A Confession + Are You Put Off By Macho Goons?
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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…
How To Do Workout Zero
When you try your first Power Factor routine you’ll run into a couple of elements you might not be used to. Timed Sets After many years of open minded (read:…
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…
Allow Me To Explain
Following our recent survey, we received tons of really useful feedback from customers. Many thanks to those who took the time to contribute. One of the things that became clear…
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…
50-Year-Old Man Lifts Boeing 737 in 3 Minutes of Training
“We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of…
What Engineered Success Looks Like
The more you know about measuring your exercise performance in objective ways, the more you realize how haphazardly most people train. The members of the new ENGINEERED STRENGTH GYM are…
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: …
Which Of These 3 Things Are You Doing Next Workout?
Every workout you perform has only three possible outcomes. It doesn’t matter if you lift kettlebells, use Nautilus machines, bodyweight exercise, barbells or anything else. The equipment does not alter…
Why Most H.I.T. Advocates Just Don’t Get It
The pioneers of High Intensity Training did an enormous amount of good when they managed to get people to focus on the intensity of their workouts. It really is not…
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…