Getting Stronger Faster With Static Contraction Training

How to Get Stronger Faster

If you want to get bigger and stronger, you have to lift heavy weights. This is a given, and I think this is a simple concept everyone understands. But would you believe it if I told you that by reducing the amount of weight you lift by half (50%), you are reducing your workout intensity level by 95%? This is based on several informal strength training, and static contraction studies Pete Sisco did. Pete Sisco is the famous author of the Maximum Strength Static Contraction Training Method. His training books and training methods have been used by hundreds of thousands of strength athletes, bodybuilders, and regular folks all around the globe.

Getting stronger through placing physical stress stimulus on your body is the only way to develop strength. By physical stress, it could be a variety of things such as doing pushups, lifting heavy objects, or the most direct method - weight lifting. The only way to get stronger is to force your muscles to perform at peak capacity and beyond though ultra high intensity during your workout.

>> Discover the method behind real strength gains. Increase your strength with Pete's Maximum Strength Static Contraction Training Method

Get Stronger Fast

There are dozens of ways to get stronger, but if you want to get stronger faster, you need to train your muscles with the highest possible intensity achieved through using very heavy weight loads. What do you think will help you get stronger faster - doing squats 200 times with just your body weight, or doing squats for 6 repetitions using 300lbs? The answer should be obvious.

Pete Sisco is one of the few authorities on strength training that has developed calculations and methods to measure and quantify the intensity of an exercise. His research static contraction strength training lasts well over a decade. I have just learned from him that by reducing the amount of weight you lift by 50%, you are reducing your workout intensity level by 95%! It's quite amazing to known these types of stats - obviously, keep in mind that this is just an informal study, but the results speaks for itself.

This study was designed to measure the maximum weight that can be held for 5 seconds using static contraction training methods, and compare this with performing a static hold on a lighter weight load. For obvious reasons, you would expect to be able to hold a lighter weight for a longer period of time. What was interesting from the findings is that the reduction in weight and the amount of time the weight could be held for did not go in a linear pattern. By reducing the weight held by 50%, instead of holding twice as long, the static hold times were 10.2 times longer. Based on Pete's calculations, a 50% reduction in weight reduced the intensity to just 5.2% of peak intensity. This makes you think twice about using light weights and high reps now, doesn't it?

Getting Stronger Faster Using Static Contraction Training

You may find it hard to believe and even counter intuitive that a short 2 to 3 minute static contraction workout is more effective at building more strength faster than a convention workout session that lasts 30 to 45 minutes. In fact, you probably think this isn't even real. Since publishing his Power Factor Training and Static Contraction Training books in the 1990's Pete Sisco's training methods have been used by hundreds of thousands of people. His training method has been written about in all the best fitness and bodybuilding publications such as Flex, Ironman, Men's Fitness, Muscle and Fitness, and dozens of other publications. Using his training methods, seasoned weight lifters have been able to increase static strength by 51%, one rep max by 27.6%, and increase 10 rep max strength by 34%.

To understand how and why the Static Contraction Maximum Strength training method works to help you get stronger faster, you need to understand that this type of workout is designed to generate the maximum amount of intensity that provides the stimulus to your muscles to generate growth. By overloading your muscles with massive amounts of weight (in a controlled manner), your muscles respond and adapts to this ultra high level of intensity and physical stress - preparing for the next time that it might face such demanding physical exertion. This is what leads to muscle growth, and strength development.

By holding a very heavy load in your strongest range of motion, you'll be surprised at the amount of weight you are able to use for a static hold. Pete Sisco's Maximum Strength training workouts on average take 2 to 3 minutes to complete - hard to believe I know. Think about this for a moment - if you were to perform 10 reps of bench press using 150lbs, and perform a static hold using 300 pounds for 5 seconds, which do you think will generate a peak intensity and stress on your muscles? The 300 pound static hold of course.

Static Contraction Training methods consistently produce stronger results for strength gains and muscle growth. Does your strength training measure up to the 51% increase in static strength and 27% increase in one rep max gains achieved using maximum strength SCT? If you find it hard to believe that a 2 minute workout can produce these kinds of results, simply try it yourself.

>> Discover the method behind real strength gains. Increase your strength with Pete's Maximum Strength Static Contraction Training Method