Daily RAW: 4/29/13 and...cookbooks.

Greetings RAW Warriors,

We are heading into another final week of another phase, this time into the 5 sets of 3 range of the RABC Plan. At the end of this coming week, you should be able to test out again and see where you are at.

Let's get going....

Daily RAW: 4/29/13

Deadlifts: 5 x 3
Bench Press: 5 x 3

Windmills: 3 x 5 per side

3 Minute Warning: 20/10 style
BW Squats
Push-Ups
Total Body Extensions
BW Squats
Push-Ups
Total Body Extensions

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Additional Ranting/Thoughts/Tips/ETC

As I have created some Kindle guides over the past year, I am looking at what people really like out of my guides.  The easiest path to this answer is usually looking at sales of my guides, where they rank in their categories, and reviews of some of them.  I know some guides have not been very well liked by some, but as I've learned, you can't make everyone happy.  For example, I could read a guide on CrossFit and even if it was very persuasive, I still probably wouldn't care for it, because overall I think CrossFit is one of the most unsafe excuses of exercise programming out there. So, if people read my guides and don't like it because they like another method or way of doing things, so be it. I have received nice reviews for other guides and continue to sell them, so something must be right on that end.

Overall, the biggest selling guides for me have been Just The Workouts, No More Crushers, Just The Chart (kind of goes hand-in-hand with JTW, of course), The Acceleration Code, and just recently, Just Swing It! has developed a nice pace just 2 weeks out of the gate so far. I think when it comes down to it, people looking for training information are looking for programs, principles behind the programs, and they take it from there.  I liken it to people who collect cookbooks and most likely have a handful of recipes for chocolate chip cookies or brownies from all of those cookbooks.  I see this in just my little side hobby of making rice crispy treats with cereal.  From marshmallow bags to cereal boxes, I have found varying measurements of each item to all make the same thing, even experimenting on my own with it.  In the end, it all ends up making a rice crispy treat but the tastes might differ (especially if its margarine vs butter, and even certain types of butter make it taste better too).  All in all, I think my guides can be like a series of cookbooks where you find the right recipe for what you are looking for.

Every day that I post here, its like adding a new recipe to the cookbook of this blog.  You might find something worth your while, that makes a positive change in your routine and delivers results better for you.  A case in point with me is the Home Workout Revolution series that I personally fit in and also have reconfigured for my track athletes.  Instead of a 12-20 minute routine to do, we may only do a 6-8 minute routine following the same 20-10 workout patterns.  Instead of for 2 minutes per exercise, I only use 1 minute worth for some basic movements.  The 20-10 work/rest format remains the same, but the focus is condensed to a few exercises to perform after our main running workout for practice.  I don't take the entire program/workout from HWR and copy it over to my own, I take the principles behind it and make it work for my situation at hand.

So, whether its the sets/reps scheme you take, The daily FitRanX routines, or the 2 & 3 Minute Warnings to add to your routines, I hope this blog is helping you.

Okay, enough talking, time to start cooking...

Lift. Dominate. Repeat.
Rats Alley Barbell Club
Coach Rick Karboviak