Burn 750 to 840 cals per hour:
The exercises of Torqueblade are based on modern functional fitness principles
Many of my exercises incorporate added leg motions for a full body workout and are designed to challenge (in a safe manner).
- Balance
- Range of motion
- Dynamic change of direction
- Endurance
- Strength
“Train from the inside out, fitness first, esthetics will follow, become the natural, adaptable, desirable creature we were designed to be”.
“The Torqueblade has been specifically designed to be an awkward implement. An unbalanced tool challenges grip, coordination and body mechanics. Once these challenges have been overcome, the quicker one can adapt. To allow adaptability to flourish a training tool with the ability to increase and decrease its load would be ideal”.
Force is Power and Power is strength to develop and maintain motion or the cessation of motion. Therefore, Strength in motion!
“The exercises cross as many planes of motion as possible to be as varied as the motions we may use in everyday life, including recreation and at work.”
There are nine full body exercises incorporating leg motions coupled with torso motions. These exercises coupled with the Indian club swinging motions make an excellent all over body conditioning regime. Because of the configuration of the exercises, and continuous rhythm, a sub maximal anaerobic threshold is maintained throughout the session. In other words, you will be breathless but able to hold a conversation when training. This is the most economical way to effectively increase levels of strength to weight ratio and endurance. In other words; lean body mass and sleek muscles.
“Everything that we do requires our muscles to work in synergy with each other. Every required task moves through all three planes of motion (multi-planer). Only the intent changes the outcome”.
The exercises for functional fitness (Torqueblade Training) may look familiar as the human body can only move in so many ways. However they are based on motions I have been exposed to over my twenty two years of fitness and martial training. I have taken into account the need for prehabilitation of the joints on the lower extremities and compound motions required for every day life.
I have personally been training in this manner for 2002. I have developed greater grip strength, more range of motion in my shoulder girdle, a stronger core and strength to weight ratio. I have also had success with several of my students and they are constantly challenged by the Torqueblade regime and using the Torqueblade in their F.M.A. largo forms.