Weapons of fitness : the women's ultimate guide to fitness, self-defense, and empowerment / Avital Zeisler.

By: Zeisler, Avital, 1989- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Avery, a member of Penguin Group (USA), [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781583335697 (paperback)Other title: Women's ultimate guide to fitness, self-defense, and empowermentSubject(s): Physical fitness for women | Self-defense for womenDDC classification: 613.66082 LOC classification: GV482 | .Z45 2015
Contents:
Part 1. Your mission: Redefining self-defense for women -- A real transformation -- How it works -- Part 2. Molding your weapon: Stances -- Upper-body combatives -- Lower-body combatives -- Defending yourself -- Part 3. Hitting your targets: Weapons of fitness -- Weeks 1 and 2 workouts -- Weeks 3 and 4 workouts -- Weeks 5 and 6 workouts -- Improvised weapon bonus workout -- Part 4. Protecting your life: Creating and protecting a life you love.
Summary: A groundbreaking self-defense and fitness book for women by a ballerina-turned-self-defense expert. Learn how to become your own weapon of self-defense and fitness so that you can create and target your best life. After ballerina Avital Zeisler was savagely attacked as a young woman, she lived in fear--until she took action to train with experts in self-defense from around the world. Seeking a method specific to women and using Krav Maga as a base, she created her own self-defense program: the Soteria Method. It was an immediate sensation, and is now in demand by everyone from corporate executives to Hollywood stars--such as Amanda Seyfried, Megan Boone, and Keri Russell, to name a few--who seek her classes both for the self-defense and for the intense, body-sculpting workout. Unique and empowering, "Weapons of Fitness" will help get you into incredible shape--and just might save your life.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Includes index.

"The workout that could save your life"--Cover.

Part 1. Your mission: Redefining self-defense for women -- A real transformation -- How it works -- Part 2. Molding your weapon: Stances -- Upper-body combatives -- Lower-body combatives -- Defending yourself -- Part 3. Hitting your targets: Weapons of fitness -- Weeks 1 and 2 workouts -- Weeks 3 and 4 workouts -- Weeks 5 and 6 workouts -- Improvised weapon bonus workout -- Part 4. Protecting your life: Creating and protecting a life you love.

A groundbreaking self-defense and fitness book for women by a ballerina-turned-self-defense expert. Learn how to become your own weapon of self-defense and fitness so that you can create and target your best life. After ballerina Avital Zeisler was savagely attacked as a young woman, she lived in fear--until she took action to train with experts in self-defense from around the world. Seeking a method specific to women and using Krav Maga as a base, she created her own self-defense program: the Soteria Method. It was an immediate sensation, and is now in demand by everyone from corporate executives to Hollywood stars--such as Amanda Seyfried, Megan Boone, and Keri Russell, to name a few--who seek her classes both for the self-defense and for the intense, body-sculpting workout. Unique and empowering, "Weapons of Fitness" will help get you into incredible shape--and just might save your life.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.