The Muscle Couple continuing where we left off in our interview with David Landau: TMC: Why do 90% of resistance trainers have it all wrong? I would say 99% of trainers have it all wrong to be conservative. It really comes down to their lacking of a valid foundational basis and understanding of what exercise is and [...]

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The Muscle Couple has been looking back at exercise videos from the last couple of years. We’re pretty shocked at what we’ve seen.  ;( Until you start training in HIT style, you don’t realize how much the force of momentum dominates normal “volume” training. Take a look at a couple of these videos of us [...]

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Welcome back to The Muscle Couple’s 4th Annual “Strategies to Improve Your Life“, the 2011 edition. 2010 was a challenging year for TMC. We’re fairly certain many of you also had similar issues both personal and professional. As we look forward to making 2011 one of our best years yet, we offer all of you [...]

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The Muscle Couple is obviously enthralled with our results from HIT Training. We do realize many people are satified with their current training styles or are unwilling to commit to HIT because of the physical demand it requires. We respect that and want to offer you specific HIT principles to incorporate into your current workout/training [...]

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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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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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The Muscle Couple is so proud of our trainer and close personal friend: Markus Reinhardt For any of our readers familiar with the Iron Game, Markus was at one time one of the top up and coming bodybuilders in the world. He was a popular cover model for many of the Men’s Fitness and Bodybuilding [...]

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TMC back again with the 411 on the dreaded “Depletion Workout“. First the “science” on why we perform this kind of training protocol. Just as the last post detailed why a “De-Carb Phase” is necessary from a dietary perspective, the same logic holds true with our muscle glycogen stores. The goal is to maximally deplete [...]

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