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Joshua Hillis

This Assessment, Tools, and System Will Make You a Better Coach

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2015

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This is a book that is sharp, clear, new information about how to make a bigger impact on the people you personal train or coach. It’s hard to adequately describe how much clearer and more intelligent than what you normally can find in the health and fitness space.

It starts with the 1-2-3-4 assessment, which is the simplest and easiest to use assessment I’ve ever seen in 11 years of being a personal trainer.

From there, it walks you through how to divide people up by their needs in three areas: Strength, mobility, and body composition. Depending on your clients needs in those three areas, you classify them into one of seven categories.

The Venn Diagram of the seven categories is worth the whole price of the book. As a personal trainer, it’s an amazing way to see, immediately, what you need to put into each person's individual program.

From there, you get five tools to impact your client’s results, from workout to food to mindset to community. You get an amazing discussion on how much (volume, intensity, hard workouts) you should have your client do, and how to know what’s enough. The parts about how to stick to your program for decades is worth it's weight in gold.

You get to see two programs outlined in entirety: “Classic Conditioning in 10 Moves” and an advanced program for throwers. These programs take it out theory and you get to see all the points applied. Besides those two complete programs, there are other workout programs sprinkled throughout the book to highlight certain points or focus on what you’d do with a specific athlete. There is a lot of “do this.”

The two amazing things you get in this book:

1) The Can You Go system is brilliantly and simply outlined

2.) Anecdotes and stories connect the dots in a way that’s amazingly fun to read, and illustrate the decades and decades of experience upon which the system was built

I would recommend this book for anyone who coaches or personal trains.

And if you’re a regular workout guy or girl, or an aging athlete, that at any point ends up “being your own coach”, then this book is even more important, because you get to download this coaching system into your head and run yourself through it. Highly recommended.

Full disclosure: Dan quotes me a few times in the book, which totally biases me. I read all Dan’s books, which also biases me. And Dan and I wrote that other book together, which also biases me. Also, I’m sure he’s sending me a review copy of this book (which would also bias me), but I *couldn’t wait* and bought it myself in Kindle and Audible the day it popped up on Amazon. It was money well spent, and I’d definitely recommend anyone who’s serious about his or her fitness to read Can You Go.

J. Hooper

Manifesto for a Training a Fitter General Population

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2015

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Let's say you have Joe and Josie Suburbanitza, both 40, both overfat and office-worker weak, come to you for training. Joe wants to "get in shape," and Josie wants to fit in her skinny jeans "without bulking up." Gee, who knows that scenario.
This book tells you how to (a) get Joe looking and feeling like a man again and able to carry a couple of bags of concrete out of Home Depot without any wheeled apparatus, and to have Josie following him to the car with one sack of her own, wearing the hell out of her skinny jeans.
Or you could (b) put them on Bosu balls and have them doing crappy bodyweight lunges and downward dog and whatnot until they realize they are still fat and weak as kittens, followed immediately by the realization that you are not worth the time or money.
Dan's way gets you to (a) as efficiently as possible.
The brightest mind and most insightful writer in strength training is a guy who operates mostly out of a garage gym in Utah - Dan John. Dan has seen it all, and, rather than turning into a curmudgeon bound to his own dogma, has the rare gift of separating wheat from chaff in utterly understandable, persuasive, and entertaining prose. The lessons here should be mandatory reading - and could be the only essential reading - for trainers who work with the vast majority of trainees, people who have more general types of goals - look better, feel better, move better, live a more active but noncompetitive life better - which is the overwhelming majority - most of whom are on inefficient and temporary "programs" with the latest bright shiny marketing fad.
No fads here - just a great combo of some incredibly simple, old ideas on what and how to train for various goals and trainee types, as well as some equally simple but creative newer ideas, coupled with a minor treasure of tips and tactics for assessing the client/trainee and the programs prescribed for them - stuff trainers can use immediately. Some clients cannot sit on the floor and stand up without spotters . . . some are aging but still competent athletes who can do much more, but have no time to waste . . . and most are somewhere in between. Dan has an ingenious means of sorting who NEEDS what type of training - and, as the book stresses, what they NEED is not always the same is what they want, or think they want. Part of your job is to help them sort that out.
If you train athletes for performance in a specific sport - rock climbers, runners, ballers, competitive lifters, golfers, or whatever - this is not the how-to manual for that purpose, although it still has loads of material you can use. If, however, you train any "civilians" who basically need to become less of a couch potato and more physically fit humans generally, you'll miss a lot and waste a lot of time if you miss this terrific book.

John K. Newland

Dan John's Best By Far! Learn or suffer...

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2015

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Are you a professional trainer?
Do you train (yourself) for strength or performance?
Are you over 26 and trying to stay "in the game"?
If yes, then you need to read this book.

Of all the books I've read on the topic of throwing and strength training, Can You Go includes the greatest, and Simplest, assessment tool for the trainee.

Dan's 1-2-3-4 assessment will tell you exactly how to get from A to B by giving you the tools to more sharply define where you are now, your "A".

This tool allowed me to faithfully assess my current A, and convinced me to do what I NEED to do (tons of mobility and fat loss) as opposed to what I WANT to (just get stronger).

If you are over 26 years old, or if you train people who are, this is a tool that you CANNOT live without.

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Philip

Another cannot put down book from Dan John

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 30, 2015

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If you've already read some of Dan's works you shouldn't even need to read this!

A follow up to Intervention -

It's aimed a bit more at a Personal Trainer than just a exerciser but don't let that put you off. There is so much knowledge and it's written so simply that you can't help but learn.

If you want a programme to bulk you then get Mass Made Simple
If you want training ideas and laugh out loud stories of fitness its Never Let Go and Before We Go.

You're not going to regret buying any of these.

Amazing.

Mr A J Browne

and I would say that this is his best. It is an "essentialisation" of his ideas about ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2015

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I've read all of Dan John's books, and I would say that this is his best. It is an "essentialisation" of his ideas about life and training: simplified enough, but not too much.

I love the way DJ deals with the fuzziness in our knowledge about training and lifestyle — after all, "everything works". Many authors ignore this point, selling their method as the best, or only approach. Instead, DJ presents a holistic (for want of a better term), long-term approach, while leaving room for different goals, personalities, ideas, and training philosophies within his very practical framework.

The chapter on diet, unusually, is perhaps the very best part — almost perfect, in fact. Dan playfully rejects the religious fervour that can surround nutrition, and instead offers a simple way of making sure that you "eat like an adult".

Buy it.

Kindle Customer

Never Get too Good for the Basics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2016

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A brilliant systems based approach for assessing where you are now, what you really need and then pulling on Dan's years of experience with your options of how to get there (as well as an evaluation of which may suit you best). Love Dan's simplicity and clarity as always

barriesm

good read for strength athletes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2015

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Dan John knows his stuff, the only issue is do we know enough to be able to get through some of Dan's workouts. His approach is really informative and relaxed which I enjoyed very much.
I have read three of Dan's books and all have different info in, anyone into strength training will pick up some useful tips, if you are coaching Dan has a lot of information to share.

R.G

Fantastic book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2017

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Fantastic book, full of good knowledge and great workouts
Definitely a book to study, linked to other fantastic books
Thanks!

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