Overcome Gravity

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StevenLow, who holds a BS in Biochemistry and a Doctor of Physical Therapy from the University of Maryland, takes the reader on a journey through logically constructing a strength-oriented bodyweight workout routine. With a highly systematic approach, he delves into the physiology behind strength training and equips the reader to adequately prepare their body for the rigors of bodyweight training. This book covers much ground that other books do not, offering information on health and injury management, factors that contribute to a successful routine, and actual program implementation. If you prefer your health and fitness books to include scientific data, comprehensive sample programming, and effective recommendations, Overcoming Gravity is the ideal choice for your library.

This Second Edition has been revised, expanded, and re-organized to read easier, provide more content, and offer easily accessible next-steps for beginner, intermediate, and advanced populations. Notable improvements include the following:

These charts, combined with Methods of Progression in Chapter 10, will help you progress through the various levels until you can perform movements like handstands, hanstand pushups, planche, front lever, back lever, elbow levers, and many other movements to show off your strength and skill.

Question: Is the First Edition required for purchasing the Second Edition?

Answer: No, the Second Edition is stand alone. If I were rating the clarity and depth of content, the first book was 5/10 for beginners and 7/10 for intermediate and advanced. The second book is 9+/10 for beginners, intermediate, and advanced.

Question: If I have the First Edition, should I buy the Second Edition?

Answer: The Second Edition is not your average college textbook that sees a few changes and is published again. The book was expanded from about 165,000 words to about 250,000 words, some injury content was dropped, and I added a ton of new material. Everyone who has bought the second edition and had the first edition has told me that they were more than satisfied with the quality and amount of extra content added.

Question: Is the physical book only available on Amazon?

Answer: It is only available on Amazon and a select few climbing gyms. The Digital edition (PDF/ePUB) is available here.

Overcoming Gravity Second Edition was written for the beginner, intermediate and advanced in mind. The main goal of the book is bodyweight strength training education in the vein of the common proverb:

Chapter 10: Methods of Progression is one of the big additions to Overcoming Gravity Second Edition. This chapter was not in the previous edition and is also the first of its kind in any gymnastics, bodyweight, or calisthenics product. This section was designed to educate you on the methods of progress for bodyweight exercises. Barbell and Dumbell exercises are very easy to know how to progress: simply add weight. However, bodyweight exercises are very difficult to understand how to progress safely and effectively. It is simply more than just adding repetitions until you can reach the next progression.

The third part of the book discusses various factors that influence training such as endurance, cardio, cross training, hybrid templates, and routines. It also discusses factors such as overreaching, overtraining, health and injury management, and lifestyle factors such as optimizing sleep, nutrition, and stress for your goals. All of these factors are important to understand how they influence your training, especially if you are going to add or subtract elements from your routine. Most fitness books may sparsely mention these things here and there, but Overcoming Gravity Second Edition makes you aware of everything that can influence how you progress and perform.

Part four of the book discusses program implementation giving sample routines, real life examples, and commentary about common pitfalls that beginners, intermediates, and advanced may run into in their training. This section is not so you can go about copying the routines that have been constructed or others have used in the past. However, it is there to give you a reference and structure on how routines can be built and managed during a cycle, so that you can take what you have learned and implement it well.

Finally, the fifth part of the book is everything to do with keeping your body health and exercise. The first part of this section is about common bodyweight training injuries to make you aware of factors that can derail your training. Likewise, the prehabilitation, mobility, and flexibility section gives illustrated examples of these attributes for the wrists, elbows, shoulders, core, and legs. This allows you to combine these elements into your routine along with your strength work to ensure that you are building the requirements to make it to the next level. The last part of this section is about all of the handstand, pulling, pushing, and combined exercise progressions that you need to work toward high level strength.

One of the best parts of the book is the support from the community. Overcoming Gravity Second Edition has its own subreddit on /r/overcominggravity and is one of the most highly rated training materials in /r/bodyweightfitness, which is the largest gathering of bodyweight enthusiasts in the world at over 3,400,000 users. If you want to discuss the material from Overcoming Gravity, post up a training routine for critique, get an exercise technique critique, or simply discuss bodyweight training with like-minded users, you can do all of it! I personally check /r/overcominggravity to help users understand and apply the material through questions and routines, and I also moderate bodyweightfitness as I love the bodyweight community.

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Somewhat surprisingly, Buhler says that when he and his colleagues first began looking into propellantless propulsion ideas over two decades ago, they did not expect electrostatics to be the answer. Instead, he and his team explored other avenues for as many as 25 years before landing on electrostatics as the key to unlocking the door of this new force.

For example, from 2016 to the end of 2020, their best devices were producing a little more than one hundred thousandth of a gravity. In the coming years, that would go up exponentially. For clarification, Buhler told The Debrief that measuring thrust in terms of a percentage of gravity reflects the force generated divided by the test article.

With fresh momentum, Buhler says they also began construction of a custom-made vacuum chamber that would allow them to simulate the environment of deep space. If something else was causing the force, this chamber was built to identify it.

According to the APEC presentation, that chamber was completed at the end of 2020. Between January and September 2021, 146 separate articles were tested, each seemingly confirming the presence of measurable thrust. The team also tested different configurations that eliminated the old designs using asymmetrical capacitors and instead employed models with opposing asymmetrical plates.

After employing these new designs, the next series of tests produced even more encouraging results. The team once again confirmed the thrust, but the new approach resulted in an order of magnitude jump to one ten-thousandth of a gravity. This was still not enough to leave the planet, but it was enough to know they were on the right track.

With an end seemingly within sight, the team immediately began to try newer and better designs. They continued to measure thrust while also pretty much ruling out every conventional explanation they could come up with. This was not anything they had ever measured before.

After decades of research, Buhler says he and his team had shown unequivocally that a new, fundamental force was at work and that his devices were tapping into that force to produce thrust without emitting any mass or propellant.

Another unusual result from their tests was that sometimes the tested devices did not require a constant input of electrical charge to maintain their thrust. Given that the device already appears to violate the known laws of physics by creating thrust without propellant, this result even stumped Dr. Buhler and his team.

Besides proving once and for all that the force they are seeing is real, the accomplished engineer believes that such tests could encourage other scientists to search for an explanation of what exactly it is they are seeing.

So, while his team believes their experiments speak for themselves, the veteran scientist says he also believes it is the job of science to analyze and understand this discovery. If successful, he thinks it may even address some of the harder questions in science, including the nature of dark energy or even space/time itself.

As far as his own thoughts about the nature of the force his team has uncovered, the refreshingly honest NASA veteran demurred, saying only that he believes scientists besides himself are in the perfect position to test and study their results and to come up with the answers.

Christopher Plain is a Science Fiction and Fantasy novelist and Head Science Writer at The Debrief. Follow and connect with him on X, learn about his books at plainfiction.com, or email him directly at chris...@thedebrief.org.

The magnetic force can keep an object suspended on the side of your fridge for eternity. Even stronger magnets, using superconductors, can levitate entire train cars, enabling super fast transportation that floats above the track.

Engineers have developed concepts for rotating space habitats to recreate the effects of gravity. Instead of a massive object on the Earth pulling on you, the wall of a spacecraft would spin and fling you against the outer wall. The centrifugal force would give you the exact same sensation of gravity that you have on our planet, saving you from the ravaging effects of zero-G.

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