This is a book that handles everything that you don't get in the average fat loss book.
The average fat loss book is – do these exercises and eat these foods. And that's absolutely necessary – that's the foundation. But most of what goes on around that – the real fat loss coaching – is more than that.
In Intervention, Dan breaks down 10 questions and 5 principles that get to exactly where you are stuck with your fitness and fat loss goals, and un-stuck you.
So here's the thing, not only do I want you to get the book and read it, I wish I could get ahold of your copy and highlight it and copy my notes into it so you don't miss anything. Some of this stuff was totally new to me and mind blowing. Other stuff I'd gotten from Dan's Intervention DVD's and from talking to Dan, and I use it so often I'd started to think it was mine.
Who's Dan John?
Many of you know Dan John now from being a Master RKC Instructor (now Master SFG Instructor as the kettlebell certification world changes). The title "Master" denotes that he can actually teach the whole kettlebell certification himself.
Some of you know him as a consistant and featured author at T-Nation, or as a Highland Games champion, or throwing coach, or speaker, or author, or track coach… you get it, he does a lot.
But most people just know him as the wisest dude on the block when it comes to strength training, athletic performance, and fitness. Given that he's a genius, I'd like to see him get better known in the fat loss world.
Intervention is a pretty wild book. Dan gets basically consulting calls from athletes all over the world, all of the time. In this book, he breaks down exactly how he deconstructs what their problem is, and gives them a solution.
Some Of What You Get
One of the ten questions – "How Old Are You" deconstructs the differences in workouts depending on how old you are. Lots of folks are getting wrecked and/or not getting results because they're still trying to do a workout program for a 20 year old… and they aren't 20 any more.
Shocking, as you get older you actually have different mobility needs and different muscle maintenence needs.
Another question – are you willing to go back to basics? Sure it may sound cool to do ten thousand super tricky gym moves. Maybe that's your problem. He brings you back to mastering some patterns, then working them up with load. You can get significantly better results mastering a few basic movement patterns (he actually steps it back farther than I'd previously seen) than you will with most more complex movements.
You get a progression from basic patterns, to the kinds of grinding lifts we're normally accustomed to, to symmetry moves, finally to dynamic moves.
The quadrants of diet and exercise are HUGE. This is another place where people make huge mistakes – not knowing when to do hard diets vs. hard exercise, when to do both, and when to avoid doing either.
If You're A Trainer or Coach
Look, if you are a trainer or coach, you need to have these 10 questions and 5 principles in your back pocket, because it should be the foundation of your coaching. And, lets get real, you prob should be reading everything Dan John writes anyway.
If You're Not A Trainer or Coach
This is a book that will have you coach yourself reading it. It gets real in a hurry.
In fact, it's the perfect book for right now, because it addresses everything that's gone overboard with popular fat loss programs right now. You'll be able to see exactly what you need, exactly what you don't need, and where to go from here.
In fact, that's probably where it excells the most – it gets you very real about where your starting place is.
And then you get real about where you are going.
And then it gives you everything to do in between.
Get it here: Intervention
BTW: You can get it in like real book, or in e-book, but the e-book comes with the audiobook, which I think is pretty killer.
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