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    Strong and Lean: 9-Minute Daily Workouts to Build Your Best Body: No Equipment, Anywhere, Anytime
    Strong and Lean: 9-Minute Daily Workouts to Build Your Best Body: No Equipment, Anywhere, Anytime
    Strong and Lean: 9-Minute Daily Workouts to Build Your Best Body: No Equipment, Anywhere, Anytime
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    Strong and Lean: 9-Minute Daily Workouts to Build Your Best Body: No Equipment, Anywhere, Anytime

    By Mark Lauren and Joshua Clark

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    • Exercise

    • Fitness

    • Health

    • Bodyweight Training

    • Strength Training

    • Quest

    • Fish Out of Water

    • Mentor

    • Hero's Journey

    • Mentor Figure

    • Underdog

    • Transformation

    • Training Montage

    • Self-Improvement

    • Guide

    • Bodybuilding

    • Bodyweight Exercises

    • Personal Development

    • Mobility

    • Publishing

    About this ebook

    Strong and Lean--Mark Lauren's follow-up to his bestselling book--You Are Your Own Gym--uses two decades of unparalleled experience to accomplish what most people thought impossible: The ability to immediately begin your workout wherever you are--from living rooms to hotel rooms to yards--and finish 9 minutes later.

    In the age of isolation, a great workout plan that doesn't require any gym equipment is invaluable. Lauren provides a regimen that will help you achieve a stronger, leaner body in only a few weeks. Strong and Lean features a philosophy backed by Lauren's intense personal experiences--ones that speak to every man and woman--along with his military experience.

    With Mark Lauren's workout, you can now achieve your most muscular and lean body with an incredibly small sacrifice of time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 26, 2021
    ISBN9781250787200
    Strong and Lean: 9-Minute Daily Workouts to Build Your Best Body: No Equipment, Anywhere, Anytime
    Author

    Mark Lauren

    MARK LAUREN spent 15 years as a military physical-training specialist. Now a personal trainer to civilian men and women of all fitness levels, a triathlete, and a champion Thai boxer, he is the author of the internationally popular body-weight bibles You Are Your Own Gym, Body by You, and Body Fuel.

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      Strong and Lean - Mark Lauren

      INTRODUCTION

      You hold in your hands the most direct path to an athlete’s body, one that takes only 0.3 percent of your time each week.

      Here’s a simple truth: You achieve your best body through training the movements most important to your survival. But other trainers and authors haven’t even asked what those are.

      So I’m going to share with you what it took me a lifetime to find—the formula to the most desirable physique. It’s almost sad that it’s so secret. But the fitness industry doesn’t want you to know the simple solution to reaching your goals, so they can keep you addicted to their gyms, equipment, and other needlessly complex, moneymaking fads.

      Strong and Lean has proven to build more muscle than weight lifting, burn more fat than cardio, and produce sexier and safer results than either of those. It will turn your body into the only fitness equipment you’ll ever need again.

      I was proud to write the first bestselling bodyweight fitness book, You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises. It was also the first popular fitness book based on a military program, and the first I know of to chuck out monotonous, time-consuming, energy-draining and inefficient cardio. You Are Your Own Gym remains a timeless resource for everything from body composition to motivation to nutrition. With 125 possible exercises, it transforms any room into a total fitness center.

      Strong and Lean is a different animal. While You Are Your Own Gym is the Bible of Bodyweight Exercises, Strong and Lean streamlines my life’s work into one program in a simple layout, removing the guesswork. And while You Are Your Own Gym allows you to isolate muscle groups, here I’ve carefully engineered new movements that each strengthen your entire body at once.

      Strong and Lean applies Western cutting-edge sports science to the Eastern world’s wisdom, and couples that with three decades of unparalleled experience, so you only have to put in nine minutes a day, a few days a week. Never before has there been such a short, low-impact program that comprehensively and methodically covers all the muscle groups, joint functions, and athletic skills you require to get and stay strong, lean, healthy, mobile, and injury-free.

      BUILDING A BILLION BEAUTIFUL BODIES: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?

      Doing my exercises in You Are Your Own Gym, millions have now used the body they had to build the body they wanted. But what about a billion? What’s stopping so many people from having their best body?

      Two things:

      Those who work out:

      Everyone wants to get leaner and stronger. But their goals always seem just out of reach. Why? Because most trainers and authors don’t understand what strength actually means, and therefore how it’s achieved while building your leanest body.

      Those who don’t work out:

      Sedentary lifestyles and poor nutrition have thrust us into a health crisis that’s making millions miserable, often leading to their early deaths. Everyone knows the benefits of consistent, proper exercise; you get healthier, stronger, leaner, sleep better, live longer, have more energy and more desire. So what’s stopping them from doing it?

      We conducted a survey asking just that. We asked a thousand Americans from all fifty states who didn’t work out: why not? The number one answer? You may have guessed it: They say they don’t have time.

      So as You Are Your Own Gym became a bestseller in over a dozen countries, I set out on a worldwide mission, one even I thought impossible:

      Could I develop the ultimate program that takes the least amount of time and produces the results people need?

      MY JOURNEY

      Like a lot of people, I’ve tried a lot of things that didn’t work. I spent a life driving myself to extremes, trying to find the formula to the best human body. By the time I was nine, I was doing six hundred sit-ups a day on my bedroom floor. In high school, I competed in bodybuilding competitions. By the age of twenty, I’d become another gym bunny, developing undesirable proportions, mistaking the size of my muscles for actual ability and strength. I realized it wouldn’t be long before I also developed debilitating chronic injuries. I saw firsthand that most bodybuilders can’t even walk straight. So I started doing CrossFit-type workouts for hours every week before CrossFit was cool. Then I’d take Sunday off and play a sport with some guys and gals who don’t even work out, and guess what? They’d kick my ass!¹ I couldn’t believe it. All that work wasn’t paying off. The incredible inefficiency of my exercise programs really pissed me off. But the worst was yet to come.

      When I joined the air force, and eventually the Special Operations community, I prided myself on shutting out pain and taking my body past perceived limits. I still hold the U.S. military record for swimming underwater the longest (two minutes, twenty-three seconds), before blacking out underwater. Most of our Special Operations courses were designed to drive candidates into the floor. But only by realizing more is not better did I get better results. Because doing more than what’s necessary only prolongs recovery and increases the risk of injury.

      After serving on Silver Team at the 22nd Special Tactics Squadron at McChord AFB in Tacoma, Washington, I became the physical trainer of nearly a thousand elite Special Operations warriors—including SEALs, Rangers, Green Berets, Force Recon teams, and air force commandos—assigned to carry out the most dangerous missions. My men became my heroes. Some earned Silver Stars. They became the strongest and leanest people of our civilization. Because it wasn’t their livelihoods but their lives (and ours) that depended on it.

      I developed a purely bodyweight program that evolved until my squadrons were using it not only in the field but even when equipment was available. One time, we actually gave away a few hundred thousand dollars’ worth of exercise equipment, just to make room for more floor space. Because your arms were made to push and pull your bodyweight, not to grasp handles on machines or metal bars while you sit on a cushy bench. I mean, lying down on a soft surface is fine when you’re sleeping. Sitting on a cushioned seat is fine if you’re driving or looking at your computer or TV. But we realized we sure as hell shouldn’t be doing that if we’re doing real exercise.

      You Are Your Own Gym brought my system to civilians—125 exercises for every single body part that transformed your living room, bedroom, office, garage, yard, you name it, into a total-body fitness center, using no equipment but the most efficient fitness device ever created: your own body.

      My journey from military trainer to international bestselling author was a dream come true. It’s been awesome getting real-time feedback from hundreds of thousands of social media subscribers. I’ve had the opportunity to train thousands of people, certify hundreds of trainers, and train the trainers of trainers. I got a ringside seat beside the men and women at the forefront of elite training and sports science. But more than all the science I studied and the research I conducted, experience inspired me most: from Dubai to Laos, from Afghanistan to Portland, from doing Dive Bomber Push-Ups in Moscow’s Red Square in the snow and dark of the Russian winter to teaching coaches at the Chinese Olympic Training Center in Beijing.

      I amassed all the pieces to the giant fitness puzzle. But it remained just that: in pieces. One big, needlessly complicated mess. There was a lot of good info out there from a lot of high-level strength and conditioning coaches I worked with. But incredibly, no one seemed able to distill the essence of what it truly takes to become strong and lean into something simple yet comprehensive that can be easily understood and applied.

      I needed to go back to how I planned missions in the military:

      Start with the objective, then work backward to find the most efficient strategy to achieve

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