Do 15 Reps With Your 1-Rep Max
“Thinking outside the box” is a cliche these days. We hear it so often you’d think regular people are doing it as a matter of habit. Of course, the boxes…
A Confession + Are You Put Off By Macho Goons?
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…
Most H.I.T. Training is Actually Very Low Intensity
Anybody can claim his routine is a “high intensity” H.I.T. routine as long as he never takes an objective measurement of that intensity. And especially if he uses “effort” as…
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…
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…
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…
Five Predictions for the Next Decade of Strength Training
50-year-old designs like this will still be sold everywhere in 2020. So 2010 is behind us and with it the first decade of the 21st Century. Now we are but…