Came an email from a reader (who gave me permission to share anon):
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Hey Phil, You have been a big reason for my recent lifting and newfound sense of strength/confidence so wanted to share a story.
Went on holidays at the beach with some family friends over the weekend, and rented surfboards with a mate for a couple of hours.
We got in, had a good surf, I felt some power and speed in my paddling I haven’t felt for ages during the session (I haven’t surfed since the same holiday we went on 12 months ago).
But the real clincher was as we got out. We both had 8ft foam boards and the wind had picked up something fierce. It was a good 400m walk back to the surf shack to drop them off. These boards catch the wind like nothing else so it was a punish to bring them back.
I have arms like string beans but I found myself relatively easily gripping the handhold and lugging the board all the way back, while my French mate whinged and grumbled about the wind, stopped to regrip multiple times, etc.
It’s hard to say how much of my gainzz are mental and how much are physical – but my pretty solid commitment to lifting twice a week with your program for the last few months definitely made me ‘feel’ way stronger, prepared and able to do random acts of ‘strength’ like this in daily life.
Thank you!
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This guy isn’t a client or a customer (he lives in the EU and I cba to deal with their labyrinthine tax laws), meaning he’s achieved the above off the back of some basic pointers I gave him plus what he’s pieced together by studying these emails and the various audio recordings of mine that are scattered around the internet.
It’s a shame he lives under the cosh of the European regime, as he’s demonstrated all the characteristics of an excellent Phil Tyreman Letter subscriber (dilligence, patience, willingness to apply critical thinking instead of needing spoonfeeding like a helpless babe, etc.).
Doubly so as September’s issue would work wonders to help him grow those “string bean” arms ‘cuz it’s all about my counterintuitive (at least according to the prevailing fitness orthodoxy) approach to growing a pair of large and shapely pipes.
Sitting here very much enjoying my “Brexit Dividend” right now.
Anyway…
If you live in the YooKay and you want in, go below before the deadline:
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Thank you,
Phil Tyreman