Agreed. You need a trainer or a knowledgeable friend to teach you the basic lifts, especially the Olympic lifts (clean, snatch). It's very helpful to have a third person perspective for evaluating your form. But outside of learning the basics of form, each trainer is going to have their own routine which may or may not be well informed.
I've been lifting for many years and have tried dozens of programs. I only recently came across this book on "power training". It is the most sensible approach to lifting that I have ever seen. It focuses on functional, performance-based lifting and works all the muscles in your body as well as doing wonders for your metabolism. Having access to a gym is obviously ideal, but the author shows how many of the lifts can be done at home with a minimal amount of equipment.
If you already know Java and you've never written a game before, I wouldn't bother investing in a book right away. I bought a book about game programming in Java (coming from a C++ background) when I started my second game project and found it totally useless. With your first game, the most important thing to do is to restrict the scope. Your eagerness could very easily impell you to start a project you will never be able to complete (this is why my first project flopped). Pick a 2D genre that doesn't require realtime processing, or AI, or networking, or anything complicated (you can add those later) and then use the Java programming you already know. I specifically chose Java for my project because of the ease of 2D graphics programming.
To think of it from a slightly different angle: What if the school board responded differently to the parental concern on the material? Instead of putting a sticker on the books, they decided to trash the book (albeit an expensive proposition) and buy new books that presented the same material except that the chapter on the theory of evolution was presented in a more critical light. Could the judge rule the new book unconstitutional and demand that the old book be reinstituted? Seems ludicrous to me particularily since the new book needn't make any reference whatsoever to religion.
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Agreed. You need a trainer or a knowledgeable friend to teach you the basic lifts, especially the Olympic lifts (clean, snatch). It's very helpful to have a third person perspective for evaluating your form. But outside of learning the basics of form, each trainer is going to have their own routine which may or may not be well informed.
I've been lifting for many years and have tried dozens of programs. I only recently came across this book on "power training". It is the most sensible approach to lifting that I have ever seen. It focuses on functional, performance-based lifting and works all the muscles in your body as well as doing wonders for your metabolism. Having access to a gym is obviously ideal, but the author shows how many of the lifts can be done at home with a minimal amount of equipment.
If you already know Java and you've never written a game before, I wouldn't bother investing in a book right away. I bought a book about game programming in Java (coming from a C++ background) when I started my second game project and found it totally useless. With your first game, the most important thing to do is to restrict the scope. Your eagerness could very easily impell you to start a project you will never be able to complete (this is why my first project flopped). Pick a 2D genre that doesn't require realtime processing, or AI, or networking, or anything complicated (you can add those later) and then use the Java programming you already know. I specifically chose Java for my project because of the ease of 2D graphics programming.
Very good point.
To think of it from a slightly different angle: What if the school board responded differently to the parental concern on the material? Instead of putting a sticker on the books, they decided to trash the book (albeit an expensive proposition) and buy new books that presented the same material except that the chapter on the theory of evolution was presented in a more critical light. Could the judge rule the new book unconstitutional and demand that the old book be reinstituted? Seems ludicrous to me particularily since the new book needn't make any reference whatsoever to religion.