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…
Data = Individualized Weightlifting Workouts
How data driven strength training will forever change your perspective on two very common (but wrong) pillars of weightlifting advice. Try Our 10-Workout Program
How Many Cars Can YOU Lift per Minute?
After some people do their workouts, they send me their results. Using that data, I have a proprietary way of calculating what they will be able to lift in a…
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: …
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…
Study: Maximum Muscle In 60 Days
We have just begun our Power Factor Study to determine how many maximally productive workouts we can engineer for a trainee with the goal of adding the most muscle in…
Why Lifting Light Weights Is Dumb
Ever ask yourself why a gym is stocked with weights? There is a very good reason for it and when you fully understand the reason your training takes on new…
The Best Forearm Exercise
A few years ago we wanted to examine what exercises would be most helpful for serious arm training. As always, we used a numbers approach. We used a group of…
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…
The Sceptic’s Workout
One of the hardest things to do in life is to get a person to change his or her mind about something. Psychologists can provide all the reasons that we…
Twenty Years of Experience Boiled Down to One Blog Post
The first time I lifted weights with any serious intention whatsoever was in 1992 at the age of 33. Before that I did what most people do and just wandered…
Half-Ton Rows? Sure.
I received an email from a customer who quickly progressed using Static Contraction to the point of using over half a ton on his upright rows. I always like to…
An Interview with Pete Sisco
Lee over at Ordinary Joe Bodybuilding asked me a few questions for an article at his blog. 1. Hi, Pete. It is estimated over 200,000 trainees have used your training…
Can I get ripped and toned with more muscle mass but not get too bulky?
What?? Last week I was a fat guy! This is a common question, especially from new trainees and women. There is a widely held belief that lifting heavy weights can…
What About a Pump and Microtears?
I received an e-mail this week that combined two questions that I have been asked many times before: What about the value of a pump in creating microtears? How deep…
Shifting Gears for an Optimum Workout
Whenever you lift weights in the gym there are three factors that determine the intensity of your exercise. They are: 1. The amount of weight on the bar 2. The…
Don’t “Go To Low-Intensity Failure”
Static Contraction = True High Intensity I’m sure many millions of words have been written in the world of fitness and strength training on the role of “failure” when performing…