Originally Posted by
Theseahawk
Its because it looks like a daunting college text book, which is exactly why I bought and read it; it looked like I might finally get something truthful, which I did.
But the copy I bought my sister is left unread because it looks a lot of effort to read. She says, "well I can just ask you"- which obviously isn't going to work.
Sure, I can tell her the LP programming, tell her to hit proper depth etc, but there isn't a single sentence wasted in the book- every page is useful and to get the why's instead of just the what's, it needs to be read. And its the why's which are the most important as it (sometimes) stops one from falling back into doing stupid stuff. (I say sometimes, because obviously you know from other posts I've messed up).
She did really well following the LP programming. Then ended up with a lengthy layoff for whatever reason, then decided to get back into lifting wights. What did she do? Sets of 10s with light weights so she could "ease back up to the weights previously handled". I got her to reason that if the original programme worked well the first time, and she was now de-trained, surely it makes more sense to do that programme again- but if she has just read the book, she wouldn't have wasted time on her own programme.
I recognise I sound like a hypocrite here, but she's supposed to be the clever one yet seems so put off by the book.
My mother's copy of barbell prescription is depressingly left unread and its pointless even bother to try getting my dad to read any of the books because he knows absolutely everything already. At least my girlfriend gets it- I'm looking forward to seeing how she does at the RN champs.