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The Truth About Exercise

by Pete Sisco

A customer from the UK alerted me to this excellent program from the BBC. (Thank you.) It is not about strength training per se, but it offers some wonderful insights into effective exercise including; the role of genes in determining your response to exercise how brief, intense exercise can deliver the same or better benefits [...]

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Diagnostic Tattoo for Strength Training

by Pete Sisco

I love finding this stuff. Engineers at the University of Illinois have released information about a micro-thin patch of electronics that can be applied to the skin like a temporary tattoo. The circuitry measures brain activity with an electroencephalogram (EEG) and it measures muscle and nerve activity with electromyography (EMG). This is music to my [...]

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3 Ways to Break Training Plateaus

by Pete Sisco

Here’s a question I hear a lot: “I’ve hit a plateau in my training and haven’t made any progress for weeks, what can I do?” Nobody has every major muscle group progress at the same predictable rate. Gains come fast at first then they slow down.  Your body recovers quickly at first then takes longer. [...]

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The Three Biggest Training Mistakes of the Power Factor Workout

by Pete Sisco

In the last few years I haven’t spent much time talking about the Power Factor Workout. However, since I created the new P.E.S. workout I’ve been getting a lot of questions. But no matter how you train you can learn something from what we have discovered from nearly two decades of experimentation with training tactics. [...]

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Guest Post: Skeptical of Static Contraction

by Pete Sisco

Today’s post is by a customer named David Dressler who was skeptical of Static Contraction and found his own way to test it on himself – including its effects on his weak-range strength. ======================================== Challenging Your Own Belief System I want to “echo” and add something to what Greg Karr M.S., C.S.C.S., NSCA-CPT said in [...]

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High Intensity Training Leads to Isometric Workouts

by Pete Sisco

True High Intensity Training Means Isometric Workouts Every gym has people in it who talk about their High Intensity training but few of them realize that isometric workouts are the highest possible intensity a person can achieve. When I talk about isometric workouts I use the term ‘Static Contraction’ to differentiate between my training method [...]

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In Case Anyone Still Believes Before/After Photos

by Pete Sisco

We still get e-mails every week from somebody who isn’t sure about training with Static Contraction without first seeing the typical before/after photos that accompany nearly all fitness related products these days. Sometimes I try to explain why I don’t play that game. It’s the single most dishonest tactic that is used by marketers. Those [...]

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Placebos Really Work!

by Pete Sisco

Last month the New York Times ran a story about a clinical study that showed placebos are effective – even when the patient is TOLD that his/her pill is an inert placebo containing no medication whatsoever. Briefly, patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) were told by a physician that taking a placebo containing no active [...]

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Can We Blame This On Wile E. Coyote?

by Pete Sisco

Bear with me on this one, I’m actually serious. In 1954 Wile E. Coyote made a purchase to assist him in his hapless pursuit of the Roadrunner. Ever since that cartoon was made, uncounted millions of very impressionable young people have seen that product used. Has it left a latent impression in people’s minds? Wile. [...]

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