Tag Archives: Bookshelf

Books, magazines, Dvds or any documentary material that we found useful.

Exercise, General

One year on Convict Conditioning

A couple of weeks before we launched this blog, fellow Average Norm editor Andrei pointed a book out to me – Paul Wade’s Convict Conditioning. After giving it a quick skim through, I thought it looked good enough to give it a spin, and have been following the programme almost exclusively for the past year and change. This article will be a review of the book, with some observations on the results based on three physical tests which were taken a few months apart before, halfway through, and towards the end of the year. Continue reading One year on Convict Conditioning →

General

A pull up bar, and a new book

Obligatory warning and disclaimer: A poorly constructed pull up bar can be dangerous. We cannot accept any responsibility for any injuries or damages that may be caused by following any of the information on this page. A well constructed pull up bar can also be dangerous if you fool around with it, so be careful!

One of the things I’ve been really missing since I moved earlier this year is my pull up bar. It was just a regular in-door pull up bar, the kind you stick in a doorway, but it sure saw a lot of use.

My new place doesn’t have any doorways that can take it, or a ceiling high enough that I could mount one inside which would not end with me cracking my head. So for the last few months I just got some pull ups in whenever I could, but not being able to do them on the regular at home was bugging me some. Continue reading A pull up bar, and a new book →

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Suggested reading

There’s a lot of information about fitness and strength training out there. Enough to give anyone severe information overload, even without taking contradictory sources into account.

Everyone agrees that “effort” is the way to go. Anything which claims otherwise can safely be canned, but things are a bit fuzzier from there on. No one seems to completely agree on what to do, how much, and how often. Continue reading Suggested reading →