More Evidence of the Benefits of Extremely Brief Exercise
More Evidence of the Benefits of Extremely Brief Exercise Here’s an article from the New York Times about the effects of 4-seconds of all out exertion on a flywheel bike.…
Fitness Novelty vs Fitness Science
Fitness Novelty vs Fitness Science I had to chuckle when this new fitness device showed up in my news feed today. Novelty drives the fitness marketplace, and that’s a shame…
Have You Developed Your Own Diet/Training System?
Have You Developed Your Own Diet/Training System? Over the years there have been many hundreds of thousands of people on this mailing list. At any given time there are tens…
Strength Coaches in College Football
Strength Coaches in College Football A longtime customer in Massachusetts sent me this Wall Street Journal article in the (postal) mail and I’ve been meaning to post it online. (Thanks,…
A Confession + Are You Put Off By Macho Goons?
The state of strength training is, frankly, pretty dismal. It has been for decades. Nowhere is that more obvious than late night TV ads for fitness gadgets and from the…
Age 64: 8lbs Gained in 10 Workouts
Even seasoned trainees who’ve been lifting heavy for many years can experience training breakthroughs. The fact is, a healthy human body wants to adapt. It wants to get stronger when…
HIT Training Parody
Super High Intensity Training (S.H.I.T.) (NSFW) Fitness Parody by Pete Sisco at PrecisionTraining.com Wonder why you’re not getting gains in the gym? Feel like you you’re wasting time and spinning…
Novelty Drives the Fitness Industry
Fitness is an annual multi-billion dollar industry. That’s a lot of money up for grabs. So you’d think there would be tons of innovation happening as big players vie for…
100 Years of Static Contraction
These old magazine ads were sent to me about four years ago by one of this blog’s most active visitors, Mark Winchester. I don’t see a date on them but…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
The Secret to a Perfect Body – Genetics
Couldn’t resist showing you guys this funny reminder of the reality seldom mentioned.
Our Biggest News In 10 Years
We have some big news. News I think is a game changer in strength training. Late last year we started working with some trainees to measure the results of their…
Before and (5 Hours) After Photos
I received a nice e-mail from a customer in Germany who told me he’s already gained 5 lbs of muscle in five weeks of using Train Smart. The other reason…
One-on-One Coaching
OK, so a lot of you know that the last few years I’ve been constantly traveling and mostly living in timezones in Asia and Europe. When I’m in Belize it’s…
Are People Who Lift Weights Dumb?
It seems like there’s always been a bias that people who lift weights are dumb. There is a cliche image of big, musclebound lugs who have trouble constructing a sentence.…
Good News for Heavy Lifters
A few months ago Alan over at NewGrip sent me a pair of prototype gloves made specifically for Static Contraction and Power Factor trainees who get strong enough to hoist…
Liberate Yourself – With Bruce Lee’s Help
My friend Chris Kent is a Jeet Kune Do instructor who has had his own martial arts school in Boise, Idaho for many years. His teacher learned the art directly,…
Static Contraction Machine – Personal Thoughts
Lately, almost daily I receive queries about where or when people will be able to buy a home static contraction machine. Here’s what I can tell you. I have never…
About Leg Pressing the Toyota Corolla
Some people have been asking about the Toyota leg press my son and I did in 2007. Here is the information. (Note: the GetThisStrong.com site is never updated. All the…