Total Saber Fit · Led by Sifu Julliana Armstrong

The workout you won't quit in March.

Total Saber Fit turns the light-sword forms into a complete fitness practice: 30-minute, high-intensity, low-impact sessions. The focus of a martial art. None of the sparring. It runs as a live class at the gyms and studios that carry it, taught by their own instructors.

Led by a Team USA world-championship competitor, NASM-certified  ·  No contact  ·  No experience required  ·  Ages 13+
30
Minutes Per Session
13+
Ages Welcome
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Full-Contact Sparring
NASM
Certified Trainer
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Real talk, real results.

If you've been here before

You've quit programs before. It was never a willpower problem.

The treadmill is exercise without a reason. The boot camp leaves your knees paying for it the next morning. The yoga class is close, but not quite. And the fitness app on your phone has never once made you want to press play.

You weren't looking for a punishment. You were looking for a practice, something with intention behind it. Something that asks for focus, rewards skill, and still leaves you stronger than the day before.

That is exactly what this is.

A Total Saber Fit HILT session in motion. Members training with weighted sabers in a modern fitness facility
The Workout

Thirty minutes. High intensity. Low impact.

Total Saber Fit is built on the light-sword forms of Light Sword Training Academy. The same curriculum, re-engineered by an NASM-certified trainer into a true fitness practice.

Every session is a 30-minute HILT block: high-intensity, low-impact training that builds real strength, conditioning, and mobility without pounding your joints. You move with a weighted training saber, and the blade gives every rep a target and a tempo. That's the difference between a session you endure and one you finish.

No sparring. No contact. No prior martial-arts experience required.

Strength & Conditioning Mobility & Flow Joint-Friendly Progressive Programming
Where It Runs

In the room, at a gym that carries it.

Total Saber Fit is a class, not a subscription. The gyms and studios that carry it run it inside their own schedule, with their own instructors, and set their own class price.

Already near you

At a gym that runs it

Every gym and studio running Total Saber Fit is on Find a Floor, beside the LSTA academies and Circles. Loaner sabers are on hand for class, so you walk in with nothing.

Not yet

Ask your gym for it

Ask the front desk for Total Saber Fit by name, then tell us your city and your gym. When a gym asks us about the program, we tell them their members already have.

Your instructor sets the schedule and the class price. We teach the people who teach you; we never sell you the class.


Sifu Julliana Armstrong, founder and lead trainer of Total Saber Fit
Who Built This

Total Saber Fit is led by Sifu Julliana Armstrong.

Julliana competes for Team USA and holds two GSBA world titles. The training system she uses to prepare is the same one she turned into a practice anyone can train. Built for the people most fitness culture overlooks: the woman who wants a martial-arts-grade practice that is unmistakably her own, the parent who wants to train alongside their family, and the adult who wants real intensity without real injury. You don’t get a champion’s highlight reel. You get her system.

  • NASM-Certified Personal Trainer, programming grounded in exercise science.
  • NASM-Certified Personal Safety/Self Defense Instructor, a second NASM credential behind the format.
  • 3× WEKAF National Champion, a competitive record at the world level.
  • Team USA, 2X GSBA World Champion, Germany 2026.
  • Trusted by the U.S. military to train personnel at Langley AFB and Fort Eustis.

Total Saber Fit is part of the Armstrong family of light-sword training, the same standard, built for fitness.

Is This For You?

Built for the people generic fitness forgets.

01

The woman who wants her own thing

Not the back of a crowded group class. Not a room you have to brace yourself to walk into. A martial-arts-grade practice that belongs to you, and looks like nothing else in your week.

02

The parent who trains with their family

Ages 13 and up train the same forms at the same time. Total Saber Fit is one of the few real workouts you can genuinely do together, not take turns at.

03

The adult who wants intensity without injury

In your 40s, 50s, and beyond, low-impact isn't a compromise, it's how you keep training for decades. Total Saber Fit delivers real work that's kind to your joints.

04

Anyone starting from zero

No martial-arts background. No athletic résumé. Every session meets you exactly where you are today and builds from there, at your pace, in your corner.


Loaner sabers are on hand at the gyms that carry the class. A saber of your own is at the Light Sword Trading Post.

Not sure your body’s ready for this? Take the free 60-second Saber Fitting: the masters match you to your saber and, if mobility’s a concern, start you on the low-impact path.


Questions

Things you're probably wondering.

Do I need martial-arts experience to start?
None at all. Every member begins at the foundational level, and the programming is designed for people with no martial-arts or athletic background. If you can show up, you can start.
Is this combat or sparring?
No. Total Saber Fit is a fitness practice. There is no full-contact sparring and no opponent. The saber is your training tool, not a weapon you'll trade strikes with. You're here to build strength, conditioning, and mobility.
Is it really low-impact?
Yes. Sessions use HILT, high-intensity, low-impact training. It raises your effort and heart rate through controlled, flowing movement rather than the joint pounding of running- or jumping-heavy programs. It's intensity your knees, hips, and back can sustain.
What equipment do I need?
A weighted training saber, and the gym keeps loaners on hand for class. If you want your own, the Light Sword Trading Post carries the standard saber.
Is there an online version?
Not today. Total Saber Fit runs as a live class at the gyms and studios that carry it. If you want to train the light sword forms at home, Lesson One of Shadow Warriors is free.
What does it cost?
Your gym sets the class price, the way it prices every class on its schedule. We do not sell the class.
My gym doesn't have it.
Ask the front desk for it by name, then tell us your city and your gym on Request a Floor. When a gym asks us about the program, we tell them their members already have.
I'm over 50, or brand new to fitness. Is this for me?
Especially then. Low-impact, progressive programming is built for exactly this. Real training you can sustain for years without wearing your body down. You set the pace; the practice meets you there.
What ages can train?
Ages 13 and up. Total Saber Fit is designed so a family can genuinely train the same session together.

Pick up the blade.

Thirty minutes. Real strength. A practice that's finally your own, starting today.

Find a gym running it Still deciding? Get fitted free in 60 seconds, and meet the practice from the inside.

Find a gym running Total Saber Fit near you.

The gyms and studios that carry Total Saber Fit are on Find a Floor beside every LSTA academy and Circle. Your gym sets the class schedule and the class price.

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No gym near you carries it yet?

Tell us your city and your gym. Gyms add the class where members ask for it, and the first people who asked are the first to hear.

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Total Saber Fit is a fitness practice for general conditioning, strength, and mobility, and is not a substitute for professional medical care. Consult your healthcare provider before beginning any new exercise program. Individual results vary.