Smart Chi: Warrior's Manual to Constitutional Energy Management (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780999541906)

Smart Chi is a comprehensive martial arts manual developed for serious warriors and coaches

Master trainer, Arjunacharya Dasa, uniquely blends the wisdom and practices of Yoga, Ayurveda, and martial art training into a comprehensive manual for training the combative artist. When these powerful knowledge systems are combined and systematically applied to martial arts training, the result is a training program customized to each individual martial arts warrior. Until now, such a manual has not been available to serious students.

Smart Chi provides a combative artist with optimal success potential in the field because of it's all-encompassing reach. The tools shared within this book are designed to help you determine your individual workout type, develop supportive nutritional strength, work with the forces of Chi and create a daily training plan which is optimized for your personal nature.

Keeping your bodily vehicle in harmony with the mind and spirit is largely determined by the amount of knowledge you have about them and your attentiveness to them. The first thing we learn in Smart Chi is how the forces of nature operate in the world, or externally, so to speak, in order to find out how they manifest in our own bodily and subtle fields of action.

A smart chi warrior aligns himself/herself with a particular body type and mental constitution by taking an assessment quiz. The quiz measures the inclination of the forces within, as well as the warrior's physical body, and helps to determine one's constitution. The warrior is then presented with the knowledge on constitution-specific nutrition and supplementation.

Further into the book, the five types of chi are described. Practical knowledge of how to control and monitor chi in relation to one's natural constitution is part of the subtle armor. The subtle armor also includes knowledge and application of pressure points (marma) and can aid in the manipulation of energy. Mantra meditation is part of the spiritual armor and is also prescribed according to one's constitution.

Finally, a daily regimen customized to one's constitution is fully presented along with types of workouts that the author uses in the trenches. If you are a coach, there are helpful training scenarios that clearly contrast the internal approach with the external approach and teach you how to complement ETA with ITA to create a healthier athlete. Also, a prescription for a Complete Warrior Fitness Gym is provided for coaches to follow.

The Smart Chi warrior is able to manage his/her energies in an optimal way to help themselves, their students and the world.