SAFER & STRONGER!
Self-Defense & Fitness Training

EmpowerUSA’s SAFER & STRONGER! Training Program is for anyone who wants to:

- Enhance personal safety,
- Learn and improve physical self-defense skills, and
- Improve physical fitness and health through exercise science-based principles & training methods

This unique program combines:

- Realistic, practical, and effective self-defense physical skills training,
- Personal safety & awareness (mental, emotional, environmental, and physical) education, and
- General fitness & kickboxing fitness training activities for cardiovascular and muscular conditioning, flexibility, balance, coordination, agility, reaction time, and cognitive function.

Six 8-Week Sessions:

- Fitness Assessments — 1st week of Sessions 1, 3, 5, 7 and last week of Session 8.
- S.M.A.R.T. Goal Setting after each Assessment.
- Empty-Hand Self-Defense Training (Sessions 1–3) — evasion movements, blocks/re-direction techniques, striking, release/loosening techniques for chokes, shoulder/lapel grabs, bear hugs, headlocks, full nelson, hair grabs, arm/wrist grabs, and more; situation-specific training (lying down, seated, confined space, etc.)
- Weapon Defense Training: Firearms, Knives & Blunt Objects (Sessions 4–6) — firearms (handgun and long gun), bladed weapons, stick/club-type weapons.

- Supplement live training with additional resources, or
- Train with EmpowerUSA virtually (in addition to or instead of live training), or
- Train on your own!