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!
My friend Elisia asked me to help her move. Moving is one of my least favorite activities (which partially explains why I live in an RV), but I gladly agreed to help. Why? Because she followed the golden rules of asking favors. If you want people to do you favors, or, more importantly, feel good about doing you favors, make sure you follow these rules. They're written from the point of view of someone asking me for a favor, but I would also follow them when asking favors of others.
1. Your Benefit Must Greatly Outweigh My Inconvenience
If you're asking me for a favor it should be something that I am particularly good at or well suited for. If a friend of mine asks me to help him set up a blog, I'm happy to do it because it's something I have experience with and am good at. What could take my friend five hours to set up, I might be able to do in thirty minutes.
A couple days ago, during a rest period of a workout, Leo asked me if I was different now than I was ten years ago. My gut reaction was to say that, no, I was pretty much exactly the same, but even a quick scan of changes in that time made me realize that I bear little resemblance to who I was. I asked him the same, and he's changed even more than I have in the past ten years.
The two big themes I noticed in the changes I went through were first that they would have been pretty much impossible to predict, and second that they were all good surprises. Of course, I'm a happy person and I'm certainly biased, so I would probably think the changes were positive no matter what.
Even knowing that we would have been incapable of predicting the changes that happened over the past ten years, we couldn't resist trying to make predictions for the next ten. That's how we spent the remainder of the rest periods of our workout. I decided I'd make my predictions public so that we can marvel at how prescient I was, or, more likely, laugh about how I was dead wrong.
At the end of each section I'm going to give some odds for each outcome. That way we can see how accurate my predictions and confidences were, and I can make longshot predictions without messing up the record.
