Intervention
Dan John's Intervention, the book!
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It’s soggy out there, girls. Thus, I've decided to shift today’s workout to tomorrow. What the hay, as they say down on the farm! I’m loose as a goose and twice as dandy. I’m cool as a mule, and I don’t drool.
Deferring my workout… hmmm… unseemly, brazen, radical… Is that laziness or cowardice, wisdom, commonsense or convenience, I wonder as I lean back in my swivel chair aligning my feet before the faintly hypnotic computer screen? Or, is it the carefree disposition, the contentedness, the comfort of a satisfied soul at ease with his station?
My mind grapples with the suspicious...
Zzzzz… zzz... zz... I snort and lurch forward, shaking myself from a brief reverie.
Laree, what day is it?
This happens a lot lately. I’ll continue my critical analysis later in the afternoon, after warm milk and hi-fiber biscuits.
We now return to your favorite 24-Hour TV News Program with the latest updates.
Headline: Thanksgiving is Thursday. Thursday is Thanksgiving.
Rule: Eat smart, be strong, stay lean, rejoice.
Flash: Laree, she's all aglow, has an exciting new presentation: Another Dan John masterpiece, in book print, on a reader device, by audio, read by the author.
Title: Intervention -- Course Corrections for the Athlete and Trainer
Fact: Dan John sure knows his stuff, which is your stuff, our stuff
Declaration: See, read, hear, listen, learn, enjoy, anywhere, anytime
Alert: God loves us…DD
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Laree here, popping in with a pre-holiday update. I want to have a quick conversation with you because I’m betting most of you have been doing the same type of training for many years, and in addition to the strength and thickness you love, you also have some chronic aches and pains to show for it.
From 1980 through 2006, I used basically the same training routine, a mix of powerlifting and bodybuilding, only changing out the exercises and maybe the rep ranges every few weeks. I remember a lot of chronic pain, but one memory that stands out is two solid years of rubbing my right shoulder trying to ease the nagging pain.
I thought it was normal. Most everyone I knew walked around the gym doing the same thing, and chances are good you know the feeling.
Aside from the heart stuff, Dave’s had three surgeries since I’ve known him: elbow, shoulder and back. Had we known in the late ’80s what we now know, there’s absolutely no doubt in my mind -- zero! -- none of those surgeries would have been needed.
The changes we need to make to get rid of nagging workout pain are easy, and they don’t take much time. But you have to know about them. You have to know what’s wrong with the traditional bodybuilding style of training you’ve done all your life before you can make the tweaks to help ease your chronic pain.
Dan John’s new book Intervention will tell you everything you need to know about those changes. No kidding, 272 enjoyable pages and you’ll get it.
Like many of you, Dan’s been training since the ’60s. He knows exactly how you train, where your training style originated, and probably who taught it first. He also knows chronic pain, years of it in fact, and has more than his share of surgical scars.
Believe me, he gets it.
We’ve learned heaps in the past five years -- truly significant changes in thinking about the causes of chronic joint and muscle pain. Dan spent these years travelling with the top thinkers in this new world of movement, and testing and tweaking ideas to make them work for people like us, the aging gym rats with the aches and pains of long-term training.
He condenses all his practice and learning into this new book he calls Intervention: Course Corrections for the Trainer and Athlete.
And he’s talking to you.
Intervention arrived from the printer today. We’ll be shipping the first copies tomorrow, and you can have one of them if you place your order today.
For me? After implementing many of the things Dan talks about in Intervention, all those years of chronic pain are gone. Let Dan help you. Honestly, it’s a lot easier than you think.
Laree
lareedraper AT gmail.com
https://www.davedraper.com
PS: Dan’s teaching of Intervention will also be available in an audio book, read by the author, and in ebook format for all readers. We’ll have those files ready in a few days.
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