Essentrics - An Esmonde Technique for Body Toning and Athletic Training

ATHLETES
Flexibility, Agility, & Muscle Empowerment

The purpose of this program is to stretch, strengthen and rebalance the full muscular structure leaving you more flexible, and agile. Essentrics prepares the muscles & tendons to both withstand the maximum demands of your sport and to rebound injury free from unexpected twists, turns and stresses. And Essentrics is dynamic, stretching in motion, which means you develop flexibility the way your body needs it on game day.

Who does Essentrics: The Essentrics program has been widely used for over ten years by individual Olympians and professional athletes as well as many teams in a wide variety of sports including: football, basketball, hockey, speed skating, figure skating, gymnastics, squash, volleyball, skiing, diving, and swimming.

The Technique: Essentrics stretches and strengthens eccentrically every muscle in the body, rebalancing the muscular structure in continuous rotational movements. It incorporates various techniques including PNF, and isometrics while systematically working every joint of the body. This is a full-body flexibility technique that works through the muscle chains liberating, relieving from tension and empowering the muscles in the process.

Understanding Flexibility: Our definition of flexibility: complete freedom of movement within the muscles and joints of the entire body. It refers to the achievement of your maximum personal level of flexibility.

Like everything worth having, flexibility takes time to achieve. A 15 to 20 minute warm-up will not change the degree of muscular flexibility, warm-ups give the illusion of increased flexibility, however in truth warm-ups simply take the tension or chill out of the muscles making them feel more flexible. It is unrealistic to expect a change in your overall flexibility in a short period of time. To achieve real change in muscle length, a minimum of 50 minutes of training performed two to three times a week is necessary.

Unlike most flexibility programs, the flexibility gained in the Essentrics Workout remains with you while you perform in your sport. In most flexibility programs the emphasis is on passive stretching. Although passive stretching feels good at the time, the moment you move, your muscles re-contract to their starting point, leaving you as tight as prior to their passive-stretching workout. Essentrics is a program aimed at maintaining flexibility while increasing your strength.

Agility: In order to be agile, you need flexible strong joints. Essentrics focuses on balancing every joint by simultaneously stretching and strengthening the muscles, pulling the joints apart leaving the joint free of tension and full of power.

Muscle Empowerment: The Combining Effects of the Essentrics Technique
Essentrics is strength in length. This is one of the most powerful forms of conditioning the muscles because it leaves them strong and long with none of the negative effects of a restricted joint but all the positive effects of maximum power. Speed and agility are the trademark results experienced immediately after each Essentrics workout.

Injury Prevention: Injuries are often caused when imbalanced and tight muscles are suddenly twisted and challenged in an unexpected way resulting in tears, pulls and sprains. Essentrics rebalances the full muscular structure preparing the muscles & tendons to both withstand and rebound injury free from any unexpected twists, turns and stresses.

Injury Healing: To heal an injury it is necessary to increase the flow of blood into the injured area in order to deliver the healing properties of blood while removing poisons. Stretching is one of the fastest and most effective methods of delivering blood to specific regions, which is why it is so effective in injury healing.

Healing also requires rebalancing and protecting of the injured area. Essentrics is a rebalancing program which strengthens and stretches all the muscles around the injury giving it a chance to heal. This technique strengthens the muscles around an injury; those muscles can then take up the slack of those around the injured muscle, giving relief and time for the injured area to heal.


	Strength & Stretch in Motion -2 DVD pack / Four (4) 25-minute workouts Essentrics dynamically stretches and strengthens every muscle in the body, rebalancing the muscular structure in continuous rotational movements. The unique flowing movements of the Essentrics™ program have been proven to simultaneously slenderize and tone the abs, waist, and back with simple yet powerful Essentrics™ strengthening exercises. This is a full-body flexibility technique that works through the muscle chains liberating, relieving from tension and empowering the muscles in the process. Strength & Stretch in Motion - 2 Disc pack/Four (4) 25-minute workouts 2012 series-100 minutes-English Price: 34.95 $ + plus 8.00$ S&H
*FOUR 25-MINUTE WORKOUTS TO STRETCH AND STRENGTHEN YOUR BODY* Disc 1- STRETCH in Motion: Hips and Hamstrings- 25 minutes A classic Essentrics hip stretch. This workout begins with stretching and strengthening of the feet, the foundation of all movement, and then using a chair helps to work deep into the hips, psoas and hamstrings, to give you flexibility in your lower body, pain relief, and improved range of motion. Disc 1- STRETCH in Motion: Shoulders, Upper Back and Hamstrings- 25 minutes A classic Essentrics workout for upper body flexibility and improved posture. This workout begins with standing exercises that will loosen tight shoulders and relieve tension in your upper back, and then moves on to floor work to loosen the hamstrings and lower back. The result: increased flexibility in the upper back and hamstrings, increased range of motion, decreased pain, and improved posture. Disc 2- STRENGTH in Motion: Core and Legs- 25 minutes This workout consists of trademark standing exercises that will strengthen and lengthen your abs, waist and back, combined with effective Essentrics floor exercises to tone and slenderize your thighs. Disc 2- STRENGTH in Motion: Full Body Workout - 25 minutes An intense flowing combination of trademark Essentrics exercises. This dynamic standing workout will lengthen and tone every muscle in your body leaving you with flatter abs, a defined waist, toned arms and shoulders, lean legs, and improved posture.

	Flexibility Workout For Athletes Essentrics stretches and strengthens eccentrically every muscle in the body, rebalancing the muscular structure in continuous rotational movements.It incorporates various techniques including PNF, and isometrics while systematically working every joint of the body. This is a full-body flexibility technique that works through the muscle chains liberating, relieving from tension and empowering the muscles in the process. Flexibility Workout For AthletesDVD 2008 series-60 minutes-English Price: 19.95 $ + plus 8.00$ S&H
The purpose of this program is to stretch, strengthen and rebalance the full muscular structure leaving you more flexible, and agile. Essentrics prepares the muscles & tendons to both withstand the maximum demands of your sport and to rebound injury free from unexpected twists, turns and stresses. And Essentrics is dynamic, stretching in motion, which means you develop flexibility the way your body needs it on game day DVD Breakdown: Upper Body Flexibility:The workout begins with full body stretches with emphasis on the upper and lower back, deltoids, rhomboids, traps, triceps, biceps. Hip Flexibility: This routine will dramatically loosen tight hips, hamstrings, quads and groin by eccentrically increasing your overall hip regions flexibility. For athletes whose sports cause tight “jammed-up” hips this workout should be used as a stand-alone division in their weekly conditioning schedule, a minimum of twice a weekly. This workout will increase range of motion, empower the muscles, relieve pain, and prevent injuries while also removing scar tissue. This will keep you pain & injury free while gaining substantial muscle empowerment. Barre Work: Using a chair, these exercises help to intensify the stretches for the hamstrings, psoas and hips. This section also contains unique foot and ankle exercises aimed at unlocking rigid joints, as well as relieving and healing shin and foot pain, which ultimately increases the speed of an athlete’s movement. Floor Work: Groin, hamstrings, quads, psoas are all targeted in this unique flowing essentric routine. Splits Bonus: The DVD contains a bonus 12 minutes for all those who need to do the splits for their sport. This bonus should only be performed after completing the entire 55 minute stretch. The splits workout is a deep conditioning program intended to change the flexibility of the muscles, while safely and quickly achieving the splits. Splits: This is a proven workout that must be done in its entirety on a daily basis in order to achieve the desired results. It will safely and systematically loosen the muscles required to achieving the splits without causing tearing of these muscles. Note: Splits should be achieved within two to four weeks if the morphology of the participant is capable. (Not all people have the muscular-skeleton capable of ever accomplishing the splits)

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