My Mentors

I have been involved in developing myself for roughly 10 years now. I started taking fitness training seriously about 6 years ago and the people that have made the biggest impact on my knowledge and body have been Martin Rooney from Training for Warriors, Elliott Hulse from Strength Camp and Naudi Aguilar from Functional Patterns.

Martin Rooney was really my first mentor and had, and continues to have, an incredible influence on my physical and mental training. His Training for Warriors system is awesome and I invite you to check out his YouTube channel too. Here's the man himself explaining TFW. I have been using the TFW system for roughly 3 years and I have really enjoyed the system as well as the results in terms of aesthetics as well as strength and athleticism. The Hurricane training is something else though!! Martin has several books out, two that I that I have benefited a lot from are Warrior Cardio and Ultimate Warrior Workouts. Both are awesome and you won't believe the amount of information in them.

Naudi Aguilar at Functional Patterns has been another massive influence on my training and how I approach becoming a fitter, stronger, more athletic version of myself. Naudi is a holistic movement practitioner and incorporates techniques such as myofascial release and corrective exercises to get a human body back to balance and to improve biomechanics. I think what has really opened my eyes is how Naudi talks and teaches about how to really train the human body as it was designed to work and move. We are bipedal beings and our training should cater towards our biology. We move in multi-planes of motion and incorporate rotation into nearly every movement we do [walking, running, throwing etc]. Functional Patterns is all about training the body to work as it should. I can say that by watching nearly all of his videos as well as reading his book, Power of Posture, and by following his exercises and routines that I definitely feel more athletic, balanced and have much better posture and breathing dynamics. Personally I feel that this form of training to cater to our biology just makes sense and it is something I will be exploring through my journey and sharing my experiences on this blog.

Elliott Hulse. Sweet Mother of Dragons this man is awesome. And I don't mean Game of Thrones the TV series awesome, I mean Game of Thrones the books awesome! 
Elliott has had the biggest impact on me in terms of ideas and perspectives that I just hadn't thought about. Elliott not only has immense knowledge in strength training but also inner strength. I really can't say enough about Elliott, if there's anything you take away from this blog check out Elliott at Strength Camp and elliotsaidwhat. His Strength Camp channel focuses on strength and fitness training but he, more often than not, incorporates all manner of ideas from deep breathing [breath into your balls], bio-energetics, the 4 layers of strength and many, many more. His other channel is more about life questions and is really interesting to hear his perspectives and ideas. What I love most about Elliott is that he doesn't force his ideas onto you, he invites you to try them out for yourself. He also isn't precious about his ideas and doesn't let himself get boxed in. A true inspiration and a real hero of mine! Again I can't say enough about Elliott...well I could but I'd be writing for days.

I am also checking out Ido Portal and Raw Brahs at the moment. So will possibly update this blog when I have tried out their stuff. 

Anyways those are my main inspirations and hopefully there's something here that you've found resourceful.