The Home Guide to GPP

My ebook is now on sale at Barnes and Noble and Amazon:  The Home Guide to General Physical Preparedness

A simple, no frills guide to prepare for the physical demands of life and occupation with minimal and hand-made equipment at home or in conjunction with gym equipment workouts. Sprint, carry, drag, push, pull, and mobilize yourself to a more balanced, vigorous, and capable body.

Use it:
to learn how to exercise
to enhance your current style (or use it exclusively)
during the off-season
as preparation for military training
before the police or fire academy
to prepare to work as an EMT
as a break from your usual program
as a way to balance your body and find weaknesses
as preparation for any physical event

Includes:
Equipment list
Exercises and how to perform them
Over 80 preplanned workouts with enough variations to probably triple that
Progressions for sedentary readers
Progressions for sprints
Why focused and experienced trainees should include a few GPP style workouts
Reasons and motivation to get training and use the included techniques

I suggest reading it on a full screen laptop or computer because the conversion to e-readers like Nook and Kindle wasn’t perfect.

$5 at Barnes and Noble

$5 at Amazon US store

It is also available in other countries at their respective international Amazon store.

Water!

Drink it!

Drink until your urine is the same color as the water you should be drinking.  There’s no reason not to here in a modern nation.  Don’t take it for granted because billions go without a fresh source of tap water daily.

Drinking enough water prevents things like kidney stones, bladder infections, muscle cramps, and headaches.  When we sweat, we not only cool the body but also remove toxins.  Saunas?  Oh yes please.

Watch the video below as the super cool Hank explains why we need to drink it:

Cells full of water and minerals activate muscles.  How can you expect to train hard if those watery cells have less water than they optimally need?

Drink.

Don’t like water?  Try mineral water.  Green Tea varieties or herbals.  Add some lemon or lime.  Avoid sugary stuff especially that corn syrup atrocity, it makes you fat, spikes your insulin, and can lead to insulin resistance, aka diabetes.

Gatorade?  Only if you are training very hard for extended periods or athletic events like a 5k obstacle course or a 90 minute face crushing boxing explosion.  On the other hand, there are even better options such as purpose built peri-workout supplement that sources it carbs from maltodextrin and contains protein.  For the budget conscious or occasional potent event, a Gatorade will suffice.

Drink more water because the Terminator said so.  Do you really want a Terminator after you?

-Larry