Why Ask Someone Who Doesn’t Know

"Who in the hell told you to train like that? He should be shot."

That was my reply when a friend of mine told me his current routine. It's always a bit of a shock finding out what people actually "do" when they train.

Of course, a while back I told him exactly what to do, and exactly how to do it, although it evidently wasnt what he wanted to hear so he started asking around until he got the answers he wanted and started training on some mess of a program.

The answer, of course, was "some guy" on the internet - obviously "some guy" without much of a clue and the advice in question was obviously not something with any basis in reality.

And although he may have meant well the training advice which he gave was just plain wrong wrong, wrong (not to mention stupid.)

These days where there’s one "expert" there’s probably a thousand more.

Interesting enough, this exact situation was happens to fit pretty well into an interesting book I was reading yesterday: "The Cult of The Amateur" by Andrew Keen.

The book boils down to how the fate of “knowledge” on Web 2.0 will from now on be corrupted as a result of the fact that anyone can say pretty much anything. – especially people who, quite frankly, do not know a damn thing.

I couldn't agree more.

You wouldn’t ask your car mechanic what to do if your dog was sick, nor would you ask your landscaper for legal advice – and I hope you wouldnt ask someone who doesnt even train how to lift weights.

Now, the reason people look to me for advice is that I am an expert and I know what Im talking about. Any information or equipment that I put in front of you is done so because it has been "battle tested."

The things I talk about and the products I promote are here for one reason only and thats because I believe in them 100% - And I know they work because I use them myself, and I actually train, which seems to differentiate me from many of the so-called experts out there. (And I wouldnt recommend anyone who did otherwise.)

If you are going to put the effort into training, you owe it to yourself to do it right.

Heres a few recommended sources from guys who really know training:

It was just about a decade ago when Brooks Kubik first wrote Dinosaur Training and we are still feeling the impact today. Brooks pulls no punches when it comes to what constitutes serious training.

In addition to teaching you how to build super strength with traditional barbells and dumbbells, Brooks also teaches you how to get stronger with sandbags, barrels, anvils, sledge hammers or other unusual implements, you need this book in your training library:

Dinosaur Training by Brooks Kubik

Ellington Darden is a guy who has damn near seen it all and lived to write about it. And boy did he ever write about it, with over 50 books and counting, he is the very best strength writer of all time and his latest book does not disappoint.

Flip through the pages and take a journey back through strength history and use any one of the 20+ different workouts to skyrocket your training:

The New Bodybuilding for Old School Results by Ellington Darden
Thats enough to get you started on the right path – or keep you there if you're already on it.

Train hard,
John Wood