Gain warrior’s strength
For the first time on DVD, Stephan Berwick reveals his regimen for healthy body toughening derived from his unique expertise in secret Chinese martial art body toughening methods. Combining hard and soft forms of conditioning inspired from his intimate knowledge of ancient military-origin Chinese martial arts, Berwick’s True Strength Yang™ program offers quick results - conditioning your body to withstand blows, falls, and twists, in an easy to digest, highly intense regimen of warrior conditioning, reminiscent of the best classical martial body practices.

True Strength Yang™ was originally designed for fighters looking for an extra training edge to help them handle the rigors of combat healthfully.

Like ancient Maori warriors and even Western boxers, self-slapping/hitting has always been used as a way to condition the skin, muscles, etc to handle punishment in a healthy, lasting manner. Over time, controlled self-hitting conditions the body in a very direct way. Essentially, slapping the body at key body parts and in a relaxed, flexible manner develops the body's ability to heal from many types of external strikes and gives you the ability to handle pain. It is very much like a stimulative, percussive self-massage, which can be deeply conditioning. True Stength Yang™ wakes-up the hormonal system, 'kneading' the skin and muscles and stimulating the internal organs, while causing the skeletal structure to respond to contact as one, unified structure - all fundamental to any fighter's ability to withstand punshiment and especially important as one ages.

This is a very important aspect of strength training and often overlooked by athletes. While certain types of self-hitting and partner hitting can be seen in contact sports, (such as medicine ball training in western boxing and muay thai - partner hitting in football and rugby - and body falling and rolling in jiu jitsu, judo, aikido, and wrestling), it is often not viewed as a stand-alone discipline, which True Strength Yang™ offers, without the use of any apparatus and/or medicines.

The focused stance training on the True Strength Base™ DVD deeply fortifies footwork and lower body strength for any contact and strength activity, by developing 'root' and making the overall footwork more sure and stable - all helping withstand the damage of leg strikes and also making it much harder for opponents, (or heavy weights), to move the athlete at close range. This type of stance training causes the legs to be structurally intact - making the construction of stances more integrated and operating as one unit, which unleashes very deep 'functional' strength that is absolutely crucial for combat, contact, and strength sports.

Professional martial artist, Stephan Berwick, was compelled to create the True Strength™ regimen as a focused way to keep his physical toughness up, without destroying his body - something all fighters and the most hardcore athletes become increasingly aware of as they continue in contact and strength sports. Part of the whole package of keeping the body strong, tough, and fast-healing is the use of more so-called qiqong practices, which many fighters, endurance athletes, and strength athletes train in some way or another, with focused breathing and motor skills exercises. To that, the upcoming True Strength Yin™ program, (to be released summer 2009), reveals the more 'internal' side of this regimen, that combined with True Strength Yang™, provides a near complete internal/external conditioning regimen great for the ring, the field, and for life.