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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…

Train With/For Your Brain?

News, Research

benefits, health benefits, leg training

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…

Ever Wanted Your Own Fitness Business?

News

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 published a new title…

Allow Me To Explain

building muscle, ENGINEERED STRENGTH GYM, measuring gains, recovery

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…

Power Factor Mass Gain Workout on ESG

building muscle, ENGINEERED STRENGTH GYM, measuring gains, power factor workout

Research, Training

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

News, Training

compound reps, recovery

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

compound reps, ENGINEERED STRENGTH GYM, measuring gains, success stories

“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

News, Training

building muscle, compound reps, measuring 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?

compound reps, high intensity, measuring gains, sustainable workout

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?

Research, Training

building muscle, efficiency, intensity, recovery

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?

building muscle, measuring gains, overtraining, recovery

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.…

Have You Ever Seen These Olympic Plates?

News

Plate

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…

Can the Right Training Frequency Speed Up Your Muscle Gains?

measuring gains, training frequency

News, Research

For about two years we’ve been running some informal studies to determine what tactics in the gym deliver the best gains of muscle mass and size. Following preliminary research, which…

How About Doing One Set To Success?

failure, intensity, measuring gains, workout variations

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?

muscle confusion, myths

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

building muscle, mass gain study, measuring gains

Research, Training

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

News, Training

recovery, training frequency

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.…

Static Contraction Rest Between Workouts

How Can I Train More Often?

measuring gains, recovery, training frequency

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…

The Secret to a Perfect Body – Genetics

News

building muscle

Couldn’t resist showing you guys this funny reminder of the reality seldom mentioned.

An Honest Look at “Light” vs. “Heavy” Training

training frequency

Ever heard this one in the gym? “I’m just going easy today; yesterday was my ‘heavy’ day.” Those few words point to a plethora of misconceptions and false premises that…

Are You Building Muscle? Or Just Lifting Weights?

building muscle, myths

If you believe you can build forearms and biceps like this guy’s using that tiny dumbbell, you’re going to be very disappointed. Here’s a question I love to ask guys…

Training Efficiency

efficiency

My grandfather circa 1910. I rarely talk about myself in these articles or in my books but I’m amused about something in my family that ultimately relates to SCT. I…

What Engineered Success Looks Like