Book Review: Easy Strength

I'm a REALLY big nerd. When most people go on vacation they do a whole lot of nothing and when they do read something it's usually not "industry related". I'm guessing the economists of the world are not on the beach going, "WOW, this expose on the European debt crisis is just fascinating".......then again they are economist....bad example, my bad. (I kid, I kid) That said isn't that the whole reason people go on vacation in the first place to get away from work? Well as I said, I'm a nerd so I do things like read issues of the Strength and Conditioning Journal and books about training to "get away from work". My latest entry into nerd-dom lead me to, Easy … [Read more...]

Book Review: Never Let Go- I read that sh*t

A client got me a Kindle for Christmas and I must say this thing is an impressive little device. Any who, when Dan Johns book Never Let Go became a Kindle freebie a couple of weeks ago I snatched it up. (It's $10 now, but still worth it). Now this bad boy is long, 418 pages but it's a really easy read and every article/ story is really good. They're mostly reprinted, old articles, from T-nation.com, in fact I had already read most of them but after reading them again I'm reminded of how  easy it is to forget things we "know". Here's a quick synopsis of the book: Learn and do the basics: Squat, deadlift, clean, bench...you know the stuff they judge to be … [Read more...]