Control!

Operation: Winnow is a 52 A4-page Real Paper book.

There is not and never will be an electronic version, so please don’t ask.

Here’s a peek at what awaits you between the covers:

* The surefire way to tell whether or not you are getting fat (as foolproof as it gets so long as you don’t have a mental disorder).

* A powerful latin phrase that, once properly pondered, will most likely result in you adopting a more virtuous approach to training, eating, and living that, even if they don’t make you live longer (although they may just do exactly that) will make your journey through this life a whole lot more pleasant.

* How to pursue more than one training goal simultaneously… without compromising your ability to achieve any of them.

* The proper way to structure a training programme (what I lay out here is the foundation of every training regime I have created in the last decade and a half, with only a handful of highly niche exceptions).

* How to safely and sustainably “double up” (i.e. take more than one training session in a day) to get in more quality work while still leaving plenty of time for recovery and living life.

* What is, in my opinion, the one piece of training equipment no serious trainee can do without (once you’ve got one, you’ll never again find yourself in the unenviable position of having to miss a workout due to time or travel constraints… and…better…  you’ll probably get significantly leaner and tougher when you properly integrate it into your routine).

* When it’s OK to mix and match exercises between or even within workouts (most of the time, this is a Very Bad Idea, but there are rare occasions when it works to your advantage – the example I lay out in Operation: Winnow being one of them).

* How to use weightlifting workouts to plug critical gaps in bodyweight-based training regimes (important if you do not fancy becoming intimately acquainted with an orthopaedic surgeon).

* How to construct “abbreviated” weightlifting workouts so you can keep chipping away even when you are very busy (and probably stressed as well).

* My “low tech” solution to the problem of training consistently when your schedule is unpredictable.

* How to “intensify” your training programme to accelerate towards your goal(s) or bust through troublesome plateaus… without crashing and burning into a pit of misery and despair (obviously I teach this in the context of Operation: Winnow, but the principles can be easily adapted to just about any sensible routine with a little critical thought).

* An unusual way of running sprints you can use as a substitute for your regular “hard” cardio or tack onto the end of a workout for some low-risk fat-busting action (perfect if you’re no longer a spring chicken).

* How to tell when you’re starting to get burned out on training (ignore these warning signs at your peril).

* The types of exercises that are best for adding quality work to your weightlifting routines without, as one user of the T-Nation forums at some point in the early 2010s put it, “compounding the shyte out of yourself” and winding up with a serious (perhaps training-terminating) injury.

That’s the book in a large and detailed nutshell.

You are doubtless wondering: