What About Needing a Full Range of Motion?
“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…
Static Contraction Exercise Examples and Some “Cheats”
If you are just hearing about Static Contraction Training (SCT) you might want to try a few of the exercises at your gym just to satisfy yourself that there really…
Full Range of Motion Lifting and BMW ‘Limp Mode’
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…
Overheard at the Gym
There are hundreds of thousands of people who receive my e-mails and visit my website and sometimes I wish every one of you could be with me to hear some…
What’s The Best Order of Exercises?
There are a lot of clever, observant people who read these articles and, more specifically, who train using Static Contraction. Every week or so we get a note along the…
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.…
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…
Three Best Exercises for Adding Muscle Fast
Adding more muscle to your body isn’t just for macho guys who love to sweat and grunt in dank gyms. Men and women at every age and every walk of…
Discover Your Optimum Training Frequency and Unleash Huge New Growth
Want to know the #1 mistake people make when lifting weights? This single mistake inevitably causes poor performance, long training plateaus and motivation-sapping frustration. And all can be avoided. OK,…
Scheduling Aerobics and Static Contraction Training
We get a lot of questions about mixing aerobics (tennis, running, cycling, jogging, walking, etc.) with high intensity Static Contraction training. Most of the questions ask about recovery time. That’s…
Why YOU Really Need to Get Strong Right Now!
I can’t help noticing that these are difficult times. In the last year I’ve lived in four different countries and in each one – Belize, Greece, Thailand and America –…
Hey, Pete “How often should I train?”
There are a hundred variations on this question. Usually it’s prefaced with ‘I do cardio 3 times a week’ or ‘I do intense martial arts training’ or ‘I’m just getting…
Strength Gains vs. Size Gains in Muscle
There are many people who believe there is a difference in the way you train to build strength versus the way you train to build muscle size. The truth is…