The Comeback Manual · The Book

GET BACKGO

Get Your Mind Right. Get Your Body Moving.

You spent four or five years being handed your weights, sets, reps, and conditioning. Then the team, the coach, and the season disappeared — and the training stopped with them. GO hands the program back to you. No coach required.

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One Word, Two Engines

Everything reduces to GO

It’s a command and a permission at the same time. The whole book exists to remove every excuse, myth, and missing piece between you and that one word — then make starting feel inevitable.

The Body Engine

Train Yourself

Strength and conditioning stripped to first principles — the laws that don’t change — so you can write your own program for the rest of your life. No coach required.

The Mind Engine

Think Right

Ivey’s mental-conditioning system, fused in chapter by chapter. Because the reason you stopped was never that you forgot how to lift. You lost the structure, the accountability, and the reason.

The First-Principles Method

1

Strip It

What is irreducibly true here?

2

Burn the Myth

What false belief is in the way?

3

Rebuild

Construct the simplest thing that obeys the law.

4

GO

One concrete action you take today.

Six Parts, One System

A Workout for the Whole Athlete

Each part pairs a body system with a mind skill — and ends with a GO you can’t talk your way out of.

START
Baseline truth + “right here, right now.”
First principle: You can only start from the truth.
CLEAR
The 4 laws of fitness + your new “why.”
First principle: Burn the myth before you build.
BREATHE
Conditioning, zones & ESD + composure.
First principle: Build the engine before the top end.
LIFT
Strength patterns + the 5 skills of focus.
First principle: Master patterns, not exercises.
BUILD
Write your own program + the reset routine.
First principle: Principles generate infinite programs.
STAY
Consistency + accountability → performance.
First principle: Consistency beats novelty, always.

The Author

Dr. Pat Ivey

PhD, Sport Psychology · National Strength Coach of the Year · Former NFL

Over twenty years a collegiate strength & conditioning coach, a PhD sport psychologist, and a former NFL athlete. Pat is uniquely both the strength coach and the mental-performance coach — which is exactly why he can write a comeback manual that fuses the body and the mind as one system.

GO is the manual he wishes someone had handed every athlete the day their locker was cleaned out.

20+
Years coaching
2013
Strength Coach of the Year
PhD
Sport Psychology
NFL
Former athlete

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Choose Your Format

Every format includes the full baseline self-assessment and the first-principles method.

eBook

$14
  • Instant download (PDF + ePub)
  • All 6 parts · 18 chapters
  • Every GO action box
  • Read on any device
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The GO System

$49 $74
  • Paperback + eBook + audiobook
  • The GO Workbook & Tracker
  • QR-to-video lift library
  • Program-design templates
  • Bonus digital pack
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Paperback

$24 $29
  • The ~220-page manual, shipped
  • eBook instantly while you wait
  • All 6 parts · 18 chapters
  • Baseline self-assessment
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What They're Saying

Built for the Athlete You Still Are

“Twenty years of being told to ‘stay positive’ did nothing. This gave me actual moves — I used the reset the same night.”

Marcus R.Former D1 linebacker

“Finally a book that doesn’t treat me like a beginner. I know how to train. I just needed the structure handed back.”

Dana W.Ex-collegiate rower

“Ivey is both the strength coach and the sport psychologist. Nobody else can write this book.”

Coach T. BanksHS strength coordinator

WHERE ARE YOU?
RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.
SO GO.

The book is the manual. The training is yours. Start from wherever you are — today.

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