some studying of your own. For a one-time payment of . I got the
three items—a book and two therapy tools—I needed to get the near-
miraculous job done. You will need the same items, or similar ones, to give
yourself the possibility of performing your own “miracle.” is . was
a pittance for the fantastic skill it gave me—information and a means of
therapy I effectively administered myself independently of any professional
therapist.
. As a writer, author and publisher I am able to provide information to many
people. I am taking advantage of this to help spread the word about what
I have discovered. is can help make many people’s training lives far less
troubled by injuries, immediately increase short-term training productivity
and, with time, greatly extend training longevity.
. In answer to the question of what is in it for me, I have no financial or other
type of vested interest in what I am going to reveal. I am totally indepen-
dent.
The injuries
. In the previous chapter I detailed how I peaked with deadlifting
pounds for consecutive rest-pause reps. Due to various factors, all avoid-
able, I incurred several injuries during that training cycle—all but one of
them being unrelated to the deadlifting. ese injuries combined to prevent
me from training consistently for about eighteen months. e most trouble-
some injuries were to my right big toe (from playing soccer), my knees (the
last straw for them being a few workouts of squatting with my heels raised
on a × block), my right shoulder (from bench pressing without a spotter
and getting stuck), and my lower back (from letting my mind push my body
too far beyond what it was capable of tolerating).
. e toe injury made even slow jogging an impossibility, and I could only
walk for very short distances without pain.
. e knee problems were so severe that I was unable to do a single freehand
squat without suffering knee soreness the same day and for a few days after-
ward. Squatting with pounds, pounds, or just bodyweight on the
bar was no longer even thought about. Just being able to sit up and down
from/to a chair, discomfort free and while not using my arms and shoulders
for assistance, became a dream.