In the lead up to the holidays and the inevitable over-eating and subsequent New Year resolutions, the fitness world has been put into overdrive. That said, web based content is drying up as people become time poor (myself included). As a result this week in review will be short. If you think I’ve missed anything, please add it to the comments below.
The biggest news of the week was without a doubt the release of the Team EliteFTS 2008 Holiday Tips ebook by Dave Tate and the team at Elitefts. 100% of proceeds (that’s right proceeds, NOT profits) go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation®. According to Elitefts:
“Team EliteFTS 2008 Holiday Tips contains 137 tips to get through the holidays with relatives, no gym,commercial gyms,holiday food and parties.This also includes 10 workout programs and one Circa-Max Raw Bench Press Program to peak your bench before the new year. As always you will find our usual EliteFTS humor scattered throughout the manual. “.
I purchased the book within seconds of seeing it listed and to honest, wouldn’t have cared if it was rubbish given it was for charity. That said, the product is first-class all the way. For more info click here. Oh, and even though this is an ebook, spend the $10 and buy it. It’s for a good cause.
During the week Zach Even-Esh and AJ Roberts held a free teleseminar. You can catch a replay here.
Controversy of the week is yet another case of “forgetting to cite sources” by one of the bigger fitness websites. I’m not going to use the P-word, as I’m not 100% sure that is the case, but surely someone could fact check the articles. It is also not the job of the reader to provide evidence of ‘citing oversights’, and surely a company as large as the sites parent company could afford to get someone to check the information. I’m also not prepared to put this issue on the author as the site has been known to change article content without the author’s knowledge or consent. This matter is far less serious than previous incidents in the last 12 months, but surely it is time for everybody to lift there game in this department. Anyone who has passed high school should know how to cite a reference.
Annoyance of the week: Web sites that either load slowly or fail to load. It’s bothered me for a long time. I stopped my membership at strengthcoach.com due to the incredibly slow loading times it took (hopefully it’s better now). For about 2 weeks I’ve been trying to visit a particular strength coach’s blog. The page has never loaded. Frustrating.
As I said, I’m keeping this week short, next week’s review will be a full review covering articles and blogs as well as everything else.