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Unlock Your Hormonal Advantage and Revolutionize Your Life
The female cycle is more than just “that time of the month.” This book teaches women to capitalize on this hormonal orchestra and become their healthiest, happiest, leanest, and most energetic selves. Eye-opening.
– Dani Shugart
Practical tips from the industry’s leading voices.
Fitness is a tough biz. These tips and tactics will help. This one is recommended by T Nation coach Andrew Coates, who also contributed his in-the-trenches expertise to the book.
– Chris Shugart
An Empowering Story About How to Be a Great Leader
T Nation contributor and super coach, Martin Rooney, teaches you how to bring out the best in people, whether you’re a coach, a trainer, a boss, or a parent.
– Chris Shugart
Slow Down to Charge Ahead
Stop letting other people jerk your emotions around. Stop getting distracted from what you need to be doing. Read this, quiet your anxious mind, put things into perspective, and seize the day.
– Dani Shugart
5 Movement Principles for a Stronger Body, Sharper Mind, and Stress-Proof Life
Fix your injury-prone body, gain a better posture, and have more mobility. This book is full of new info you probably haven’t heard before. Bonus: It’s actually fun to read.
– Dani Shugart
An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over
You’ve got the strong body, now let’s build your relationships, your career, and everything in between. Improve your LQ (Likeability Quotient) and just about everything gets better.
– Chris Shugart
Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
David Goggins is the only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller. Oh, and he’s a record-breaking endurance athlete who was named “The Fittest (Real) Man in America” by Outside magazine. Need more? He did all of this after enduring a childhood wracked by poverty, abuse, and prejudice.
Now, when that kinda guy offers you some life advice, you’d be wise to shut up and listen.
When we asked T Nation Instagram fans to name the one book that influenced them the most, this one came out on top. – Chris Shugart
Maximal Results, Minimal Time. Go Beyond High-Intensity Interval Training
Hey, want to do something in the gym that’s boring AND doesn’t really work all that well? Then do slow cardio. Doesn’t that sound like fun? No? Then this book is for you.
It’s all about sprint-intensity training. These types of workouts promise to recruit all three muscle fiber types, including both types of fast-twitch muscle fibers, “thereby conditioning the anaerobic and aerobic processes of the heart muscle in many different ways.”
On top of that, the workouts will trigger a tsunami of natural growth hormone release that’s equivalent to injecting it. And you’ll only need three, 20-minute workouts a week.
Okay, yeah, the book’s ad copy is a little over the top, but it was recommended to us by Christian Thibaudeau, who knows a thing or two about training, so it’s worth looking into. – Chris Shugart
How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
The problem with leadership and management books is that they all start to sound the same. The same tired analogies, the same cliché platitudes, the same inspiring (but ultimately meaningless) drivel that makes you throw up in your mouth a little… or a lot. That’s what makes this book a breath of fresh air: it’s none of those things.
In short, this book takes SEAL leadership tactics and training to the masses, and it does it in a way that’s practical and immediately applicable. It’s inspiring and real, and the war-story narratives will keep you flipping those pages. – Chris Shugart
A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
This is the self-help book for men who’d rather palpitate their prostates with a dirty spatula than read a self-help book.
You will not be coddled; you will be slapped across your dumb face. This book is anti-positivity, anti-feel good, and anti-participation trophies. There’s not a single unicorn or rainbow within its pages, and you definitely won’t be advised to “manifest your truth to the universe” or construct a dream board.
And weirdly, after you read it, you may find yourself in the place you need to be to discover true happiness. No, really. – Chris Shugart
