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Inside Out
The Ultimate Upper Body Warm-Up
A production by Mike Robertson and Bill Hartman
To be a great trainer takes a lot more than simply knowing how to design work outs. Preparing ourselves or our clients for the workout is every bit as important as the workout itself! If you want to keep your clients long term, avoid orthopedic injuries, and maximize performance in the gym, this DVD is exactly what you need. In fact, the moment I got this DVD I watched it and followed along all the exercises and could immediately feel the difference, and could see how much it was going to benefit me and my clients. You DON'T want to miss this!

Turbulence Training
By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
World renowned strength coach, resident expert at JPFitness Forums, and one of the most published fitness writers in the industry, Craig Ballantyne presents a powerful method for building muscle and losing body fat. After reading this book you can ask questions or get support from Ballantyne on his message board.

Magnificent Mobility
Magnificent Mobility marks a revolution in the way athletes prepare for competition, training, and rehabilitation. Old-school methods of preparation, such as light cardio and static stretching, are things of the past. These inefficient and ineffective traditionalist approaches simply won't prepare you for superior performance and they might even injure you!

In addition to serving as a great warm-up, the drills contained in this DVD will improve joint mobility — an important, yet often-overlooked quality necessary for optimal health and performance. In this information-packed DVD, jpfitness regulars Eric Cressey and Mike Robertson give you all the tools necessary to teach your body to move more safely, efficiently, and powerfully. With over 30 exercises and the rationale for their use included, Magnificent Mobility is guaranteed to provide drills to get you healthy and take your performance to the next level!

2006 Summit DVD
The fourth annual JP Fitness Summit took place on April 7-9 in Little Rock Arkansas. Outside of industry conferences, it is indeed rare for the average fitness enthusiast to have the ability to interact with multiple industry-defining experts, but the JP Fitness Summit did it again in 2006! Click HERE to order your copy of Foundations of Kinetic Chain Dysfunction, Corrective Exercise, and Training, featuring rising star, Bill Hartman for $49.

Ultimate Off-Season Training Manual
Fitness Expert and JPFitness regular, Eric Cressy has come for an off-season training resource that will revolutionize the way that athletes and coaches approach this crucial time of the training year with his ULTIMATE OFF-SEASON TRAINING MANUAL.

Unlike other resources out there that just provide cookie cutter programs, this breakthrough manual won’t just teach you the “what;” it’ll teach you the “who, what, when, where, how and why!” It’s not a “do this” or a “the textbook says this” guide; it’s a how-to manual that will show you step-by-step what it takes to become a superior athlete faster than you ever thought possible!

Scrawny to Brawny
by Mike Mejia and John Berardi
Designed not only for frustrated adult hardgainers but also-with its strong anti-steroid message-a terrific book for the large teen market, Scrawny to Brawny fills a significant gap in the weight-lifting arsenal.

The Professional Fitness Coach Program Design Bible
A Unified Theory of Program Design
Alwyn Cosgrove is not known for pulling his punches, whether competing in martial arts, or expressing his well-educated opinion in the field of training. Here’s a taste of what real-life experience teaches you that Alwyn has put in the BS category:

Research has all the answers…researchers are strength and conditioning historians who study methods that trainers have already found to be successful
Train Big Muscles before smaller muscles…what if it’s the smaller muscles that are holding back
Body part “Split” Routines…mostly useless and simply leftovers from heyday of bodybuilding (Although he admits respect for all at the top of their craft)
Never train the core first…what if your core weakness is limiting your performance.
Fat Burning Zone…doesn’t exist…you’re in that mythical zone right now.
Aerobic Training…essentially useless for fat loss.

Where do trainers fail according to Alwyn?

They don’t assess the needs of the client. If you’re not assessing, you’re just guessing. Exercise is drug. If it’s prescribed in the wrong dose or the wrong frequency or according to ineffective principles, at best nothing will happen. At worst, you end up with an injured client.

Are there any magic exercise? Nope.

The key to successful programming is the manipulation of loading parameters. It’s the sets, reps, and loads that makes the program successful. Then select the appropriate exercises.

This is a complete guide that will help you raise your training to the next level. If you are a head trainer, this is a great manual to go through with your staff. It will quickly set you apart from any trainers in your area, and it will keep your clients coming back.

Precision Nurition
Introducing Precision Nutrition, the nutrition system used by Dr. John Berardi’s personal clients and athletes to build lean, muscular, high-performance physiques – in record time.
By Dr. John M. Berardi, Ph.D.
One complete system made up of 6 books, 2 audio CDs and 2 DVDs -- Learn at your own pace, whatever way you learn best

Covers the entire spectrum of goals, from female fat loss to male muscle gain – learn exactly how to get to your chosen goal as fast as possible, and stay there permanently

Individualization Guide teaches you how to customize a nutrition plan for yourself – throw away ineffective cookie-cutter diet plans and figure out exactly what works for you

The New Rules of Lifting
By Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove
Having been in this industry for a long time, I have read hundreds of forgettable books on weight lifting. Not the case with The New Rules of Lifting .

As a personal trainer and club owner who has hired trainers for years, I have been disappointed with the basic knowledge of applicants. Now I have finally found a resource for my trainers to make sure that we are all philosophically on the same page. It is now required reading at my fitness center. It is the fastest way I know to get someone "up to my level" in one book.

It is very readable, even by a non-professional. Along with being informative, it is also funny at times, and very motivating. It's not just just recommended reading from me... It's required! -- jp

Muscle Logic
by Charles Staley
Trainers and Olympic athletes agree that Escalating Density Training (EDT) really works. Now everyone who works out can learn how to benefit from this superbly effective, time-efficient system.

Your muscles will get bigger when you force them to do more work in the same period of time. That's the breathtakingly simple concept behind Charles Staley's innovative training system, EDT.

Over 300 people participated in coach Staley's first-ever EDT Fat Loss Challenge, with spectacular results. This is because EDT is a program that adjusts to the individual. Here's how: EDT designates timeframes (called PR Zones) where as many repetitions as possible are completed. Every workout becomes more effective than the one that preceded it, making each session a personal record. More reps equal bigger muscles and improved health-a simple premise that delivers amazing results.

In this book Staley provides:

Beginner, intermediate, and advanced programs for athletes interested in maximum performance at any level
A 2-hour-per-week program for serious recreational bodybuilders
Simple, effective ways to apply EDT to develop power, speed, and endurance
Techniques that cut recovery time to train more intensely and frequently to reach goals faster

Book of Muscle
by Lou Schuler and Ian King
Australian strength coach and former powerlifting champion Ian King and Men's Health fitness director Lou Schuler cover everything you want to know about your muscles and what makes them grow, complete with dietary recommendations, exercises for every muscle group, and exercise routines. Each muscle group is illustrated and discussed, with 149 pages of clearly described, well-photographed exercises using a variety of equipment. A section on workout routines helps you put together your own program, from beginner to advanced.

Schuler's guy-talk style makes the book enjoyable to read, even on days when you have no intention of going to the gym. The artistic drawings of muscle groups, full-color photographs of beginning and ending positions of every exercise, and stunning close-ups of buffed body parts make The Book of Muscle is as beautiful as it is practical and motivating, an exceptional gift for the fitness guy in your life, and well worth the price. Highly recommended for men wanting to get in shape or stay there.

Gourmet Nutrition
An ebook containing recipes, cooking tips and strategies for a winning body.
By: Dr. John M Berardi, PhD & Dr. John K. Williams, PhD.
Gourmet Nutrition isn't just a cookbook, it's a full-blown optimal eating manual. In it, we're gonna feed both your mind and your body with recipes, cooking tips and nutrition strategies to help you get into the best shape of your life.

Our own forum leader and nutrition expert, Johh Williams (screen name Johnka) helped write this gourmet masterpiece! $29.99

Applied Strength and
Conditioning
Nationally Renown Fitness Experts Bill Hartman, Tony Reynolds, and Lee Taft give you this opportunity to be a fly on the wall while they have the ultimate roundtable discussion covering these (and many more) topics:

Assessments...Necessary or Unnecessary?
How do you assess a group vs. an individual?
Should females be assessed differently than males?
What are the best methods to assess your athletes?
What you must do to protect yourself legally
How do you identify postural impairments of the hip?
What are the best exercises to address isolated weaknesses?
The key posture that must be achieved to stabilize the knee and ankle
The key flexibility exercises to restore optimal movement?
The one technique that you must teach to assure pro-level change of direction
How the wrong posture will slow you down.
The secret to the quick first step
Why base-stealers are getting thrown out more than they should be
What squat variation is best…3 perspectives!!
The common mistakes in teaching the lunge
Horizontal loading variations to enhance deceleration and acceleration

The Ultimate Fat Loss Training Manual
By Alwyn Cosgrove
This is the FASTEST Fat Loss program for Men Or Women on the market today.

When you need to shed fat fast and reveal a lean hard body - you NEED this program.