I suppose this book does a thorough job of covering all aspects of a fitness regimen for a golfer including stretching, weight training, diet and injury prevention and it often offers golf specific exercises. If you've never really been on a consistent exercise program and don't have any other fitness books and you play golf, then I guess this book may be an option for you.

But I have two main problems with this book:
(1)First, this really is just a general fitness routine book that could be applied to almost any sport, or if you were just interested in general fitness, no sport at all. Yes, the book does approach the exercises from a golfer's perspective, but a perspective is all. None of the weight training exercises or stretches are any different from what you would read in any other general fitness book, and you shouldn't be performing them any other way lest you hurt yourself. As far as the eating tips, if the saturation of news reports in the last decade on eating a low-fat, high-fiber diet haven't convinced you to eat well, then one chapter in this book ain't gonna do it either.
(2)I think the premise of the book and specifically the book title is just wrong. It has been shown through application and studies (see my review of The Physics of Golf on this site) that distance off the tee is not affected that much by moderate amounts of muscle gain, especially the amount that one could get by lifting. Golf is a game of fluidity and vectors, not solely raw power. Some of the longest hitters on the tour now (2003) are some of the skinny young kids on the tour. I agree with the author that stretching is key, but you don't need this book for that (see my review of Bob Anderson's "Stretching").

I'm confident most people already know the basics of a good golf fitness regimen: eat healthfully, jog 3 times a week and stretch all parts of your body well before and after a round or hitting the driving range.

I exercise regulary, and have bought just about every golf fitness book. I found this one short on the theory part, like what does weight training do for golf? Also, pictures were hard to follow, some showed the end position of the exercise, some the middle or start. The title and back cover promised a 1/4 pounder and I got the kiddie veggie burger.

I found the book easy to follow and motivational. It shows the salient elements of getting fit to play golf. The best feature I found was the diagnosis he offers. If it hurts here after a round of golf do this exercise. I used to get a pain in my inner thigh that I got rid of by doing the prescribed exercise every second day for three weeks. While I haven't read every book on the market I found this one satisfied my requirements so I didn't look further.

I have enjoyed reading the authors book, Power Factor Training and also their other three books specializing for specific bodyparts using the Power factor training method. However, this log book is a complete waste of time. The information about why the power index and other things is repeated in the beginning and the charts are organized in a haphazard way which makes me completely useless unless you are someone who hates to make your own chart and print it out for use, this book could be useful although it might not pack along well in a gym bag. Who can write in those small charts anyway, the print would have to be so small. The authors need to come out with something more useful than just a log book. Something which advances the Power Factor training routines and not just repeated information in every other book. Plus it would be beneficial if they would start updating their website!

Please see my review of Power Factor Training (the book). I pointed out the power factor training program did not work for me.

This log is made to assist a person on the power factor program. It has the workout routines ( A and B) plus a host of specialized programs. In addition it has charts you can fill out to mark your progress. It also has an overview of power factor training that is nearly as informative as the books you can buy on the subject. From the point of view of inclusiveness the manual succeeds; however, from the point of view of usefullness it fails.

The manual has blocks that are too small to write in, and the charts are very small. The book needs to by 81/2 by 11 to write in well, or at least much larger than it is now. Sections could also be added for warm up, stretching and cool down as the authors recommend these need to be included in every workout routine.

My largest complaint is in the amount of pages devoted to the normal power factor program. After all the other material is considered the area for the normal power factor training routines A and B comprise about 1/3 of the book. Maybe less. The specialization routines take up a lot more of the book. Why include the specialized routines in this manual?

Thus the manual does not have enough space to write in easily, does not have enough pages for the normal power factor workouts, includes too many pages for the specialized routines, and does not include fundimental information in the pages used for the workouts.

All in all a substandard effort.

I really enjoy using the Power Factor Logbook! It is an excellent companion to the P/F book series. I enjoy the workout to workout feedback that I receive. In just a few workouts I knew what my optimal reptition range was for each of my body parts. I quickly learned that just attempting heavier weights did not always equal an optimal Power index. Sometimes lowering the weight and really banging out the reps was the key. Thank you to Mr. Little and Sisco. Keep showing us "sane" ways to train in this "Insane" world!

This is perhaps the worst book on programming I have ever read. I am an advanced autolisp programmer hoping to learn Visual Basic for Autocad and this book claimed to be for me. Unfortunately it wastes its ink on theory and large print than just giving a lot of useful programming examples - which is the best way to learn programming in my opinion.

We can't find no much help on this book. The Cd rom that came with the book was blank and I had to download the examples files on the internet.

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When I ordered this book I thought it was a collection of stories gathered from people who have moved off the grid with some techniques and practices thrown in. Instead what I've found is that it preaches to the choir.

The emphasis is on explaining how we waste energy through our daily on-the-grid lives and what doing so costs in "real" terms of "dead dinosaurs" turned crude oil deposits. If I'm buying this book then it's assumed I already have some concern for the environment and my energy usage, that I already want to "get off the oil" addiction my nation has. Why propound it over and over and over in this book. Why preach environmentalism in a book bought by environmentalists? Why not give them the info they need and the courage to do it through depicting others who've done it already?

There are some stories of how others have gotten off the grid but they are short and don't really go into any of the problems one may encounter or how they can be overcome.

A disappointing book that so easily could have been much much better.

I found this book very disappointing. I was looking for more of a "How-To" book which would provide answers and ideas for a mountain cabin. Instead I found it to contain warm hearted informtion in the form of short stories. At a minimum this books title should be modified to "The Independant Home - Good Hearted American Stories of Living Well with Power from the Sun, Wind, and Water.

Michael Potts traveled the country to interview the new pioneers who are generating their own power. He wound up with a book that is not so much a technical manual as an introduction to the many subjects that pertain to making an independent home: choosing a site and materials, power generation (photovoltaics, wind turbines, hybrid systems), storage batteries, inverters and control panels; appliances, maintenance and repair, gardening and waste disposal.

Independent living is, in short, a great opportunity for anyone compulsive about details, control, and doing it yourself. It is an opportunity to be a settler, and regain some independence, but with the benefit of today's technology.

It would be easy to dismiss the new pioneers as hippies. But at this point in our history, with mounting evidence about the dangers of relying on oil, the subject of renewable energy has become much more conventional. Far from Luddites, these people retain their high-tech habits and possessions, such as computers, TVs, stereos, cars, and air conditioners. But because they produce their own power, they are much more careful with it. Many of them are engineers. Nearly all of them have engineer's habits in their endless tinkering and tweaking, their love of gadgetry, and their search for the next technological improvement. I particularly enjoyed the brief interviews with some of the movement's leading lights: Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute; Karen and Richard Perez, the publishers of Home Power Magazine; and Paul Gipe, an owner of wind farms.

As Russell Kirk wrote, nothing is more conservative than conservation, so there is much here that ought to warm the conservative heart: family, localism, community, smallness, decentralization, independence, self-reliance, responsibility, resourcefulness, craftsmanship, and stewardship. The sort of lives that these people live are much more in tune with the local, decentralized United States outlined in the Constitution and The Federalist, the sort of country which existed before the Wilsonian fascism of 1914. By contrast, it was Marx who used the phrase "the idiocy of rural life" and who praised the breakup of traditional communities. The bureaucratic, multinational corporations of our time are much more socialistic in outlook and behavior, contemptuous of roots and continuity, dependent on government money, federal favors, and centralization of power.

This was my first venture into the field of independent home-building, and I had only a few reservations: some predictable left-wing cliches and cheerleading, lapses in organization, blurring of Potts' interviews with his own comments, and a loss of focus perhaps due to the ambitious attempt to write a "whole guide" to home-building rather than a modest introduction to a vast subject. When the book remains modest, it succeeds. It should fire up the pioneers among us.

Sorry, but this is the worst book on memory I have ever read. You have to drag yourself through 200 pages of scientific studies, university tests, and theories before any practical advice for memory retention is discussed. And then when it is discussed, it's not very specific, has very few examples, and is covers a very narrow range. I wanted extremely specific and practical instructions on a very wide spectrum. This book didn't have that. So far, I've never found any author better than Harry Lorayne.

the reasons we choose to forget. This book is valuable in that it teaches you why you don't have total recall. It explains how to overcome the mental and emotional roadblocks to a perfect memory, as well as the reasons why we may not want one. Well worth the reading.

As one who enjoys both the science of astronomy and the characters behind the science, this book is little more than a literary exercise in statistical massage. From it's introductory catagorization of rank and file astronomers to those of elite status, Lankford continues to regurgitate the numbers of jobs available, the numbers of observatories, the numbers of doctorate degrees, the number of this, the number of that, and on and on and on and on. With few exceptions there is nothing in the way of personal insight to the astronomers themselves and even less on their accomplishments. While Lankford does a good job of delineating the evolution from astrometry to astronomy to astrophysics, he offers nothing in the way of imagination, insight, and discovery. I suppose credit is due to Mr. Lankford for taking the time to input all of this archive data into a software program (which he obviously did), but I would much rather of had access to that software as reference material than wade through page after page from this shallow perspective of one of the most intriguing and wonderful of all sciences, astronomy.

This book is not Maxwell's best book and I believe he quotes himself way too much (1/3 of the total quotes are his!). His best books on inspirational / motivational / leadership are Power of Leadership and Power of Attitude (2 separate books that are similar size books and quick reads.) If you are looking for a full-blown book try 2 of his other books, 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader or 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. While I know the book is supposed to be about THINKING BIG I found many quotes from other books. There are better books out there to spend your money on.

They key to getting any long-term value out of Maxwell's books is to highlight the quotes you love and integrate them into your daily life. Practice what you read essentially. Hope this helps everyone

Not a good introductory into the rules and strategies of the game, but title doesn't suggest it is either. Introduces a bit of the culture sourding the game in its home country. Kinda boring, even if you are a huge fan of go, so I wouldn't reccomend it to someone who has only a passing interest.

This book is well written and covers the basics of operating a Bridgeport style knee mill. However, you will still need a factory manual in order to handle maintenance on the machine so some of the material is redundant. Also, other topics are more thoroughly covered in other books.