You will benefit from in direct proportion to
how seriously you study the book, how thoroughly you grasp the
contents, how well you make the understanding one with you, and
how resolutely you apply what you learn.Before thinking something important has been missed out of
this book, please wait until you have read every page. ere is an
extensive amount of information here, and it is all interrelated.Note on the Trap Bar and shrug bar
Where the Trap Bar® is referred to in this book, you may also
read “shrug bar.” e shrug bar came on the market after
was first published. e two bars are produced by differ-
ent manufacturers. Both are excellent training tools. e shrug
bar provides more knee room because it has a hexagonal shape as
against the rhombus shape of the Trap Bar. Please see page for
how to find more information on the shrug bar. You may, however,
find the standard shrug (or Trap) bar too restricting for safe bent-
legged deadlifting, and require a custom-made bar with gripping
sites placed wider apart.ere are few photographs in this book because nothing is included
on exercise technique. Exercise form is covered in unique and exten-
sive detail (including photographs) in a companion book—
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.Excluding the introductory material, each paragraph of this book is
itemized. For example, . means that that particular paragraph is
number of Chapter . Itemizing each paragraph makes it almost
effortless to find whatever you are looking up in the index.