Get Strong Get Lean: A Year of Barbell Training, Intermittent Fasting, and Eating Lots of Protein - Couverture souple

Holtkamp, Chad V.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1945982160 ISBN 13 : 9781945982163

Editeur : Briefcase Media Group, 2018

Synopsis

Squat. Bench. Deadlift. 16:8 Fasting.

This time, the program worked.

Emerging from the devastating year chronicled in Sink or Swing, Chad V. Holtkamp begins 2016 at 259.2 pounds with a 40” waist. Determined to become stronger and leaner, he hires Leangains creator Martin Berkhan, then writing The Leangains Method, to coach him through barbell training, intermittent fasting, and a protein-rich diet.

The results are undeniable. Chad’s weight and waist shrink. His lifts climb. His wedding ring fits again. He deadlifts 405 pounds for five reps. His transformation is successful enough that Berkhan later includes Chad’s before-and-after photographs and testimonial in The Leangains Method.

That should have been the perfect ending.

It wasn’t.

As progress becomes expectation, Chad begins adding exercise, chasing numbers, pushing through pain, and testing how far discipline can be stretched before it becomes something else. What begins as a conventional transformation story gradually becomes a more complicated examination of ambition, sustainability, and the dangerous appeal of always doing more.

In Get Strong Get Lean, Chad confronts:

• What changes when professional coaching finally produces real results
• Why becoming stronger and leaner does not guarantee lasting success
• How ambition can disguise itself as discipline
• The tension between measurable progress and physical well-being
• What happens after the celebrated “after” photograph

Funny, candid, and unwilling to stop at the triumphant image, Get Strong Get Lean is a year-in-the-life fitness memoir about achieving the goal—and discovering why achievement may not solve the underlying problem.

The book can be read on its own or as the final volume of the Home Gym Strong fitness memoir series.

Read Get Strong Get Lean—the story that begins where most fitness transformations end.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Briefcase Media Group
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1945982160
• ISBN 13: 9781945982163
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg