Review: Never Let Go by Dan John

The past few days I have been reading Dan Johns "Never Let Go". Dan John for those of us not familiar wit the name is one of the better strength coaches around, with a Masters degree in history and religious education, works as Head Strength and Track and Field Coach at Juan Diego Catholic High School and has written hundreds of strength articles in magazines and journals.

Alwyn Cosgrove writes " there are few people in every profession who can be considered great at what they do and few who rise above greatness and approach legendary. In the fitness and conditioning world, Dan Jon is one of the greatest of all time. A true professional, and an expert in every sense of the world: Dan John is a legend in this field".

The Velocity Diet Experience, 5x5 variations, te Litvinov workout, the GAble workout Dan Jon book has it all and more. He sheds light on things like losing weight so many times people who get caught up in wanting to lose weight want to do it combined with preparing for an athletic or sporting event or say getting a project together at work. The think they can do all these things at the same time and make things work. He talks about the Velocity Diet in 28 days, how you will be able to lose the weight that you want. Is it achievable well, yes it is so may differnt diets out there so much time needed to do but Dan Jon comes up with this diet that simply works well that is if you can keep to 28 days of pure hardship. Dan talks about elite athletes who come to him wanting to increase their speed but who can barely bench press, deadlift or squat their own bodyweight even though they inundate themselves with so much information from the internet and books and magazines. It seems they are unable to categorize what information is good and what is not and in the end make no progress. Dan Jon breaks everything down in the simplest ways drawing from methods used in the old USSR and his tried and tested methods from thirty years of experience.

What are the six best exercises out there? For the general fitness enthusiast Dan asks how do you know your training is working, have you asked yourself if the exercises you are doing are having any carry over into your athletic goals and ever so often are you asking yourself, is this really helping you to reach your goals?

From what I have read from other reviews, it seems that the book is a collection of some of his articles he wrote in testosterone.net. I have never read testerone.net but will do so to see if I come over anymore of his gems that I may have missed in his book. I read this book in about 4 days I was totally immersed and didnt want to put it down from the moment I read from the Litinow method to having your own home gym there is nowhere else where you will find it so easy to understand information.