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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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Things Your Doctor Will Never Say to You

by Pete Sisco

Today we’ll follow our fictional friend, Joe, to visit his doctor for an annual check-up. Joe is the guy we see training all the time in the gym. He works out a lot and has an encyclopedic knowledge of every bodybuilding topic from diet to muscle physiology to training systems and techniques. He’s the go-to [...]

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Stop Doing Baby Curls

by Pete Sisco

When I saw this photo I had to buy it. It’s a great mnemonic to help people remember that when they do conventional strength training they are lifting a fraction of what they could be lifting. They’re doing baby curls, baby bench presses, etc. The whole point of going to a gym and lifting weights [...]

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Static Contraction Training and Flexibility Nonsense

by Pete Sisco

Here is the second-biggest lie in strength training: “you need to use a full range of motion.” Never mind that there is not one, single clinical study to confirm this ‘fact’, (yes, not one) let’s take a look at some common sense aspects of it that are apparent without the help of a team of [...]

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What About Needing a Full Range of Motion?

by Pete Sisco

“You need to lift through a full range of motion in order to build maximum muscle.” Nearly every person who has trained with Static Contraction training has heard this comment in the gym. It’s often from some person who thinks he’s helping you out by passing on some physiology ‘knowledge’ he heard. Sometimes it’s just [...]

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Full Range of Motion Lifting and BMW ‘Limp Mode’

by Pete Sisco

When I sent out the “What About Needing a Full Range of Motion?” message I received a great reply from customer named John S. who is a financial manager and occasional alligator wrangler (but that’s another story). He refers to something I have also heard from many chiropractors and other medical professionals called Nociception. Wikipedia [...]

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