Description

The isometric exercise system has been successfully trialled and deployed for employees by the National Health Service (NHS) Innovation Team in Greater Manchester, England.

The authors, Brian Sterling-Vete and Helen Renée Wuorio, worked closely with the NHS Innovation Team to create a practical and effective system suitable for virtually anyone, even if they wish to exercise discretely while at work to save valuable after-work time.

Isometric exercise has been a part of almost every martial arts system. Even before isometrics were studied scientifically, and modern science-based training techniques were devised, they have been taught and practised in one form or another for thousands of years.

The great Bruce Lee and his love of isometric exercise ensured that this system would forever be famously linked to all types of martial arts training.

This book contains a valuable resource of practical isometric exercises designed to build serious strength, muscle and firepower all martial artists need.

More importantly, isometric exercise builds solid, hard, practical muscle and not the bodybuilder type of bulk that would seriously restrict a martial artist. In the exercise section, arrows clearly show the direction in which the force should be applied.

One of the authors is recognised as one of the leading authorities on isometric exercise science and has practised several martial arts styles for almost 50 years.

Among his many awards and accolades, he is a WKA 8th Degree Black Belt and recipient of a WKA Lifetime Achievement Award. This gives him a unique and extremely valuable insight into science-based strength training and conditioning for martial arts.