This is a great book. Zach is about my age and the funny fact is that we both started lifting weight about the same time - 1990. And I still work out diligently several times a week. I also made a lot of mistakes while lifting weights or running. I have only seen doctors because of sport related injuries. Never had anything else. I wish I had that book when I was a teenager and lifted very heavy weights without knowing the proper technique. Zach emphasizes on proper technique throughout the book. The pictures are not very high quality but they are decent and you get the point.
One thing that is not quite clear from the book is his injuries. He says that he tore his ACL and had a surgery. Then at one point later in the book while talking about sled exercises, he mentions that he had 3 knee surgeries. Were they on the same knee? Will following the recommended exercises in the book help us avoid knee surgeries?
Reading that book makes me want to go out and start exercising - parks, local elementary school, playgrounds. I like exercising and pushing myself and have to constrain myself. While the advice inside the book is great, I think that too much exercise cannot be a good thing for your health. If you are an athlete who competes professionally then yes but not for the general populace. Very few people will be able to perform the warm up he describes towards the end of the book. It is very tough. I always keep an open mind and change my exercise routine and this book makes me rethink a lot of it. I am seriously thinking about buying a sled now. Maybe a keg as well. Training with some stones in the park. The body weight exercises alone in the book are worth more than the book price itself. I will probably implement all of them at certain points. There is so much that I would like to do now. But I also have a family and a job and can't spend 10+ hours a week working out.
I never needed a coach. I have more than enough motivation to train on my own. That book is great if you need a coach and have enough motivation to push hard. I only wish I had a training partner close by who thinks similarly.
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... is far from what I expected but in a good way. I would recommend this book to any ...
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Unter Umständen etwas irreführender Titel - aber gutes Buch!
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