100% It’s my favorite part about posting here: we all make each other better by participating. We all have something to contribute. And for sure: that Dan John sentiment makes SO much sense.
@T3hPwnisher and @TrainForPain I just bought the book on kindle. $7 Aus so not expensive. I will read it over the weekend and let you know how I go.
Outstanding dude! I just saw that as well. It doesn’t like page number count. Would you be willing to share that? I’m thinking that I can’t beat that price.
It’s short, like 23 pages short. That’s why I can read it in a weekend. lol
@T3hPwnisher OK I read the book over the weekend, well actually I read it in an hour. I would not recommend this specific book. It gives a little history of doggcrapp (not dissimilar to Pwns above) and then takes you through how the warms up and sets work. Gives some details on the structure of the sessions (like Pwn did here) and the has some pages where it talks through examples of how it would look like for different exercises. No real work out plans or program to speak of (maybe I have been spoiled but too many years of clear programming).
It wasn’t expensive and I still enjoyed reading it , as I like reading training books in general, but I wouldn’t specifically recommend it.
Shades of my childhood! Er, late teens, lol. My dad got an 8 foot length of 2 inch rolled steel from a local shop in my tiny home town because I was all in on the odd lifts and Tsatsouline stuff in my late teens/early 20s.
When my dad told the guy why he wanted it, the shop owner laughed and pretty much gave it to my dad. They knew me from my wrastling days, apparently. LMAO 
Have a picture somewhere of me doing a 425 lb partial deadlift with kettlebells hanging off the ends weighing a ripped 155 lbs. I ran out of plates so dangle away.
@simo74 Appreciate that review! It checks that there is no actual program included: Dante was pretty big on just having a series of principles to run with. Similar to Westside/Conjugate, and how Dave Tate really didn’t want to write a “Conjugate routine”. It was just supposed to be a way to guide training. Just like how we see people say “5/3/1 doesn’t have enough volume”, haha. As soon as you write it out, it’s all people look at. I might still pick up the book because, like you: I’m a nerd with this stuff, but I can see how it’s not quite worth the price at only 23 pages. That said, Ben Pollock wrote “Think Big”, and I remember being SO pleased with it’s signal-to-noise ratio that I didn’t care about the page length: it was worth every penny.
@sirdanoman Hah! What a great story, and what a great old man to have there. I love that era of the bygone garage days. If you’ve ever read “Rock, Iron, Steel” by Steve Justa, it captures all of that so perfectly.
I do. I’ve had that book a long time. A real gem if you take it in context.
Oh my goodness yes! You can read it today and say “Well yes, of course”, but then you look at the published date and think “Holy crap: this guy was a prophet!”
I had a similar experience with “Championship Streetfighting” by Ned Beaumont. He makes a VERY compelling argument for boxing as a martial art…which these days, you think “That needs to be argued?”, but when he wrote it the idea was unfathomable. Martial arts were all about breaking boards and channeling your ki: how could boxers POSSIBLY know how to fight? Haha.
Really, that actually ties in pretty well with DoggCrapp too. So many things that was just take as a given are things that Dante had to SERIOUSLY argue for back in the day.
It’s really funny how slow this information flows and/or the things that get forgotten (although, suppressed more likely in this case). Several of the Chinese martial arts figured this out when British boxers showed up for challenges, back forever ago, and adapted their arts accordingly.
As far as axles, Home Depot doesn’t actually carry 2" schedule 40 pipe out here. But it’s easy to find a plumbing supply house that has plenty of odd-sized scrap to sell you.
I’ve gotten a ton of use out of that pipe. A 7’ axle, a 3’ dumbbell, a pair of farmers walk handles, a thick-bar wrist roller, and a semi-permanent landmine setup. There’s lots of off-the-shelf hardware you can bolt on and remove quickly too, and since it’s both cheap and durable, you don’t really have to worry about damaging it.
Mate here Markos who runs PTC gyms and GPC powerlifting in Australia, had a simple linear progression progam that was a few pages long and some % tables and we all grabbed a copy at $20 for an emailed or printed PDF. @wiseman83 will deff remember this. Lots of people got very strong on that simple progression method. Well worth the $20. Sometimes it’s worth the content even if it isn’t a lot of words.
Oh yeah i remember it man! The PTC PPP. Proressive poundage program.
It was a nothing program when i look back at it. But what that 20 dollars did was more important. It bought commitment. If showed that if you stuck to Anything for 9 weeks, you’ll be in a better place for it!
I had dinner with Markos once in Canberra, with Sherro and the canberra crew after spotting at a novice comp there. We spoke about it, and thats literally what he said hehe. Was just a random bunch of sets, with the goal to teach people to not program hop.
Works wonder when people hand over coin for it.
This is 100% the thing. I thing Dan John talks about borrowing motivation or discipline from other people. Buying a program is a great way to get more motivation. PPP Quality
This is great - love it!
@simo74 and @wiseman83 Ya’ll are hitting at just how important buy-in is to any process of physical transformation. Having some sort of skin in the game is really a gamechanger. It’s why I am so big on telling dudes to BUY a book, rather than GET a book. And why I offer to buy the book for dudes who don’t want to shell out the cash IF they promise to log their training and nutrition here. There’s gotta be something invested. If not money, then honor via the promise.
Related to the home gym survival, I meant to mention that the Slingshot is another low cast/low footprint/moderate impact sorta thing. Very easy way to change the resistance curve of certain movements and slap on more variety.
I think that’s half my issue lately. No skin in the game. Taking my work far more seriously than my training…when normally I balance it all out nicely.
Got a pay rise this week, and a bonus. So that’s something. Lol
Congrats man!
And I absolutely know where you’re coming from, which I think is why I “liked” the comment with gusto. My training has been a lot of “whatever” lately because other things have just been in the way.
I honestly don’t think we can force it. When a goal pops back up that makes us want to give it that investment, we’ll get after it.
It’s why most folks aren’t investing big percentages of their income when they’re 20: the goal is chasing girls, not retiring.