Why One Set To Failure Is An Excellent Choice
Would you take on a second job working additional 40 hours a week if it paid you 9% of your first job? So if you worked 40 hours for $1,000…
Every Day is . . . Corroboration Day
I found this article that offers a study underpinning something I’ve been saying for twenty years; “Every day is kidney day.” This is for the guys who train frequently with…
More Evidence for Brief Workouts
Today’s New York Times ran an article about a study at Arizona State University that shows workouts as brief as 10 minutes done three times in a day are as…
Studies on High Intensity Exercise and Fat Loss
Here is a fascinating overview of several recent studies that reveal the superior effects of high-intensity intermittent exercise (HIIE). These studies are not of weightlifting but of 8 to 30…
3 Ways to Break Training Plateaus
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…
The Three Biggest Training Mistakes of the Power Factor Workout
In the last few years I haven’t spent much time talking about the Power Factor Workout. However, since discovering the success of the people on the Mass Gain Study I’ve…
Guest Post: Skeptical of Static Contraction
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…
High Intensity Training Leads to Isometric Workouts
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…
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…
In Case Anyone Still Believes Before/After Photos
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* 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…
Placebos Really Work!
Take this! It really works!! Last month the New York Times ran a story about a clinical study that showed placebos are effective – even when the patient is TOLD…
More Scams and Fraud
My apologies for the sad state of links and photos in this post. The bad guys skip around and leave broken links (and wallets) everywhere. A lot of the evidence…
Before and After Photo Fraud
My apologies for the sad state of links and photos in this post. The bad guys skip around and leave broken links (and wallets) everywhere. A lot of the evidence…
Barbaric Yawp
If you’ve seen the video of me lifting the Toyota you might have noticed the noise I make when I do maximum lifts. The fact is, I don’t think I…
Get Maximum Gains Using a “Minimum Dosage”
Bear with me for just a second while I say something mathematical: In exercise, intensity is inversely proportional to duration. Simply stated, the greater your effort, the less time you…
How Young Can You Train?
We get a lot of inquiries regarding young people training with weights. Parents ask whether it is harmful or beneficial to be training with weights when their kids are teenagers.…
Men with Muscles Live Longer
It’s pretty common knowledge that aerobic exercise improves your cardiovascular health. But a study presented at the American College of Sports Medicine’s 55th Annual Meeting by senior investigator Jonatan R.…
Shocking Data Reveals How to Get Stronger Much Faster
A group of online volunteer test subjects has been helping me put a finer point on how much intensity conventional training methods deliver to a muscle group. Personally, I love…