Recommendations
The Savage Garage
Growing MMA club run by Paul Nicholl.
Located in West End, Southampton, Hampshire.
Teaching men, women and children to
become skilled and confident in the
martial arts.
Phoenix MMA
Mixed Martial Arts & Fitness Academy in Bournemouth.
Dorset’s premier Mixed Martial Arts Gym offering world class facilities and instruction from top level coaches. MMA, BJJ, Freestyle Wrestling, Boxing and Muay Thai as well as strength and conditioning.
BOOKS
Infinite Intensity
By Ross Enamait
An excellent no nonsense all round fitness manual primarily aimed at combat athletes but equally usable by someone wanting to achieve an all round "usable" body.
The Primal Blueprint
By Mark Sisson
This book is often mistaken as just a diet book but theres almost a whole lifestyle detailed in it. I have found it to have very good simple ideas/concepts about dieting. Anything that can make fat loss and health simple to do and can get results has got to be good!
Muscle Chow
By Greg Avedon
Sound diet ideas for building muscle and losing fat and some cool recipes!
Power to the People
By Pavel Tsatsouline
This book gives you all you need to know about developing pure strength, not endurance, not speed or flexibility but pure strength.
How to Eat, Move and be Healthy By Paul Chek
This book covers every aspect of health and fitness that you need to take care of (and how to best take care of them!) to achieve optimum health.
The 4-Hour Body
By Tim Ferriss
From the guy who taught you how to cut your working week down to 4 hours comes the manual on how to cut your health and fitness regime, amongst other things, down to minimum time to still achieve great gains.
Naked Warrior
By Pavel Tsatsouline
Another great book from Pavel. This one focusses on just a couple of super challenging bodyweight only exercises and how to progressively work up to doing them.
Some people think that his books are overly padded with repeated info and adverts for his other products but it's the quality of the info you pay for.
There are principles in here and his other books that can really transform your training and what you can do with your body.
Dianetics
By L. Ron Hubbard
I came across this whilst looking for info to improve my mental abilities specifically for sports performance however what I found was a whole science that helped me improve every area of my life. I've become a lot brighter and more able because of my use of Dianetics!