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A unique and personal experience of intensity and tranquility fused by nature.
Dominic Cure
Performance Training
"Kettlebell Training... The Closest Thing You Can Get to Fighting, Without Throwing A Punch"
-Federal Counterterrorist Operator.
I give you a refreshing and invigorating approach to fitness. Contrasted by the stale and sometimes negative outlook that comes with training inside a large cement structure that holds a striking resemblance to a prison. A prison in which you must deal with the negative energy and "macho posturing" of the poor inmates.
I give you an environment that enhances your experience physically, spiritually and mentally.
Running on trails and breathing in the fresh air, swimming in the lake hearing the water break against you, seeing the sun's rays seep into your skin giving it that healthy glow, climbing a rope and feeling its coarse fiber in your hands, or feeling sweat trickle down your back as you clean and press the cold chunk of steel (the kettle bell) above your head, you exhale sharply, your breath sounding crisp against the serene sounds of nature, or feeling the excitement of getting your first triangle choke on your training partner while pushing your self during a round of Brazilian Jiujutsu.
I'm here to push you to your limit as a friend and trainer. To overcome obstacles and reach goals.
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My name is Dominic Cure. I am a personal trainer, performance fitness coach and Brazilian Jiujitsu instructor. I teach group classes and the kid's Fit Academy at LifeTimeFitness. I also teach at Mohler's Jiujitsu Academy were I help train the next generation of warriors. I use high intensity training and a variety of different exercises (kettlebells, circuit training, etc.) to create muscle confusion, avoiding plateaus and monotony. I combine theas training techniques with innovative dieting plans, breathing exercises and a positive approach to produce results. What I'm looking for from you is a positive mentality, a willingness to strive for greatness and a serious commitment to get results, if you have this then together we will make it happen. I can travel to you or you can come to my training facility. I'm located in Flower Mound just off beautiful lake Grapevine which provides zen like surroundings that will challenge even the most hardened athletes with running and biking on trails, swimming in the lake, training
with kettlebells on the beach, rope climbing
or training Brazilian Jiujitsu on the mat,
just to mention a few.
I cant wait to get started.
Thanks Dominic. .
Age is just a number until we make it something more(positive or negative)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3, 2010 by dominiccure
I recently responded to a great letter from a friend concerning age related fitness and the problems with conventional gyms and training methods, this brought up some good points so I thought I would share it with you all. Thanks for the letter.
“I’m glad you found me and found out about kettlebells, kettlebells are an amazing training weapon. I like to mix kettlebells with an assortment of other things to make a powerful combination to aid us in our fight to be in top shape and to make us hardened warriors and warrior princesses.
You say that you feel like your “racing against the clock” and that your 41(like that’s old). I’m telling you it doesn’t have to be like that and I don’t believe in age being a limiting factor, age is just a number until we make it into something more (positive or negative).
I train a couple that are in there 50s and most people think they are in there 30s this same guy told me he wishes he would have known about this kind of training along time ago.
Another warrior I train is also in his 50s and was quite a bit out of shape and borderline diabetic, he is now 48lbs lighter and is getting younger on the inside and out every day, to the amazement of his doctor who said he could count the number of people who had done what he did on one hand.
Bob, a friend of mine who is in his late 70s started training kettlebells with me and is stronger and in better shape than most 30 year old’s.
Helio Gracie was doing jiujitsu into his 90s.
Randy Couture was the MMA (the most challenging sport in the word) World champion in his 40s.
Steve Maxwell (a mentor of mine) is 57 and looks better than anybody I know and consistently outperforms everybody including athletes at his seminars.
If I went overboard on that its because I believe people limit themselves more than age limits them, not that your doing that, obviously because your trying to find an alternative, but Iv seen it over again and again, and nothing makes me more upset than when someone limits themselves, because if they wont give themselves a chance then how can I help them.
You are definitely right about the same old routines not seeming to work, there not working for anyone, just look around you or even look around at the gym, everywhere, people are geting in worse and worse shape despite the hundreds of dollars spent on fitness and supplements and hours and hours spent on a treadmill at the gym.
The reason for this (especially as we mature) is the type of workouts we do and our toxin and synthetic high diets with an over supply of sugars and processed carbohydrates.
Workouts need to be short, intense and work the body as a whole emphasizing strength, endurance, cardio and mobility but most importantly intensity, in order to shock the body and activate the fight or flight instincts.
The problem with long “slow burn”(treadmill, jogging,aerobics) workouts is that the body adapts easily and plateaus, making it almost impossible to make progress.
The other type workout, (weight and machine lifting) fails to get us in shape because isolating a few muscles every workout and working them with breaks in between sets dose not put our bodies in a heightened state, dose not work our bodies as a whole(creating a chain with weak links) , dos not work our heart and lungs to the max and again takes to long ,once we work out for more than 45 min our bodies begin to break down and we produce less growth hormone, instead our bodies put out a chemical that breaks down muscle like the muscles of long distance runners, (they look like anorexic skeletons).
We can get a great workout in 15 to 45 min if the intensity is right.
The other big problem is our diet, we eat too much processed high toxin, high sugar foods.
We mix starches and combine food poorly.
And we never give our bodies a chance to catch up clean up and purge out toxic build up because we are constantly eating, piling on more work for our bodies. (fat cells are often just the bodies way of storing toxins because it doesn’t have time to purge them).
So your right”the same old” things don’t work, but the good news is there are other things that do work, and they are allot more fun too!”
Stay Warrior Strong- Dominic
Weapon of Choice, for Finding and Combating The Weak or Missing Link? The Kettlebell.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 9, 2010 by dominiccure
The Kettlebell is our best weapon for combat against The Missing Link because of its ability to force our body into positions were we can not rely on our strengths.
During a kettlebell workout our body is forced to work from many different angles and planes and the center of gravity is continually changing.
Another aspect is the increase and decrees of momentum, during a snatch for example we have to accelerate the chunk of steel using our hips, legs, core, back and whole body while controlling the arch with balance and stabilizer muscles then slow it back down and stop it at the top using core and whole body to control and stabilize then reverse the process and repeat, that’s one rep.
Keep in mind all this twisting, swinging, off-balance, changing of plane and pull of gravity, accelerating, decelerating, bending pulling, pushing, locking and unlocking joints, changing altitude, muscle flexing and relaxing is done with balls of steel with a handle and usually using one hand and side at a time making balance all the more challenging.
The advantage to this is it forces us to use our bodies as a whole instead of relying on strong bulk muscles to perform a motion of very controlled very limited movement, like the bench press were your body can hide weaknesses by compensating for one side and relying on the bar to keep things together.
Kettlebells also force us to think about the movement, concentrate on the task at hand and stay in the moment.
This “being in the moment” helps us recognize and feel our weaknesses and deficiencies, and as we say, the first step to fixing something is to fine it, recognize it, and then we can choke it out!
So let’s get to training so we can find the missing link and kill it!
I want to leave you with a quote by a friend and mentor Alexander King.
”Kettlebells movements build deep neuro-muscular foundations for athletic strength and power. Kettlebell training requires a great degree of mental focus, something completely lacking in machine training, and even in many sports athletic program drills. Kettlebell training forces the athlete to concentrate on various factors such as breathing, multi-planar muscle movements, force acceleration and deceleration, hand eye coordination and abdominal pressurization. This maximizes body awareness and coordination.”
Some Thoughts on Victory, Competitiveness, and Being Number One.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2010 by dominiccure
Sometimes we hear people say ” it’s not about wining, it’s about how you play the game” and while there is a speck of truth in that, we know as true warriors, it IS about the VICTORY, it’s about the battles and the glory and the uphill struggle. And if we fall in our quest for victory we learn from it and get up and try for it again!
So I grabbed a couple of my favorite quotes on the mater.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that’s first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he’s got to play from the ground up – from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That’s O.K. You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you’re lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going to come off the field second.
Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization – an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win – to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don’t think it is.
It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That’s why they are there – to compete. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules – but to win.
And in truth, I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.
I don’t say these things because I believe in the ‘brute’ nature of men or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour — his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear — is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”
- Coach Vincent T. Lombardi © 2010 Family of Vince Lombardi c/o Luminary Group LLC
“True strength is not always shown through victory. Stand up, try again and display strength of heart.” Rickson Gracie
“There is no substitute for victory” McArthur
“The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.”
Plato
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first.”
Harry S Truman
“Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack.”
Sun Tzu
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt
Yours in Blood, Sweet and Glory.
Dominic.
A Great Place to Reload,
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2010 by dominiccure
After training this morning, I and some super troopers headed out to McKinney Gym Equipment to reload and rearm ourselves with our best weapon The Kettlebell.
I wanted to take a moment to talk about thees guys not only because its hard to find a good place to buy weapons, but also because they have something else that is hard to find, and that is a real sincerity and genuineness.
Thanks and Keep it Real.
Early Morning Battle Makes The Whole Day A Victory,
Posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2010 by dominiccure
Alright troops,
I just got done going through a training session with some of my best warriors. We met up and were knee-deep in blood and sweat from the enemy(ourselves are our own worst enemy)and half way to another victory before the sun was on the horizon.
I have to commend thees warriors, who despite having to go to work for eight to twelve hours, get up and meet on the battle field to train in preparation for the day to come.
Before we begin training regularly, we all know that the last thing we want to do if we aren’t working is to workout, but as we begin training regularly, our thinking becomes more and more the opposite.
We start to enjoy the feeling of our bodies coming to life and the added energy we have throughout the day, supercharged by the endorphins released by a good workout.
Another great thing about training in the morning is that it increases our metabolism and puts our body into a heightened state of alertness(fight or flight mode) enabling us to burn fat and make better use of nutrients.
In this heightened state we are a mean, lean, burning machine ready to take on anything that happens to cross our path!
Your Brother in Blood, Sweat and Glory!
The Missing Link.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2010 by dominiccure
Our bodies are made to function together as a whole, one piece relying on the other, think of it as a Swiss watch, a Spartan phalanx(the warrior’s shield’s interlocking to protect his brother at his side, moving together as one), or as a chain .
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
OK.
So lets look at a body builder, who is incredibly strong, has huge biceps and chest muscles, but might only pick up heavy metal objects from one position using perfect form and using his legs and biceps.
But what about his stabilizer muscles, muscle endurance and central nerves system?
This applies, not only to a body builder, but to a runner or a cyclist or anyone not doing full body exercises,( F.Y.I. Lance Armstrong uses Kettlebells).
The body builder might be very strong in a perfectly controlled environment in which his arms and legs can do there work. But how often are we in a perfect operating environment in our athletic life (Brazilian Jiujitsu, Ice Hockey, Baseball,etc.) or our day to day life?
This is what we hear so often “I’ve been lifting and getting in shape and then yesterday as I was getting out of my car at the grocery store BAM my back popped and now I can barely limp around”.
Why dos this happen?
Well because the body builder’s(and I’m just using body builder as an example)legs, arms and chest make a strong, heavy, titanium chain that’s strong enough to pull up a tree stump, but in that chain somewhere, is a link made out of aluminum foil, and in this case the weak link was the stability and mobility muscles of the back.
Our job’s (mine in particular) is to find that missing or weak link in our bodies.
So like a General in the Spartan Army, we closely inspect each warrior to make sure that their is no weakness in the phalanx, so that we can then operate with strong and balanced harmony, making ourselves almost invincible and bullet proof.
Next we will take a look at the best weapon or tool used to find our week or missing link.
The Kettlebell.
