The Practice of Change: The Art and Science of Training

Training is the practice of creating change on purpose. This book shows how that actually happens. In The Practice of Change, coach and educator Dan Cleather brings together physiology, biomechanics, and the realities of day-to-day training to explain why progress rarely comes from heroic effort. Instead, it emerges from rhythm, timing, and the quiet steadiness of thoughtful practice. You will learn how bodies adapt, how skills develop, why fatigue is not the goal, and how to design training that builds strength, coordination, and resilience without burning out. Clear, reflective, and grounded in decades of coaching and research, this is a guide to understanding training as a living process. It offers athletes, coaches, and curious lifters a way to make sense of the work, trust the process, and build change that lasts. Training is a conversation that invites the body to change – and our job is to trust the process and the wisdom with which the body does what it is built to do. View Less