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Time Flies

By Jim Bryan I still remember when I started weight training. I was about 12 years old and had trained for a couple of years on a small weight set my Dad got me. Then I was involved in a … Continue reading

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Modern Athena

Mod·ern [mod-ern] –adjective -Characteristic of present and recent time; contemporary; not antiquated or obsolete: A·the·na [uh-thee-nuh] –noun -The deity of the ancient Greeks worshiped as the goddess of wisdom, fertility, the useful arts, and prudent warfare. Mod·ern A·the·na [mod-ern] [uh-thee-nuh] … Continue reading

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One and Done

Five Easy Steps to a One Hour Workout Two of the biggest mistakes I see in the gym are people training too often, and not training hard enough. Most folks mistakenly believe that they can make up for lower quality … Continue reading

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The Art of “Resting”

By Jim Bryan* If anyone had mentioned this to me 40 years ago I probably wouldn’t have listened. I liked activity. The truth is that you can’t keep pounding away without some down time now and then. Most of us … Continue reading

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Slow and steady?

By now, almost everyone knows that I am a big fan of brief, intense, and efficient training methods for both strength and conditioning. In my opinion High Intensity Strength Training, with maximal efforts, and minimal rest periods, is the ultimate … Continue reading

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I want it All

I keep hearing that song by Queen in the back of my head. The one with the chorus that says “I want it all, I want it all, I want it all and I want it now”. Many of my … Continue reading

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High Performance Training

What’s in a name?* By Jim Bryan I happen to like this name and it better explains how I train. Whether you call your training High Intensity Training, HIT, High Tension Training, (I like this too) Hard Training or any … Continue reading

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Defending Bilateral Movements

By: Keats Sniderman CSCS, LMT, NMT Introduction Take a venture through the popular training magazines and journals these days and you’ll read about the many virtues of single-leg exercises. Movements like single-leg squats and deadlifts, step-ups, and many varieties of … Continue reading

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Slow and steady?

By now, almost everyone knows that I am a big fan of brief, intense, and efficient training methods for both strength and conditioning. In my opinion High Intensity Strength Training, with maximal efforts, and minimal rest periods, is the ultimate … Continue reading

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Don’t Short Circuit Your Training

By Jim Bryan One of the biggest problems I see is Over Thinking Things. Much of the time this leads to Analysis Paralysis. This  is where you spend more time thinking about doing something, than you actually spend doing it. … Continue reading

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