There are not many times in the life of an adult that can send your anticipation wheeling like a child awaiting Christmas or a visit to your favorite theme park. When you are lucky enough to recapture these feelings of excitement as a “grown up” you would be a fool not to jump at the chance, or in this case, jump squat at the chance. Visiting Martin Rooney and taking part in the Training for Warriors Level 1 Instructor Course was just this type of experience for this fitness professional.
Upon entering the Parisi Speed School location in Paramus New Jersey you are immediately in training awe. The facility itself is impressive beyond most people’s training dreams and a feeling of wanting more is palpable. Within minutes will be some of the most impressive motivational as well as physical teaching and mentoring possibly in existence.
Martin has an amazing presence that makes you want to share both his belief in physical and mental fitness as well as pushes you to question the things that you have been sold by the fitness industry. It becomes obvious the difference between a job and a calling to this man, if it was just a job he would push you to think what he thinks, when it is a calling as he has he drives you to find your own meaning and place amongst greatness in the field.
When you enter a Training for Warriors Certification you will also find yourself amongst like minded people from places as far as Spain and Canada who have very purposefully landed in front of this man to gather all he has to know as well as challenge themselves physically. Personal Trainers, Army Rangers, Law Enforcement, and champions meeting in one location with intentions to absorb as much as possible.
The information both shared and experienced hands on is priceless. There is more given and received in two days at the TFW Certification Seminar than in most month long courses, including physical challenges that your body will not soon forget. No secrets kept, no fitness miracles just hard work and result oriented training, common sense and a willingness to question “why”?
Martin’s methods of evaluating client’s physical weaknesses are practical and vital to good training. The TFW concepts on addressing these weaknesses in “prehab” as well as warmup components are helpful and can instantly be added to your personal as well as your client training sessions. Martin explains the place new and popular workout gadgets have in a program and when the good old basics of fitness should be relied upon. Sprints, barbell complexes, and multiple challenges are explained to keep clients physically challenged and mentally engaged.
Be willing to release the Warrior Within, enter Rooney’s world with an open mind, a hunger to change both yours and the lives of others and not just physically.
