Subscribers will receive THREE free pdf books. One containing three articles here at GUS (for portable convenience): Strength Training with Single, Double, and Triple Progression, The Singles Scene, and Strength Consolidation plus nine pages of bonus material designed to help break out of the bodybuilding/fitness mentality and get you started developing maximal strength.

The second is over 30 pages concerning the overhead squat and related issues with information on motor learning schema, perceptual schema and more including some critical appraisal of the so called "overhead squat test" a.ka. deep squat test.

The third, Strength Training and Bodybuilding: How Different are They?, explores the idea that strength training and hypertrophy are "the same" and how strength training has been sold to a bodybuilding audience using ideas that are more propaganda than physical fact. The book explains many crucial strength training concepts and theories such as the force velocity relationship, the explosive strength deficit, median intensity, neural components of strength development and more.

The newsletter contains at least a weekly update of new articles, and/or information, and tips, and exclusive "blog" posts in your inbox. I will NEVER bombard you with too frequent newsletters about every little thing but you should expect a newsletter every Thursday at 4PM.

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All the newsletters will be available as an archive here a GUS. The link to the archive list will be included at the end of each newsletter. Note that the url of the list page will be changed once per week so that only subscribers will be able to easily find the new newsletters through the list. The list will not be searchable. The newsletters themselves will be searchable (to help the newsletter grow) but links will not be given out purposely except to active subscribers and anyone happening upon an archived newsletter will not be able to view all past issues easily without subscribing.

These measures are to protect the exclusivity of the newsletter for our subscribers but also to all search engines to find individual pages in order to spark interest for new subscribers.

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