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TOTAL BODY STABILITY TRAINING AND INJURY PREVENTION Total BodyStability is the fifth app in the How to Defeat the Bigger StrongerOpponent series. It features master trainer Roy Duquette and BJJworld champion Emily Kwok. As you may know, Grapplearts offers anentire series of instructional apps in which Emily Kwok shares adetailed breakdown of her grappling strategies and techniques.Emily is a bona fide world champion, both with and without the gi.And obviously her high level of technical expertise has a TON to dowith her tournament success. But it would be foolish to overlookthe importance physical conditioning has had in her competitiveachievements. That includes conditioning to increase strength andendurance, but also conditioning is to avoid injury. It comes downto this: If you’re injured then you can’t train. Correctconditioning = less injuries = more training = faster skilldevelopment. Furthermore the sad fact is that many of our favoritetechniques tend to overdevelop certain parts of our body. And theseimbalances ultimately make us much more vulnerable to injury.Fortunately increasing your functional strength with propertraining makes your body more resilient to injury. If you do theright exercises in the right way you can * Increase strength, *Protect your joints, * Correct physical imbalances created bypracticing your martial art, * Get rid of many of the aches andpains that many grapplers take for granted. Most longtime martialartists eventually come to the conclusion that a sensible strengthand conditioning program is essential to achieving longevity intheir chosen art. Roy Duquette is uniquely qualified to work withmartial artists. He has over 15 years of experience as aprofessional trainer and and performance coach. Roy has also workedwith many MMA fighters and BJJ competitors. He was also Emily’sfirst conditioning coach and the person who first introduced her toBrazilian Jiu-Jitsu. In the app Roy presents a workout designed tostrengthen and stabilise your body. Not only will you develop arock-solid core that will greatly increase your functional strengthon the mats, you’ll also protect the joints and muscles of yourbody that are most susceptible to getting hurt. Total BodyStability training may just be your ace in a hole, for the simplereason that being strong and uninjured allows you to train harderin class and walk around without feeling crippled all the time!Volume five, ‘An Introduction to Total Body Stability’ comes withdetailed instructions for each exercise. The emphasis on the back,abs, core and shoulders, and the specific ways in which theseexercises are done, ensures that these sequences are total bodystrengtheners. 1) Standing Active Posture Series 2) Standing FrontRaises 3) Standing L-Flyes 4) Standing Dumbbell Shrug 5) StandingDumbbell Overhead Press 6) Standing Upper Body Stability Bicep Curl7) Sequential Roll-Up Series 8) Sequential Roll-Up 9) Roll-Up withAlternating Leg Raises 10) Roll-Up with Double Leg Raises 11)Superman Series 12) Superman: Double Arm and Leg Extension 13)Superman: Overhead Flyes 14) Superman: Leg Curls 15) Superman:Simultaneous Flyes and Leg Curls 16) Standard Plank Series 17)Sequential Plank 18) Plank Push-Up 19) Plank with Alternating LegRaises 20) Swiss-Ball Bridge Series 21) Swiss-Ball: Straight-LegBridge 22) Swiss-Ball: Leg Curls 23) Swiss-Ball: Bent-Knee Bridging24) Swiss-Ball: Alternating Leg Raises 25) Summary FEATURES *Footage has been professionally filmed and edited for ease oflearning * The app includes complete menus for easy navigation *You can create a list of your favourite sections and exercisesusing the one-click ‘favourite’ button * The app is designed todownload to your phone or iPad; an internet connection is NOTrequired to view the videos * BONUS: ‘The Roadmap for BrazilianJiu-Jitsu’ book for free!