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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…