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Maxick I experimented for over a year, using static contraction training exclusively. This is training with the heaviest weights you can manage, over only the strongest range of your motion (the last inch or two of , say, a bench press.) I would load the bar in my power rack, and squat it, press it, curl it, whatever, once per week! That was it- you need to let your "muscles rebuild"! says Pete Sisco, the expounder of the static contraction training principle... I did indeed get so I could push, and support statically some very massive poundages. I think I gained the most, though, from pressing the bar into the pins of the rack, isometrically, for some seconds before letting up. I also gained muscle mass, and fat. Most of the mass you'll gain using this method will be in your thighs, butt, chest and, unfortunately, your belly. If you've ever seen Pete Sisco, you can envision what this training will do for you... think old Russian olympic lifter... Before that, I

You Too can be a Runt! This should have been the motto of the aerobics movement. The only thing SURE to occur from running "LSD", or "l ong slow distance " as was advocated way back then in the early 1970's was: A huge reduction in muscle mass Injured joints and connective tissue A mistaken penchant for refined carbohydrates as " the ideal food" for health As time has shown us , these prescriptions for health have been disastrous! Since those halcyon days of the 1970's: heart disease has increased immensely joint problems are endemic nutritional ideas of health are disastrous Before the 1970's, in America at least, and Europe, the ultimate goal of "health and fitness" would have been, in this order: strength health aesthetics, i.e. "how you look" "wind", i.e. "aerobics" After the "Aerobics mania" the order would be: "wind/Aerobics" skinniness "wind" the goal of looking lik