You saved my life. Acknowledgments My deepest gratitude to my editor, Hilary Sares, who really dug into this story and made me work for it. Basically, she kicked my ass. By not pulling her punches or letting me shortchange the details, she made me work harder and because of that, this story is a much, much better book. BARED TO YOU wouldn't be what it is without you, Hilary. Thank you so much! To Martha Trachtenberg, copy editor extraordinaire. This book is an important one for me and she treated it that way. Thank you, Martha! To Victoria Colotta, for all her hard work on the interior design and typesetting. She took my plain text and made it gorgeous. Thank you, Victoria! To Tera Kleinfelter, who read the first half of Bared to You and told me she loved it. Thank you, Tera! To all girls who were at Cross Creek at some point in your adolescence: May all your dreams come true. You deserve it.
Francis did the opposite of most coaches: "Ninety percent of my time is spent holding athletes back to prevent overtraining, and only 10 percent is spent motivating them to do more work." 23 is a great rep range to emphasize throughout an athlete's program. 45 is where neural training and muscle-building meet, which means you could end up with some hypertrophy. This is out of the question in weight-class-based sports like boxing. Steve Baccari, strength coach extraordinaire to top ghters like the UFC's Joe Lauzon, agrees with the heavy but not hard approach: "In my opinion, `easy' strength training is the only productive way a competitive ghter can strength train.... But most people think if you don't break a sweat, it must not work. This used to bother me a lot, but not anymore, because I think it is one reason why my ghters win so much." Concludes Baccari: "Strength training is like putting the money in the bank to take it out on the fight day."
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