The Naked Warrior: Master the Secrets of the super-Strong--Using Bodyweight Exercises Only

To make an even stronger point, pinch your nose half shut and try it again. You cannot help noticing a powerful diaphragm action and a comfortable, strong feeling of compression.

The downward pressure exerted by your diaphragm is essential for upping the IAP. Recall that when you “breathe into your stomach,” the dome shaped muscle bears down and compresses your viscera. Breathing into your chest would pressurize your thoracic cavity and leave your abdomen weak; this does more to raise your blood pressure than your strength.

Rotation, or spiral tension, increases the stability and power of almost any action.

You won’t get very far with knee or elbow extension alone. Most power is generated closer to the core: the glutes in the pistol, the lats and pecs in the pushup.

Whenever you exert yourself, always start tensing in your lower abdomen. Then send that tension outward to be amplified by the tension of the muscles closer and closer to the periphery. Visualize how you are sending the pressure built up by the modified reverse breath along from your torso to your limbs,

You might find this a frustrating learning experience at times, but once you finally do get it you will have an awesome revelation of superpower.

Taking controlled strikes to your muscles will teach you to tense them harder.

That is, the right arm moves clockwise and the left arm moves counterclockwise. Your shoulders will retract into their sockets and perform more strongly with this external rotation.

“If you punch and exhale, you have no punch, you lose your energy…No professional fighters punch and exhale because they would lose their strength, have no compression and therefore no energy…Compression and making a sound is not exhaling; exhaling is different. Boxers punch and you hear them making the ‘su’ ‘su’ ‘su’ sound. That is not exhaling, t