What is High Intensity Training? Why Do You Need it?

High Intensity Training:THE most effective way to train your body for Maximum Strength and Insane Muscle Growth.

High Intensity Training (HIT) is a form of strength training popularized in the 70's by Arthur Jones, the founder of Nautilus. The training focuses on performing quality weight training repetitions to the point of muscular failure by sufficiently overloading the muscle. The training takes into account the

•  number of reps
• Type of reps.
•  the amount of weight used; Overload.
•  amount of time the muscle is contracting in order to maximize the amount of muscle fiber recruitment.

 High Intensity Training as defined by pioneers in the arena of Strength Training
1-Arthur Jones: Jones' ideas helped move the techniques of bodybuilding and strength-training exercise away from the high volume (spending hours in the gym, day after day) using free weights, to High Intensity Training. This involves short workouts with maximum intensity, which triggers maximal muscular growth and Strength. Famous individuals who trained by the rules of Jones include Casey Viator (who participated in the Colorado Experiment), Eddie Robinson (who worked with and participated in and trained under Jones's nautilus leverage line which is now Hammer Strength;, Mike Mentzer, Sergio Oliva (2 x Mr. Olympia and Dorian Yates (4 x Mr. Olympia).
Jones was the creator of Nautilus exercise equipment Nautilus, Inc. 


Human Muscle tissue has 4 distinct types of muscle fibers.

1. Slow twitch. 
2. Medium Slow Twitch
3. Medium Fast twitch
4. Fast Twitch.

The fibers are the body's system of strength. When lighter less intense activities i.e walking, brushing your teeth, combing your hair etc your muscles don't have much work to do so its only going to kick in those Slow Twitch fibers to get the job done. Say you have to clean out your garage and lift some boxes around, move the lawn mower, lift a bike etc, the Slow twitch fibers need more power so they "Recruit" more muscle fibers for help hence the 2nd layer kicks in Medium slow.
   Next you do a set of body weight push ups, the chest, shoulders and triceps all get into action but this time even more muscle fibers are needed to move your body off the floor, its to much of a load on your first 2 muscle fiber groups so the CNS Central Nervous System is triggered to fire off the next level off muscle fibers : Slow, medium slow, now medium fast;)  the more you overload the muscle the more intense it is and thus the more muscle fibers are activated .
    By the time you hit the gym and get into a set of 200 lb Bench Presses. Bam! the CNS is triggered to start bringing in the Big Guns for a heavier load as more of your muscle fibers  fire up to get that heavy weight lifted off your chest.
  Now that we have established levels of intensity for daily activities , we can do the same thing for the actual types of weight lifting we do.
  Lets compare 2 different athletes. Take a look at these 2 ends of the intensity spectrum. The Sprinter vs. The Marathon runner.

 Marathon: High Volume Low Intensity vs. Sprinting: High Intensity Low Volume.

A marathon runner has great lungs and nothing against his or her athleticism. Just comparing the 2 activities. His running for 26 miles (High Volume at 4-5 hours) although strenuous and taxing on the cardiovascular system , does very little in the form of muscle fiber recruitment, (Low Intensity).

 On the other hand Usain Bolt "Fastest man on the Planet"  Sprints 100 meters in just 9.69 seconds!!
High Intensity, Low Volume.

What is the Best High Intensity Training method to stimulate the Most Muscle Strength and Muscle Growth?

How can you Overload the Muscles to the maximum amount for any given exercise?

How long is the Optimum rest and recovery time between workouts?

How can you measure Intensity?

What are The most intense exercises?

Discover the answers to all these question and Learn more about the best Strength Training Program on the Planet.

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What Is “Savage” Strength & Why Do You Need It?

As Told To Critical Bench by Mike Gillette

In preparing for this book project, I reached straight for

Webster’s Dictionary.  The reason was to provide a clear frame of reference regarding my ideas about strength so that everyone can understand them.

So here is what Webster’s says about strength, what it means to me, and how I apply it in the real world…

First and foremost, strength is defined as “the state of being strong.”  This makes sense, right?  But the definition expands from there, stating “the power of resisting attack…impregnability.”

But what does that mean specifically?  Well, start by thinking about the word ‘impregnability’ and imagine having the ability to resist attack and go from there.  Think for a moment about the sorts of things that you actually are attacked by.

You get ‘attacked’ by other people’s attitudes and situational circumstances.  And of course you can also be attacked by actual hostile aggression.

There’s an old expression; “Weakness invites tyranny.”While that expression is actually about politics, this same idea plays out on the street all the time.  We might refer to this as ‘the politics of the street’.  It’s the whole bully dynamic where a bully perceives weakness in another person.  This perceived weakness emboldens a bully and causes him to harass or even attack the other person.

But strength introduces stability into a situation… It calms things down.

Strength often prevents the different kinds of attacks that you experience every day.  Now let’s look at another example…

Strength also provides the power to resist stress, meaning it promotes what I refer to as ‘durability’.  What kinds of stress are we talking about?

Well there’s physical stresses such as discomfort, illness or fatigue and even emotional stress.  And if you think about the words I just listed, they are all in opposition to the very idea of strength.  They literally sound like opposite terms.

But possessing strength is what allows you to handle those things, to be durable.   Strength is also about the capacity for effective action, we can call this a ‘show of strength’.  Remember what I just said about perceived weakness and how it invites trouble?

Well projecting the capacity for effective action, really projecting it, can make trouble go away.  Now this is fundamentally different than puffing out your chest and acting like a jerk.  That kind of thing invites trouble.

People who do that are actually projecting insecurity or instability. Those things never calm a situation down.  A strong man doesn’t have to do anything, and often doesn’t even have to say anything.  He settles things down simply by showing up.

And if the other people around him decide to make poor life choices..?  Well, those choices may require some effective action.  A strong man can deliver that action but he doesn’t do it out of anger and he doesn’t do it out of an inability to control his emotions.

A strong man simply does what needs to be done.

There’s an old Samurai saying that speaks to this, which states; “Only the strong can show mercy.”  This is absolutely true.  Mercy, which is a pretty noble quality, can only come from someone who is strong.

If you are weak, the best you could do is beg for mercy.  And I don’t think anyone reading this wants to be a weak person.

The last thing that Webster’s says about this subject and this is really important, is that having strength means having the ability to maintain a moral or intellectual position firmly.  Now think about that for a moment.

In this day and age… so enlightened and politically correct, almost nobody is willing take a stand or actually stand for anything.  We’re so concerned about being tolerant that we tolerate almost anything.

It’s a rare person anymore who maintains their own ethics and their own sense of morality, and it takes strength to do that, real strength.

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