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Last year my buddy Eric Cressey released an incredible product called Show & Go where he detailed the very process he uses with his own clients to gain muscle and get strong at the same time.  I’ve honestly working on an article for you for the end of the week, but I didn’t want to let another day go by without mentioning that Eric is currently holding a sale on this incredible product until Friday at midnight and you can pick up the whole thing (with all the bonuses) for 50% off!  And since I’ve been pretty swamped lately I asked Eric if he’d share a little bit about his programming and his new product.

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Check it out!

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Hey Eric, thanks for taking the time to do this interview. Can you please introduce yourself to those of my readers who have obviously been living under a rock and have never heard of you?

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My pleasure. I’m the president and co-founder of Cressey Performance, a high-performance training facility located just west of Boston, MA. I deal with clients ages 9-70 from all walks of life and various sports, although our “niche” has become baseball performance training. This off-season, we’ll have over 70 professional baseball players at Cressey Performance for their off-season training.

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Additionally, I’ve created several DVD sets and written numerous books and hundreds of articles over the years, most on my website, www.EricCressey.com. I do a considerable amount of consulting for both individuals and companies, speaking around the globe, and have even published some research along the way. All of this work is in the areas of corrective exercise, strength and conditioning, baseball training, and assessment and program design.

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And for those of us who are familiar with your work, can you share something about Eric Cressey that most people don’t already know? The more embarrassing the better, of course.

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I come from a family of accountants – and up until the end of my freshman year of college, I was convinced that I was going to be an accountant. I even competed in the state accounting championships my senior year of high school (yes, that’s an actual contest).

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Also, I can’t iron.

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Put 600+ pounds in front of me and ask me to pick it up. I’m on it.

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Ask me to write a book? Done.

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Put eight miles per hour on a fastball in an off-season? Piece of cake.

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Iron a shirt? Complete and utter chaos. I’m like a deer in headlights and usually wind up burned – and with a wrinkled shirt.

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That’s awesome man!  I’ve got some pretty good shirt ironing skills…but I don’t think most people would be interested in reading a book about it.  What do you think is the most important consideration one must take into account when when training for both size and strength at the same time?

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I think the most overlooked factor is definitely volume manipulation – and, more specifically, an attention to incorporating deloading periods. Most people who are just trying to gain size seem to always do absurd amounts of volume, but that’s at odds with the heavy emphasis on quality over quantity that you see in the world’s best strength sport athletes. It’s not hard to appreciate that many folks who want both wind up doing too much in terms of both volume and intensity – and end up injured or simply frustrated (and spending three hours in the gym for every session).

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To that end, it’s important to integrate deloading periods every 4-5 weeks to allow the nervous system, muscles/tendons, and endocrine system to bounce back.

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How do you feel your product Show & Go addresses these issues?

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EC: It does so via a few avenues.

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First, each phase includes a specifically targeted deloading week (the fourth week) where the volume is reduced.

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Second, there is considerably exercise variation; you won’t do an exercise for longer than a month in the program. Additionally, in many cases, some of the exercises aren’t used longer than a week. So, the variety inherent to the program assists in creating overload and even overreaching – but definitely not overtraining.

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Okay cool.  But how do you feel Show & Go is different from all of the other strength and size programs available on the internet?

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EC: At risk of sounding arrogant, the creator is what differentiates this program from others that are on the market right now. We live in a time where many authors of fitness programs on the internet don’t actively train anyone – and many never did in the first place. With how dynamic the fields of fitness and human performance are, this is a pretty scary thought. You only get one body; you should be confident in placing it in someone else’s hands with an exercise program of their design. Otherwise, it would be like a graduate student purchasing How to Read Fitness Research from you – with you having never read or published a study in a scholarly journal. Perspective matters.

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I’m proud that I coach loads of people – from 9-year-old kids, to professional athletes, to Olympians, to clients of all ages and goals – six days a week at my facility, Cressey Performance. In the month of September alone, I wrote 114 programs for clients; I’m very proud of the amount of time, energy, and thought that goes into not only creating these programs, but interpreting how folks respond to them. That’s the same kind of thought process that went into Show and Go; we put a large group of “guinea pigs” from all walks of life through the program before it was ever released to the public. You’ll find many of their results and testimonials on the sales page.

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That said, in terms of differentiating the actual program, Show and Go provides a lot more in terms of exercise variety, at least within the confines of what “typical” gyms’ equipment selections allow. I built more “on the fly” strength tests into the programs on top of the already-challenging loading protocols. I included both 2-, 3-, and 4-day-a-week training programs to accommodate individuals’ unique schedules. I provided exercise alternatives for those who lift somewhere that doesn’t have all the equipment they’d need to perform the program as-written.

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Additionally, self-publishing afforded me several luxuries; most notably, I had no restrictions on the length of the text. I wrote as much or as little as I wanted – and basically did whatever was required to make the program exactly what I wanted it to be. Exercise descriptions weren’t limited to a certain number of sentences, and if I wanted to include seven exercises in a specific day’s session instead of six, for instance, it was okay. I also included ready-to-use templates that people can print out and take to the gym to record weights used, whereas traditional books are never conducive to this.

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And, on perhaps the coolest note, instead of just exercise photos for demonstrations, you’ll find an entire video library where you can view the proper technique for every single exercise in the Show and Go program (roughly 175 exercises). Assuming an average of 12-15 seconds per video, you’ve essentially gotten yourself the equivalent of a 35-45 minute DVD on top of all this programming and my charming wit and personality.

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Okay…now to the nitty gritty. There are a lot of products out there touting completely unrealistic outcomes in terms of strength, muscle mass, and fat loss over the period of a short program. What kinds of gains can the AVERAGE lifter who is willing to work hard realistically expect if they follow your program?

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Before Show and Go was ever released, I put a big group of male and female “guinea pigs” through the program with some outstanding results. It wasn’t uncommon to see increases of 80 pounds and more on the squat and deadlift, with improvements about half those amounts on bench pressing and chin-up totals (understandably smaller, given the smaller window of adaptation for upper body strength). We had people drop more than 25 pounds and 5% body fat while on the program, and we had scrawny guys who gained as much as 24 pounds in the four months. It came down to what their starting goals were, and how they attacked things nutritionally on the side.

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We even had many athletes who used this program in conjunction with their sports training – from endurance competitors to rugby players – with excellent improvements.

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The cool thing is that literally every single one of these “guinea pigs” made a point of noting how much better they felt; they improved mobility and moved more fluently by the end of the program. This is a stark contrast to the aches and pains you normally see with programs geared toward performance improvements; the program not only improved performance and made people bigger, stronger, and leaner; it also helped set the stage for healthy future training.

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I think the take-home point is that – as with any program – you’ll get out of Show and Go proportionately to what you put into it, regardless of your goals.

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Absolutely!  Where can my readers get access to Show & Go?

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They can check it out at www.ShowandGoTraining.com, where it is on sale at 50% through this Friday at midnight.

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Excellent! Thanks for taking the time out to do this interview man!

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My pleasure. Thanks for having me.

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First of all, if you’re a regular reader of this blog and have been wondering where I’ve been since my last post a little over a month ago I want to welcome you back.  During this time I decided to take a small break from writing to focus on getting caught up with reading and watching all of the fitness and business products I’ve received over the past few months.  I’ve also decided to go back to defend my Masters in the New Year so I’ve been plowing through research papers like J-Lo goes through husbands.

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Of course, you’d probably know all this if you followed me on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ as I tend to update my accounts daily…but I digress.  The long and short of this post is that my buddy Mike Robertson has just released a product called Complete Core Fitness and this product is LEGIT!  If you want to build a bulletproof, rock solid, and indestructible core then this may be one of the most critical products you’ll ever own.

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In fact, most people – even the experts – can’t agree on how to train the core for strength, stability, and performance.  Some say you don’t need to do any core training at all because the big lifts will take care of it for you.  Others suggest that isolated core training is necessary.  And still others debate about whether crunches should or shouldn’t be used due to potential hazards to the spine.

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And guess what?

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Almost everyone is completely confused about how to properly train the core for strength, stability, and performance!

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It doesn’t matter whether you’re a beginner or advanced.  It doesn’t matter whether you think you’re a core training expert or a complete novice…Mike’s product has something to offer you and I promise you’ll learn something.  Mike is NOT confused and his core training knowledge is immense.

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In 7 video modules he covers everything including his philosophy on core training, the functional anatomy of the core (for those who are new to this stuff), and how to properly assess the core so you’ll know where to start and how to progress your training.  *Note – I am big on assessments so I pretty much LOVE this part*

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From there Mike delves into building the foundations of a strong core, isolative training, integrative training, and finally training for sport and athletic performance.  In short, it is a step by step breakdown of the theory, anatomy, and applications of Mike’s extensively geektastic knowledge of the core.

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And that is just within the 7 modules the comprise over THREE HOURS of incredible material without even mentioning the fast action bonuses Mike is offering for picking up the product right now.

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On top of the product itself you get:

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- A two hour webinar by uber smart fitness pro Evan Osar

- A completely sick underground core training webinar Jim Smith

- Spice Up Your Core Training E-manual by Nick Rosencutter

- Exercises to Prevent Hip Injuries E-manual by Rick Kaselj

- Audio core training Q&A with Mike Robertson

- Powerpoints for all of the video seminars in the product

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Frankly, I think that this product is possibly the most comprehensive core training product on the market right now.  And currently it is on sale at an introductory price that is almost 25% off!  However, I’m a little late to the party on this one as I actually had to finish reviewing the product before I could tell you about it so you actually only have one day to purchase this product and save yourself $30 before the price goes up.

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To be super clear, if you want to get this product at an incredible discount you have to purchase it before midnight TONIGHT.

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That said, I don’t want you to feel pressured to purchase with no way out so it is good that Mike is offering a full 60 day 100% money back refund if you decide you don’t like the product.  Ultimately, there is no risk to you.  Just go pick up the product before midnight tonight and if over the next 8 weeks you decide the product isn’t for you then you can just email Mike and get a full refund with no questions asked.

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Of course, I don’t think that will happen as everything Mike touches pretty much turns to gold and I don’t think I’ve ever seen him disappoint on a product (and I think I have all of them).  But just in case, the offer is there.

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If you want a strong, sexy, functional core then Complete Core Fitness is absolutely worth picking up!

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Complete Core Fitness  <== Get it now before the price goes up!

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