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Strength Sensei Bookshelf Overcoming Strength Training Plateaus At 35 pages, this book is relatively small, but it packs a big wallop with some practical training advice to help you jump-start workouts that have stopped working. Mark Sherwood was a fitness education instructor for 15 years and is the author of the self-published Overcoming Strength Training […]

STRENGTH SENSEI BOOKSHELF Plyometrics for Speed and Power “I feel the need, the need for speed” is a popular expression from Tom Cruise’s Top Gun that has become a motto of many sports and strength coaches. One training tool to help athletes develop speed, and its associated quality power, is plyometrics. The challenge is, “How

STRENGTH SENSEI BOOKSHELF Scamdemic: The COVID-19 Agenda Now that we’ve taken off our masks and gotten back to work, many writers are doing deep dives into what exactly happened over the past few years with COVID-19. One such writer is John Lovine, and what he shares with us in his book Scamdemic: The COVID-19 Agenda

STRENGTH SENSEI BOOKSHELF How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci The Vitruvian Man was drawn by the Italian scientist, engineer, sculptor, architect, inventor, and artist Leonardo da Vinci in the 14th century. The Vitruvian Man represents a man’s ideal body proportions and is frequently used in health and fitness publications. Leonardo da Vinci was a

STRENGTH SENSEI BOOKSHELF Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research If you’re serious about learning the truth, you always come back to the source. In the field of strength coaching, one source is The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. The National Strength Coaches Association was founded in 1978 but later changed its name to the

STRENGTH SENSEI BOOKSHELF The Science of Getting Ripped The Science of Getting Ripped has two strikes against it. First, it lacks science. Second, the author, Raza Imam, is not an accomplished bodybuilder or personal trainer. Keeping an open mind, let’s get started. Imam said that when he was in his 30s, he wanted to get

STRENGTH SENSEI BOOKSHELF 7 Minutes to Fit 7 Minutes to Fit is not the type of book that Charles R. Poliquin would carry around in his travel bag. Nor would he purchase dozens of copies to give to his best and brightest students. It’s more like the type of book Pee-wee Herman would have on

STRENGTH SENSEI BOOKSHELF The Posture Principles If you can get past the confusing subtitle of this book, “Posture by Design, Not by Circumstance,” you’ll enjoy The Posture Principles. Although the target audience is the healthcare professional and spans 336 pages, it’s surprisingly readable and explains complex subjects that much of the general public could understand.

STRENGTH SENSEI BOOKSHELF Why We Get Fat Consume more calories than you burn, and you will get fat. Expend more calories than you consume, and you will lose fat. Simple math, yes. But it’s not the premise of Gary Taubes’s Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It. More precisely, Taubes doesn’t believe