In the seven years since the publication of his first book, Functional Training for Sports, new understanding of functional anatomy created a shift in strength coaching. With this new material, Coach Boyle presents the continued evolution of functional training as seen by a leader in the strength and conditioning field.

Advances in Functional Training

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Boyle, Michael

Exercise & Fitness

On Target Publications, LLC

What does it take to build solid power and size? Gaining lean body mass is the Holy Grail and the Lost City of Gold and the Atlantis of bodybuilding. It gets talked about a lot, but few seem to unlock the secrets. In the past few decades, Dan John, author of the bestseller, Never Let Go, has found the key to this enigma—It is based on a few principles, a few days a week in the gym and a few key movements. It sounds simple because it is simple. But don’t let simple fool you. This isn’t easy. Set aside six weeks, prepare a gym bag to stock with food and enter the world of attaining lean body mass with Dan John as your guide.

Mass Made Simple: A Six-Week Journey into Bulking by Dan John (2011) Spiral-bound

John, Dan

Sports & Outdoors

In this second edition, Mike Boyle updates his suggestions for building a training facility and developing programs that work for adults and athletes of all ages and abilities. His clients include athletes from kids to professionals, and a full range of adult ages, health histories, athletic abilities, and schedules. Because of this, the readers can expect to learn how to design a facility and training programs to accommodate that breadth of clients and athletes. This book will help with decisions about modern facility design, equipment selection, strength and power programming, conditioning, and speed development, all while giving tips and suggestions on staffing and coaching in today's world.\nCoach Boyle's 40 years of coaching history puts him in the rare position and ability to evaluate modern training ideas and implement them, testing on a variety of client and athlete abilities along the way. His coaching skills enable the readers to benefit from his successes and mistakes as they progress through their careers.

Designing Strength Training Programs and Facilities, 2nd Edition

"American Weightlifting covers the coaching practices and programming of one of the top USA Weightlifting coaches, Coach Glenn Pendlay"--

American Weightlifting

Pendlay, Glenn

McDermott, James

Prevost, Mike

For many years, Glenn Pendlay dreamed of writing a book that would have helped him when he was 
an absolute beginner in the sport of weightlifting. American Weightlifting is that dream realized 
and is the culmination of his life’s work. The text outlines the training methodology he used to train 
youth and masters athletes, world team members and everyone in between.\nThis book contains detailed explanations of Glenn’s Three-Step Top-Down method for teaching 
snatch and clean and jerk technique, along with programming for beginner, intermediate, and 
advanced weightlifters. Special considerations of programming for sports athletes are also featured 
in the text. Within these pages, readers will find multi-week programming templates, exercise 
descriptions, and guidance on competing and nutrition. Wonderful stories, experiences, and photos 
from Glenn’s many years of coaching are also included.\nAmerican Weightlifting has something that will help everyone. Whether you’re a weightlifter at any 
level or merely enthusiastic about strength training, this book will guide you to success in your 
journey to technical mastery and gaining strength. Every turn of the page will carry you deeper into 
Coach Glenn Pendlay’s proven methods of training.\n“Success in weightlifting isn’t measured by the size of the mark we left on the sport, 
but by the size of the mark the sport left on us.” ~ Glenn Pendlay

Aging is an adventure few are prepared for because we never believe becoming older will happen to us. One minute young, the next not… and then begins the time in life when we begin to explore who we are, what it means to be “me,” and what lies ahead in this journey we call aging. This adventure of getting older is humbling, frustrating, and often hilarious, as we’re forced to define that person of our fading youth in new ways.\nOften, getting older means becoming invisible, and no matter how hard we fight back, time always wins, and we arrive at a realization there’s more time behind us than ahead. This book, I Used to Be Somebody, was written for those of you contemplating your personal journey, your relevance in a world gone young, and are perhaps thinking of what will become of you as age into a person “of a certain age.”\nBut getting older is also a humorous reality check by an unforgiving universe. The face in the mirror suddenly wrinkled, the hair a little grayer (if it is still there at all), and the voice inside screaming, “Hey, I’m still 30 in here no matter what this 60-year-old body says.” Our kids have kids, the music that drove our youth are now background songs in the grocery store, dinners become late lunches we call dunches to make us feel better, and we get sleepy at 9:00.\nIf you’re feeling your age tugging on the back of your pants, this book is for you—poetry for those up and over the other side of the hill.

I Used to Be Somebody: Poetry for Those Up and Over the Hill

Literature & Fiction

Plummer, Thomas

Essays & Correspondence

In this collection of essays, Dan John expands on some of his famous one-liners:\nHow many rabbits are you chasing? 
Enough is enough; more is just more. 
Fit for what? must be part of your language. 
The greatest secret I know in every field of life is always obvious. 
Think through the wonders and pleasures of achieving your goal. 
Last throw, best throw! 
No fuzzy maxes in the weight room. 
Correct your weaknesses, but compete with your strengths. 
Most of success is just showing up. 
Peaking is often simply staying on the path.\n...and many more...\nYou’ve heard them before, but have you internalized them?\nLet Dan help you dig a little deeper into how life’s truths show up in the weightroom and on the field of play.\nWhat you learn in this selection will get you thinking more broadly into how it all fits together—fitness, health, longevity and Easy Strength.

Attempts: Essays on Fitness, Health, Longevity and Easy Strength

Acclaimed strength coach Dan John has created the perfect guide for beginners, advanced lifters, and fitness professionals interested in correcting basic body movements and improving overall mobility and lifting performance. With his signature humor and clear step-by-step instructions, Coach John walks athletes and trainers through core movements, Olympic lifts, throws, proper powerlifting technique, and much more. Regardless of your training experience or age, Dan John will help you design and implement a program to improve mobility and flexibility and to maximize your time in the gym, no matter how much time you have. Learn the five simple principles that will change the way you approach training: * Strength training for lean body mass and joint mobility work trump everything else * Fundamental human movements are...fundamental. * Standards and gaps must be constantly assessed. * The notion of ‘park bench’ and ‘bus bench’ workouts must be applied throughout t

Intervention: Course Corrections for the Athlete and Trainer by John, Dan (2013) Paperback

Unlike your predecessors, it’s now possible to retire from a long and successful career as a strength and conditioning coach, personal trainer or group fitness instructor. These professions have earned the respect of other fields and are now collectively considered a legitimate career path. Being a trainer or coach is no longer viewed as just a hobby.\nWith all of the available training information, you’d think there’d be more about the how-tos of coaching. There are countless books on theory, access to thousands of research papers and you can attend a continuing education event every weekend, but who’s teaching you how to be a coach?\nCoaching Rules covers the six biggest obstacles you’ll face when pursuing success in the strength and fitness profession: complacency, egotism, poor communication, lack of connection, overcomplication and client attrition.\nTo a young coach, this book will be a sturdy platform to begin your new career. The seasoned coach will find subtle reminders, fresh perspectives and reassurance that you’re not alone.

Coaching Rules: A How-to Manual for a Successful Career in Strength and Fitness

Rearick, Brendon

With his passion for training intact, Dave Draper takes a glimpse in his rear view to bring us the stories that make up the foundation of Golden Era bodybuilding. Dave’s unique writing style and spectacular insight allows us to feel like we were there, leaning against the dumbbell rack in Joe Gold’s gym in the morning, then soaking up the golden sun of Santa Monica in the afternoon.\nIn this collection of Dave Draper’s quirky memory columns, we get to sit next to the Blond Bomber as he weaves his tales from the East Coast to the West. Over 60 years under the iron surrounded by some of the world’s top bodybuilding personalities in gyms around the world provides a lot of fodder for an unusual wordsmith to mold into a most enjoyable book.\n"A Glimpse in the Rear View puts us in the passenger seat as Dave Draper pulls away from Muscle Beach and from the stage of Mr. Universe. He takes us into the dungeon, brings us out to the movie set and lets us help open a gym with the Austrian Oak. He pulls the weight set from under the bed for us and leads us in sets of dips on kitchen chairs. We meet people from all over who love the iron. We bury some of them as time moves along, and others just fade from sight.\n"This isn’t once upon a time; these are real stories. Life can be sad. Life can be cruel. Dave protects us; he cushions us in his mighty arms." ~ Dan John, author of 40 Years with a Whistle

A Glimpse in the Rear View

Draper, Dave

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Advances in Functional Training

Mass Made Simple: A Six-Week Journey into Bulking by Dan John (2011) Spiral-bound

Designing Strength Training Programs and Facilities, 2nd Edition

American Weightlifting

American Weightlifting

I Used to Be Somebody: Poetry for Those Up and Over the Hill

Attempts: Essays on Fitness, Health, Longevity and Easy Strength

Intervention: Course Corrections for the Athlete and Trainer by John, Dan (2013) Paperback

Coaching Rules: A How-to Manual for a Successful Career in Strength and Fitness

A Glimpse in the Rear View