The problem is yes, everything works. Doing everything at once makes you marginal at everything... at best.
Dan JohnBack in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.
Dan JohnMost new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat.
Dan JohnI don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.
Dan JohnThere are “bus bench” workouts and “park bench” workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different.
Dan JohnAs we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.
Dan JohnWithout challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.
Dan JohnI think there are two keys to success. One is to show up. The other one is to keep going. Most people don’t keep going.
Dan JohnIf you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder.
Dan JohnFat loss is an all-out war. Give it 28 days - only 28 days. Attack it with all you have. It's not a lifestyle choice; it's a battle. Lose fat and then get back into moderation. There's another one for you: moderation. Revelation says it best: 'You are lukewarm and I shall spit you out.' Moderation is for sissies.
Dan JohnWell, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.
Dan JohnPlease understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me.
Dan JohnThere's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen.
Dan John