Why the Underground Gym is your best choice for Martial Arts and Fitness training

WHY GO UNDERGROUND

We succeed only when you succeed --- Our professional success depends
on your personal sports, fitness and life achievements. Our client's physical and
mental well-being is our best advertising. It is very important to surround yourself
with people with positive influence -- we will motivate you every day, providing
with an optimistic winning attitude because we love what we do and we are good
at it! Sports, Combat Arts and Fitness lifestyle are our passion and we will share
with you our knowledge and enthusiasm.

Training vs. Exercising --- Exercising is what the majority of people that go to
health clubs do to FEEL themselves fit: few sets of ten to twenty repetitions on a
circuit of selectorized machines and half an hour on the stationary bike after that,
all while reading a magazine. Sadly, never mind the long hours they put in, those
people are usually the ones that don't get any results. Also they usually end up
hating their "fitness routine" (that exactly what it becomes - something that they
HAVE to do during a certain period of time) and quitting for good. What's even
sadder that kids as well as young athletes copy these routines and we are in
process of developing an entire generation unable to produce quality movement
and injury-prone.

Training, on the other end, is what MAKES you fit. It requires your full
concentration and promotes a never-ending fun because it's progressively more
challenging. You will never see any of our clients "exercising" on a selectorized
machine that does most of the work for you. Nor you will see them doing "cardio"
reading a newspaper. Our workouts are intense and athletic in nature -
challenging you to do things you would never thought possible before. Our
workouts are also progressive - meaning we have a progression for ANY level
(varied in difficulty and intensity) starting from a complete beginner and to the
most advanced athlete.

Training will require you to be fully alert and present and will call and improve
upon a multitude of attributes including mental focus, creativity, strength,
quickness, agility, flexibility, stamina, power, cardiovascular/respiratory
endurance, coordination, balance and accuracy. In other words it will make you
FEEL ALIVE and achieve your full potential both mentally and physically.

Movement Selection vs. Exercise Selection --- At The Underground Gym we
focus our workouts on natural movement patterns of the human body: pushing,
pulling, squatting, bending, twisting, flexing, moving, carrying, throwing, punching,
kicking and jumping. Selectorized machines were designed on the other end to
simulate the isolated movements of individual muscles in a single plane of
motion. In everyday life, sports and combat though you have to use your body as
a unit in a multi-dimensional environment.

When you train individual muscles instead of functional movements, your
applicable, real-world strength becomes handicapped. If you train with only one
plane of motion, your body becomes. one-dimensional and injury-prone.
Therefore we concentrate on compound, multi-plane movements that will
improve useful strength, core stability, flexibility, coordination, endurance and,
ultimately, health. Additional benefits will include a noticeable neuroendocrine
response, meaning that they will alter you neurologically and hormonally. It's like
being on performance enhancing and anti-aging drugs, but completely naturally
and legal. And a lean athletic body as the only side effect! That response is the
one to blame for quick results you will get with Movement-Oriented Training.

Open Space vs. Clotted Space --- When you come into the vast majority of
gyms you will see dozens of weight and cardio machines stuffed as close as
possible to fit as many people as possible. There is usually very little room
space available to perform any kind of athletic movements unless it's in the
middle of a walkway.

At The Underground Gym we emphasize the room space and use it to the
utmost: to move, jump, lift, throw, tumble, box and wrestle - in other words, to train
in an athletic manner, because it is simply the best way to train.

Coaching You vs. Training You --- We teach proper natural biomechanics to
increase your daily performance and free your potential, while keeping you injury
free and healthy as a number one priority as opposed to training you to learn the
selectorized machines functions and set-ups. The truth is that success in sports,
fitness and combat, just like anywhere else, very commonly requires some
effective coaching. Every great athlete and trainee in the world have professional
coaches that plan out the best possible training schedules and workouts
according to their students individual needs. A great coach will inspire, motivate
and lead to success with confident competence, acquired through years of
experience, theoretical research and practical application.

Through our coaching you will be able to apply the learned universal
biomechanical principals and acquired mental edge to ANY other activity as well
as continue to train and progress on your own, if you decide to stop training with
us (although, why would you -- it's so much fun!) or move to a different location.

Our method of training is functional, has real world applications and willÿ quickly
take you on the next level. We practice what we preach and always continue to
learn from the worlds best coaches, pioneers and practitioners of various fitness,
nutrition, sports and combat disciplines and arts to make sure that you get the
latest innovational methods combined with our "secret" tried-and-proven "twists",
quickly and efficiently leading you directly to your goals.

Practical Applications vs. Dogmatic "Forms" --- Just like we put practical
efficiency, natural movements and common sense above theoretical nonsense
and unrealistic solutions in sports and fitness training, we do the same in our
approach to Combat Arts training. Our Combat Principles and their Direct
Applications are constantly tested by us and our clients in Boxing and
Thaiboxing bouts, Grappling matches, No-Holds-Barred Fights and daily Police
work.

We don't practice standing in horse stances for hours, predetermined katas
(forms), step sparring or bowing to each other every thirty seconds. Instead we
concentrate on achieving maximum proficiency (what we call "Flow") in Stand
Up, Clinch and Ground (both sport and street applications) by utilizing a variety
of continuous, progressively harder partner and equipment drills designed to find
and sharpen your individual style of fighting. Working with another resisting
human being forms a cornerstone for our training. And, of course, we spar.

That doesn't mean that we beat the hell out of each other. We need our training
partners to be unhurt and healthy in order to continue to grow as fighters. Also,
we have a variety of people (both guys and girls) with different goals and not all
of them are looking to become a professional fighter or a cop.

Therefore everybody leaves their ego at the door and comes in to help one
another to progress. Every drill has a specific purpose and the amount of contact
is varied for your specific goal and is different for the more experienced and a
beginner who decided to just give it a try. It's up to you where you want to take it.

But we can assure you in one thing: whether you decide to practice Combat Arts
as a hobby, to stay sharp and fit, to fight in a competition or your job requires you
to be proficient at it, the training at The Underground Gym is serious,
professional and effective. You will be receiving a high-quality instruction in the
most efficient combat-proven techniques of Muay Thai kickboxing, Boxing, Judo,
Grappling and Street Tactics.

Come train with us and we guarantee to make it
an experience of a lifetime!

You could chose from Private and Semi-Private Training or Group
Classes options.

Call us at (732) 829-1164 to GET STARTED NOW!
Or contact us via email

In case if you live outside of a reasonable traveling area to our NJ,
Monmouth County location, you can still utilize our extensive experience
and distinctive know-hows by taking advantage of our Training DVDs,
Online Training Program, Phone Consultations and Seminars.