1. A great isometric exercise demonstration
(Isometric Gym/Blog)

...e as hard as you can. While you're squeezing, use your left hand to feel your right forearm. It's straining under the effort, sure, but you'll notice that not all of the muscles are fully...

2. How to double your bench press instantly
(Isometric Gym/Blog)

...ds on your neuromuscular system, causing greater response from the body. The only problem with this type of training is that as you start using greater and greater weights, you spend more and more tim...

3. How can I possibly get a workout in only 4 minutes per week?
(FAQs/FAQ)

When you start training with the 1-Rep GymTM, you'll do 2 workouts per week. Each workout has 5 exercises. For each exercise, you put out your full effort -- trying to use more force than the last

4. Get MIT with your 1-Rep Gym
(Isometric Gym/Blog)

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.  As a

5. Dr. Dodson LOVES the 1-Rep
(Isometric Gym/Blog)

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

6. Is ONE repetition of an exercise really enough?
(FAQs/FAQ)

...uscle, meaning you're not putting out the maximum force on that last rep that you could. With isometric training, like you do with the 1-Rep GymTM, it's like doing the last rep first, plus hav...

7. Why are you only using that small range of motion (ROM)?
(FAQs/FAQ)

...our arms are still slighly bent).  In fact, this is the essence of Pete Sisco's Static Contraction Training (SCT). The problem with SCT is that with some exercises, especially leg press, eve...

8. About Us
(Static Content)

...f intense, isometric workouts. The documented results from using the exercise regimen of Static Contraction Training (now marketed as Lifetime Fitness, see Links) as developed by Pete Sisco and John L...

9. 1-Rep for Cardio
(Static Content)

... cardio, too. And whether you've done "long, slow, distance" or "high-intensity interval training (HIIT)" you've never experienced anything like doing a cardio workout on t...

10. Links
(Static Content)

Exercise, Health and Fitness Links  Here are some of our favorite links to information and products that will help you achieve your fitness and health goals.          &n

11. How the 1-Rep Gym Works
(Static Content)

...e machine tells you how much force you're pushing or pulling with. Remember, this is measured isometric training. You'll never outgrow the 1-Rep GymTM  The 1-Rep Gym allows you to provide...

12. See it in action
(Static Content)

Here are more pictures of the 1-Rep GymTM in action These are just a few of the exercises you can do on the 1-Rep Gym (more pics coming soon). Click on each picture to see a larger version.easygallery

13. Order Your 1-Rep Gym
(Static Content)

...mensions # 72" high, 24.5" wide, 39" deep. 145 pounds Shawn Bennet's Measured Intensity Training (MIT) Multi-Media Manual -- a complete video course, printed and electronic manual,...

14. Why Isometrics
(Static Content)

...he first questions people ask when they see the 1-Rep machine is: Isn't this just isometrics? Isometric training -- where you exert force against and immovable object (like pressing on a wall, or ...

15. 1-Rep Isometric Gym
(Static Content)

...ent for strength and cardio.  If you're already familiar with Pete Sicsco's Static Contraction Training, John Little's Max Contraction Training, or Shawn Bennet's Measured Intensi...

16. About Us
(Static Content)

...f intense, isometric workouts. The documented results from using the exercise regimen of Static Contraction Training (now marketed as Lifetime Fitness, see Links) as developed by Pete Sisco and John L...

17. 1-Rep for Cardio
(Static Content)

... cardio, too. And whether you've done "long, slow, distance" or "high-intensity interval training (HIIT)" you've never experienced anything like doing a cardio workout on t...

18. Links
(Static Content)

Exercise, Health and Fitness Links  Here are some of our favorite links to information and products that will help you achieve your fitness and health goals.          &n

19. How the 1-Rep Gym Works
(Static Content)

...e machine tells you how much force you're pushing or pulling with. Remember, this is measured isometric training. You'll never outgrow the 1-Rep GymTM  The 1-Rep Gym allows you to provide...

20. See it in action
(Static Content)

Here are more pictures of the 1-Rep GymTM in action These are just a few of the exercises you can do on the 1-Rep Gym (more pics coming soon). Click on each picture to see a larger version.easygallery

21. Order Your 1-Rep Gym
(Static Content)

...mensions # 72" high, 24.5" wide, 39" deep. 145 pounds Shawn Bennet's Measured Intensity Training (MIT) Multi-Media Manual -- a complete video course, printed and electronic manual,...

22. Why Isometrics
(Static Content)

...he first questions people ask when they see the 1-Rep machine is: Isn't this just isometrics? Isometric training -- where you exert force against and immovable object (like pressing on a wall, or ...

23. 1-Rep Isometric Gym
(Static Content)

...ent for strength and cardio.  If you're already familiar with Pete Sicsco's Static Contraction Training, John Little's Max Contraction Training, or Shawn Bennet's Measured Intensi...

24. The original Isometric/Static Contraction physiological study -1955
(Web Links / Physiology and Anatomy)

Some of the early research into why isometrics or static contraction training produces such profound results

25. Pete Sicsco's Static Contraction Training
(Web Links / IsometricTraining Programs and Books)

How to perform Static Contraction Training (SCT) in the weight room (be warned: you'll run out of weight before you run out of strength gains... and don't drop those 45 pounders on your foot!)

26. Isometric Power by John Peterson
(Web Links / IsometricTraining Programs and Books)

... book about standard bodypart-against-bodypart isometrics, with a great history of the leaders in isometric training over the years...