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 own power [...]

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 the [...]

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 practice [...]

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 acquire suntans [...]

How Todd dropped his workout time from 2 hours to 31 minutes-and is getting better results
Todd has a good job, a great relationship with his girlfriend Jen, lots of friends, a busy social life, and a new puppy.
But he had a problem. His workouts.
They were taking 2 hours per session, and he couldn’t fit them [...]

High Intensity Training, also known as H.I.T., is a system of strength training that is characterized by brief and infrequent, but very intense, workouts. Performed correctly, High Intensity Training produces dramatic increases in strength and muscle growth very, very quickly.
But to me, and to many others who have experienced it, it means much more than [...]