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,…
Your Recovery Time Spectrum
We lift weights to build our muscles. We force our body to make an adaptation to lifting heavy loads. We essentially trick our Central Nervous System into thinking that, in…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Getting Consistent Strength, Mass & Size Gains
In case you missed our first webinar on the subject of meeting the challenges to getting steady strength, mass and size gains, we posted the video of it here: …
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…
Want To Try Static Contraction?
We are beginning a new study using Static Contraction. If you have never tried training this way the study can be an opportunity to have your workouts engineered as you…
Study: Maximum Muscle In 60 Days
We have just begun our Power Factor Study to determine how many maximally productive workouts we can engineer for a trainee with the goal of adding the most muscle in…
Why Lifting Light Weights Is Dumb
Ever ask yourself why a gym is stocked with weights? There is a very good reason for it and when you fully understand the reason your training takes on new…
The Best Forearm Exercise
A few years ago we wanted to examine what exercises would be most helpful for serious arm training. As always, we used a numbers approach. We used a group of…