Dan John has 8 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 21 ratings. The most-rated is Never Let Go.
Never Let Go
Summary
Coach Dan John breaks down the most complicated concepts of strength training and high-performance athletics in his personal, no-nonsense, thought-provoking, and motivating style. Workout routines, Olympic lifting guidance, Highland games, track and field, and Strongman events are all covered, in addition to weight training philosophy for the general public. You'll learn.... How to get stronger, faster and leaner Simple steps to great conditioning What it takes to compete at high-level athletics Dan John's top training tips Effective workouts to carry you through your training seasons Variations of the classic 5x5 workout Sample kettlebell and barbell workout combinations Outdoor cardiovascular training options for athletes And much more....
©2009 Daniel Arthur John (P)2017 On Target Publications
Before We Go: An Ongoing Philosophy of Lifting, Living, and Learning
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Imagine this (go ahead, it's an easy one): You're bored with your workouts. Nothing's changing; you're not getting stronger or leaner or feeling better, and, heck, maybe you'll just take a layoff and see what happens.
You know what happens. That two-week layoff lasts a year, that's what happens!
Now consider this: Traffic was light and you're 15 minutes early for your dental cleaning appointment. You flip open your device and bring up your new copy of Before We Go. By the time the dental tech calls you, you've heard two chapters and are amped to get to the gym. Your mind is racing through the appointment, and it's all you can do to stay in that squeaky lounge chair.
You get to the gym an hour later and sail through the best workout you've had in months, maybe years. That's what this book can do for you.
Dan John's Before We Go will spur your training to that exciting level you love.
Following the pattern set by his earlier book Never Let Go, Before We Go is the second compilation of Dan's best articles previously published online.
©2016 Daniel Arthur John (P)2017 Daniel Arthur John
Intervention: Course Corrections for the Athlete and Trainer
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You have two choices: Be lucky enough in middle school, junior high, or high school to be taught basic body movements and step-by-step instructions in the Olympic lifts, powerlifting, mobility, flexibility, kettlebell training, and tumbling Apply intervention five principles Here are the answers, but the questions are the real keys: Strength training for lean body mass and joint mobility work trump everything else. Fundamental human movements are...fundamental. Standards and gaps must be constantly assessed. The notion of "park bench" and "bus bench" workouts must be applied throughout the training lifetime. Constantly strive for mastery and grace.
©2012 Daniel Arthur John (P)2012 Daniel Arthur John
Fat Loss Happens on Monday
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Most diet and workout books are focused on the wrong things: They focus on WHAT instead of HOW. The leanest people focus on how, on their eating habits, not on fad diets. Diets that rely on willpower and discipline fail. The path to results is made up of eleven small, simple, step-by-step habits. Rotating through phases of metabolic, endurance, and strength workouts yields the best fat-loss results. 1. Almost all diet and workout books are focused on the wrong things - They focus on 'what’ instead of 'how.' 2. The leanest people focus on eating habits, not on fad diets. 3. Diets that rely on willpower and discipline fail. A smart plan wins. 4. The path to results is eleven small, simple, step-by-step habits. 5. Rotating through phases of metabolic workouts, endurance workouts, and strength workouts yields the best fat-loss results. 6. Pull-ups are the strength move for fat loss. A smart, progressive plan can take you from absolute zero, to your first, third, or tenth pull-up. 7. High-intensity workouts are power tools, most effective only twice per year before important events. Josh Hillis and Dan John know these habit-based diet and workout hacks, and they teach them well. JOSH HILLIS is a nutrition coach who specializes in habits-based, positive changes. LoseStubbornFat, his popular fat-loss blog, has tens of thousands of readers, and his fat-loss and kettlebell-training ebooks have helped people reach their personal goals for more than 10 years. Josh is currently the head coach at PowerHour Personal Training in Denver. DAN JOHN spends his work life blending workshops and lectures with full-time writing, and is an online religious studies instructor for Columbia College of Missouri. His books include Intervention, Never Let Go, Mass Made Simple and Easy Strength, which was written with Pavel Tsatsouline. Please note: The audio references supplemental material that is not included with the purchase of this audiobook.
©2014 Josh Hillis (P)2014 Josh Hillis
Can You Go?
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Training people in sport as coaches or in fitness as personal trainers is certainly rewarding work. But there's a problem: What do we do next? There are countless books on diet and exercise and hundreds of machines, devices, and gimmicks to train people, and new gadgets and gizmos are popping up with every passing day. Can You Go? answers this question: What do we need to do next? Appropriate assessment leads to an appropriate answer. When we find a mobility issue, let's focus on mobility work. The same is true for both body composition and strength - we focus on what we need to do, not what we want to do. For the performance athlete, sometimes assessment can be the short, brutal, and harsh question, "Can you go?" Lessons from this frankness can be learned by both the coach and the trainer. The deconditioned and the elite share the same basic human body. Our job is to enhance performance and quality of life with every training situation.
©2015 Dan John (P)2015 On Target Publications
40 Years with a Whistle: Life Lessons from the Field of Play
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40 Years with a Whistle - 40 years of coaching tips woven into a touching memoir of a coach's life Dan John has been performing as an athlete for six decades. His coaches - the mentors he describes in this audiobook - steered him on the narrow path toward success in both sports and life. These coaches emphasized performance, yes...but they all also insisted on the balance of health, fitness, and longevity. From Dan's introduction to 40 Years with a Whistle: I’ve learned a lot over those decades and would like to share these lessons with you. I didn’t want a book filled with “Xs” and “Os” or sets and reps. I wanted to share the lessons that apply to life and living. I begin with what are clearly my 10 best lessons of coaching. Each of these works well for the teacher, student, parent, and neighbor too. Following the advice of the 10th lesson, I explore the stories of the people who shaped my career and the gems of advice they shared with me. I finish with my vision of coaching - basically looking at training from the big picture and the toolkit to allow one to succeed. The lessons are simple. The application is difficult. The rewards are worth everything. The lessons learned on the fields and in the gyms will lead to a successful life. Hop on board. “As I listen through this audio book, over and over I found myself mentally saying, 'Yup' and 'Absolutely'. If you’re a coach, an athletic administrator or the parent of a school-age athlete, you need to listen this audio book. I know my coaching staff will be listening it.” (Chris Long, athletic director, Juan Diego Catholic High School)
©2019 Dan John (P)2019 Dan John
Attempts
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In this collection of essays, Dan John expands on some of his famous one-liners: How many rabbits are you chasing? Enough is enough; more is just more. Fit for what? must be part of your language. The greatest secret I know in every field of life is always obvious. Think through the wonders and pleasures of achieving your goal. Last throw, best throw! No fuzzy maxes in the weight room. Correct your weaknesses, but compete with your strengths. Most of success is just showing up. Peaking is often simply staying on the path. And many more... You’ve heard them before, but have you internalized them? Let Dan help you dig a little deeper into how life’s truths show up in the weight room and on the field of play. What you learn in this selection will get you thinking more broadly into how it all fits together - fitness, health, longevity, and easy strength.
©2020 Dan John (P)2020 Dan John
A Lifelong Approach to Fitness
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In this collection of short talks, I tried to link together what I thought was crucial and important in the fitness field - and in sports in general - that sometimes don't work very well in something like a book or an article. These are all too long for an article, and too short for a book. But they're all very important principles, and these are all concepts I think need to be linked together.
©2016 Daniel Arthur John (P)2016 Daniel Arthur John