The Muscle Couple continuing last years tradition offering must have gifts for any of the active or fitness minded people in your life. Flip Video Ultra HD Video Camera Now with an even slimmer design, Flip’s latest offering features 720p / 60fps HD recording, image stabilization and 8 GB of built in memory.  This amount [...]

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[This is Part 2 of an ongoing series discussing High Intensity Training. Part 1 of the series is available here.] What is failure? That seems an obtuse philosophical question, but one must understand the answer in order to understand High Intensity Training. Most would say, “I’ve hit failure when I can’t do another rep.” That’s imprecise, and the imprecision [...]

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High Intensity Training is demanding because it requires one to reach failure at every point of the range of motion in an exercise.  Most training methodologies only require a person to reach failure at one point of the exercise – always the weakest point. If you’ll excuse the detour into esoteria, all will make sense [...]

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The Muscle Couple has had a really long week. Thankfully we’ve been able to maintain our training schedule and keep up with our new HIT Workout. (Which is absolutely amazing) When you have a few moments, you should check out these videos of Mike Mentzer putting Markus Reinhardt (a much younger version)through his HIT workout. [...]

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Like many, I read the hit pieces on Mike Mentzer in bodybuilding magazines. Rather than thinking for myself, I always dismissed H.I.T. “One set to failure? Give me a break!” I didn’t bother reading Mentzer’s work for myself. A decade later, my dogmatic, sheep-like “ideas” would be repudiated by observable results. I’ve known Jay Campbell since 1996. [...]

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TMC is on the road again. We wanted to post this so more people could be exposed to the works of Arthur Jones with some significant tweaks/updates and better science from Drew Baye. We recommend you go to his site ASAP and download these manuals.  <Click on the Photo> We’re going to offer a much [...]

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TMC back with the 2nd leg of our 2 Day HIT Customized Split Workout. Before, a couple of words about Chi-Town! I have to give it up to my Chicago peeps.  It takes incredible motivation to train hard in sub zero temperature weather.  Especially when the wind is gusting 55mph and freezing your bones to [...]

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The Male half of  TMC is back in Chicago training for his new job with AutoTrader.com. This week is rather hectic for both Mommy and Daddy.  Without much time to blog, let alone train, we wanted to put this program down in writing for everybody as soon as possible. We’ve been using it for about [...]

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