Behold an editorial I originally penned for my town’s magazine, reproduced for your edutainment:
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Last month, I promised to talk a little more about resistance training, so that is what I shall now do.
Ideally, you want to do two or three “full body” workouts per week, comprising a healthy blend of free weights, machines, and bodyweight exercises.
Those exercises should fall mostly under the umbrella of what I have termed the “Six Primary Movement Patterns”.
Which are:
1) The vertical press (e.g. overhead presses),
2) The squat (e.g. air squats and barbell back squats),
3) The horizontal press (e.g. the bench press and pushups),
4) The horizontal pull (e.g. dumbbell rows and inverted rows),
5) The vertical pull (e.g. lat pull downs and pullups of all types), and,
6) The hinge (e.g. the various permutations of the deadlift and kettlebell swings).
On top of that, you ought to include a little work for the arms, calves, and abs for completeness.
But it’s easy for me to say all of this and quite another to put it into action.
Indeed, I regularly see earnest and hardworking folk slaving away in the weightroom, only to look worse for it (and often wind up struggling with aches and pains to boot!)
The problem?
Broadly speaking it’s the way they set up their programmes.
Too many sets, too many reps, too much weight… and if you’re guilty of even one of these fitness “sins” then there’s a strong possibility your efforts are…
… Doomed!
Before you’ve even begun.
However.
I have put together a short book called “How to Build Muscle and Strength – The Natural Way” which contains a couple of sensible and sustainable lifting programmes.
Not only that, but I’ve also included a couple of bonus articles that I’ve hitherto shared only with my paying clients, to speed you along the path to getting strong(er) and (more) in shape.
The book is yours for the princely price of free.
And you can get it by visiting the below-linked page by typing the address into your browser or scanning the QR code.
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That there’s enough in the above editorial to cobble together a balanced lifting regime will hopefully satisfy the freeloaders who occasionally demand I GiVe MoRe VaLuE in this email newsletter.
Doubly so as it also serves as a reminder for them to go and check out (probably for the first time) the copy of “How to Build Muscle and Strength – The Natural Way” they received upon signing up.
Not that these types will do anything with either, if my extensive experience is anything to go by.
I also suspect they will be utterly allergic to the idea of slinging a meagre £5 in my direction for a comprehensive collection of complementary fitness books containing plenty enough to keep the earnest and hardworking occupied and progressing for many months (or potentially years, if they gel with my ways).
More fool them, I suppose.
On the other hand, those who don’t think I should work for free can check out and perhaps even buy “Phil Tyreman’s Big Book of Fitness” here:
https://philtyreman.co.uk/big/
Thank you,
Phil Tyreman