Forza The Samurai Sword Workout: Kick Butt and Get Buff with High-Intensity Sword Fighting Moves (Dirty Everyday Slang)

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Illustrated
2005
$16.41

First the author teaches basic sword movements: thrusts, slices etc. Although she keeps it fun, she draws on her years of martial arts training to teach the true movements that combine balance, focus and precised muscle control. Then the author explains the benefits of each movement and her sword fighting program as a whole. In part three of the book she brings it all together showing how to string movements together into a heart-pounding, full-throttle workout.

Synopsis

First the author teaches basic sword movements: thrusts, slices etc. Although she keeps it fun, she draws on her years of martial arts training to teach the true movements that combine balance, focus and precised muscle control. Then the author explains the benefits of each movement and her sword fighting program as a whole. In part three of the book she brings it all together showing how to string movements together into a heart-pounding, full-throttle workout.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 144
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Published: 28 Jun 2005
ISBN 10: 1569754780
ISBN 13: 9781569754788
Book Overview: Author tour including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco National TV appearances Features and reviews in fitness and health magazines including Shape, Self, Health, Fit Magazine, and Fitness Magazine National print campaign targeting women's magazines including Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and Glamour Promotion on the author's website (powerstrike.com)

Media Reviews

Meet the Lara Croft of Manhattan . . . with higher-than-Buffy the Vampire Slayer kicks. -- The New York Post
Meet the Lara Croft of Manhattan. With her slicked-back hair, six-pack abs and higher-than-Buffy the Vampire Slayer kicks -The New York Post

Grab your weapon (a broomstick will do) and try sword-fighting, the hottest new way to get slim. Fitness guru Ilaria Montagnani shows you how. -Marie Claire

Her sword-wielding Forza class has become red hot -New York magazine
(from an article naming her one of the city's top fitness insructors)

It's Kill Bill to a techno beat -Conde Nast Traveler

Inspiring women to balance femininity with an ability to kick some serious ass -Fashion Magazine (Canada)

Author Bio

Ilaria Montagnani holds a black belt in Karate and has trained in kickboxing and sword fighting for over ten years. She is a regular fitness instructor at Equinox Fitness Club in New York City, where her workout was voted best exercise class two year in a row by New York Magazine and one of the Top Ten Workouts by Shape Magazine. She has taught throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Spain and Italy. Ilaria has appeared on numerous television shows, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Rosie O'Donnell Show. Her Forza workout was featured on ABC News, Inside Edition, and The CBS Evening News.