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

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.