I am pleased to announce that my first book will be available on amazon in about a week: ) This is my official cover from createspace.com, I am just waiting for the formatting to be finished....
Hello all,
I took Tynan's advice, and my book is now available on Kindle for $2.99 or you can borrow it free with amazon prime.
Thanks, Captain P
I like the initiative and congrats on your first book....kind of got lost in the last couple lines of the rear cover.
1. Baby sitters and day laborers? I get it, immature/young and rough looking women, but it sounds like you're a pedophile and now questioning whether there should be 2 male symbols on the cover as traditionally, most babysitters are teenagers and most day laborers are men...just sayin.
2. The last part that says,"...they started a secret society of underground bodybuilders that culminated in an affair with a married billionaire"
a. Secret underground society of bodybuilder pick-up artists?This sounds like "The Game" theme only with pick-up artist substituted with body builder. Is that part really necessary? Your title is about working out, losing weight and not being single. (i.e. you're dating someone and in a relationship) I think the banging a married women part is getting away from your central message of creating a healthy lifestyle.
b. The subject in the last sentence kind of sounds like the society had an affair with this woman.
I don't think the text of the back reads well. Whenever a sentence made it's point, start a new sentence to make the next point. Connecting the two sentences with ", and" serves no valid purpose.
"By age 24 he finally had a steady girlfriend, and life seemed good." -> "By age 24 he finally had a steady girlfriend. Life seemed good."
Having the text separated into multiple paragraphs would also look nicer.
hi david. I never competed, I used to run track in college and I did some powerlifting competitions after college. I was actually fat for a while in the mid 2000's. My true story is that after my live-in girlfriend moved out I started working out again like a madman, started a blog, read Neil Strauss's book the game, discovered tynan's blog, and then started writing my book 2 years ago. That picture is from the best shape of my life about 2 years ago : )
I'm still pretty good. I am supposed to go to Texas for spring break in March even though I am 32 lol, but I'll post some picture/articles regarding my diet/training...To be honest, for me personally to get really cut it was all diet. My workouts really never changed, gym 5x a week and outside running 4x a week.
To give you some exact numbers, for that picture I was 5'8 155ish. Bench press was around 295 max, and I was running 3 miles in around 20 minutes. Give me a day or two, maybe I will post my exact workout/diet plan.
Quite lean. And strong. I agree about diet being the main factor to cut down.
I have been bulking the past few months and put on a wee bit of fat but this pic is from over the summer when I was slightly leaner. I have written a couple posts on my blog about my training routine and diet, I'll dig them up later. Would love to share as well.
Not quite the muscle mass you're carrying though :) But good to see a fellow lifter on tynan's community!
One of my overarching goals in how I present myself is to be consistent. Although the relationships I have with my family, friends, acquaintances, and random people on the internet is always going to be different, I try to be the same person with all of those groups. I think authenticity is important, and this consistency is a sign of authenticity.
Try as I might, though, people who read my stuff online and then meet me in person are consistently surprised that I'm actually a happy guy who jokes around a lot and is more human than robot. I see why people expect me to be different, though. My writing tends to be serious and I'm always talking about habits or rules or working hard.
Although all of this rigidity is a big part of my life, it's also just the foundation. From the rigid parts of my life I'm able to get a tremendous amount of work done, keep myself healthy, and move towards my goals. But there's also a lot that it can't do. Rigidity doesn't build relationships or spark creativity, two important parts of life.
I think you learn a lot about someone when you see what he does when there's nothing he has to do. And I think by changing what you do when you have nothing to do, you can change what sort of person you are. I design my life to have as few as possible externally-dictated things that I absolutely have to do, and I create systems to fill that void. Every day I have sixteen hours ahead of me, and no one to tell me what to do in that time except myself.
I'm on a late flight back from Vegas, I didn't get enough sleep, and I'm exhausted. I hadn't done my German tape for the day yet, so I put my headphones in, propped my head against the window, closed my eyes, and did it. I'm sure my neighbor, if she could hear my stilted German mumbles, thought I was crazy.
I finished the tape and the captain announced that we were forty minutes from our destination. Factoring in the time it takes to do the final descent, where I won't be allowed to use my computer, that gives me about fifteen minutes of time to make use of.
My first inclination, tired as I am, is to waste the time. Close my eyes and take a lttle nap, read a book on my phone, listen to some music, or just flip through screens on my phone aimlessly. Fifteen minutes seems way too short for me to write a blog post.
But then I think about how tired I'm going to be if I get home and still have to write the post. Begrudgingly, I whip out the laptop. May as well outline the post or get the intro down or something. Now I've got more of a post written than I thought I'd get done in fifteen minutes.
