Six Personal Benchmarks Worth Having
Thanks to technology we are entering an era of personal health metrics. Many health conscious people today know their HDL and LDL cholesterol numbers. The new Apple watch tracks resting…
Updated: Ever Wanted Your Own Fitness Business?
As many of you know, I (and my wife) operate other online businesses apart from Precision Training. Sometimes elements of those businesses overlap. This week we updated a recent title…
Strength Training and Size Gains
Truth: The size and shape of your muscles depends on your genes. We’ve had a few comments come in this week from people struggling with their lack of progress and…
A Century of Mistaken Strength Training
Ever think about what percentage of a World Record lift you can achieve right now? The current ‘raw’ Bench Press record is about 740 lbs. So if you can bench…
What If You Did 10 Workouts in a Row?
What if you did 10 workouts in a row and always made measurable progress? What if every weight you selected was the optimum weight for doing that particular exercise today?…
Data = Individualized Weightlifting Workouts
How data driven strength training will forever change your perspective on two very common (but wrong) pillars of weightlifting advice. Try Our 10-Workout Program
Webinar: Data Driven Strength Training
Imagine a guy who is pretty serious about running 10K races. He enjoys the fitness benefits, the endorphin rush, and his enhanced sense of well-being after a good run. But…
Train With/For Your Brain?
For many years I’ve been using the tag line, ‘Train with your brain’ as a reminder for people to be smart about their workouts, goals, and recovery. Recently, a subscriber…
Allow Me To Explain
Following our recent survey, we received tons of really useful feedback from customers. Many thanks to those who took the time to contribute. One of the things that became clear…
Proof Frequent Weightlifting is Wasted Effort
Every once in awhile it’s possible to have an interesting exchange on social media. Recently I had an exchange with a smart and well-respected trainer who questioned whether infrequent training…
Power Factor Mass Gain Workout on ESG
From 2014 to 2015 we ran an informal study among our customers to test several methods of training to see what specifically delivered the best mass gain. Every participant…
Joel Waldmans Inspirational Story of Decline and Recovery at 68
Joel, back in the day. At 260 lbs Joel’s only slightly heavier than each of his two dogs, at 240 and 205. He also says his neck is at its…
50-Year-Old Man Lifts Boeing 737 in 3 Minutes of Training
“We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of…
Measure Your Gains
As many of you know, we’ve been testing and measuring a lot of newer techniques and tactics, especially over the last three years. I’m a believer in using experimentation and…
How Many Cars Can YOU Lift per Minute?
After some people do their workouts, they send me their results. Using that data, I have a proprietary way of calculating what they will be able to lift in a…
What Works Best?
One of the perennial questions that comes up on my blog and probably on every blog about building new muscle is something like, “I’ve heard the ABC method of training…
What’s the Deal With Fixed Training Schedules?
I’ve been having an interesting e-mail exchange with someone this week and I thought I’d share my response with everyone. It’s on the subject of recovery and fixed training schedules.…
35 lbs of Muscle and Six Months of Rest Between Workouts?
Over the decades of doing what I do I’ve come into contact with many thousands of people. Some of them stay in regular contact from year to year and let…
Have You Ever Seen These Olympic Plates?
A longtime reader sent me this photo of a plate with my name on it. Except it’s not really “my” name because I’ve never seen these before and…
How About Doing One Set To Success?
We’re all familiar with the advice of doing a set ‘to failure.’ There’s nothing seriously wrong with that advice. The principle is that if you push yourself until you can’t…
Will Exercise and Fitness Consumers Believe Anything?
Today I was walking in Cologne, Germany and passed a gym with a photo posted where pedestrians could see it. The photo depicts a person with her feet on an…
Mass Gain Study Results
Is It Possible To Gain 1/4lb of Muscle Per Minute of Training? Last year we began a study to measure a few things. We wanted to know how much mass…
Webinar #2 – Scheduling Your Workouts
In case you missed the last live webinar, the recording is now posted at this page: http://www.precisiontraining.com/webinar-2/ It’s about the challenge of finding the proper interval for scheduling your workouts.…
How Can I Train More Often?
A few days ago a member of ENGINEERED STRENGTH GYM asked a question the the member’s private Facebook group. Basically he was wanting to perform more exercise than he is…