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

Shrugging your shoulder and/or letting it move forward will destroy your shoulder and your power alike—whether you are punching, benching, or doing pushups. You are in effect ‘disconnecting’ your arm from your powerful torso muscles.

When performing the pistol, direct the compressed energy down your hip and leg all the way into the ground, where you generate a static stomp. When performing the one-arm pushup, send the energy along your oblique and ribs, into your armpit, and then along your arm into your hand.

push from your armpit, rather than your shoulder. “Keep tensions under the arm and avoid stiff shoulders that can disconnect the block from it source of speed and mass, the body,”

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

“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

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

In a landmark slap to the Western gym beliefs, the exhalation group showed the lowest scores! The “inhalers” did better and the breath holders kicked everyone’s butt.

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.

A top armwrestler will load even before he grips up with his or her opponent. And an amateur who waits for the referee’s command to pull before turning on his biceps finds himself pinned without knowing what has hit him.