Here's a great demonstration of why isometric contractions have the muscle-building power that they do.

And, it also shows why you can train in just the strongest range of motion and get great results... 

You know the saying, "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link"?

Well, that's true in weight lifting as well. You're only as strong as your weakest range of motion.

For almost any lift, the weakest point is the beginning of the lift # when the bar is against your chest for the bench, when your arms are straight for a curl, when your legs are most bent for a squat, etc.

There are 2 factors that make these sections of your ROM (range of motion) weak: leverage and muscle fiber activation.

On the one hand, your body won't activate all your muscle fibers at these extremes of your range... and it does this because, from a physics standpoint, at those extremes, you're most likely to break something (tendon, joint, ligament) if you applied the maximum force.

The problem is that the way to stimulate muscle growth is by activating as many muscle fibers as possible with the highest weight possible. 

So, here's the solution... 

The new isometric exercise equipment would have changed Charles Atlas's life.

And the reason is simple, isometric equipment like the 1-RepGym^TM can do something you can't do with any other form of isometrics, measure.

What stimulates a muscle to grow is progressive overload, asking it to do more work each time you put it under stress. Well, how do you know, for sure, if you're putting out more work without measurement? You can't.

And that's where isometric equipment comes into play... 

Shawn Bennett has trained more people using measured isometric training than anyone in the world.

And because of our commitment to your results, you get a special gift with your 1-Rep Gym. 

A few weeks ago, sports training expert, Dr. Dan, Dodson of Director of Research for Exercise and Sports Scienc at the Oklahoma Bone and Joint Clinic, came in to Shawn Bennett's gym to try a 1-Rep.

He was blown away...