Martial Arts & Fitness Workout Book
Creating the Body You Want by martial arts master, Calasanz, illustrates his basic exercises for developing an agile, strong and elegant body ... combining traditional martial arts techniques with dance, aerobics and isometrics. The Calasanz Martial Arts System, which was founded in 1986, is world-renowned for martial arts and fitness training.
Creating the Body You Want contains Calasanz’s sixteen basic floor and bar exercises for the gradual development of an agile, strong and elegant body. Each stretching exercise incorporates martial arts techniques intended to strengthen and elongate muscles. They stress flexibility, body conditioning and safety. This goal-oriented, ergonomically designed book lies flat on the floor beside you, to guide you step-by-step through each exercise. It features hundreds of sequentially linked photographs, functioning as a visual guide for each routine.
In addition to the Calasanz System exercises, Creating the Body You Want takes the reader on a brief journey into the history and philosophy of Martial Arts and uncovers ancient oriental wisdom and inspiration.
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Renowned as a hero in his native Dominican Republic, Calasanz is a Martial Arts legend who has spent a lifetime studying and teaching Karate, Kung Fu and Kickboxing.
He has combined not only his Martial Arts mastery, but his training in ballet, gymnastics, weight and fitness counseling, into an absolutely unique system that has the capacity to help you create the body you’ve always dreamed of possessing, while developing and inspiring your mind and spirit to excel.
Calasanz has, for twenty years, trained young and old, professional athletes, dancers, celebrities, law enforcement officers and a host of individuals from all walks of life in the Way of the Serene Warrior ... a way that leads to fitness, focus, health, strength and longevity.
In addition to his first Martial Arts & Fitness book, titled Creating The Body You Want, Calasanz has starred in the feature movie, Crossing the Line and appeared with Mark Dakosko in Only The Strong.
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Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00027931254