Free Ebook TacFit Commando - Just Pay with a Tweet!

I've been offering a free ebook on this blog for awhile in exchange for subscriptions. You subscribe to the blog, you get the free ebook along with notices every time I post new content. The book is called TacFit Commando: Hardcore Tactical Fitness Secrets of the Special Ops. You can get it for free in the right hand side column beside this post. Riiiiight over there >>>>>>>>>>>>

See it? Great!

For people who don't like to subscribe for fear of spam, I'm offering a new way to get the ebook using something called Pay with a Tweet. All you have to do is tweet or post a Facebook update about the book, and you automatically go to the download page for an instant download.

More on that in a second.

Why do I like the book? It offers something a lot of other workout programs don't: brevity. That's right...the book is not very long. In those short pages though it gives you straightforward, no fluff info about the workouts you'll be doing.

I hate reading through 10 pages of introductory chapters in a workout book, don't you?

TacFit Commando Trims through the fat, so to speak, to give you just the lean meat. And that's why you buy a workout and fitness book in the first place.

The way I use TacFit commando is not as a standalone workout, but as a supplement to other workouts. Basically I take a lot of the techniques and specific exercises and throw them into my own routine. It works. I'm not trying to turn into Mr. Olympia right now; I want lean, functional muscle mass. I'm training parkour, so it's especially important that I don't get weighed down with extra muscle pounds.

The book has plenty of workouts to get your whole body into the action: lower abs workouts, chest workouts, leg workouts, shoulder workouts, arm workouts, and more.

Now back to this whole Pay with a Tweet business. The subscriber option has been working great, but I'm a believer in having options, so I want to give everyone who doesn't like sharing their email a chance to try out this free Special Ops fitness book.

When you click the button that says "Pay With A Tweet" you get taken right to another page where you can choose whether you want to post on Twitter or Facebook. There's a tweet already written, so you just click OK and the tweet is posted to your Twitter account. You're free to change the wording of the tweet to whatever you want, but the link stays the same (it's just a link back to this blog, nothing fancy).

Check it out! Let me know what you think of the new system in the comments below!

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Why You Should Take Frequent Workout Breaks

An important part of working out to gain muscle is learning how to take it easy. When you push yourself too far, your body stops to receive any benefit from the extra reps, and you're actually doing more damage to your body than good.

The basic idea is that you shouldn't be a workout. And when I talk about breaks, I mean don't work out every single day. A lot of newbies get started under the false idea that the more they hit the iron, the faster they're going to get some noticeable muscle growth. Beginner strength training is the place where you're going to be the most susceptible to injury, especially if you're trying to push yourself too far too fast.

Beginner Strength Training is About Moderating Your Activity

The hardest part about moderating yourself when you're working out is that you might very well see some results very soon. However, continuing to push through the pain to get a workout in every day will damage your muscle tissue and make it grow slower. When you work out, you should aim for enough recovery time so that your muscle tissue can actually grow back at a pretty good rate, because that's where the ripped muscle comes from.

You see, at the beginning your muscles aren't used to the extra strain that comes from beginner strength training. When you wake up the next morning after a workout, you should feel a little muscle soreness, but you shouldn't have to huddle under your bed sheets because it's too painful to move.

Once you start to get used to your workout routines, then you can take it a little further and push harder, but you should always ramp up your difficulty level slowly.

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