Static Contraction
Training
Serving clients in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara,
Mountain View, San Jose, Los Altos, Palo Alto,
Cupertino, Fremont, Milpitas, South Bay,
and parts of the Peninsula.
How many hours
per week do I have to resistance train to gain
strength / muscle / tone? 3? 4? 5+?
With the
Proper Training Program
Train Only ONCE per week (or less)
How is this possible?
With the latest Static Contraction Training
equipment. This allows for safer, more
intense workouts, freeing up precious time for
fat-burning cardio work, family, etc.
Static Contraction Training
Defined
Static Contraction takes
Isometrics into the 21st Century. By
performing static holds in the strongest range
of an exercise, trainees make
several important
discoveries:
- Trainees can handle far
more weight -- promoting quicker gains
with less overall effort.
- They experience far
fewer injuries, as joints are less likely
to be injured when exercised in their
strongest range.
- Although a Static
Contraction workout is VERY short -- less
than 2 minutes of actual effort once a
proper warm-up is complete -- the recovery
time required between sessions increases
over time. i.e. the trainee cannot
return to the gym for another resistance
workout or s/he will hamper
progress!
Better results in less time!
Exercise examples:
- When performing a Bench
Press for example, the trainee holds the
weight 2" - 4" from lockout.
-
Strongest range for a Leg Press is
approximately 4" or so from
lockout. Interestingly enough, the
weight isn't moved, it's simply held in
place.
Golfer's Study
A study with some
long-time golfers was conducted to determine
if static strength training would help a
full-range-of-motion sport like golf. (It
did...these 40-something golfers added up to
30 yards to their drives) But here is
what is really interesting...look at the
strength increases they achieved:
- Chest
+58%
- Back/Lats
+60%
- Shoulders
+57%
- Quads
+86%
- Hamstrings
+78%
- Abs
170%
- Low
Back +58%
- Calf
+51%
- Triceps
+133%
- Biceps
+72%
- Forearm
(flexors) +87%
- Forearm
(extensors) +93%
- Overall
Average Strength Gain +84%
These golfers
achieved the above in an average of only 6.6
workouts taking an average of just 2.2 minutes
of actual exercise! That's
14.5 minutes of exercise time TOTAL... done
over six weeks of time!
Interestingly enough, the women on the study
outpaced the men in overall strength
gains...the men achieved a 73% gain and the
women achieved 95%!
Have
your last seven workouts increased your
strength 84%?
No other
training method has hard facts like these to
back it up. That's just one reason why
magazines like Muscle & Fitness,
Flex, Muscle Media, Martial
Arts Training and so many others have
repeatedly hailed this type of training as
"revolutionary."
Bodybuilding Study
In just 10
weeks of Static Contraction, trainees -- bodybuilders who had been
lifting "heavy" for a long time,
averaging about 38 years of age -- achieved the
following average gains:
- a
51.3% increase static strength
- a
27.6% increase in one-rep max in full
range of motion!
-- without doing full range lifts for 10
weeks!
- a
34.3% increase in ten-rep max in full
range of motion!
-- see above
- gained
9.0 pounds of new muscle
-- one subject gained 29 pounds of muscle!
- lost
4.9 pounds of fat
- gained
1/2 inch on each biceps
- gained
1.1 inches on chest
- gained
1.2 inches on shoulders
- lost
0.4 inches on waist
All of this was
done with workouts containing less than 2 ½
minutes of exercise!
Have you
had size and strength gains like the above in
the last 10 weeks?
The Static
Contraction Training techniques have been even
further refined since these studies were
conducted, so even greater results are now
possible.
Note: If you are younger or have been
training less than these hardcore lifters,
you'll likely do even BETTER than the trainees
in the study!
Contact Bay Area Training
today to begin
your Static Contraction Training
program!
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