You've listened to everybody else, are you ready to listen to your body?
May 1, 2011
Adam T. Glass
Haven't you always thought you could be more than you are now? Isn't that why you dedicate hours upon hours of your life to fitness and health each month?
I know what you do. You are out there in the trenches putting in the work, but are you getting back the results you truly deserve?
You're smart, so you go out and search for more information. That is where the problems begin...
Have you ever wondered why it is that every fitness expert is telling you conflicting information?

According to many fitness experts nothing works for everyone, yet they will sell you a book or DVD detailing specific exercises done for specific sets and reps and promise exceptional results. Do you think that makes sense?
How can someone sell you a program with specific reps, sets, and exercises if they have never met you?
Do generic one-size-fits-all programs really work the best?
Tell me, have you ever wondered if there could be a better way?
What if there was a way to always get the best possible workout, every single time. The best workout for YOUR body, for your goals.
If that was possible, it would change the game!
A year ago I taught a workshop called Grip and Rip which completely changed the lives of all who applied it, and made life very tough on my competition. If I had to summarize what happened in a single sentence I would say this: I taught people how to use an incredible system of training to lead themselves so that they would become their own expert.
I led the assault and brought newly discovered technologies to the fitness world; with it came a new standard of training. A standard that literally reshaped all expectations of strength training.
PR Every Day.
Breaking a new Personal Record every single day. Getting better at something, at YOUR goal, every single time you do it.
Imagine, for the first time a program where the focus was exclusively centered on you, on what you need right now in real time. This is exactly what the Gym Movement Protocol offers!
Biofeedback is the key that unlocks that city of perpetual gains, faster gains, unlimited gains. In the past training programs have been based on what works best for a few elite individuals. The problem is that the program is simply copying what the best athletes have been doing intuitively. The best athletes know how to follow their bodies' feedback. But they also know that what worked for them in one moment, might not work the next.
Biofeedback is the tool that lets YOU listen to the feedback your body is giving you, to unlock the gains that the best athletes in the world have used to reach their elite status. This is a fact: never before has such a powerful tool been made available to YOU in YOU training.
It did not go over as well as I first thought it would. I was laughed at, I was criticized. My so called friends in the fitness industry turned their backs on me. In the very same month I was offered a high ranking instructor position and then cast out of the community. I guess something I was saying was very scary for businesses that were built on selling people one-size-fits-all programs?

At the time the experts all agreed on one thing: it was impossible to PR Every Day and could not possibly work.
Too bad for the experts, people decided to think for themselves. I didn't tell anyone to trust me and just do it, I asked them to put it to the test. And they did exactly that!
What has happened since then?
Take a look at the PRs people are setting on a daily basis:
Most importantly, since then we have learned more about the science of perpetual progress. Much more!
When I taught the first Grip & Rip we were on the bleeding edge of fitness technology (and still are). There were things which I did not know. There were things which we did not fully understand.
Since then we have expanded our own understanding of the Gym Movement Protocol, while making the application simpler and easier to use.
The results are truly unbelievable.
Members of the Movement are now doing things which every guru and expert has labeled impossible. It seems we have found that the rules are all wrong, the lines do not exist, and the limits are farther out than anyone first predicted.
I know it is time to reveal more of what we have discovered. This technology is simply too powerful for us to control all to ourselves.
With this in mind, I have decided to teach my next workshop. Smarter Strength, applying the science of Perpetual Progress.
Want to know more? Check this out.
This is what I am going to teach you at Smarter Strength
This is just the tip of the iceberg. What you can apply this information to is what is truly remarkable.
Now there are a few things I need to tell you, this is what I will not be covering.
This event is all about YOU, making you BETTER in as many ways as possible.
Grip & Rip completely changed the game in 2010, do you want to see first hand what happens with Smarter Strength?
This is your chance to get the best fitness education possible in a single day. Last year's attendees to Grip & Rip all agreed it was the best workshop they had ever attended, and several of them had attended over 10 fitness courses in the past few years.
"To conclude, this is a DVD that disentangles the web that the fitness/weight loss industries have spun us in. Can it all be this simple? I think it can. And if Gym Movement protocols and programming my clients' future training based on volume, density, and intensity can help my business grow while my clients advance, I will honor the content of this DVD with my own PR smashing"
- Will W Senior RKC
"It is amazing how much the Gym Movement protocol has improved my quality of life outside of the gym...I used to get terrible tension headaches from my old workouts but not any more"
- Tera M, Iowa
"Gym Movement made my training fun again...My body fat dropped from 22% to 17.8% in one month and my old injures no longer cause me pain."
- Brad E, Minnesota
"You're crazy if you're not doing this!"
- Amy D, Ohio
"This is awesome, I always was skeptical about the mainstream fitness "science" and what not. I have a personal trainer cert and this method pretty much makes that obsolete"
- Eugene, USA
"My left shoulder that has been a problem for years due to an injury now feels great. I enjoy my workouts now that I'm not trying to beat myself to death"
- Scott A, Georgia
"This almost feels like cheating."
- George S RKC, CK-FMS, Z-Health R-I-S - New Jersey
I am dropping a few lines because (with apologies) I am not posting my PRs on your thread. And improve I do. I started using GymMovement protocol on February 8th. At that time I was positively angry. I had used to do handstand push-ups for reps and press the 32kg for ladders, but I could not lift my one year old son overhead without pain. When I started testing, push-ups against a wall (exercise 1 in the push-up series of Convict Conditioning) was the only press that would test well. I had hurt my back during DL. I used to DL 400 pounds for a few reps (at 6.3, 205 pounds), but I could not get a good test on a 40 pound DL. I had developed a knee condition from uphill sprint. I used to run 3 times a week. No running would test well except running backward. No squat would test well, not even bodyweight. Finally, my hands were hurting from excessive traning with grippers (I can close a CoC number 2 comfortably with either hand). I had also developed elbow tendinitis and could not flex my triceps without discomfort. In short, I was a wreck.
I was trying to follow a training program designed specifically to suit my injuries and preferences by a very competent and super-strong powerlifter and coach. I knew it was the best program (now I would say the best "traditional" program) I could hope to follow. But I was still hurting. I quit the program and did rehab exercises prescribed by my physiotherapist. Several weeks into it, I was in fact hurting more.
Fast forward three months. All injuries have completely or partially healed, I look, feel and test stronger. Some indications I get from testing are easy to interpret, other are a mystery, but it all seems to work. In some cases sticking to protocol has been hard psychologically, because I like lifting weights but bodyweight movements almost invariably test much better. For example, the DL was the cornerstone of my training, but it has not tested well a single day in over three months, and I have tried every variation. Same for swings. The Convinct Conditioning bridging series consistently tested very well, and I am now at step 9. Squats are never a go, but I can do high step ups or push my car. I have done chin-ups about twice a week consistently, while pull-ups have not tested well a single time. I cannot get a good test lifting a kb, dumbell or bar overhead, no matter how light and with what techniques, but headstands test good. Go figure.
- Paolo G
Update on my training, my workout today was feeling G R E A T, but I was discouraged at the end to realize my press numbers were just slightly below the volume I used to do on ETK ladders. BUMMER...until I took a closer look at my metrics. I suddenly realized what was one a ball busting 1 1/2 to 2 hour long ladder workout now took me 20 minutes. Whaaa? Oh did I mention it was easy? Density, and quality movement PR. I am really beginning to see how this will carry over into the 40K weight very very soon. In addition I've been really seeing some lightyear improvement on the CC movements. I originally wanted to do CC because If I could get high up in the progressions the idea of working strength wherever I was (hotel room, girlfriends house, ect) really appealed to me. The great thing about biofeedback is I haven't once bit off more than I can chew in this. I've been skipping whole progression standards about every week. I'm not super high up in all the movements, but then again I've only been really moving them for maybe 3-4 weeks since finals ended.
The point I'm trying to make here is that I've been perusing dragondoor forums for a while and there are guys that have been doing this thing for months and months and are still on step 2 or three, determined to get that super high volume required by the program, check the little box and move on. With biofeedback, WHATS THE POINT? If my goal is one arm pushsups, and uneven or half one armers are testing well why grind though 40 knee pushups? It makes no sense, but there they all are grinding through the lower progressions to make sure "their joints don't get hurt", or something. If you want some illustrations for the sight here is an example. Tried to do the pistols in CC that are on a basketball week before last. Couldn't do one even though I can do a full pistol. Waited till it tested better last week and did 12 the first time I tried each leg. Just a balance and movement thing body was ready...kablooey Anyway, I could go on and on and on. but this email is getting in serious danger of not being read so I'll quit. Hope I'm quick enough to grab a copy of 2.1 on the 21st.
- Zane F
I remember giving Adam gripper tips and advice a few years back. And the process has come full circle because early this year I contacted him and asked him for advice. He gave me some great advice and I decided to purchase his Grip and Rip 2.1 DVD.
And I wish I had bought the DVD when it first came out. Because thanks to the info contained in Grip and Rip - along with some personalized instruction from Adam over the phone - I've broken out of a years-long gripper slump. And that's no exaggeration. I certified on the Ironmind Captains of Crush #3 gripper in 2005. And later that year I hit what I considered to be my peak gripper strength - in terms of consistently displaying strong gripper closes with multiple sets - such as Mash Monster Set (MMS), Credit Card Set (CCS), and Table No Set (TNS).
I was on the fence for quite a while about whether or not the Grip and Rip 2.1 DVD was worth the asking price. In hindsight I'd pay 10 times the asking price because the return over the next few years will be priceless to me. The return in just a few short months has already been more than worth the very reasonable outlay of money.
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Think about this.
A one-time monetary investment that will help you get fitter and stronger more quickly than any other method of training that I've experienced in 20 years of resistance training.
- Ben E, Multiple Grip & USAWA Record Holder
In my own secret laboratory studio in Minneapolis I have taught hundreds of every day people how to use the Gym Movement protocol to make the fastest physique and performance gains possible. Imagine what you could do as a serious athlete? How about what our friend Nick, who has been a top notch endurance athlete for years, did in 90 days:

Smarter Strength is the only public workshop I am doing this year, so if you want to learn what I know you need to be here.
Want to come?
Here is the deal.
I am only allowing a small group of people to come out. Half the spots are already taken for Movement Coaches and Candidates. The other half will go fast.
Sign up right now at $497 and you get in to the goodie room.
Need some more time for payment? I got your back, you can make your payments one lump sum, two separate payments of $279, or three payments of $199.
$199 right now can secure your seat and assure you front row access to the best training system on the planet.
Workshop Date: Saturday June 11th 9:00am-5:00pm.
Workshop Location: The Movement Minneapolis, Plymouth MN.
Also: Dinner to Follow
Included in your Smarter Strength workshop ticket is a 3-month unlimited pass to The Movement Minneapolis. Armed with what you've learned in the workshop, you will be able to take advantage of it in the very laboratory where the bleeding edge fitness research is happening.
An unlimited class membership at The Movement Minneapolis is worth well over FOUR HUNDRED dollars, but is your gift for coming to Smarter Strength and learning how to use biofeedback to guide you to the fastest gains you've ever experienced.
Because you're going to learn how to extract the secrets from your training log, we want you to have access to the only tool on the planet specifically designed to help you unlock the data that is hidden in your training log.
We're going to include a LIFETIME account to Adaptifier, the tool designed from the ground-up by The Movement to harness the power of your training data. Right now, you can only get an Adaptifier account by invitation, and the cost will eventually be over $20/month. But we want you to start taking advantage of this tool now, so we're going to GIVE you a lifetime account.
Workshop Date: Saturday June 11th 9:00am.
Workshop Location: The Movement Minneapolis, Plymouth MN.
Additionally I have secured hotel rooms for our guests at a serious discount, so let me know when you sign up if you are traveling and I will give you a discount code to save you big bucks on your room.
Ready to find out how good you can become?
I'll see you on the 4th of June in Minneapolis
Adam T Glass
P.S. Make no mistake, this workshop will fill up and I will not make more room.