It was Christmas day, 1995, and my girlfriend Patty and I were happily opening presents together. Two pretty cool things happened that day: 1. My girlfriend Patty became my Fiance Patty. 2. I opened a box that contained a letter from Mike Mentzer, stating that Patty had arranged to have him train me sometime in [...]

Doug Holland, a.k.a. “The Sickness”, was kind enough to share these videos of his awesome training facility: Intelligent Exercise in Shreveport, Louisiana. The first video features a tour of Doug’s facility, with some cool background music. Believe me, he’s got some SICK equipment in there, and plenty of it. The second video shows Doug himself [...]

Welcome to Episode 2 of H.I.T. Cribs–showcasing “The Pain Cave” in ******************, Florida. (The location is so Top Secret, I can’t even tell you what city it’s in. If I did, the video would self-destruct in 10 seconds.) The Pain Cave is a private training facility that is equipped and set up specifically for high [...]

Walk into any gym in the world, observe the people performing strength training exercises, and you will quickly notice something about the technique used by 99% of them. Essentially everybody is performing their exercises very quickly. They throw the weight up. They let it drop back down. Mindlessly flailing their limbs with no apparent focus [...]

I have exciting news for you! I have just upgraded my High Intensity Muscle Building course to include 2 FREE MP3 downloads and 8 weeks of FREE e-mail coaching! Click here to grab your copy with the FREE MP3′s and e-mail coaching I’m doing this as a way to say THANK YOU to all the [...]

If you thought High Intensity Training was for men only–think again. High Intensity Training can help women build shapely muscle, gain functional strength, and melt a way unwanted body fat. Provided, of course, they have the mental where-with-all to train that hard. No different than us men. One woman I know lost over 30 pounds [...]

Being negative isn’t always a bad thing. Of course, I’m not talking here about a negative attitude–you already know how I feel about the damaging effects of that from my previous post on “Negativity“. Negative, or Negative-only, training, means performing only the lowering of the weight. You avoid the lifting of the weight under your [...]

As you should know if you have been reading this blog for a while, the one factor in your workout responsible for stimulating increased muscular size and strength is intensity. Intensity is defined as the percentage of possible momentary effort being exerted. The closer to 100% you get, the higher the intensity, and the greater [...]

Warning: if you have a heart condition, consult your physician before watching this video. This past September, I turned 51.  (By the way, you forgot to send me a present). And here at the High Intensity Nation, we practice a birthday tradition.  You’re actually not allowed to be part of the Nation unless you observe [...]

And if you do, is that a good thing or a bad thing? In case you didn’t know, men and women have the same muscles. And the biochemical changes that cause an increase in muscular size and strength are the same for both. This is no different than the fact that men and women both [...]