So a few weeks ago, Patty decided to take a road trip to one of the top High Intensity Training facilities in the Nation (like the whole United States–not just the High Intensity Nation), and took off for Plymouth, Minnesota to hang out with Luke Carlson and the rest of the Discover Strength crew.  You’re [...]

Here are some examples of High Intensity Training Routines-performed by people I like, at places I like. Although there are some individual differences in how the exercises are performed, note that they all incorporate the underlying principles of High Intensity Training: Intense, Brief, and Infrequent. Kick back and enjoy these High Intensity Training Routines-I hope [...]

Obviously, something happens during a weight training workout that produces increased muscular size and strength-it doesn’t happen by magic.  And since we now know that we can either train hard, or we can train long, but we can’t do both at once, it has to be one or the other.  Either intensity of effort, or [...]

I’ve got something for you….. It’s my new Special Report on Advanced Training- “5 Ways To Smash Through Training Plateaus, Pile On New Muscle And Get Freaky Strong”.   And as a Thank You for all your support, I want to give it to you FREE. If you’ve been training for a while, and reached [...]

So I have this video on my High Intensity Nation You-Tube channel showing me taking Java Jon Soto through an intense set of bicep curls. We start out with normal positive/negative reps, then do 2 forced reps where I give him barely enough help to finish the rep. (This is different than drop sets, where [...]

So I’m going through my e-mails the other day, and simultaneously wondering what the future of exercise will be like. Will the Functional Dark Side take over and rule the fitness universe with the traumatic forces of evil? Or, will we be saved by somebody taking the ball, so to say, and inventing some machines [...]

“Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting, it’s about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in a cause that you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.” Richard Machowicz, Unleash The Warrior Within There are 2 aspects to training success. The first, and most readily observable, [...]

“That’s all I can stands; I can’t stands no more.” Popeye In the past few years, a fitness craze has been sweeping the industry-the operative word being “craze”. They call it “Functional Training”. I have witnessed this craze reach epidemic proportions in the fitness world, to the extent that many people equate this type of [...]

Here we have another video live from the “Pain Cave”, this time featuring Patty performing a brutal lower body workout with an emphasis on the hip muscles. For many women weight training is an afterthought, something they might play around with after they’re done with their aerobics class if there’s time, or after toning and [...]

*************** Recap of Part 1 *************** Mike Mentzer was one of the greatest bodybuilders in history, and the first guy who, through his writing, got me excited about High Intensity Training. I was in my early twenties at the time, frustrated by my lack of progress training 6 days a week with multi-set workouts. In [...]