SUPERHERO Collected, Selected, Revised and Expanded collects the best of the Superhero Simplified blog (www.SuperheroSimplified.blogspot.com) with over 50 pages of new, previoulsy unpublished material added in. Written by Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and Strength & Conditioning coach Scott Burr, the Superhero Simplified blog served as a "fitness, nutrition, and skill resource for the aspiring superhero."
FROM THE AUTHOR'S
"I started the Superhero Simplified blog in August, 2013. At that time I'd been running The Fight Gym—a mixed martial arts training center-turned Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu dojo and Strength & Conditioning gym—for almost six years, and I felt like I had some ideas to share.
The original concept was to give regular people practical advice and simple instruction on lifestyle, diet, fitness, martial arts, etc., and in so doing help them surprise themselves. I felt like I had finally sorted through a lot of my own misconceptions about training, and could see where other people were struggling.
It is my hope that what I have written in these pages will help you discover or rediscover just how much potential you have, and just how super you can be."
SCOTT BURR is a graduate of the creative writing program at The Colorado College, where he won the Ebey Prize for novella-length fiction and was a finalist for the Reville Prize in short fiction. He is the author of the novels Bummed Out City, which was one of Library Journal's top read books of 2015, and We Will Rid the World of You, the essay collection Superhero Simplified: Collected, Selected, Revised and Expanded, and the training manuals Suspend Your Disbelief: How to Build and Build Strength With the World's Most Rugged Suspension Training Device, and Get a Grip: A Practical Primer on Grip Strength and Endurance Training... and More. His short fiction and novel excerpts have appeared in Mildred, Metonym, The Mayo Review, and elsewhere. His non-fiction work has appeared in Climbing and Urban Climber magazines. He lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio.