RushFit Renaissance Guy Erik Owings – Trainer, Fighter, Zen Grasp?

The headliner, co-creator of GSP Rushfit, Georges St-Pierre, is certainly deserving of the awareness he will get. Immediately after all, he is the existing UFC Welterweight Champion and thought of by several to be the best combined-martial-arts (MMA) fighter in the environment. “Rush,” as his supporters referred to as him, was born in Quebec and has been named Canadian athlete of the year for the past a few years in a row. So celebrity St-Pierre is certainly the suitable a single to have his title and facial area on the GSP RushFit residence exercise method, but the plan designer and St-Pierre’s coach and spouse in this venture, Erik Owings is also fairly a fighting and physical fitness drive in his have right.

Owings was born in Kentucky in 1979 and started out instruction in karate at a extremely youthful age. At 19 Owings commenced to review Brazilian Jiu Jitsu with trainer Carlson Gracie Jr. Immediately after just about two years finding out, Owings went to the source and moved to Brazil to review at the renowned Gracie Barra Academy wherever he achieved the rank of Jiu Jitsu brown belt. Owings also invested some time training in Thailand and Europe. In 2006 he gained his black belt from Renzo Gracie and John Danaher and carries on to prepare with them to this day.

He fought in five International Struggle League (IFL) bouts. IFL is a now defunct league, which operated from early 2006 by mid 2008. Owings document was 3 wins and 2 losses. He won his initial purchased which was from American fighter Justin Jones in April 2006 then lost to Canadian Chris Haradecki defeat American Ed West and Russian Peter Kaljevic just before dropping in mid 2007 to Brazilian Wagnney Fabiano.

Although competing in the IFL Owings was also working as a own trainer in New York in which usually performing in cramped spaces, he perfected numerous of the techniques, making use of bodyweight and dumbbells that he utilised to create the RushFit system. Some of the exclusive movements in the Rushfit software are solely his personal creation. Owens has said that he liked coming up with hard moves that even St-Pierre has difficulties performing.

“Practical fitness” is a expression Owings works by using to describe the kind of training he teaches and what RushFit is all about. Owings has defined that to imply conditioning that is transferable into serious life exercise as opposed to just working on a unique muscle mass team or physique part.

The GSP RushFit program came about when St-Pierre’s manager approached Owings and mentioned they have been seeking for a person to layout a health plan for St-Pierre. Owings who experienced currently been doing work on what was to become RushFit said he simply just took what he experienced by now developed and put more intensity into it. Any individual not familiar with RushFit, it is an incredibly rigorous property work out software that leaves even the legendarily healthy St-Pierre gasping for air in obvious exhaustion immediately after many of the segments.

Today Owings lives in New York Metropolis and is the founder and proprietor of a MMA and exercise facility in close proximity to Union Sq.. The gymnasium is named Mushin Combined Marshall Arts. Mushin is a Zen term that signifies “empty brain.” It refers to ones capacity to hyper emphasis thoughts and energies on the endeavor at hand. According to the Mushin website Owings’s coaching “clientele features specialist and newbie fighters, corporate CEOs and supermodels alongside with absolutely everyone in-among.” The gym has turn into to some degree acknowledged for becoming the gym of choice for Victoria Mystery types. Someway that appears oddly fitting for the gymnasium established by this philosophical physical fitness expert.