Friday, February 13, 2009

Strength Books

Over on Zach Even-Esh's member site Undergound Strength Coach there is a discussion going about "What are you favorite strength-related books?"

Here are a few of mine, with some commentary:

Beyond BodyBuilding, Power to the People, Enter the Kettlebell-

All by Pavel and available from Dragondoor. To put it simply, if not for Pavel, I wouldn't be writing this blog or doing what I do right now. It is tough to narrow it down, but these are my favorite three strength books he has written to date.

The Mighty Atom: the spiritual Journey of Joseph Greenstein-Ed Speilman

An amazing story of a man who did things that are beyond strong, venturing into impossible. Hard to find, I got my copy from Dennis Rogers.

The Purposeful Primitive - Marty Gallagher

One of the best books I have ever read from a a man who has been deep in the trenches for a LONG time.

Destroying the Dogma: Real world Fatloss-Alwyn Cosgrove

A fitness professional's guide to developing and implementing effective fat loss programming from one of the most trusted guys in the business.

Rock, Iron, Steel-Steve Justa
Gripmaster's Manual-John Brookfield

Both available from Iron Mind. Outside the box stuff from two very strong men.

Keys to Progress-John McCallum

Also from Iron Mind. Enteraining, informative look at the way it was done in the days before drugs.

3 comments:

Dan Cenidoza said...

Great minds think alike, my friend.

Spiritual Journey is probably my favorite book ever, training or otherwise. I read that one in about 24hrs... just couldn't put it down.

After that it's a toss up between Dinosaur Training, Power to the People and Rock Iron Steel (although I would probably rate them in the order listed if I had to). All 3 of these books opened my mind about different training concepts.

Nautilus Bulletins #1 & #2 were eye openers as well.

Iron Tamer said...

Dino is cool, but I disagree with his rant oon period ization.

Adam said...

I will add
"Molding a mighty grip", "The way to live" and Dino training. Even though Brooks stacked against periodization, cycling and took the HIT thing Far, it is still a pivol book in what i call the modern strength age.