08-05-20 04:53 PM - Post#901060    

Hi, folks, today's the official release day of Dan's new book, Attempts.



Here's the OTP book page, including audio, ebook and paperback. The first chapter is under the "Excerpts" tab, as well as in the audio sample window at the top of the description.

There are 10 copies of the ebook set up for borrowing, but those are "checked out" at the moment. Look again in a few days if you want to read it, but money's an issue.

Here's the Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08D71DZJS

Audible is in process, waiting on their review.

08-05-20 05:49 PM - Post#901062    

Bought it. I didn't even bother to read what it's about. I'm interested anyway.

"I think we often spend too much time focusing on max fitness and not nearly enough on maintaining our minimums. It seems we need to think sustainable rather than obtainable. Meaning whatever we do today, we can do it again tomorrow. Never taking so much from ourselves that we can't." Dan Martin

08-06-20 10:23 AM - Post#901092    

Bought the ebook from OTP. Apart from the great price and service, what they have done with the learning library is wonderful and I think they deserve support.

Thanks to everyone who makes this forum so useful and such a good place to be.

Danchr('039')s new book, Attempts!
08-06-20 10:30 AM - Post#901094    

• iPood Said:

• Craig1971 Said:

+1

Just my 2¢

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08-06-20 10:47 AM - Post#901098    

Thank you all.

Daniel John Just handing down what I was handed down... Make a Difference. Live. Love. Laugh. Balance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude) Sleep soundly. Drink Water. Eat veggies and protein. Walk. Wear your seat belt. Don’t smoke. Floss your teeth. Put weights overhead. Pick weights off the floor. Carry weights. Reread great books. Say thank you

08-06-20 10:54 AM - Post#901100    

• Craig1971 Said:

Damn! I didn't think of that and impulse-purchased the e-book from the AMZ. :-(

"I think we often spend too much time focusing on max fitness and not nearly enough on maintaining our minimums. It seems we need to think sustainable rather than obtainable. Meaning whatever we do today, we can do it again tomorrow. Never taking so much from ourselves that we can't." Dan Martin

Attempts!
08-07-20 01:54 AM - Post#901129    

Thanks Laree.

Bought it yesterday through Kindle.

Didnt even know whats it about but it didnt matter. I just love DJ books.

IronOnline = best

08-07-20 11:37 AM - Post#901150    

Thanks, folks. We appreciate the sentiment of buying direct, and also value the downloadable digital option. But we make money regarding of where you buy. It's a bit bigger via OTP for sure, but getting free prime shipping or having all of your ebooks in your Kindle library is also important. We totally get that!

Danchr('039')s new book, Attempts!
08-10-20 01:38 PM - Post#901249    

Just bought this ... paperback, I’m still stuck in the past and need a book in my hands.

'You can throw in the towel or use it to wipe the sweat off your face and keep going' 'Well ain't this place a geographical oddity? Two weeks from everywhere.' Ulysses Everett McGill

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08-11-20 12:35 PM - Post#901266    

Santa Claus came early yesterday!! Look what I found and where I found it..

The Three Wise Men!!


1597163463-Santa.docx

1597163591-Three_Wise_Men .docx

Just my 2¢

08-11-20 02:16 PM - Post#901268    

Just finished the book. I loved it!

Now I have a couple of weird wardrobe questions: what's that magical brand that makes unwrinkable polo shirts? And what's a workout pair of jeans?

"I think we often spend too much time focusing on max fitness and not nearly enough on maintaining our minimums. It seems we need to think sustainable rather than obtainable. Meaning whatever we do today, we can do it again tomorrow. Never taking so much from ourselves that we can't." Dan Martin

08-11-20 04:27 PM - Post#901272    

Arc'teryx Captive SS Polo Men's

Barbell Brand jeans

Daniel John Just handing down what I was handed down... Make a Difference. Live. Love. Laugh. Balance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude) Sleep soundly. Drink Water. Eat veggies and protein. Walk. Wear your seat belt. Don’t smoke. Floss your teeth. Put weights overhead. Pick weights off the floor. Carry weights. Reread great books. Say thank you

08-11-20 04:34 PM - Post#901273    

• Dan John Said:

Thanks, Dan!

"I think we often spend too much time focusing on max fitness and not nearly enough on maintaining our minimums. It seems we need to think sustainable rather than obtainable. Meaning whatever we do today, we can do it again tomorrow. Never taking so much from ourselves that we can't." Dan Martin

08-12-20 03:54 AM - Post#901279    

By the way, the chapter about eulogy REALLY resonated with me. It's, by FAR, my favorite written piece of your body of work.

"I think we often spend too much time focusing on max fitness and not nearly enough on maintaining our minimums. It seems we need to think sustainable rather than obtainable. Meaning whatever we do today, we can do it again tomorrow. Never taking so much from ourselves that we can't." Dan Martin

08-12-20 09:18 AM - Post#901290    

iPood,
In a podcast yesterday, someone asked my favorite part...I said the Eulogy chapter!

Daniel John Just handing down what I was handed down... Make a Difference. Live. Love. Laugh. Balance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude) Sleep soundly. Drink Water. Eat veggies and protein. Walk. Wear your seat belt. Don’t smoke. Floss your teeth. Put weights overhead. Pick weights off the floor. Carry weights. Reread great books. Say thank you

Danchr('039')s new book, Attempts!
08-12-20 09:55 AM - Post#901294    

• iPood Said:

Mine, too. Well done, Dan. Thank you for putting so much of yourself into this one.

Be strong. Be in shape. Be a man among men, regardless of your age or circumstances.

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08-13-20 07:24 AM - Post#901314    

Enjoying this greatly. But so far I have a couple of questions...

1. What’s the story behind frogs turning into toads (eating the biggest first, leaptoading etc...) over the years? Did you get hate mail from an enraged French chef?

2. How does one floss while driving to the gym? Sounds like a strange risk-benefit ratio to me!

08-13-20 09:52 AM - Post#901321    

1. Oui.

2. I use floss sticks! I don't use strings.

Daniel John Just handing down what I was handed down... Make a Difference. Live. Love. Laugh. Balance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude) Sleep soundly. Drink Water. Eat veggies and protein. Walk. Wear your seat belt. Don’t smoke. Floss your teeth. Put weights overhead. Pick weights off the floor. Carry weights. Reread great books. Say thank you

08-13-20 01:51 PM - Post#901331    

I love it. Dan is the wise uncle I never had.

www.mikeprevost.com "The quality of movement, I think, trumps load...unless it is a contest about load." Dan John

08-13-20 02:13 PM - Post#901332    

I appreciate that, thank you.

Usually people refer to me as the Crazy Uncle, so I thank you.

Daniel John Just handing down what I was handed down... Make a Difference. Live. Love. Laugh. Balance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude) Sleep soundly. Drink Water. Eat veggies and protein. Walk. Wear your seat belt. Don’t smoke. Floss your teeth. Put weights overhead. Pick weights off the floor. Carry weights. Reread great books. Say thank you

08-14-20 05:18 PM - Post#901358    

Regarding the "hang for thirty seconds, then pull up"... Would it be too crazy doing squats and presses in the same fashion?

I know, I know... but I'm a sucker for weird, new things.

"I think we often spend too much time focusing on max fitness and not nearly enough on maintaining our minimums. It seems we need to think sustainable rather than obtainable. Meaning whatever we do today, we can do it again tomorrow. Never taking so much from ourselves that we can't." Dan Martin

08-14-20 06:22 PM - Post#901360    

I think Dan has actually mentioned doing that with squats. I supposed it depend on the weight - I don't find it difficult.

Not sure if there'd be much advantage to presses, really.

08-14-20 07:25 PM - Post#901363    

• iPood Said:

If you pause either in the hole on squats or on your chest for bench I can verify it is brutal. Don’t think you’d make it to thirty seconds with a decent weight though. Also holding your last rep of the day at lockout on deadlifts until your grip fails is all
kinds of fun too.

"The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind."~GK Chesterton

08-16-20 12:37 PM - Post#901430    

• Browser Said:

You’re as sick as I. Hey, at least we’ve found joy in humility, right?

Be strong. Be in shape. Be a man among men, regardless of your age or circumstances.

08-22-20 11:53 PM - Post#901678    

I just bought the book and started the Kindle text-to-speech while I'm doing some stuff.

I'm just barely into it, I want to say we write similarly DJ, and all I can do while I am reading/listening to the jumble of the text-to-speech; (well fill in explitives copiously as sentence after sentence gets jittered out loud)

*innerchuckle* phaq, yeahhh........*innerchuckle* phaq, yeah.....

This kind of reading is where common sense and boots on the ground knowledge and experience and education++ all come together and it just soaks in. You feel like you're listening to your smart buddy that you respect and you understand so well.

Thanks DJ and Laree

Diablo Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth- MT

08-23-20 09:49 AM - Post#901683    

Thank you. I think the audio should be ready soon as I don't know about texts to speech.

Common sense is a tough thing to learn.

Daniel John Just handing down what I was handed down... Make a Difference. Live. Love. Laugh. Balance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude) Sleep soundly. Drink Water. Eat veggies and protein. Walk. Wear your seat belt. Don’t smoke. Floss your teeth. Put weights overhead. Pick weights off the floor. Carry weights. Reread great books. Say thank you

08-23-20 10:04 AM - Post#901685    

Audible is really taking a long time lately. I keep checking, but nothing’s happening yet. Sorry for the delay!

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08-27-20 06:46 PM - Post#901828    

Really enjoying this, Dan. It is my morning reading material while I'm on the "throne".

The chapter about Tony Robbins on the Pleasure/Pain of goal attainment REALLY clicked. I adapted it and made an actual matrix for my cross country kids to fill out for their "big, scary" season goal. Some of the introspection I've seen in the hidden boxes (Pleasure of Failing and Pain of Succeeding) has been illuminating.

EDIT: Here's the Google Doc I made. Feel free to copy for your own use.

vincit qui se vincit

Edited by NSmith on 08-27-20 06:50 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.

08-28-20 08:50 AM - Post#901840    

That's very good, thank you for sharing this.

Daniel John Just handing down what I was handed down... Make a Difference. Live. Love. Laugh. Balance work, rest, play and pray (enjoy beauty and solitude) Sleep soundly. Drink Water. Eat veggies and protein. Walk. Wear your seat belt. Don’t smoke. Floss your teeth. Put weights overhead. Pick weights off the floor. Carry weights. Reread great books. Say thank you

08-28-20 01:00 PM - Post#901848    

Hi, folks, Attempts is finally live on Audible. This link gives you the audiobook for free on Audible as part of a 30-trial (new users only, sorry):

https://www.audible.com/pd/B08GKNNSSY/?source _code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-B K-ACX0-213350&ref=acx _bty_...