.
But the truth is all but denied and suppressed today.
Nowadays, rarely do we need to fight or flee - most of us are intimidated by the very thought of this. The vast majority of people today prefer being sheep, rather than wolves. And most of those who attempt to act like wolves still eat and train like sheep.
So are you a sheep or a wolf?
Actually, you ARE a fighter – you just don’t realize it. Because of how you have been told to train and eat, you’ve been fighting against your body and its natural inclinations.
You need to condition your body to be in fighting shape the same way you need to nourish your body with vitamins and antioxidants even if you’re not sick. Regardless to what you may have read or heard, this is how you’re built.
The only way to fully take advantage and unleash your survival power is to eat and train like the species that you are – you should train to to be in a fighting shape, even if your routine does not involve fight activities.
This applies for men and women alike.
Unfortunately not. There is a notable difference between practicing fighting techniques and developing a fighter physique. It is common today to practice fighting techniques, without sufficient emphasis on the fighter’s physique – consequently, a typical martial arts student (or a boxing student) will rarely be able to endure a real life fight, if the situation occurs.
Learning fighting technique is just not good enough. A fighter lacking fight conditioning isn’t just compromising his strength, speed and endurance - he is also risking his life.
Let’s be honest – there is no such a thing as a “safe fight”. There is no guarantee! As a fighter, you must condition your body to be in top fighting shape – be able to not just initiate action, but most importantly, sustain your alertness, strength and speed, and be capable of enduring extreme hardship and protecting yourself at all times.
And the same holds truth even if you are not a fighter.
You owe it to yourself, to be in the best human shape possible – develop a most functional, energetic and inherently powerful physique.
Controlled Fatigue Training CFT
Controlled Fatigue Training (CFT) is a survival-oriented physical conditioning regimen, which taps into the body’s fight-or-flight machinery and force total body adaptation for extreme performance.
CFT is designed to mimic the impact of extreme combat activities. The idea is to repetitively hit the body with special “shock drills” that shift the body into a survival mode, while increasing its capacity to react to changes, sustain power, and come back with a vengeance even when extremely fatigued.
What makes CFT different is the methodical combination of strength, speed, and special durability (the capacity to endure intense hardship). This is the first regimen that exploits this combination to its extremes.
CFT does not work isolated body parts. Exercising isolated body parts may yield nothing more than a dysfunctional collection of body parts.
Moderation is FATAL to fitness!
Human conditioning requires intensity. Scientists have been finding growing evidence that our brain and muscles develop ONLY when sufficient physical and mental stimulations are applied. The more you challenge your neuro-muscular system, the more likely you’ll become physically and mentally advanced. And vice versa: The less challenging your training is, the more likely you’ll face a stagnation point in which you fail to improve.
If you have the heart for this, you’ll feel within a few weeks how your body starts transforming itself - you’ll notice a steady increase in your energy along with the capacity to sustain strength and resist fatigue.
CFT does not teach you fighting techniques, nonetheless, advanced CFT drills can be as brutal and close to fighting as it can get.
CFT can be incorporated with other physical conditioning programs including resistance training, cross fit, and sport-specific regimens. To accommodate your sport priorities, CFT can be adjusted with different emphases on strength, speed/velocity, or endurance. It principally increases the level of difficulty on the athlete - making the training harder than the sport itself.
A CFT trainee may need extra nutritional support. The wear and tear of this regimen on the muscle and body must be addressed with proper nutritional compensation.
Given the fact that the typical diet is deficient in key amino acids, antioxidants, and immune supportive nutrients, which are largely missing or destroyed during cooking or processing, it’s imperative to grant sufficient intake of essential, and metabolic supportive nutrients from foods or food based supplements.
A deficiency of even one single essential nutrient whether it’s a vitamin, a mineral, or a key amino acid, could lead to metabolic set backs with severe consequences on the muscular system and overall health.
If you’re engaged in CFT or any other intense physical routine, you must protect your muscle against inflammatory and oxidative damage with antioxidant nutrients.

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DC Maxwell -- 2-time Women's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, Co-Owner,Maxercise Sports/Fitness Training Center and Relson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy East
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Midwest Book Review
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First For Women Magazine, December, 2002