Because nothing I teach anywhere, for any price delivers quick results. So it’s important you keep that in mind if you’re looking to get shredded in 12 weeks or whatever.

Anyway, let’s return to the book before I meander too far from the point.

Like I said, you’re actually getting five books for five pounds. I think this is very fair, but given I am obviously biased, below is a smattering of what you’ll learn inside. That way, you can make your own mind up about whether or not it’s worth the money:

• How natural trainees ought to structure their weightlifting workouts for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
• Several ways marketing tactics commonly used in the fitness industry infiltrate your brain like a deadly prion, leading you to make choices you will kick yourself for months or, potentially, years later.
• What separates those who like the idea of getting into shape from those who are deadly serious about it (a harsh lesson, for sure – but an important one nonetheless).
• Why you are likely to resist making adjustments to your training with every fibre of your being even when they are in your best interests (sadly resulting in burnout, injury, or even quitting training altogether, in my experience).
• Why diving down the “sports specific training” rabbit hole is an almost surefire way to end up squished with mangled limbs.
• How to get brutally strong.
• How to know when trying to help someone with their fitness is a fruitless endeavour (there is one specific line of argumentation that, when you hear it, you can be as good as certain you are dealing with a lost cause).
• A suite of training lessons from an obscure drug-free bodybuilder whose “High Intensity” methods predate those of Mike Mentzer by several decades.
• The training trap that (often unknowingly) ensnares earnest and hardworking people, dooming their efforts to failure before they have even begun.
• The athletic qualities possessed by Roman legionaries, and how to train for them using modern methods.
• Why “low frequency” weightlifting sessions are (generally) the way forward (and how to set those sessions up for optimal results).
• A simple way to make friends in the gym.
• The key to getting a sense of accomplishment from running, so you’ll keep doing it long term (believe it or not, it has nothing whatsoever to do with how fast or far you go).
• Why anyone who cares about their health should probably avoid powerlifting-style training like the plague.
• How to minimise the risk of picking up a debilitating injury from running (ignoring this will likely lead to burnout at best, a training-terminating injury at worst, and you losing all your hard-won progress either way).
• 10 workouts you can use to develop the healthy, natural and real look favoured by the drug-free bodybuilders of the “Silver Era” that spanned between 1940 and 1959.
• How the steroid abuse explosion of the 1960s began a sea change in the way people train (and what is taught about training), and why these methods are utterly ineffective for the overwhelming majority of natural trainees.
• The best way for the natural trainee to build a solid foundation of raw strength.
• Three complete sample programmes amateur martial artists (and amateur athletes generally) can study and adapt… or use straight “out of the box”.
• Why wearing a special t-shirt on leg day or beseeching your God(s) before a big lift will probably hold you back greatly in the long run.
• Probably the bluntest three paragraphs on diet you will ever read (truly a tap about the head with the “common sense stick” if ever there was).
• The “secret” to building muscle using light weights.
• And more, and more, and more, and…