Came a message from a customer who I will keep anonymous because I’m not sure if he’s OK with me naming him:
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“Hi Phil – hope you and your lovely family are all well. I’m sorry to trouble you on a weekend, would you mind sending me a link to where I can buy your book “train like a warrior? Honestly your writing has become a way of life for me and I love your style. A more honest man does not exist. Thanks Phil and god bless.”
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Knowingly or not, our anonymous friend made a rather profound point; and that is the idea of my approach (or any coherent fitness ideology for that matter) becoming a way of life.
All too often people see training as a means to an end. For example, they want to lose weight so they train hard and eat well which invariably results in them getting at least some of the way towards their goal.
Problem is, they beaver away with no regard to what comes next.
I was discussing this exact thing with Jess about a week ago, and she was telling me how she genuinely believed that once she could stop training altogether once she was a normal weight.
The girl was hammering away doing (mostly) the right things, and the weight was coming off apace. Yet she couldn’t wait to get back to living a “normal” life, which to her mind was one that didn’t involve training because she didn’t see any of her friends who were a healthy weight exercising and eating well. (They were in all likelihood, but we all have a tendency to ignore evidence that contradicts our worldview.)
Fortunately, she met me before she wound up experiencing the searing disappointment of shifting a planetary amount of weight only for it all to pile back on and then some within months because she mistakenly thought she was “done”. But I know this is a trap that snares a lot of people, and is a principle cause of them entering the pernicious cycle of training hard and getting results only to fall off the wagon and lose what they’ve sweated to gain.
Meandering back to the point my good friend and customer made about making training a way of life, it’s a fact that certain methods lend themselves to this more than others.
Mine being far easier to integrate into a “Real Life” (i.e. one that does not revolve around the pursuit of fitness) than most, given they are created specifically with that in mind because fitness has never been and still isn’t my number one priority.
On that note, probably the most comprehensive overview of my philosophy and practice is found between the covers of my book, “The Constance Chronicles”.
It’s a series of letters I wrote to my eldest daughter (the eponymous Constance) last year to make sure she is properly equipped to get and stay strong and in shape in an increasingly harsh and uncompromising world. So it covers all the needful with regard to training, as well tangentially related matters that while not directly concerned with lifting, cardio, and so on, are no less important to grok if you are serious about making this a long term thing.
The book is very expensive as far as books go, but to take a bit of the sting out of the price, I am offering anyone who purchases it before Friday the 16th at 23:59 a bonus private 1-1 call with me.
The call is one hour long and the time is yours to use as you see fit.
Some have used the calls to have me critique their current programme (up to and including having me create a new one from scratch). Others come prepared with a question or series of questions they want answering.
If you would like to use the hour in some other way, that’s fine. As I said, the time is yours to do with what you will.
But you must purchase the book before the deadline (Friday the 16th at 23:59) to get a call.
Here’s what’s inside the book, if I have piqued your interest:
https://philtyreman.co.uk/chronicles/
Thank you,
Phil Tyreman