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Fit to Fight teaches you a wide variety of physical training and fighting drills you need to win in the street. This book will show you how to train for strength, stamina and most importantly, aggression, as well as that all important ‘mental edge’.

This mental edge is developed through hard training drills Fit To Fight will teach you those drills - with over 100 photographs.

You need to be fit and strong to win a fight, but more importantly, you have to develop the 'will to win' the aggression never to give up and never to lose.

This book is about intense training for combat and teaches a wide range of physical training drills needed to win in the street. This book will show you how to train for strength, stamina, aggression and that all important mental edge.

This mental edge is developed through hard training drills Fit To Fight will teach yu those drills over its 185 pages and is illustrated with over 100 dynamic photographs. You need to be fit and strong to win a fight, but, more importantly, you have to develop the will to win the aggression never to give up and never to lose. Traditional martial arts training poorly covers these aspects and the fighting spirit martial arts develops can disappear when that hollow, sickening feeling of dread and emptiness envelopes one during an intense fight.

To be prepared for this, those same feelings should have been duplicated during training so that familiarity with such intensity breeds confidence in combat.

Peter says:"This book is not primarily about fitness, rather it is about winning fights. It is about developing a winning attitude and about developing an indomitable spirit".

To achieve success in a fight, is the sum total of many physical aspects and attitudes, both technique and training related, but the deciding factor in terms of a successful outcome is solely related to one factor only mental attitude.

For many martial artists, they never experience the stark reality of real combat until it is too late. This book is not about developing a complete approach to surviving street confrontation (see the author’s book Streetwise), it is about one piece of the jigsaw. Its about the mental edge and attitude that can be bred through the physical exertions of hard training and conditioning. Hard, demanding physical training is not about developing strength, speed or suppleness, although these elements and a good cardio-vascular capacity are part of what one should aim for more importantly, it is about the effect it has on a person’s mental attitude control that we exercise over ourselves.

Fit To Fight is about NOT GIVING UP and this is the key to your success in winning fights. Fights are not lost because of bad technique. Once a fight starts and it’s one you were unable to stop with pre-emptive action (dialogue or a knockout), then the fight will not always be won by the fittest or strongest, but by the one with the stronger mind.

To give in on the street may be to suffer serious injury, or at worst, die. It’s happening all the time and we read about such incidents daily. Unfortunately, you cannot learn how not to give up during a fight by going and picking fights it has to be derived elsewhere.

The feeling of hollow dread you experience prior to a fight and then the feeling of utter emptiness and dissipation of strength and energy during it, are in large part clinical in origin. These feelings are a combination of some psychological emotions such as fear and some physiological symptoms such as adrenaline and mild shock, but when they grip hold of you, they will nullify whatever brilliant techniques you may have developed in the relative safety of the Dojo or the boxing or wrestling gym. One thing and one thing only will get you through those feelings and that’s AGGRESSION.

A controlled, fighting aggression must be developed and, unfortunately, its not natural in most people. To develop it, you must place yourself in situations where only aggression and mental focus will see you through to successful conclusion in the endeavour.