More Evidence of the Benefits of Extremely Brief Exercise Here’s an article from the New York Times about the effects of 4-seconds of all out exertion on a flywheel bike.…
“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…
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…
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…
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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…
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: …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…