http://www.mancavez.com/diy-hobbies-tools/hobbies/you-are-your-own-gym-the-bible-of-bodyweight-exercises Your Man Cave - You Rule! Sun, 27 Jul 2014 07:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 http://www.mancavez.com/diy-hobbies-tools/hobbies/you-are-your-own-gym-the-bible-of-bodyweight-exercises/comment-page-1#comment-1387 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:28:51 +0000 http://www.mancavez.com/diy-hobbies-tools/hobbies/you-are-your-own-gym-the-bible-of-bodyweight-exercises#comment-1387 The trainer of Special Ops gives everyone the tools to get in elite shape The lack of quality editing greatly harms this otherwise wonderful book. Whoever edited the book should have known that to lose weight is not to “loose weight.” But, because the contents of the book are so valuable, I won’t take any stars away from my opinion of it.I’m told a second printing is in the works (may be out by now) and hopefully all these messy things will be fixed. That doesn’t help those who bought the book in its current state, however. Get the second printing if you can wait.Now to the contents of the book . . .I was very impressed by the fact the author, Mark Lauren, says straight out that he doesn’t train movie stars. He trains men and women to survive, to be able to function well in life. That’s what’s really needed. The good looks, the great body, come as a side effect but is not the goal.Lauren says, “I want you to understand, unlike many other fitness authors, I do not train movie stars, television celebrities,…

]]> http://www.mancavez.com/diy-hobbies-tools/hobbies/you-are-your-own-gym-the-bible-of-bodyweight-exercises/comment-page-1#comment-1386 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:15:14 +0000 http://www.mancavez.com/diy-hobbies-tools/hobbies/you-are-your-own-gym-the-bible-of-bodyweight-exercises#comment-1386 Best bodyweight exercise book out there UPDATE: There is now a companion app for iPhone available on the app store! Search for “You Are Your Own Gym” on iTunes. This app goes great with the book since it allows a user to use timers for the workouts.INTROThis is an awesome book with a great introduction using the author’s military experience. I’ve been using the workouts for a short while and already notice my ass getting kicked by stuff I wasn’t doing in the gym.PRO’S* The 10-week workout plans are awesome, and the beginner workouts will challenge strong guys that come from a weight training background. They are written in such a way that a beginner can jump in and get in shape with less than an hour a day (usually 15-30 minutes). They are very detailed and describe which exercises to do on which days. They also describe what type of set/repetition methodology to use, such as: ladders, tabatas, interval sets, etc. Slowly the workouts transition from high-volume/low-intensity…

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