If you are a coach, a personal trainer—or you simply want to "optimizeyour flesh machine"—then this is the ultimate power-event to spark a massivetransformation in your career, your health and your athletic capabilities...

Announcing...

The Dragon DoorHealth and Strength

ConferenceToday's Leading Faculty of Innovative Health and Strength Authorities...

Together for an Exclusive "Deep Dive" into The Practical Science, The Ancient Wisdomand the Cutting-Edge Art of Extreme Fitness Mastery...

... And you’re invited

Join these Masters of Supreme Fitness in Minneapolis, MN on August 15th & 16th... Asthey come together for the first time under one roof...

Dr. Chris Hardy Marty Gallagher Josh Henkin Al Kavadlo

Co-author of StrongMedicine, How to ConquerChronic and Achieve YourFull Genetic Potential. 13

years military, Navyphysician, Masters in Public

Health.

Co-author of Strong Medicine,author of The Purposeful

Primitive. Works with the militaryelite spec ops. World masterspowerlifting champion, 6-timenational masters powerlifting

champion.

Creator and founder ofDVRT, Dynamic Variable

Resistance Training.Creator of the Ultimate

Sandbag. Author ofDVRT. Master RKC.

Author of 4 bestsellingtitles, Pushing the

Limits, Stretching YourBoundaries, Zen Mind

Strong Body andRaising the Bar. Leadinstructor for the PCC.

Max Shank Zach Even-Esh Andrea Du Cane Danny Kavadlo

Author of Master theKettlebell, How to

Develop High-LevelSkills in Movement,

Power Generation andStrength—Using theWorld’s Single Best

Tool for the Job.Master RKC.

Author of bestseller TheEncyclopedia of

Underground Strengthand Conditioning, How to

Get Stronger andTougher in the Gym and

in Life—Using theTraining Secrets of the

Athletic Elite..

Author of The Kettlebell GoddessWorkout, The Kettlebell Boomerand The Ageless Body, How toRemain a Human Dynamo and

Retain a perfect Physique—Withthe Magic of Kettlebells. MasterRKC and Director of Certifications

for Dragon Door.

Author of bestsellerDiamond-Cut Abs, How

to Engineer theUltimate Six-Pack—

Minimalist Methods forMaximal Results and of

Everybody NeedsTraining. Master PCC.

Phil Ross Jon Bruney Mike Gillette Logan Christopher

Author of Fight KettlebellFight. Master RKC. 8th

Degree Black Belt. He hassuccessfully competed on theNational Level in Submission

Fighting, Kickboxing, FullContact Karate, Point Karate,

Free Fighting, Taekwondo andOlympic Style Wrestling.

Author of bestseller Neuro-Mass, The Ultimate Systemfor Spectacular Strength.Guinness World Record-

holder. Featured in Ripley'sBelieve it or Not. Trainer toNFL athletes & US Olympic

Wrestlers. Motivationalspeaker.

Author of Rings of Power.Former SWAT commander,paratrooper and executive

bodyguard. Holder ofnumerous black belts in

Filipino, Korean andAmerican martial arts.Instructor in mind/body

strength methods.

Author of MentalMuscle and of many

other books and videoprograms to help peopleincrease their strength,skills, health and mental

performance.

PLUS...

Special Presenter Rolando Garcia III

Author of Intrinsic Excellence, Business Development andleadership Systems in Personal Training. As featured on Forbes andthe NY Post, the manager of E, Equinox's private and most elite trainingfacility, located in Manhattan's Time Warner Center. His team of T4Coaches focuses on developing and implementing a comprehensivelifestyle management program for each client, as it relates to theirmovement, nutrition, and regeneration

Including a special VIP opportunity to visit with and enjoy the company of the Healthand Strength presenters at an exclusive Saturday evening dinner!

From the desk of John Du CaneCEO and founder, Dragon Door Publications.

Dear Health and Strength Colleague,

Dragon Door has assembled the most authoritative, results-producing roster of fitness authors of ANY company in the world.Whether it be kettlebells, sandbags, bodyweight exercise, powerlifting, nutrition or otherresources for optimizing health and strength, we give you complete coverage—and thensome…

Our PCC calisthenics certification workshops and our HKC/RKC programs are widelyacknowledged as the gold standard. Our authors’ titles routinely become fitness industrybestsellers and frequently become THE bible for their topic.

And yet we’ve dropped the ball in one major way… We have never organized a conferencebringing ALL of our world-class fitness experts together at the same time. You don’t need muchimagination to visualize what it would be like to hang out for two days and absorb the wisdomfrom Dr. Chris Hardy, Marty Gallagher, Al Kavadlo, Danny Kavadlo, Max Shank, JoshHenkin, Zach Even-Esh, Rolando Garcia, Andrea Du Cane, Jon Bruney, Phil Ross,Logan Christopher and Mike Gillette…the synergistic energy of these powerhouses packedtogether will be something to experience…

So…we are doing it: organizing THE fitness conference of the year. A conference that shouldnot only educate you in practical, cutting-edge strategies to optimize athletic performance andhealth—but inspire you to surge forward, and make unprecedented gains in your overall athleticcapabilities...

I Can Think of No Better Gift to You than Bringing TogetherToday’s Most-Brilliant Health and Strength Masters for The

Mother-of-All Fitness Events...

And Asking Them to Share Their Most Valuable Strategieswith You…

No matter how you’re involved in the fitness industry...

If you’re an experienced, hyper-fit personal trainer, coach, athlete, martial artist or bodyculture enthusiast looking to go beyond your current physical capabilities...

If you’ve established yourself with a profitable, successful fitness training business—andnow you’d like to turbocharge it—unlocking brand new opportunities and revenuepotential...

If you’re not getting everything you want from your personal fitness programs—becauseyou’re stuck, plateaued, or simply overwhelmed with the infinite options in fitness today...

Then...

There’s ONE Action-Step That Will Get You From Where YouAre To Where You Want To Be—In The Fastest, Most-

Effective Way Possible...

Meet in person with the Masters of Fitness! The Cabal of Experts. The Guild of Champions andChampion-Makers…

And this August 15th and 16th could be your one and only opportunity to get the attentionand insights of ALL these fitness Masters, working together in one room to help you transformyour physical capabilities.

The single-smartest investment YOU can make, TODAY, in transforming yourself... Isgetting up close and personal with world-class authorities who have "been there, done that"—who lead the fitness world in what they have accomplished for themselves and for others...

And the CUMULATIVE IMPACT of absorbing the wisdom-secrets of 13 of these top expertscould be life-changing…

Dragon Door’s mission is to have a massive impact on global health by leveraging the powerof our fitness authorities’ health and strength expertise. Join us—if you care to be a leader inthe battle against poor health and reduced physical function. And join us—if you want to leadthe charge in modeling transformational fitness to a confused world…

Since I founded Dragon Door 24 years ago, I’ve been able to work with, learn from, and enjoylasting friendships with many of the greatest names in modern fitness. I am very proud to haveco-originated the modern kettlebell movement in 2001—just think what impact kettlebells havehad on global health and strength over the last 14 years!

I am exceptionally proud to have re-ignited a global interest in bodyweight exercise thanks tothe Convict Conditioning series and the tireless work of the Kavadlo brothers. Again, theimpact on global fitness has been dramatic…

And I am proud to have introduced the maestro of all strength coaches, Marty Gallagher, to abroader audience. Now, Marty and Dr. Chris Hardy have authored what I expect to be one ofthe most influential fitness titles of all time: Strong Medicine…

Bottom line, I have a knack for spotting, nurturing and promoting many of the modern Masters ofFitness…I consider myself a "Facilitator of Greatness" :) . But I have never invited all these"Greats" to be in one room together…until now….

Your Path to Greatness as a Trainer Can Only Be AcceleratedBy Working With, Learning From and Implementing the

Teachings of These MASTERS…By teaming up with the smartest coaches possible... Getting "up close and personal" withthem... Your greater success as a trainer becomes nearly impossible to avoid…

Before we go any further, I have to warn you: This event is NOT created for the casualfitness faddist. If you’re looking for some cheap new "shiny objects" to play with, this is NOT theevent for you. While you’re still free to attend, your time and money will best be spentelsewhere.

WHO THIS EVENT IS FOR: We built this conference for SERIOUS fitness professionals andthose committed to the highest personal standards in their own physical training. You belong atthe Health and Strength Conference:

If you’ve already established yourself as a fitness professional—and now you’re looking togain an extreme advantage over your competitors...

You want to discover tested, proven, advanced strategies for creating rapid transformationin health and strength for both you and those you train…

You want to connect and network with the sharpest and most dedicated pros in modernfitness, the Dragon Door "leadership"—who wouldn’t miss this Conference come Hell orHigh Water…

Then, you’re likely to take what you get at this event and use it to multiply your investment 10X,even 100X, within just the first year...

If You’re Not Convinced, in the First 95 Minutes, That You’veAlready Got New Secrets That Will Radically Transform Your

Future Health and Strength—We Will Refund Your EntireEvent Fee!

Dr. Chris Hardy will keynote the Conference with what I guarantee will be unique, immediately-useful and totally mind-blowing content for conquering one of the single greatest obstacles tosupreme health and strength...

I am personally SO confident about the take-home value of Chris’s presentation alone that if

you can look me personally in the eye and tell me that you aren’t convinced his information willhave a radical impact on your future health and strength—then I will arrange for you to receivea full credit for your Conference enrollment fee…

I invited Chris to give the keynote, because I believe that his Strong Medicine programEMBODIES Dragon Door’s mission to have a major impact on global health—with YOU as ourambassadors…

The title of the presentation is...

Managing The Stress Cup: How to Identify and PreventAllostatic Load in Your Clients to Ensure Optimal Training.

Chris will answer three big questions:

1. How can I give my client the optimum dose of training on any given day, maximizingbenefits and minimizing harm?

2. How can I reliably identify and prevent overtraining?

3. As a trainer, what recommendations can I safely (and legally) give to my client toprevent overfilling the stress cup and to reduce allostatic load?

According to Strong Medicine there are two controllable drivers behind most major diseaseslike obesity, cancer and diabetes: chronic inflammation and chronic oxidative stress. Conquerchronic inflammation and chronic oxidative stress—and you can conquer not only most disease,but also vastly enhance your physical capabilities.

Acute stress is necessary for survival and leads to resiliency. However chronic stress is a silentkiller that can wreak havoc with your best-laid plans for getting stronger and healthier. But doyou have a complete grasp of how to manage the shifting battlescape of stress—so youproperly prosper from your training rather than sabotage your health and strength? Without aproven battle plan, you’re playing Russian roulette with YOUR wellbeing AND that of yourclients.

Chris DOES have the proven, scientific battle plan for managing stress mapped out for you andyour clients. And you will get the complete plan. But you won’t just get the science… with hisdeep personal experience in optimal training protocols, you’ll discover that Chris understandsthe ART of a balanced-lifestyle approach to training.

Almost all of us fall down badly when it comes to properly understanding and managing theGood the Bad and the Ugly of stress. So, almost all of us fall WAY short of our full athleticpotential… This unfortunate and very damaging ignorance will end for you—after hearingChris’s presentation…

To my mind, discovering how to properly manage your stress cup—the Strong Medicine way—is worth the price of admission 10 times over AT LEAST...which is why I feel pretty darn safeoffering that 100% refund… :)

Way too many trainers adopt a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approach to training their clients—particularly in a group setting…This can be disastrous for the clients’ health, not just because of

avoidable injuries, but from the deeply insidious impact of overtraining on the body’s capabilityto properly manage stress… Once you hear Chris’s talk you will never in good conscience allowyour clients to overtrain again—and you will have the knowledge to authoritatively steer them ina wiser direction…

Chris will set the tone, frankly for the whole conference—which will be all about ACTIONABLE,best-of-class methods for achieving high levels of sustainably healthy strength, flexibility andresilience.

Bam! Chris Fired the Starting Gun—Now It’s Off to the RacesWith a Stable of Purebred Winners…

Dr. Chris Hardy is going to be one tough act to follow. How do you top "Genius on Steroids"?

Not easily, is the answer…

But I believe Mr. Rolando Garcia III has the intellectual muscle and fitness biz pedigree tocarry the Hardy torch. The smoke from Chris’s starting gun should barely have cleared theroom, when Rolando will already be rocking you with his expertise…

Because Rolando is an ultimate mover-and-shaker from the world of the elite fitness club. Asfeatured recently in Forbes and the NY Post, Rolando is the manager of E, Equinox's privateand most elite training facility, located in Manhattan's Time Warner Center. His team of T4coaches focuses on developing and implementing a comprehensive lifestyle managementprogram for each client, as it relates to their movement, nutrition, and regeneration.

How much does it cost annually to train with Rolando and his coaches at E? Here is theheadline from Forbes magazine, 1/05/15: "The Ultra-Exclusive $26,000 Gym Membership forthe Mogul On-The-Go." Yup, it’ll cost you over 2K per month to hang with Rolando as yourtrainer… And by the way, the Forbes Magazine use of the word "Mogul"? Accurate to a T… TheE-member roster is a roll call of the hyper-famous and stunningly powerful…

Think Rolando might have a few fitness biz success secrets to share with you? :)

Discover the System That’s Worked So Well for Rolando andEquinox—And Learn How You Can Plug-and-Play That

Success Formula in Your Business ...Here’s just a taste of what you can expect to learn from Rolando:

Overview of Current Fitness And Health Industry Trends

The Relevant Metrics of Our Industry, The Role That You Play, And How You CanBest Benefit

The Changing Role of Personal Training in Fitness and Health

Why It Isn't Just About Building Muscles

The Skillsets of The Effective Personal Trainer of The New Millennium

The 4 Competency Method

Technical Expertise: The Truth of The Matter

Sales: The Art of Selling Without Selling

Customer Care: Emotional Agility That is Fast And Furious

Business Development and Leadership: Money Never Sleeps

Business Development, Leadership, and Team-Building: The Crucial Features of aSuccessful Personal Training Business

Clarity and Connection: Like Oil and Water

Lone Survivor: Why You Can't Go It Alone

The Legend Continues: How to ASSEMBLE a team of experts to prepare for thefuture of our industry

By the time Rolando is done with his presentation, I’m certain you will be walking away with anotebook full of actionable strategies to transform your fitness training business—whatever itscurrent format….

Well, alright then! Fired up enough yet…? Brain on overdrive? Feel like you already got somuch take-away, it’s time to head for the exits and GET STUFF DONE?

Not so fast...there’s just so, so much more to come… Hang in there…the info-wealth-torrent isgoing to surge right on…

Because Next Up Is "The Kettlebell Goddess",Keeper of the Flame…

The ancients had a phrase for it: Deus ex machina. Means "God from the machine". Think:Divine Intervention. When the plot got all tangled up, then the God/Goddess would swoop outof the sky to rectify the mess, with some needed clarity and course correction…

So, say hello to "The Kettlebell Goddess", Andrea Du Cane…Andrea has been an RKC since2002 and has been one of the leading instructors for Dragon Door since the earliest days. Forthe last two years she has been Director of Certifications for Dragon Door and has overseenthe development and refinement of the RKC/HKC curricula.

We like to think of Andrea as the "keeper of the flame"—when it comes to preserving theessence of best-practice with kettlebells. Her extensive immersion in martial arts, dance, andPilates has given her a deep appreciation—and ability to teach—quality functional movement.

Andrea is the Kettlebell Goddess because she insists on impeccable form and safety whentraining with the bells. She is remarkable for how much she cares about her clients’ results—and "tough love" is her chosen MO.

Andrea has a particular skill in the addressing the health and strength challenges of the"Special populations" demographic. Her presentation is therefore entitled:

How to Identify and Meetthe Functional Needs of Special Populations

The term "Special Populations" actually covers a surprisingly vast array of folk: Seniors, the de-conditioned/obese/overly sedentary of any age, the very young, those with injury or post-injury,the overtrained, the Weekend Warriors and the Office Athletes to name a few…

If ever there was a "plot tangle" in the fitness world that needs Divine Intervention, it would bethe confusion and general ignorance of your average trainer about how to truly help theseSpecial Populations achieve their desired outcomes…

Divine Intervener Andrea will present you with a blueprint on how to understand the realconcerns and special considerations of each of these unique clients—rather than you runningroughshod over them without any real regard for what it takes to help them succeed…

Then Andrea will share the very best kinds of kettlebell and bodyweight exercises—those withthe biggest-bang-for-the-buck—to fit to those clients’ identified functional needs…the basicpatterns, sample workouts, progressions, regressions and individualized modifications…

This information will be golden for your greater success as a well-rounded and highly respectedtrainer…

These so-called "special populations" could well comprise a majority of your clients! And it is aclient-base that is ever-growing, highly motivated, and well-off financially… Treat them right—and you could have a grateful, loyal customer for life. Treat them with an ignorant disregard fortheir true needs—and you’ll be looking down the barrel of their disdain for you as an effectivetrainer, before they leave you in disgruntled disgust…

Why Most REALLY Successful Trainers Are "Zenaphiliacs"—And Why You Should Be Too…

As a trainer, are you a "Zenaphiliac" or a "Zenaphobe"? "Zenawhaaat?" you ask. Ah, noworries, I just coined both words…Here are the definitions: Zenaphiliac—"A lover of the Zenapproach to life and training." Zenaphobe—"One who fears and distrusts the Zen approach tolife and training."

The Zenaphiliac trains himself and others with a good-natured, highly attentive and focusedapproach. The smile belies the supreme intensity and precision brought to the activity ofexercising. Being completely present to the moment and alive to the flow of the process trumpsa desired end-result.

The Zenaphobe’s faux-militaristic demeanor parlays into a stern, scowly, dogmatic, rigid,exclusionary approach to life and training…Achieving numbers and "acting tough" trumps

intelligent, safe practice. The process is sacrificed to the desired end-result.

Time to listen to "Grandmaster Al", as I affectionately call him: Al Kavadlo—the ultimatechampion of the Zenaphiliac approach to life and training…

Can Brawn and Brains co-exist in the same frame? Surprisingly often, the answer is yes andmost certainly the answer is Yes with Al Kavadlo. Because Al is a mighty intelligent gentleman—while being pound-for pound a strength phenom. Al is wonderfully, distinctly and uniquelyAl—which I love about him. There’s a kind of refined rawness to him, an interesting mix ofyouthfulness and seasoned pro. He carries his learning, his expertise and his strength skillslightly. He shares readily and with great care. He’s an inspirational force in the calisthenicsworld—and is lighting a fire of enthusiasm for bodyweight exercise across the globe…

Since my teenage years, Zen has been dear to my heart—so it warms me in a special way tobe Al’s publisher and to be spreading the Zenaphiliac approach to training far and wide…

Riffing and expanding on the information in his latest bestseller, you’re in for a very special treatindeed with Al’s presentation:

Zen And The Art of CalisthenicsAfter an already-illustrious career as a personal trainer, Al Kavadlo parlayed appearances inPaul Wade’s Convict Conditioning 2, into signing on as a Dragon Door author and finallybecoming the leader of the PCC (Progressive Calisthenics Certification)—widely acclaimed asthe best bodyweight exercise program in the world.

Al is rightly proud that despite his remarkable achievements in bodyweight exercise he hasmanaged to stay essentially injury-free. Much of the reason for this sustainability—and theprogressions it has enabled—Al credits to his Zen-based attitude to training and programming.

Want to make the kind of strength and flexibility gains Al has made, using bodyweight exerciseonly? Want to lead the pack, when it comes to being a leading trainer in your niche? Then, letAl help recalibrate your mindset with the Zenaphiliac strategies that have propelled him into thefront ranks of fitness professionals…

Go Beyond Traditional Gym-Strength—With This 3-D, Real-World Fitness System…

The damage to our full athletic potential perpetrated by traditional gym training has beenincalculable…The emphasis on 2-dimensional, "railroad track" training rather than a reality-based, 3-D system has created an army of functionally degraded athletes and exercisers…

The tyranny of the chair and the addiction to sitting has further contributed to this epidemic ofdysfunction in both the general population and the world of fitness training…

Real life resilience is about handling load-stress from every imaginable direction and throughevery imaginable trajectory. Traditional martial arts have always understood this. The martialmindset trains you to handle any physical assault/challenge from any angle, at any time atwhatever the incoming force. The martial mindset trains you to lash out when necessary withmaximum explosivity and striking power. The martial mindset trains you to grapple with

constantly shifting weights and rapid changes in leverage. The martial mindset places apremium on movement skills. The martial mindset seeks to train full range of motion and rapidreflexes. The martial mindset seeks to optimize the body’s rotational capabilities in response toa physical challenge.

What single exercise tool can best train us to respond effectively to the ever-shifting challengesfaced not only in full-contact sports but also in our everyday activities? And if there IS such aperfect tool, is there a system in place to optimize the tool’s full potential as a training device?

Well, yes, there is such a tool and such a system—created and perfected by our next presenter,Josh Henkin. It’s the Ultimate Sandbag and the Dynamic Variable Rotational TrainingSystem (DVRT).

Because, by its very design, the Ultimate Sandbag constantly shifts in its weight displacement—and the therefore the type of force exerted at a particular angle on the body. Playing with anUltimate Sandbag is to constantly adjust to shifting challenges—just like real life. The functionaltraining advantages are off the charts—when you know what you’re doing…

Small wonder then, that Josh Henkin has become one of the most eagerly sought out coachesby the Marines, special forces, police, professional athletes, martial artists and cutting-edge, in-the-know fitness trainers—all over the world…these folk are all looking for a real-worldinstrument to give them real-world results when it matters…

Welcome then to:

Accelerating Your Movement Skills: How to FullyUnleash Your Athletic Potential in Life and Sport

Break free of the stagnant, outdated training concepts that keep you only gym-strong.

Learn the 4 principles that will allow you to attain true 3-D real-world fitness.

Discover the secrets to unleashing unlimited training variations.

Understand the science of movement and how to apply it easily into your training.

Find out the perfect drill to fix flexibility problems in seconds.

And here is a detailed outline of what you’ll get from Josh in his info-packed presentation:

1. What is Functional Movement?a. Methodology vs. philosophy

i. Defining the popular buzz wordb. Kinetic Chains and movement

i. How our body actually moves in life and sportii. Gym movement limit movement potentialiii. What is real "core" training

c. Identifying weak linksi. Neurological versus muscular weaknessesii. Strength is not just what you lift, but also resist

d. Real world vs. gym strengthi. How to bridge science and what we do in trainingii. What old time strength really taught us

2. Rethinking Progressive Overloada. The 9 principles of intensityb. How to manage training variablesc. Role of instability and intensity.

i. Instability role in strength developmentii. Progression leading to kinetic chain developmentiii. Teaching versus programming instability

3. How to "Fix" and Layer Complexity of Movementa. The neurological breaks and turning them offb. Real world movement patterns.

i. The oversimplification of human movementc. Proper progression of movement and strength.

i. How to layer the training variables in a easy to manage formatii. When to prioritize specific variables

4. Programming for Functional Fitnessa. How to program effectively all of the training variables

i. The value of more advanced programmingb. Programming for group fitness environments.

i. Customized programs in group environmentsc. The future of functional training facilities

i. How to use rather than have equipmentii. Fiscal responsibilityiii. Spatial considerations

5. Is this REALLY the Future of Fitnessa. Missing out on getting strongb. Resiliency and powerc. Growth in the industry

6. Discussion of DVRT Concepts

Having lauded the Ultimate Sandbag and Josh’s DVRT system as an extraordinary vehicle fordeveloping superior real-world athleticism, it’s time to segue to another tool that can transformyour ability to handle challenging situations. Enter the great kettlebell—now pretty well ahousehold name for high-yield fitness results…

Since Dragon Door launched the modern kettlebell movement in 2001, its applicable benefitshave been seen to range really across the board…Weight management, flexibility, power,energy, strength, physique enhancement, endurance, you name it, the kettlebell’s got it to giveyou…

From the get-go, fighters have loved their kettlebells—for so many reasons…The extraexplosive power and force generation you get from kettlebells can be off the charts. The cardiobenefits—for the high intensity bursts required in fights—have been proven over and over andover…Grapplers appreciate the additional grip strength. And all fighters love the whipcordfunctional muscle they can pack on with educated kettlebell training…

And if I was asked who, out of Dragon Door’s Finest, I would want to accompany me down adark alley in a really bad part of town? It would be a no-brainer: Mr. Phil Ross, our Master RKCand maestro fighter…

Phil’s an awesome dad and the nicest guy on the planet—but you do NOT want to mess withhim :). You might say, Phil is a "Fight Waiting to Happen"—and it is no accident that hispresentation outline for this conference includes the phrase "Fighting Solves Everything." Youmay or may not agree with Phil’s stance on life, but I sure as heck urge you to pay attention tohis expert advice on how to be a far better fighter thanks to kettlebells…

Some background on Phil the Fighter:

First, he has bounced more heads in hardcore bars than many a pro has bounced basketballson the court… He sports an 8th Degree Black Belt and has competed at the National level in 7types of combat art… He wrestled at the NCAA Division 1 level… He’s the preferred trainer forathletes from the UFC, Bellatore, WSOF and other MMA fighters, Martial Arts school owners,military personnel, Federal agents, police officers… and he’s the author of several acclaimedself-defense videos…

In fact, we think highly enough of Phil’s self-defense background to have commissioned anupcoming Dragon Door title from him, which is also the topic of his talk:

Fight, Kettlebell, FightFighters, wrestlers, boxers and other martial artists require the ability to employ explosivestrength over a sustained period of time. A bout or an encounter may last 10 seconds, 10minutes or 10 rounds. Your body will need to process lactic acid, deal with the adrenalin dumpand maintain muscular endurance, without sacrificing the explosive power necessary to executea throw, deliver the knockout punch or apply a finishing hold.

All things being equal, if you get gassed before your opponent gets gassed, you’re serving yourbutt up on a plate—get ready to get hammered and go down for good…!

Phil will share his kettlebell secrets for never getting gassed when the jam is hitting the fan…soyou can survive to hit another day…

Attaining and maintaining one’s strength while staying within a particular weight class or whilelosing weight is particularly challenging. Fighters are faced with how to maximize their strengthwhile increasing flexibility, athletic prowess, reflexive power, cardiovascular conditioning as wellas developing essential core stabilizers…

Phil will give you the kettlebell protocols and programs to ensure you—or the fighters you train—can meet these goals…

As in actual combat, extreme focus, concentration and intensity are an absolute must for thisstyle of workout. Get Phil’s real-world tips on how to forge this martial mindset—and come out awinner every time…

Speaking of MINDSET, most champions in any athletic endeavor will credit proper mentaltraining as a HUGE component of their success.

Our next presenter Logan Christopher has written a whole book on the subject for DragonDoor and will share his mental mastery secrets with you in what will be the ‘closing act" for thefirst day of the conference…

Logan Christopher has been called a physical culture renaissance man for his work in manydifferent areas of fitness and strength training. While many people become experts in onespecific area he seeks to master them all. As a performing strongman he has pulled an antiquefire truck by his hair, juggled kettlebells that have been lit on fire, did weighted back flips,supported half a ton in a wrestler’s bridge position, and many of the more typical oldtimestrongmen feats like phonebook tearing and nail bending.

Being born without genetic gifts for strength he sought out the best training information todevelop his strength. In addition to learning from top trainers he went outside the field ofstrength training. This led him into mental training and sports psychology—which he hasexplored in depth, becoming an NLP Trainer, Certified Hypnotist, Energy Medicine, andEmotional Freedom Technique Practitioner.

Logan is no tree-hugging dabbler in the arcane arts. However mysterious or downrightimplausible Logan’s methods might first appear to be, the proof is in the pudding of hisdemonstrable strength achievements. Time and time again, Logan has helped trainees makeseemingly-impossibly-fast strength gains—simply by better applying certain mental secrets totheir practice…

So, welcome to:

How to Hack Your Mind Codes for Instant Strength Gains…In Logan’s own words:

More weight on the bar. More kettlebell swings. A better bodyweight hold. Astronger squat. All these goals and many more are the result of training. Butis doing one workout after another the only way to get better? What if I toldyou there was a way to see an immediate improvement on anything you do?You’d probably say BS, but if you give me a minute I’ll show you how….

For every exercise you do there is a mental representation about thatexercise. These are often beyond our conscious awareness but they don’thave to be. In fact, once you realize your mental codes, you can changethem, making what was once hard, easier.

Using these techniques people have literally doubled or tripled what theycan do, though most often its smaller gains of a few pounds or a rep or two.It only takes a couple minutes to do—making it one of the fastest ways tosupercharge your results. You’ll discover how some small tweaks to yourinternal mental programming can make the difference between success andfailure. More strength. More flexibility. More endurance. More skill. Instantly!

Plus, discover:

Why Mental Toughness is NOT the AnswerHow Positive Thinking FailsWhat Placebo Knee Surgeries Can Teach You About Strength

How to Gain—Not Just From Workout to Workout—but Multiple Times in a Single SessionPracticing vs. Training vs. TestingHow You Can Harness the Expectation EffectHow to Destroy a Mental Block in 30 Seconds or Less

After Logan’s presentation, we will be arranging an informal reception where you can mingleand network with your extraordinary fellow-attendees. Nowhere else this year, will there besuch a stellar gathering of fitness luminaries! Expect to forge new friendships, embark onexciting new joint ventures, make new alliances or deepen ties with important colleagues…

Grand Book Signing With All 13 of the Dragon DoorPresenter-Authors…

The Dragon Door authors presenting at this conference are some of the most respected andinfluential authorities in the modern fitness world. Before dinner, we will be arranging a specialbook signing event for ALL the authors. Here’s your chance to make a special personalconnection with your favorite authors—and get your treasured books signed for posterity… :)

Now this is just the first day—and we still have the VIP Dinner to talk about!

THE VIP DINNER EXPERIENCEAs a gesture of thanks to our Dragon Door authors we’ve put together a special VIP plateddinner banquet for them on Saturday evening…

Well, how would you like to join this group of fitness superstars at their dinner? Spend a coupleof hours—or more—connecting on a deeper and broader level with the experts of your choice?

Because of the jam-packed conference schedule, this, frankly, could be your ONLY realopportunity for quality personal time with the Dragon Door authors. You may want to pick theirbrains, you may want to arrange special training with them or you may simply want to establisha friendship with them… I challenge you, though, to find a more powerful group of fitnessauthorities together at ANY single dinner in 2015 in the US!

We are sure that almost the entire RKC and PCC leadership team will also be attending—oneof the reasons they are leaders is because they know to seize on remarkable opportunitieswhen they’re offered! So, you should also be able to hang and network with many of thegreatest kettlebell and calisthenics trainers in the world…

Dragon Door’s not looking to make a dime on this dinner, so the fee of $100 for this specialdinner will be there to roughly cover the hotel’s dinner charge per person.

Interested? When you come to the registration page just select the VIP Package and you’re in…

AND THAT WAS ALL JUST DAY ONE!

Day Two Will Steamroll Forward With Another Barrage ofHigh-Yield Health and Strength Strategies To Elevate Your

Training Game to Remarkable New Heights…And who better to bang off Day Two than the peerless Marty Gallagher…?

Being with Marty Gallagher is like shaking hands with living history…When it comes toAbsolute Strength coaching and training, in particular, there is simply no one who can hold acandle to him…

As the steely-eyed commander of one of America’s most prestigious spec ops units put it:"Marty takes the best and makes them better…"

There are folk who just want to be fit in an average kind of way. Never making any realprogress—just remaining reasonably strong and healthy and that’s it…mediocre. If this is youthen Marty is NOT your guy…

Marty is about scientifically challenging you to go way beyond your current strength levels—Imean, WAY beyond! If this is you—then Marty is absolutely your guy and you’ll be hooked byevery word of tried-and-true wisdom that will be spilling from his lips…

Hence the title of Marty’s presentation:

Radical Physical TransformationThere are so many self-proclaimed "experts of strength" out there...however towering abovethese wannabees is Marty and his real-life track record in the strength world. Consider thatMarty:

Captured his first national title and set his first national records as a 17-year oldOlympic weightlifter in 1967—and in 2013 set his most recent of national records as a 64-year old powerlifter...

Is a six-time national powerlifting champion and in 1992 won the IPF world masterspowerlifting title...

As a coach guided Team USA to the IPF world team title in 1991 and coachedBlack’s gym to five national powerlifting team titles…

Mentored Hall-of-Fame powerlifting world dominator "Captain" Kirk Karwoski and

competition coached Ed "King" Coan, the world’s greatest powerlifter, along with ironimmortals Doug Furnas, Lamar Grant and Mark Chaillet…

Since 1978, has had well over 1,000 fitness articles published while working as thefitness columnist for washingtonpost.com, Muscle & Fitness and Flex...

Is the acclaimed author of The Purposeful Primitive and co-author of StrongMedicine…

In other words, when you listen to Marty talk about how to take your body—and those of yourclients’—through a MASSIVE physical transformation, boy, have you ever then hit the motherlode…!

Marty’s Done It For America’s Most Elite Guardians of OurFreedom—Let Him Do It For YOU Also…

According to Marty, the reason your fitness efforts fail is that they ignore one or more of the fourcore elements needed in every successful transformative effort. Every serious regimen HAS toinclude….

1. A progressive resistance element2. A cardiovascular element3. A nutritional element4. A psychological element

In Marty’s words:

"Without tangible physical results, our fitness efforts are nothing more thanmeaningless motion, recreational activities no more effective than golf,bowling or Ping-Pong. We must force the body to undergo a metamorphosis,we do not coax or cajole tangible physical results; we create biologicalimperatives. The human body cannot nor will not favorably reconfigure itselfin response to ease, sameness and sub-maximal effort; the human body willmorph to the dramatic degree we seek only in response to Herculean effort.The body must be forced to change. We invoke specific procedures thatleave the body no choice other than alter its biologic composition. Ourtraining and nutritional efforts need be dramatic yet appropriate. Meek andmild methods and modes deliver substandard results…"

How do we create the biological revolution we seek?

How do we transform or physique and performance to the dramatic degree weseek?

What modes and methods, protocols and procedures do we invoke to stimulateour very own transformational revolution?

Marty will answer these key questions for you—just as he has answered these questions forAmerica’s most elite guardians of our freedom—and innumerable national and world championsand record holders…

Prepare to be amazed, transfixed and transformed…

Then onward, as the Dragon Door authors—and their brilliance—just keep coming at you...!

Max Shank: From Weakling to Fitness Wunderkind…By his own admission, Max Shank was a teenage weakling, barely able to scratch out a singlepush up—and not exactly a threat to the local neighborhood…

Then there was a shift in Max’s mindset (which he’ll talk about)—almost like something out of aComic Book Hero story—and Max began to morph into the physically and athletically splendidspecimen he now is…

Wise beyond his years, highly dedicated and determined, Max rocketed up the Dragon Doorleadership ladder to become one of our most acclaimed Master RKC instructors in just a fewshort years…

Recognizing his accomplishments as a bodyweight exercise master, Dragon Door invited him tostar in the renowned Convict Conditioning video series shot on Alcatraz. If you haven’t yetwatched these superb videos, we urge you to do so—and you’ll get to see Max demo even thehardest of the CC moves with extreme precision…

Max also competes in a wide variety of sports ranging from Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu to ScottishHighland Games. Max is probably the only athlete in the world to have competed at theHighland Games World Championships and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Championships one weekapart from each other. His abilities as a coach run the full spectrum, being able to help bothelite athletes and average Joe’s get "better every day."

Max's desire to constantly improve his knowledge and personal skills has led him to be a soughtafter international presenter of his unique and pragmatic blend of strength, flexibility, health, andoverall athleticism.

Max has helped spearhead and embody Dragon Door’s mission to champion health-based, all-around athleticism. Long term, sustainable strength combined with high-level movement skills isthe name of the game…

Appropriately, Max’s presentation is entitled:

Health and AthleticismWith zero bluster or posturing—and a eagle eye on actionable content, Max will discuss:

The new fitness paradigm—and how to become a leader—not a latter day Dodo—in thisexciting shift…THE Pyramid of Priorities you must observe—if developing rapidly and safely as anUltimate Athlete is your goal…Max’s proven programming and training organization—to make athletic progress inhalf the time it takes you now…How to seamlessly blend different training styles—for a synergistic boost to youroverall strength and athletic aptitude…Lifestyle strategies to employ—for sustainable gains year in year out…

What’s so great about this schedule of Dragon Door experts is how beautifully CUMULATIVEtheir training wisdom will be for you…

The impact for you and your business? You should see a HUGE savings in frustration anduncertainty about how to elevate your game—rapidly and proficiently…

There is no way on earth you can expect to makes these kinds of advances in your strengthand health simply by reading books, watching videos and taking the occasional training class…The tangible and intangible benefits you will get by attending this Conference of FitnessSuperstars are frankly incalculable…

The most flamboyantly passionate Dragon Door author by a mile is Mr. Danny Kavadlo. I amso glad he is in my life! His heartfelt energy and enthusiasm lights up the room wherever hegoes—and he just ROCKS it when helping Brother Al lead at the PCC…

Danny has trained celebrities, top models, athletic prodigies, hardened workout fiends and allthe way down to the harried housewife or middle-aged desk jockey with 30lbs to shed… He’sworked with kids and the elderly, the disabled and the barely functional…whoever it might be,Danny gives them the same loving intensity of attention and skilled coaching…

Looking for the ultimate in super-practical, no-nonsense, results-getting, yet compassionatecoaching?—"It doesn’t get better than Danny the Trainer!"

Danny’s author of the critically-acclaimed fitness biz guide Everybody Needs Training and the#1 Amazon bestseller Diamond-Cut Abs (get this book folks—it’s essence of Danny and adarn fine work…)

Danny’s been OBSESSED with abs training since he was a kid—and has explored everypossible avenue to arrive at the magnificent six-pack he sports today… He’s made all themistakes—diet-wise and exercise-wise—and he’s figured out all the true secrets to what reallyworks for ridiculously incredible abs, so given his extreme expertise in the matter, it felt darnright criminal if we didn’t let him share his formulas with you all on this second day of theconference…

So, say hello to:

Abs Training Demystified—Exposing The Myths andRevealing The Truth About Sculpting a Rock-Hard Core…

Here’s what Danny will cover. And yes, you read that right, Danny will be cooking for us to boot

on stage… :)

1. Overviewa. Abs In Popular Cultureb. Myths About Absc. Truth About Abs

2. Training Your Absa. Abs Workouts Vs Full Body Workoutsb. "Isolation"c. Exercisesd. Programming

3. Nutritiona. The Single Most Important Decisionb. Over-compartmentalizationc. Labels, Ingredients and Health Claimsd. What Is Real?e. What I Eatf. Cooking demo Danny style

4. Lifestylea. Deprivation Is Not Healthyb. Abs Training should enhance quality of life not take away from it.

One of Danny’s biggest secrets to fitness success has always been TESTINGEVERYTHING ON HIMSELF (unlike 98% of the blowhard personal trainers out there)—andnow you get to take home the prize formula for what really, really works—and what to avoid likethe plague—when it comes to the impeccable engineering of that righteous midriff… withoutpersonally having to suffer through all those failed "self-laboratory" experiments that Danny didon your behalf…

Next up is another super-passionate individual with a planet-sized heart and soul to match:Zach Even-Esh… To me, Zach is Mr. Inspiration Personified… he just has that specialcharismatic quality that gets folk fired up to try their very hardest, whatever the challenges theymight face.

I think a lot of the power of Zach’s message—and the power of his coaching style—comes fromthe repertoire of failures and frustrations in his life that he constantly had to spirit to wrestlethrough and come out shining on the other side… Zach is a beacon for all those waverers whowithout his inspirational story could fall forever by the athletic wayside—their dreams of being acontender shattered to fragments…

Zach restores hope…And like Danny, he’s a guy who has tried EVERYTHING in the quest forphysical attainment… Like Danny, he’s been there, done that…

The best way to profile Zach further is to share part of what the legendary Marty Gallagher hadto say about Zach’s bestselling Dragon Door title, The Encyclopedia of UndergroundStrength and Conditioning:

"This big book has a lot of soul. All of its lessons are hard earned empiricalknowledge, learned by doing. No theorizing here. I love the book’s tone. I

love how Zach’s unique voice comes through. I love the mix of bodybuildingand wrestling and power training and farm-boy strength combined with thesincere earnestness of his ongoing quest for continual physicalimprovement.

I love his crazed, gonzo approach towards fitness and strength andfunctionality. Zach feels, as I feel, that we need to shock the body out ofcomplacency, we need to jolt it to the next level. The human body is notreasoned with or convinced; the human body must be subdued.

Any trainee intent on transformation has got to get a little crazy. All thegreats one’s I’ve trained with had this innate ability to go ape-shit f*#kinginsane in training. In doing so they forced the evolution of the body; dramaticchange only occurs in response to dramatic action. What need we do inorder to burst through to the next level of physical excellence?

For starters you will need willpower, tenacity and a high pain-tolerance.Radical transformation requires incredible commitment. To truly excel youmust be prepared to walk through fire. We speak metaphorically; yet everyman that has successfully engineered their own dramatic physicaltransformation will nod their head in mute agreement with our assessment ofwhat it takes. Physically and psychologically, to radically, dramatically,irrefutably forcibly morph your physique and improve your current abilitiesand capacities, we need equal or exceed current limits and capacities insome manner or fashion, and do so on a consistent basis.

Capacity is a shifting target that rises and falls, minute-to-minute, day-to-day, and over time our capacities diminish. Yet each of us can establishlimits and personal records in a wide universe of athletic modes. Zach hasthrown a big lasso around a hell-of-a-lot of athletic modes. Zach hastransformed himself, and ergo, he knows of what he speaks. Best of all,most important of all, he gets irrefutable results for his people. I love thefunctional, uber-fit physiques of Zach students, the final finished products.

These kids look as if they could do Jackie Chan, run-up-a-corner-and-onto-a-roof acrobat moves. All through the book Zach’s boys are doing back flipsand round-off handsprings, this in addition to picking up giant stones, doingstrongman drills and performing insane stuff like hoisting a sandbag ontoone shoulder then dragging a weighted sled, tied to your waist, up a hill inAugust at noon. While everyone else in the fitness world looks to maketransformation easier (impossible) Zach’s mind runs toward, ‘How can wemake the already horrible even worse?’

This book covers an incredibly broad range of inter-related training modes,methods, techniques and tactics. The sheer number of interesting trainingdrills is staggering and intriguing…"

If someone of Marty Gallagher’s world champion stature—and he is one tough gentleman toimpress—gives this kind of a thumbs up to Mr. Zach, wouldn’t you say that it behooves you tolisten to what Zach will share with you at the conference?

Here is a summary of what you’ll hear from Zach:

Training For LifeThe FIRST thing to do in training that delivers powerful results (coaches & trainees mustdo this)

Why & how NO gym is a gift, NOT a curse

Cool-looking exercises Vs Results

Program design + the art of coaching—what REALLY needs to be in your training

Why you MUST stand for something—or you will fall for anything in training & life

After lunch—when you will have had a further opportunity to forge new or deeper connectionswith your fellow attendees and the presenters... you will be treated to one of the most uniqueand remarkable strength athletes on the planet…Jon Bruney…

Jon grabbed a World Record with John Brookfield, pulling a semi-truck for one mile… Despiteclocking in at around 260lbs, he habitually runs a couple of miles a day of SPRINT intervals—without getting gassed…(yes, despite his size he prefers sprinting to jogging)…He has run 5Kraces, no sweat… He can easily double-press the 106-pound BEAST kettlebell and is ascomfortable hefting massive weights around as he is doing handstand push ups or plyometricleaps… Want greater work capacity, whatever your size? Jon Bruney is your guy!

Jon’s exploits have been immortalized in Ripley's Believe it or Not, The Guinness Book of WorldRecords, shown nationwide on NBC's America's Got Talent, The Today Show and TruTv’sGuinness World Records Unleashed. Thousands of people have personally experienced Jon'sjaw-dropping ‘Pressing the Limits’ motivational strength program.

A true Renaissance man in the realm of strength-development, Jon is a world-class trainer,coach, motivational speaker, strongman, and pastor. Jon's work with competitive athletesincludes Olympians and NFL players. He is the author of Dragon Door’s bestselling Neuro-Mass The Ultimate System for Spectacular Strength. He also writes a training series calledFoundations, featured in MILO, widely considered the world's most prestigious strengthtraining journal.

Jon is a brilliant innovator when it comes to the creation of cutting-edge strength-enhancementprograms. And—like all the Dragon Door authors—he walks his talk…I am personally a very bigfan of his neuro-sequencing methods and use them consistently in my own practice.

Here’s what to expect from Jon’s two-part presentation:

How to Enhance Your Athletic Capabilities And WorkCapacity Using The Power of Neuro-Sequencing…

AndThe Energy-Output Secrets of Commando Cardio…

Why Neuro-Sequencing should be the template for designing your training sessions.How to apply Neuro-Sequencing to your chosen athletic pursuit, including Calisthenics,Kettlebells, Powerlifting, and Strongman.How to rapidly fire-up your nervous system for amazing training sessions.How to incorporate advanced isometrics into your training.Understanding the three positions of isometric contraction for any muscle group.How to use isometrics for blasting through "sticking points."How to implement isometrics to gain elite levels of strength or to increase muscle tone.Commando Cardio—Performance-Based Energy Output That Creates a MetabolicDemand.Why Commando Cardio is so effective.How to use Commando Cardio to increase conditioning and natural growth hormonelevels.The benefits of increasing growth hormone naturally.Rare Air—reaping the benefits of rarified air and the carbon dioxide conditioning paradox.

Next up is all-around tough guy, strongman and bodyguard to the Super-Rich and Hyper-Famous, Mike Gillette… Earlier, I said I would pick Phil Ross to ride shotgun with me throughHell’s Own back alley…but frankly Mike Gillette would be an equivalent pick for effectivelydisposing of the bad guys…After all, he has protected some of the all-time biggest names in thecountry from threat—so I am sure he could handle my little needs...:)

A former paratrooper and SWAT Commander, Mike Gillette is a relentlessstudent of the human factors which allow people to succeed againstoverwhelming odds. In his line of work, these ‘odds’ have centered on threatmanagement and peak performance training methods. His research andexperiences have taken him through many different worlds and disciplines.They have ultimately produced a body of knowledge, which has been put touse by clients ranging from armed professionals to ordinary people whomust operate in extraordinary circumstances.

In 1995, concurrent with his law enforcement and training duties, Mikereturned to military service in a part-time role. Following a rigorous selectionprocess, he was accepted into the 194th Long-Range SurveillanceDetachment and full ‘jump’ status. This was a significant milestone for Mike,who had been told 11 years earlier by an Army surgeon that he would neverrun again, much less jump out of any more airplanes.

For over 25 years, Mike has been an ardent student of the martial arts. Hehas traveled extensively to train with some of the world’s foremostinstructors, earning black belts in Filipino, Korean and American martial artsstyles. Mike has appeared in martial arts magazines, books and videos andhas provided performance coaching to competitive martial arts fighters.

Mike has, by necessity, pursued a life-long study of strength andconditioning methods. He served for several years as a Police AcademyFitness Trainer and later as a Physical Training Specialist for the ArmyNational Guard. He has personally trained under such luminaries as BobHoffman, former Physical Education Faculty at West Point and former

Director of the US Army’s Physical Fitness School; and Ed Thomas, one ofthe world’s leading physical culture experts.

More recently, Mike began training in the performance of strongman-stylefeats of strength, studying with such notable practitioners as Dennis Rogersand Jon Bruney. And to better understand the connection between mind andbody, Mike has trained with Guy Savelli, best known for introducingunconventional operator enhancement techniques to the US Army SpecialForces community and whose unique talents were the basis for the title ofthe film The Men Who Stare at Goats.

Mike’s presentation for the Conference will be based on his new title with Dragon Door, Ringsof Power...

Ring Training: Concepts and Applicationsfor Strength-Development...

Part One: Ring Training PrinciplesPrinciple 1 -- GravityPrinciple 2 -- ErgonomicsPrinciple 3 -- Planes of MovementPrinciple 4 -- Leverage & Loading

Part Two: Ring NomenclatureTypes of RingsRigging the RingsSetting the Rings

Part Three: Ring Movement PatternsHorizontal PushingHorizontal PullingVertical PushingVertical PullingLower-Limb PushingTrunk ExtensionTrunk Flexion

Part Four: Advanced Ring ConceptsFine-tuning Form with the Wobble BarInverted Ring ProgressionsExternal LoadingRing Programming

Like his good friend, Jon Bruney, Mike is a formidable innovator when it comes to practicalstrength-enhancing strategies…whether you have yet to add ring training to your arsenal or youare a seasoned ring-pro, you’ll find Mike’s presentation packed with actionable methods toincorporate in to your own and your clients’ programs…

"Ring work" is hot these days—for good reason…let Mike Gillette show you how to extractmaximum results in minimum time from these ancient tools…

Ready to Rumble Now, With Our Closing Act:CrossCore HardCore—And Then Some…

We opened each day, respectively, with the co-authors of Strong Medicine, Chris Hardy andMarty Gallagher.

And we thought we’d close the Conference by bringing the two of them together on the stagefor a compelling final act…based on their upcoming title with Dragon Door, CrossCoreHardCore.

At time of writing, this book/video combo is shrouded in secrecy, so we are just going to teaseyou with a few lines on the origin story from Marty Gallagher:

"Every Sunday afternoon, I field phone calls from around the country andaround the world. In addition to elite military, I also work with Jack Bauer-types that operate within governmental counter terrorism units. Onecommonality all the warrior types have is they all have to travel quite a bit,and are often stuck for protracted periods in locales without trainingfacilities. One longtime spec ops friend used to regularly call me fromAfghanistan late Sunday afternoon. It would be nighttime and his squadwould be gathering together to head out on yet another snatch-and-grabmission.

For four months of every year this Tier 1 pro, a man with twelve straightcombat tours, was dispatched to some godforsaken hellhole to chase badguys while alternately freezing or frying in inhospitable climates. He relatedthat while deployed he experienced unending bouts of boredom interspersedwith nightly missions often ending in violence and fury. It was a life ofextremes.

The missions were repetitive: take a helicopter ride to the middle of nowherein the middle of the night, arrive at a jump off spot, sneak up on the bad guyshumping 70-pound packs for eight to ten kilometer hikes that usually endedwith a mountainous ascent in order to successfully creep up on a village.The squad would then leap out, grab and handcuff the Taliban dude(s) thenhike back out to the jump off point to be picked up by the helicopter, captivesin tow. There was always apprehension and tension and sometimes gunfireand killing.

He’d call in the boring minutes before the night mission kicked off and we’dtalk about resistance training. He had suffered a horrific back injury during amountain climbing training exercise accident. We had designed a resistanceprogram that "trained around" his injured back yet was a serious,uncompromising strength training regimen. His back may have been jacked– but as he would tell me when I tried to baby him, "There is nothing wrongwith my arms, legs and most of my back." We found ways to tax, strengthenand power-ize his undamaged body parts.

One Sunday afternoon he called and was bitching about lack of fitness

equipment of any kind at the locale he was stuck in for the next four months.He asked if there were any portable training devices that could be used as aserious resistance tool, where there any portable training tools able "to givea real man a real workout?" By ‘real workout’ he meant a workout that couldreplicate strength, power and muscle growth results attained usingbarbells/dumbbells and power training.

Was there a portable training device that could realistically replicate resultsobtained from gold standard resistance tools? I told him I didn’t rightly knowif such a tool existed, but I sort of doubted it and would do my best to findout. His initial inquiry led to my eventual discovery of the CrossCore 180.

I was the ideal person to vet a portable resistance-training device as I was asuper skeptic and my hunch was that portable training devices would proveinsufficient and inconsequential. I would be fine reporting back just that:"Sorry men, they all suck and they all are worthless – at least insofar asresistance training applications." I would have had zero compunction relatingthat if it turned out to be the case. It didn’t turn out that way. In reality theCC180 proved to be a bit of a resistance revelation."

Now, as I pointed out before, Marty is THE Master of Absolute Strength. THE Master…and heset to work to create an Absolute Strength Building Program using only the CrossCore 180.Months of rigorous research later, the program got field-tested by his cream-of-the-crop warrior-athletes. They were blown away…

But Marty was not satisfied…With his usual maniacally obsessive drive for supremetransformative results he tweaked and tweaked and tweaked his techniques and methods untilthey met his own standards of excellence…

The brilliant Chris Hardy collaborated with Marty into producing the final remarkable text for thebook. We filmed it and photographed it and the extraordinary program should be launched wellbefore this Conference…

That’s all we are going to tell you for now…but trust me, you are going to go ape when you seewhat this monster of an Absolute Strength Program is like in action!

The Big Question:"How Much Will This Cost Me To Attend?"

If you’re the type of serious, lifelong student of health and strength who is an ideal guest for thisConference...You already recognize the tremendous value we’ve put together. And becauseyou are "in the business," you’ll know that putting together an event of this magnitude, with thisroster of presenters, at one of the premier hotels in Minneapolis, does not come cheap!

So you will doubtless be shocked to hear how low the registration fee has been set:

For complete access to the full two days of the Health and Strength Conference, the fee isonly $299.

Register by Friday, April 3rd and your registration fee is only $249—save $50.

Register by Friday, April 3rd and your registration fee is only $249—save $50.

For complete access to the full two days of the Health and Strength Conference PLUS apass to the Saturday evening VIP Dinner Package, the fee is only $399.

Register by Friday, April 3rd for the full Conference PLUS the VIP Dinner Package andyour registration fee is only $349—save $50.

Why so low? We are not looking to take a loss on this Conference certainly but, frankly, we feellike an event like this is way overdue! We feel we owe it to our authors, our leadership and ourmost loyal and dedicated customers to showcase the extraordinary talent within our community.To give back to you all—and in the act of giving back, to turbo-charge our health and strengthinitiative…

And we want to open this up and make it as affordable as possible to those who are seriousabout helping Dragon Door have a major impact on world health…Let’s make it happentogether!

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BRING A GUEST?If you’d like to bring either a bona fide business partner, employee or a relative, you can add upto FOUR registrations to yours, at a $100 discount for each person. This offer applies tothe VIP Package also. For example, if you register for the VIP Package at $399, you canregister your VIP Package guests for $299 each.

We ask that you only use this for genuine business partners and relatives—verification may berequested.

REMINDER: THE VIP DINNER EXPERIENCEAs a gesture of thanks to our Dragon Door authors we’ve put together a special VIP plateddinner banquet for them on Saturday evening…

Well, how would you like to join this group of fitness superstars at their dinner? Spend a coupleof hours—or more—connecting on a deeper and broader level with the experts of your choice?

Because of the jam-packed conference schedule, this, frankly, could be your ONLY realopportunity for quality personal time with the Dragon Door authors. You may want to pick theirbrains, you may want to arrange special training with them or you may simply want to establisha friendship with them… I challenge you, though, to find a more powerful group of fitnessauthorities together at ANY single dinner in 2015 in the US!

We are sure that almost the entire RKC and PCC leadership team will also be attending—oneof the reasons they are leaders is because they know to seize on remarkable opportunitieswhen they’re offered! So, you should also be able to hang and network with many of thegreatest kettlebell and calisthenics trainers in the world…

Dragon Door’s not looking to make a dime on this dinner, so the fee of $100 for this specialdinner will be there to roughly cover the hotel’s dinner charge per person.

Interested? When you come to the registration page just select the VIP Package and you’rein…

"Is there a discounted room rate at the hotel?"Yes! The Hyatt Regency Minneapolis has set aside a block of rooms at the special rate of$149 per night. After you register, you’ll get an email with our group code and a link to reserveyour room online, to get the discount as part of our room block.

Note: we highly recommend you make your reservations as soon as you receive our groupcode. Given the likely popularity of the Conference, we expect the rooms to be snapped upquickly. It will be very inconvenient indeed—and potentially more expensive—if you are forcedto stay at a different hotel!

Want to share a room? The hotel allows up to four guests in a room. We will be setting up aprivate Facebook group for registrants which will allow you to network for hotel and travelinformation.

"Can I just wait for the video recordings?"We may or may not be recording the event. We will be making that decision down the road…

But SO much of this Health and Strength Conference is bound up in the personal experienceyou will have—not just being up close and personal with the incredible posse of fitnessauthorities, but networking with all the other industry "movers and shakers" you can expect tobe in attendance.

Come for the experience of a lifetime—not a third-hand watching of some videos, by yourlonesome, back home!

Will the event be sold out if you ignore this notice today and come back tomorrow? Probablynot. But why risk it? Simply because you’re reading this far, you’re serious. Not only about thechance to attend this incredible event... But also doing what it takes—investing in YOURSELFas well as in many of the world’s greatest fitness authorities—to get those next bigbreakthroughs as a trainer or coach...

If You’re Serious, Register Now...

Fill out your payment information on the order form and reserve your spot. You’ll receive afollow-up email shortly after, with travel and accommodation information.

Prefer to register by phone? Call 1-800-899-5111.

And I look forward to seeing you in August!

Warmly,

John Du Cane

CEO, Dragon Door Publications