Marketing & 'Profiting'

[Guest guest]

I've been reading several responses to the " Combat Conditioning "

post. I don't understand the objection with charging money for

course or the presenters time. Even if it's a whole lot of money!

Since when is making money such a bad thing? Does that automatically

make the practice unethical? Does that mean the information is not

good? Is it so bad to want to get your message to the masses?

I believe Dr Yessis charges at least $1,000 for any of his courses,

doesn't he? So what! Good on him. If people want to pay that much

for his expertise then that's their prerogative. Far be it for

anyone on this board to judge anyone who wants to pay any amount of

money for information they deem valuable.

Perhaps Dr Siff didn't charge enough for his time, perhaps he didn't

market his products the same way as many others. Does that make him

more ethical or better? I don't think so, it simply was the way he

chose. Furthermore, because that was his choice does not make it the

right choice (or the wrong choice). In fact, there are many that

believe that paying anything for " Supertraining " is too much (I'm not

one of them by the way). I recently read that Dave Tate said the

best way to use " Supertraining " is for board presses.

So I say back off the guy. Let him do what he wants to do and either

tune in or don't.

Cowell

Raleigh, NC

[Guest guest]

Thanks for asking this. Yes, it was out context. The point I was

making was that there are MANY people online and MANY writers in the

field that can write and speak with great words and borrowed phrases

from supertraining. Yet, they can't lift s**t, have never coached

anyone who could lift anything close to heavy. In other words they

hide their lack of strength behind complicated terms they learned

from books like Supertraining. For them they would be better off

using the book for a one board press.

Yes, I still fell and will always feel it is the best book ever

written on strength. I wish they did not print that part because many

will not understand the point that I was making.

You learn more than you think as you get stronger. One of the first

things you learn is you are not as strong as you think. Hell, we have

a hard time getting our sponsored guys to even post what they lifted

in meets. Look in the training logs and you will see it is like

pulling teeth to get them to tell you how they did. They let the meet

speak for itself and don't feel like they have anything to prove to

anyone.

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Carruthers

Wakefield, UK