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Static Contraction Training | 
 enlarge | Authors: Peter Sisco, John R. Little
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 211446
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0809229072
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.75
EAN: 9780809229079
ASIN: 0809229072
Publication Date: December 11, 1998
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"This is truly an incredible discovery that could cause physiology books to be rewritten." -- Ironman Magazine "A thorough, productive weight workout in less than three minutes? You better believe it! Larger muscles. Stronger techniques. Fewer injuries. What more do you want?" -- Martial Arts Training Magazine From bodybuilding and fitness pioneers Peter Sisco and John R. Little comes this revolutionary guide to building maximum muscle size and strength--using workouts that last as little as two minutes! Based on the authors' groundbreaking new research, Static Contraction Training reveals how a program consisting of only six 15- to 30-second exercises per workout will build muscle size and strength more efficiently than any other method. Learn firsthand the concepts that are revolutionizing bodybuilding, including: - Why training more than once a week--or longer than five minutes--can compromise your progress
- How to stimulate maximum muscle mass
- Nutritional fact vs. fiction
- Gaining muscle without fat
- Your weak link and how to overcome it in your next workout
- The "law" that guarantees you huge muscle growth Whether you are a weekend athlete, beginning bodybuilder, or champion, the information in this book will forever change the way you view bodybuilding and strength training exercise. Peter Sisco is editor of Ironman Magazine's Ultimate Bodybuilding series and co-author of Power Factor Training and The Golfer's Two-Minute Workout. John R. Little, the innovator of the Static Contraction Method of strength training, is the editor of the Bruce Lee Library Series and co-author of Power Factor Training and The Golfer's Two-Minute Workout.
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 Static Contraction Training -Train your brain, train body April 21, 2008
In this book you'll find completely information about high intensity training by using Sisco's and J.Little's method.
This training is pure science. The authors explain the physiology of the muscle; how it grows and how is the best way to train it.
There's also some information about nutrition. They explain why you don't need any supplements instead for a well-balanced diet.
This book will answer the majority of the questions you may have about muscle grow.
"Enjoy it"
 Destroyed my shoulder joint, even doing the exercises correctly! June 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was a HUGE advocate of SCT because it all seemed to make so much sense. I had a subscrition to the Pete Sico newsletter and once almost ordered the ridiculously expensive Expolisve Fitness machine.
I did SCT and though my hold tiems went up, my strength throughout a full range of motion didn't. I began replicating the isometric exercise of the machine he was hawking and after several months of doing it, I sustained 2 joint injuries - 1 to my neck, which left my right are falling asleep for 3 months till the radiopathy healed itself. The 2nd one I've been suffering with for several months now. My left shoulder is destroyed, Ahces all the tiem, and when I move it in any one of several direction, the agony kicks in. It feels liek arthritis, but I think it's joint and tendon damage. In the end, I got no lasting muscle increases and no strength increases.
Conventional working out gives you the mass you want. Mayeb throwing in a little more rest time makes sense, but this method does nothing but sell you pipedreams. Nobody that works out this way ever has the body you envy. Believe that.
My analytical mind says yes, but......... April 30, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
For starters I'm NOT Angelbabiesmom.....that's my wife!!
I've read the book several times and gave it a go several years ago. My weights did go up dramatically but I eventually gave it up. I don't even remember why. All the info contained seems logical and scientifically valid. People seem so dead set on believing the traditional gym myths that have been around for decades. Funny, considering traditional volume training (overtraining) works for so few people (drug free people, that is). I personally have never known anyone who gained signifigant mass working out in the traditional way. And EVERYONE I grew up with lifted weights. Some lifted year after year "hoping" something would magically happen (pure lack of logic). Some would lift for months, see no gains, and quit (common sense). There is a lot of hatred for an idea that flys in the face of traditional theory. Interesting, seeing how traditional body building theory has served so few people. It has even hurt people...myself included. As I write this, I just returned from getting an MRI to try to pinpoint the location of a herniated spinal disc that I ruptured 14 years ago doing BB shrugs. 14 years ago!!!! I'm still paying with both dollars and extreme pain.
I will start this program again and do it to the letter except for one thing that did NOT clear the checklist in my analytical mind. I will NOT be holding in the "strongest" portion of the lift but rather in the weakest. The whole goal is to overload the muscle to the maximuim degree possible. The strongest part of a lift (bench press for example) is due solely to leverage advantages. When you are approx. one inch below lockout on Bench press your forearm and upper arm are almost straight. You are only capable of holding extreme weights because of the leverage advantage. You are not stressing you pecs so much as your arm bones and joints. The stress on the pecs could be just as intense if you were in the weakest range with much less weight.... your bones/ joints being spared.
Valuable Weight Training Principles April 10, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Learn what techniques will help you gain strength and muscle and find out why those techniques work. These principles can be applied to your workouts in various ways.
static contraction February 16, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is very good. It gets done to the nuts and bolts about gaining strength and muscle. It helps you to understand what works and why in weight training.
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