From the Hockey Arena to the Arena of Daily Life

Doctors cannot explain why Jay Allen is still alive. At the age of 18, Jay collapsed unconscious coming out of the shower and remained in a coma for three days. He was not expected to wake up, even after doctors performed emergency brain surgery. Jay survived, but with a life expectancy of only 15 months. That was 16 YEARS ago.

This brush with death gave Jay a sense of urgency and threw him into a mid-life crisis at 18. For most of his life, Jay defined success on the ice, living and breathing hockey while pursuing a career as a professional goaltender. If he woke up, doctors were certain he would never play sports again.  Now, hockey was just a game to Jay and stopping a frozen hockey puck flying towards him at 100 mph was nothing compared to the challenge of simply staying alive.

In his new book, HUMANS IN TRAINING: Everything You Need, You Already Have (HIT Publishing, October 2003, ISBN 0-9689693-1-3, $16.95 US), Jay shares the one realization that saved his life. Just like athletes train to perfect their game, people can train to perfect their lives. With the determination, strength and focus of an athlete, Jay was able to overcome the odds and is in the best health and shape of his life, 15 years after doctors slated him to die.

HUMANS IN TRAINING introduces the concept of whole-being fitness with a training system to strengthen our emotional, spiritual and mental muscles. The Toronto Sun calls HUMANS IN TRAINING “an owner’s manual for daily life.” It provides the tools and inspiration needed to step out of the bleachers and become a player in the game of life. Jay’s one-of-a-kind Inner Circuit Training program is a much-needed workout for our inner core.

This is not a weight-loss plan or an exercise manual designed to tone your triceps or shape your stomach. It isn’t a 10-step plan that maps out exercises to work different muscle groups. Instead, it’s a workout like you’ve never experienced before for the most neglected part of our bodies, our inner beings. It guides us to ask the important questions.

 With HUMANS IN TRAINING, you will:

• Get a makeover – from the inside out
• Realize your life is not an accident
• Escape from the penalty box and get in the game
• Exercise muscles most people don’t even know they have
• Learn the ONE thing that if you work on this, everything else will fall into place
• Build a strong inner foundation to make truly lasting life changes
• Understand that we are not the one exception in the entire universe
• Balance inner needs with outer demands
• Discover that “Everything you need you already have….you must simply learn to use what has already been created within.

Imagine this:

All great coaches are masters of preparation. They focus on the basics and mastering the fundamentals.  Jay Allen wrote HUMANS IN TRAINING to share that spirit with readers by explaining what he has been doing, why it works, his journey to get there, and how anyone can be an athlete of this kind!

His personal story is one that is bottom of the 9^th, bases loaded, 2 strikes, and 3 balls. Literally, it was do or die.  Jay Allen knows the art and science of survival and he can now share it with your audience.