IOL Strength and Conditioning

I’m back with a new status report, a couple of additions, changes and a comment about audio lecture products. This is a fast-changing marketplace; it’s a blast to be a part of, and is keeping me on my toes. It’s also keeping me locked in at this desk, which is sort of the opposite images and I guess the toes metaphor fails. Let’s go with keeping my brain buzzing, because that is for certain what’s going on lately.

The Digital Progress

The progress with digital files here has been huge, and includes downloadable videos and ebooks—

Dan John: Intervention DVD, split into the same videos as the three discs, these in MP4 format, and separately, the MP3 audio, typeset transcript and handouts, $20 for each piece here at ejunkie.com.

Michael Boyle: Advances in Functional Training, ebook in PDF format, $21.95

Dan John: Mass Made Simple, ebook in PDF format, $9.95

Bill Pearl, Dave Draper: Q&A Seminar video, $14.95

Dave Draper: Your Body Revival, ebook in Kindle and EPUB (Nook), $9.95

Dan John: Never Let Go, ebook in Kindle format, $9.95

Dave Draper: Iron on My Mind, ebook in Kindle, $9.95

The Delays

In the current state of ebook flux, formatting for ebooks is something of a nightmare. While it’s true there are no print costs for ebooks, the time and expense is in extra formatting, partly because the major e-readers all use a different format and the pages have to be set up for each. For our books, though, it’s a little worse because those that have two-columns (the 8.5×11 books) have to be completely redone to fix a 6×9, single column format, and those with images or tables need to be re-worked also. That’s why this ebook conversion is taking longer than you, the authors or I would like. We’re getting the easiest stuff first, and I’ll keep plodding along on the rest.

Video turned out to be more difficult than expected, too. My intention was to make all our videos available, and in as many different formats and qualities as possible. We’ll get to the other formats, but will have to stick to the lower quality because it appears few of us have connections or browsers robust enough to handle files greater than 2gb. Normal DVDs are 4.7gb, and you can see that the quality is going to be lower. Most people using downloadable files are probably watching on a computer monitor or laptop… or phone… and in that case, the quality of these HD video will be excellent.

In the middle of that experimentation, I filled and subsequently crashed our website server. My favorite techs at our hosting company, Hostasaurus, fixed us up by deleting some old files and are building us a new, larger-than-average server. Once we’re moved over, I’ll have more room for video format experimentation and will get back to work on converting and uploading the rest of our DVDs.

The Forthcoming

Simmering in the background, the rest of the formatting, for sure, but you’ll also see a flutter of activity about Gray Cook’s Perform Better Pre-Con workshop DVD, which we’re filming in Long Beach in about three weeks. Around and through all that, our new lecture site is at a full boil, set to launch mid-September. We’ve got about 10 lectures ready to go, and another 10 recorded or nearly recorded. You’ll see about 25 audio lectures available for download or CD when the site goes live. I’m very excited about this one and will keep dropping hints as we move along.

• Fitness lecture audio product website (mid-September launch)
• Advances in Functional Training, Michael Boyle, Kindle and EPUB editions
• Intervention, Dan John, Kindle, PDF and EPUB editions
• West Coast Bodybuilding Scene, Dick Tyler, PDF, Kindle and EPUB editions
• Movement, softcover and Kindle editions, Gray Cook (et al)
• Perform Better Pre-Con, DVD set, Gray Cook
• The Integrated Movement System, Evan Osar, softcover and ebook editions

Don’t we live in amazing times? Busy, packed, yes I know… but oh so great!