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Diamond Cut Abs is not just about abs. Its about lifestyle to achieve healthy abs and what it means to have healthy abs. This book covers exercise movement, philosophy and nutrition. A full package with awesome exercises and programs. If you read this book, follow it and don't get results, go see your doctor as soon as possible because something must be wrong.
Great Book Danny! This book is visually stunning, entertaining, and extremely helpful as I am preparing for the Progressive Calisthenics Certification PCC. I am glad that Danny reminds people that how our bodies look is based on what we eat AND how we move and he provides useful information on both fronts with something for every fitness level. This book will make you want to spend more time exploring movement with your feet off the ground -- and your abs will thank you!
Diamond-Cut Abs? Thanks for being so honest on what works. After reading a number of other books, this book is refreshing. I have to admit I was a little skeptical of this book given the title -- it sounds like one of those articles you read in a "health" magazine -- "how to get ripped in minutes a day!
After reading this book I really look forward to meeting Danny in person someday. His life experience is a welcome addition to the manual. The section on food and eating both for health and for developing a particular physique are helpful and honest. Above all, this is a book about getting strong and looking good.
Definitely recommended. I purchased this book recently and at first was a little disappointed because it looked like it was just full of pictures of people with great abs, but after I actually started to read the material it became crystal clear what the hype was about. Danny demonstrated that the workout is only a quarter of the battle, diet and common sense are what completes a solid body.
As a martial arts instructor I conduct a conditioning class on Sunday mornings for the adults and I was able to use Danny's techniques and will continue to do so. I am 54 years old and have never been in better shape thanks to the Kalvadlo Bros, Anthony DiLuglio, Max Shank and to Dragon Door publications for publishing great reference material for living! Read our Review Guidelines before posting your review. Register Login. View Cart 0. Keyword Search. Have you added the Isochain Isometrics Manual?
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Abs are everywhere in pop culture, from billboards to music videos. Magazine covers to TV commercials. Abs all day, every day. The questions I get asked often require long answers. People want to know what exercises they can start with. How to design a program. Things come and go, I suppose. Without trying to play sociologist, I will simply say that the Brooklyn youth of that era had a certain edge that I fear will be lacking in future generations.
In the seventies, eighties, and even the nineties, there was an unspoken tough guy element intrinsically wired in anyone who grew up here and survived. Even though the streets were a thousand times rougher then, our generation played outside. We were streetwise. We witnessed the birth of rap and the numerous deaths of rock. Over the years, my generation of Brooklynites experienced the rise of everything from Saturday Night Fever, to Biggie Smalls, to Biohazard and everything in between.
Culturally speaking there will never be anything like it again. The internet may as well have been ten thousand years away. Everything had to be seen as it happened. Brooklyn was the worlds biggest small town. No, this isnt San Quentin. Its the schoolyard at Bildersee Junior High. I was in the class of I had a nonathletic upbringing and was discouraged from participating in sports as a youth. My psychotic gym teacher reinforced this.
All I remember about elementary school gym class is getting screamed at. I recall feeling unsettled and angry. Once in a while, we played dodgeball and, if we were lucky, did some jumping jacks and sit-ups. This was the early 80s, so the sit-ups were old school, full range of motionthe kind that, years later, some decried as bad for you. Sit-ups were the first abs exercise that I, and so many others from my generation, ever did. I liked sit-ups but hated gym. In spite of this burning hatred, somehow, my brothers and I discovered strength training at a young age.
Looking back, I honestly dont know how it happened. It must have been a combination of watching local hero Lou Ferrigno on The Incredible Hulk, along with our own God-given testosterone not to mention the competitive nature of a household with three boys. The desire to not get our asses kicked at school probably played a role too. Its hard to say exactly. I think we fell specifically into body weight training early on because, aside from a dusty piece of pipe for pull-ups, we couldnt afford equipment.
I was young when I did my first push-ups and pull- ups, and Im grateful for that. I did those two exercises non-stop, as I still do to this very day. I maintain that push-ups and pull-ups gave me an unbelievable strong foundation for abs and so much more, on which I would build later in life, as my obsession bloomed.
No equipment needed but the bar! Like most boys, eventually I wanted to grow so I acquired a used bench and some dumbbells. I started lifting as a teenager, when I discovered girls. It was all about taking my shirt off and back then. Legs were regretfully lacking in my youthful ignorance; such was the style at the time. Although I switched to a split-routine when I got the weights a training style which Ive since switched back out of , no matter what body part I trained, I always did abs too.
At this point I had expanded beyond the sit-up and was messing around with declines and transverse motions like crossovers. Although I was lean and getting undeniably stronger and more muscular, my abs were not progressing at a rate that I found acceptable, nor did they have anywhere close to the appearance I was striving for.
Many of us have experienced this type of frustration in our training. Soon I found out about leg raises. I started doing extra obliques exercises. I thought. Time to step up my game! More is more! I also got involved in nutrition and started cooking most of my meals, growing more aware of the effects of food on my physiology.
This probably did far more for my abs than the rep increase did. At nineteen years of age, I started training abs a minimum of five days a week. I did three hundred reps every single session minimum.
This was probably the peak of my obsession with abs. This peak lasted over ten years, although these days, I have a very different approach and do a lot fewer reps! Ironically my abs are both functionally stronger and more aesthetically appealing than they were back then, even with way fewer reps but Im skipping ahead.
In June of , two months shy of my twentieth birthday, I answered an ad in the Village Voice. There was no Craigs List then and people still read papers. The ad said, Punk band needs drummer for European tour. Thats it. Two weeks later, I was on a plane to Frankfurt, Germany beginning thirty days of rock shows across several countries. I did abs almost every day of that tour, no matter the situation, no kidding. Sometimes it was on the beer-soaked, splintered, wooden floor in the back of some dive; sometimes it was worse.
You must understand the extent of my obsession. I spent the night in mad places with crazed people, but always got my three hundred reps. One time, we played a show in the village of Bremervorde and had to stay in an abandoned barn that some punk kids were squatting in. I was supposed to sleep on a mattress that wreaked so badly of urine and ass that I chose to sleep outside with the chickens instead. Next morning, I did my three hundred reps on a bed of hay and bird droppings.
I was that committed to the program. Other nights were more glamorous, but, sometimes even sadly, just as obsessive. A week after the barn incident, we stayed in the city of Nice in Southern France. On our first night, we sat under the stars of the countryside.
Our hosts provided us with a truly French dining experience, which Ill never forget. We had the full spread: wine, fruit, breads and, of course, a smoldering pot of fondue. As the delicious aroma filled the air, you could hear the soft, gentle bubbling sound in the background. But this was at a time when I was obsessed with abs and, unfortunately, somewhat misguided.
Regretfully, I subscribed to the mids conventional wisdom pertaining to so-called fat grams. So, in a decision with which Im still uncomfortable to this day, I declined the fondue. It disgusts me to admit, but its true.
Obviously I feel differently now: Cheese is good; counting fat grams is not. Euro-tour You see, back then I read every book and nutrition label I could get my hands on and, like many others, I found lots of conflicting information. I was young and green and considered everything. Ultimately, I had to experiment for myself. It wasnt until later, when I did my own research about nutrition i. I now put more focus on the quality of real ingredients. Who was I? A fundamental principle of my life philosophy is I dont believe in regrets: there are things you do and things you dont do.
But Ill be damned if I dont regret passing on that fondue. No vanity muscle is worth compromising a new life experience. Deprivation is not healthy. Looking back, I should have partaken in the goodness, which I absolutely would have today. Oh well, at least I drank the wine! Fast forward a few years: The obsession raged on and I became even more driven. I worked in a restaurant in late 90s, shucking clams and delivering food on a broken bicycle in Chelsea. Good times. I woke up before 6am every day, early enough to have my coffee, take a shit, do my abs, take a shower and ride my bike ten miles to work.
When Id get there, Id have two scoops of creatine powder dissolved in a high-carbohydrate beverage. I currently recommend neither creatine nor high carbohydrate, sugary beverages, but again, I was young and experimenting. Its amazing how, looking back, I believed so much hype. Part of my mission in this book is to help distinguish the bullshit from the truth.
Although I fancied myself a free thinker and had enough sense to question authority, drop out of college, and run to Europe in a band part of how I wound up a grown-up delivery guy, but thats another story , I still had to learn the hard way, the only way: experience. An amateur body-builder named J worked in the kitchen. As a student himself of physical culture, he was sensitive to my eating habits.
Instead of the cheap grease and sugar-laden, chicken-fried staff meals that the other employees gorged on, J would cook me chicken, beans and a green salad every day, sometimes with strawberries for dessert.
I still eat that same meal several times a week. Its one of my favorites. In those days, I hit the gym about five days a week. I started drinking protein shakes around this time too. I bought into the lie of protein shakes for longer than I care to admit. It was one of the last fallacies I was able to do away with.
My abs and every single other part of me, including my digestive system, are better than ever since eliminating protein supplements. I believed in creatine and protein powders at the time, just like I believed that fat grams mattered more than actual food. Yes creatine makes your muscles swole with water, but it does little else. Yes, muscular growth requires proteinthey are the building blocks after all, but the processed powder is garbage, even if the label says high quality.
I am a firm believer that you can build lean, strong muscle with nothing more than the food you eat and the way you train. Getting world-class washboard abs requires no supplements at all. I still train my ass off but my approach to exercise is different than it was back then. In my current training style, I focus less on repetition and more on the quality of movement.
Im less goal-oriented and more process-oriented. At this stage, I am proud of where my abs and I are, but I am still growing, looking to learn more and be further challenged. To finish means to be through with it.
Im just getting started. To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it. Pablo Picasso. Your body is the ultimate work in progress, constantly changing and evolving with your life. Ill never be through with it! There can be no joy without food or drink. EAll living things eat. It is as essential as breathing: a physical, biological necessity. No one has to be told to do it. When the earth was a big, molten, swampy ball, the first protozoa who ever spawned or split in half I cant recall much from 9th grade biology knew it must eat or die, even though it lacked a brain and nervous system.
Eating is beyond instinct. A human baby cant do much besides eat, breathe, shit and grab I consider the latter to be evidence of pull-ups being deep-rooted in our DNA, but thats a separate discussion. The digestive system converts food into fuel. Food provides energy to the entire body. No legitimate scientist, theologist, nutritionist, dietician, coach or trainer with any integrity, would ever dispute that ya gotta eat to live!
For advanced creatures like us, however, food plays many roles beyond mere sustenance. We love food. Food provides us with joy. Meals are part of celebrations and holidays.
We cherish family recipes; we reminisce about restaurants we dined at with past lovers; we dream of foods we ate as kids. Comfort food. Meals should be enjoyed, prepared and eaten with care. Sometimes Im lucky enough to have prepared the food myself! I once attended a New York City fire escape pig roast.
I ate freshly caught mahi mahi in Mexico and dined on raw horse sashimi in Tokyo. I shared fermented herring in Sweden and homegrown blood sausage in Ireland with my extended calisthenics family.
Food goes beyond taste; its a spectacular celebration of culture and heritage. Life and joy. We should be thankful for the gift of food. Even on our holy quest toward the sculpted abs of our dreams, we must never foster a negative or unhealthy relationship with something so dear to us as food.
Food is our friend, never the enemy. We have risen from the primordial soup, and learned to walk on two legs. We can talk and even cook. We can think, drive and fall in love. But the extent of our love affair with food may be the only thing that truly separates us from the animals. When were talking about the food we eat, which I believe is the single most important decision we can make regarding our abs, not to mention our overall health, there is a lot of madness to sift through.
We are told many conflicting accounts from various sources. It can be hard to know what decisions to make. Ultimately, you and only you are accountable for your choices. Experiment with my advice, but do not to take it as gospel.
Find what works for you. This is only my experience. That said, lets drop any preconceived notions and keep an open mind. Tread lightly what you are about to read may not be what youre used to hearing. First things first: I am not a registered dietician. I do not have a college education and I tend to reject most conventional wisdom when it comes to matters of nutrition.
I consider the teachings of the few sports nutrition and weight loss specialist certifications that I possess to be total BS like all too many certificates and credits in fitness, school and life. Tread lightly. Theres not a correlation between academic credentials and abs. My textbook credentials may appear misleading to those who are into paperwork, yet lots of people pay me for my nutritional advice. Technically, I am a nutritionist of which there is no official definition, unlike RDRegistered Dieticianwhich has specific, legal requirements.
Despite having so few letters after my name, my abs are shredded! Even more so than the bellies of any RDs Ive ever met. How is that possible? Somehow I achieved a great set of abs without even knowing what a key-tone was.
There is no correlation between a persons academic accomplishments and their abs. How else can you explain the co-existence of soft doctors and sculpted athletes who, perhaps, have not gone to college to study organic chemistry, epidemiology or other such pre-med requirements? Ive known lots of guys who havent even completed high school, but Id take their nutritional guidance over that of an ample-bodied dietician or portly coach any day.
Experience over education. Lots of people I trust are not fitness professionals, but they use a common sense approach to nutrition. Practical over theoretical. Sadly, the USDA is on the take when it comes to nutritional guidance. If Uncle Sam were real, he wouldnt look like this. Hed be obese and take prescription meds for hypertension, anxiety and erectile dysfunction. Personally, I am someone who has studied the effects of exercise and eating styles firsthand, through over 25 years of training and dietary experimentation with myself, as well as with many clients and peers.
We see what works. Defenders of the Status Quo might advise against my teachings. They may say to trust the USDA, with their corrupt food pyramid and recommendations of non-stop processed grains. But I say to observe whats in front of you. The fat cats are not the ones to believe only your eyes. When you employ the methods detailed herein, it is likely you will both enjoy every meal more and look better with your shirt off.
Hear Me Out I would like to happily acknowledge the fact that others have gotten results with methods other than mine. I applaud them for it! However, I will only discuss what Ive personally seen work. Hear me out. I believe that optimum abs can be attained without thinking too much about the labels or components of food at all.
Thats precisely what Im referring to when I talk about over-compartmentalizationthe practice of focusing on food parts and nutritional variables, rather than on the foods themselves.
The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts. In efforts to categorize and understand things, nutritional science has invented the classifications of macro-nutrients fats, carbohydrates, proteins and micro-nutrients vitamins, minerals. More recently, science has discovered huh? And guess what They have existed in real food all along!
No one will ever understand why a strawberry is so special. We can spend years analyzing it in a laboratory, but well never know.
What is it about a scallion or a Brussels spout thats so complex, delicious and perfect? All too often, we confuse complicated or time consuming with important. In realty there is not usually a correlation. Each food is extraordinary for what it is. Kinda like people. Guys, its not complicated.
Master Of Reality When I talk about real, I am referring to fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and seeds. The closer they are to nature, the better. Meaning, a peach is real and a jar of preserved, sugared peaches is not. I also consider animal products like fish, red meat, eggs and dairy to be real. Like the aforementioned peach, a farm raised T-bone is real.
A Whopper Jr. When it comes to foods with ingredients, less is more. Generally, I consider homemade breads and pastas to be real, as they dont contain much more than water, flour, salt and yeast. Conversely, there are many chemicals and preservatives found in most commercial wheat products on your grocers shelves.
Look at the ingredients. What you find might surprise you. What is real? The decision to eat meat, dairy, grains or whatever is a personal one. Whatever you choose, keep it close to the source whenever possible. Most packaged, processed or chemically enhanced foods are not included in my description, although, sadly, they are sometimes difficult to avoid.
But not impossible. Folks like me prefer not to pay much mind to fat grams and the like, and approach what we eat in terms of fruit, meat, milk, greens, etc. My type of thinking encourages one to look at colors and prepare meals, rather than look at labels and do math.
The latter distances us from what we really need, and what were really eating. Over-compartmentalization of nutrition promotes ass-backwards thinkingin a quest for ultimate abs, we start choosing foods that claim to be low fat instead of thinking about foods that are low fat, or even better, not thinking about fat at alljust flavor, vitality and quality.
The fats found in real foods tend to be good. The fats found in fake foods do not. Again, its better to think about the food than the fat. Anyone who has visited a commercial supermarket has seen processed desserts that claimed to be fat free on the package. Hoards of brainwashed consumers gorge themselves on this stuff, more concerned with hypothetical fat than real dessert. People want to think that they can lose weight by eating cookies.
Do we live in Bizarro world? I guarantee no one ever got shredded abs on a cookie diet. The truth is that most fat free or low fat items more than make up for any potential benefits normally associated with these boasts by adding sugar, corn syrup, glycerin, emulsifiers and preservatives. They do more harm than good.
Even when my abs are in peak condition, as they are for many of the images in this book, I do not avoid fats. When I try to get as lean as possible, nuts and nut butters, avocados, and red meat remain staples in my diet. So do butter and olive oil. I eat quality fats liberally and pay them no mind. Natural, quality fats are good. Cheap grease, like the kind in fast food, is not. People want to think that they can lose weight by eating low fat cookies.
The claim no high fructose corn syrup is right up there with fat free. Often No HFC products list natural cane sugar, beet sugar or any number of nectars as ingrediants. But, in terms of your abs, there is really no distinction.
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