
Fighter's Codex is a martial art style training program for general fitness. It is a high intensity workout regimen that will streamline and tone and give your body strength and agility. It's 100% no-equipment and home friendly program. It is suitable for a beginner and it will work for a pro, too. You will practice kicks and punches, work on your flexibility and balance and even learn some fighting techniques while getting fit. From a training point of view it will physically transform you to a martial artist. If you already do some martial arts it will take you to an entirely new level in 30 days.
The Fighter’s Codex is a forge. It will take the raw power that is “you” and, over 30 days, turn it into a highly efficient, potentially lethal, kick-ass, fighting machine. You could be new to this or you may already be doing some martial art, it’s designed to benefit you regardless. Go through each day, pick a level (where appropriate) and follow through the exercises. If you’re not sure about the execution of any of them check out the videos in our exercise library.
There are performance, practice and recuperation days all built into this. It is designed to increase your speed, stamina, strength, flexibility, tendon strength and motor-coordination skills. You will perform some of the training routines practiced by world class martial artists. It will make you aware of your body and the way it moves in a way you have never quite been before. Those who go through it get to meet their badass self on the other side of the 30 days.

There are three things that make a perfect fighter and they all work in a complementary manner in the end: Flexibility, tendon strength, neuron density in the muscle. To understand why consider them in reverse order:
Neuron density is achieved through repetition. Repeating moves helps create “form” which is another way of saying muscle memory. This builds up neurons in the muscles being worked that makes them more responsive so they are faster and they are stronger.
Tendon strength is required for execution and muscle stability. When you use a turning kick, for instance, you are partially using the strength of your quads and the speed of your body and your weight but none of that will really help if your side hip flexors are not strong enough to raise the leg without effort. If your tendons are not strong enough the ‘heavy lifting’ is done by your muscles which means you use up a lot of your strength just to execute each move, dissipating its power.
Flexibility is about degrees of freedom in your body. If we stick with our turning kick example, in order for it to be fast and powerful you also need flexible hamstrings. If your hamstrings are tight you end up using a lot of the power of your kicking leg just to execute the kick so by the time your foot hits its target it hardly has anything left to deliver. Tight hamstrings in your supporting leg mean that your balance is not quite right which will also affect the form of your kick.
Fighters who work on form, flexibility, tendon strength and muscle density end up being in total control of their own body. Ultimately that is what being a fighter is all about. If you do not control your body, there is no hope of controlling anybody else’s long enough to beat them.

READY?
The moment you think of martial arts you think of one thing first: insanely fast punches and kicks. Certainly that is part of it. Repetition of techniques, over time, builds up speed in execution. But that is only part of it. Good fighters are fast not because they can react fast but because they can predict what their opponents are going to do and then move to counter it. Sometimes, the very best fighters, can precipitate an opponent’s move by adequately reading them from the start and controlling their movements through an action/reaction plan. But even those who cannot are usually pretty good in seeing what’s coming long before it does. It takes a little time and some experience but it’s not magic. From any given physical position there are only a limited number of moves that are available and they can be telegraphed in advance by the posture of the fighter. It takes a little practice.
