5 New Limited-Time Bonuses Available With EDT Now!

FROM CHARLES STALEY

Just wanted to let you know, right now we're running a special on the "Complete Video Guide to Escalating Density Training". If you've been kicking around the idea of grabbing that, NOW is the best time to do it!

We've thrown in 5 limited-time bonuses AND I'm giving you a chance to win a 3 day stay at my training facility here in sunny Gilbert, AZ (Bed & Barbell - http://www.beda ndbarbell.com), where I'll personally train you. While you're here, Phil and I will make sure you're not slacking off…


Just sign up for the 5 sample videos on the EDT page and you'll be automatically entered to win that. I'll be drawing a random winner on Saturday so be sure to sign up by Friday, Oct 10th at midnight.

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Oh, and here are those 5 limited-time bonuses I mentioned (value of $195):

Masterminds of Fitness & Nutrition Interviews - Volume 1

Dave Tate: "The Key Indicators Process."
Pavel Tsatsouline: "Strength Is A Skill"
Dr. John Berardi: "Precision Nutrition For Supreme Fitness And Fat Loss"
Coach Dan John: "Insights Into Effective Training And Nutrition"
Dr. Udo Erasmus: "Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill."
Dr. Dan Wagman: "Breakthroughs From The Science Of Strength Training."

Masterminds of Fitness & Nutrition Interviews - Volume 2

Bill Hartman: Practical Restoration
Art Devany: Evolutionary Fitness
Mark Rippetoe: Starting Strength
Chris Shugart: The Velocity Diet And The Psychology Of Food
George Morrision: X-Vest Training
Dr. Stephen Long: Level Six Performance

Optimal Protein Intake Webinar with Lonnie Lowery

In this teleseminar, Dr. Lowery spoke for an hour on types, timing, safety, dosage, of protein and more. This is GREAT information if you're interested in maximizing the results you get from your protein, whether it be eating or supplementation. Prepare to be schooled in protein by Dr. Lonnie Lowery!

"The Best Exercises You've Never Heard Of" by Nick Nilsson

Get 55 of the most unique and powerful exercises you've never seen before! You'll have fellow gym members coming up to you CONSTANTLY asking where learned that cool exercise. These are excellent for plugging right into your new EDT program!


"How I Use EDT" by Nick Nilsson

This is an excellent "how-to" package that Nick put together showing (through video as well as his exact program) how he uses EDT to maximize mass while staying lean. Very useful, practical stuff!

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If you haven't read all about EDT, definitely go check it out. EDT is all about training efficiency (which is what I'M all about, too) and results.

It's a scientifically-based step-by-step program that is (with all due modesty, of course, since I created it) elegant in its simplicity. "Idiot proof" is the term I like to use :)

Young, old, male, female, beginner, advanced…it doesn't matter. EDT is easily adjusted to any requirements. It doesn't even matter if you train at home or at a gym - EDT works with the exercises YOU have available to you.

It's a powerful system - very easy to use but also challenging to perform! You can use it not only for muscle and strength but it's GREAT for fat loss, too.

Check it out here and don't forget to sign up for your chance to win!

BUT I DID NOT PLAN IT THIS WAY

Have you ever been too tired to train after a vacation? I went on a little vacation last week to Toronto and Ottawa, had a great time, a lot of driving, but a great time none the less. The places I stayed at had no gym, s I did interval {Tabatas-using the Workoutmuse soundtrack} training with bodyweight exercises each day, nothing too rigorous knowing I’d be driving and doing a lot of walking each day. Drove home Sunday, got home around 10pm.Monday I had work at 6:30 until 6:30, and planned on doing my scheduled workout which would have included a 10 minute dead lift EDT zone and 2 Turbulence Training rounds. I was still too tired and just wanted to work out as quick as possible, but I wanted to have a good workout. So I did a 7 minute workout. Doing deadlifts, then swings, it is now Friday and my traps are still sore and feel pumped! I do believe you should plan your workout but it is also great to have back-ups, because some times life happens. It is good to learn various workouts that way you have a full repertoire to choose from!

FIND WAYS TO INCREASE INTENSITY

Hopefully when you finish reading this you will discover a few ways to make sure you increase your intensity each workout.
First what is intensity as it applies to working out? I like to define intensity as amount of work done during a workout period [time frame]. So you can increase the weight, reps, or sets or decrease the time worked out. Simple, right? If you are following “Turbulence Training” {TT} it may be simple, for example if you did 3 sets of incline flies as part of one of your TT blocks, and you got 10 reps on your 1st 2 sets, and 8 your 3rd you would have to get more then 8 next time, or increase the weight to start with. You would do this for all you blocks. So as long as you increased by 1 rep for example you have made some progress! Now what if you are following “Escalating Density Training” [EDT]? You will need to have a little more planning.
Here is how I do it:
I take the exercise(s) that I will do, we will use double ketttlebell snatches here, the 1st block lays the ground work. Say I got 50 reps total in the 15 minutes. I start each block by doing 5 reps so I also time the 1st few, a set of 5 takes me 15 seconds. The next workout I would want to have a 10% increase making it 55 reps. So 55/ 5 = 11 That’s 11 sets of 5. 11 sets of 5 at 15 seconds each is 2 minutes and 45 seconds of actual workout time, leaving 12:15 seconds of rest, or a little more then 1 minute 10 seconds. What I do here is divide it in ½ that is where I will start, 35 seconds, and increase in 10-15 econd intervals as I get tired. This has worked for me, give it a try and adjust as needed. Remember you want to improve every workout, is that 100% possible? NO, for example I work 12 hour shifts, some days I just don’t have enough in my tank, so then I use the “mirror gauge”. What is that you ask, after you workout you look yourself in the eyes and ask if you honestly gave it all you could, after all in reality the only one you need to answer to is YOURSELF!

Note: 5lbs down 10 to go!



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DEAR DIARY....

Have you ever noticed people in the gym carrying around a journal with them and you wonder “what the hell is the purpose of doing that”. Can’t they remember what they are supposed to do today? I know I used to think along those lines. I even used to workout with people back when I was in the Navy who jotted in one while we lifted. I didn’t get it, not at all. It wasn’t until I first tried “Escalating Density Training” {EDT} that I started to realize the importance of a one, [and actually I still didn’t get it right away then either] Back when I wrote about setting goals I mentioned a few items, one being measureable. Well that’s easy writing down in a journal helps keep track of your measureable progress. What can you measure? Weight, sets, reps, time and how you feel going into an after training, to name a few. You can use it to adjust your intensity. For example if you did your last workout in 45 minutes and rested 1 minute between sets you can reduce the time to 45 seconds and do the same workout next session. Same workout less time more intense! It also gives you accountability, even if it is just to yourself. Another great benefit a journal gives you is that it keeps you in the moment, focused on your workout. I eventually found that doing EDT training with journal created a mental, as well as a physical, link in my training. Eventually I found it helped with all my training. If doing “Turbulence Training”. “No-Nonsense”, “7Minute Muscle”, “Muscle Gaining Secrets” whatever the training you prefer, a journal almost guarantees progress. I even put my entries into an excel sheet so I can see graphs. Of course a person can use a journal and make 0 progress, but that same person is probably on the phone walking around the gym with a towel around their neck, not really working out! So go out get a notebook and give the journal a try.

My JULY + WORKOUT EXPOSED

Visualize yourself melting fat gaining muscle every workout, that is what I did creating this. The next few weeks I will be using the following workout using Escalating Density Training [EDT] format. Primarily I will be using kettlebells, with the exception of "B" workout {I feel the need to go in to the gym at least once a week....????} If you have any questions or comments

A: PR Zone 1 (15 Minutes)
Military Presses with two kettlebells
Renegade Rows with two kettlebells Five minute break
PR Zone 2 (10 Minutes)
Overhead Squats with a kettlebellSwings with kettlebell

Light interval training

B: PR Zone (15 minutes)
Incline Hammer Machine
Hammer Machine Row
Rest
20 Minute Interval training

C: PR Zone 1 (15 Minutes)
Front Squats with two 72lb bells
One arm snatches with a kettlebell Five minute break
PR Zone 2 (10 Minutes)
Clean and Presses with two heavy kettlebellsTwo minute break
Core Work2x5 of Windmills with a kettlebell
2 Sets of bent presses

NEW EDT INTERVIEW

One of my favorite trainers is Charles Staley,well today I've got something very cool to share with you – part of an email interview devoted to EDT with Charles Staley, conducted by Nick Nilsson! The interview covers all kinds of questions about EDT…how it works, how your mindset is absolutely CRITICAL to your success, what training "density" actually IS and how you can use it to FORCE your body to build muscle and strength, and much more!
This is really good stuff - I think you'll get a lot out of it! I can forward the entire interview if you’d like…
NN: First off, Charles, please give us a little background on yourself so people know what kind of experience you have in the strength training field, e.g. how long you've been training, coaching, educational background, athletes you've coached, their accomplishments, etc.

CS: I've been coaching and teaching in the fitness/physical preparation arena since about 1983, although at that time the word "personal trainer" wasn't really in widespread use. I have a B.Sc in Sociology of Sport from the State University of New York, and I've trained many thousands of people during the past 20+ years, many of them high-level, elite athletes in a variety of sports. I can't reveal the names of some of my more famous clients, as I'm bound by confidentiality clauses in those cases. However I've trained or consulted to several prominent MMA (mixed martial arts) athletes, as well as several Olympic-level winter sport athletes (luge, bob-sleigh), Olympic-style weightlifters, powerlifters, judo-ka, and golfers. But I also train non-athletes, and we enjoy working with beginners at my live-in facility in Gilbert, AZ (Bed & Barbell)

NN: Charles, you're probably best known for your revolutionary program "Escalating Density Training." I've used EDT and it is downright AMAZING how well it works and how much it actually simplifies the whole muscle and strength-building process. Could you give people a quick explanation of what EDT is and how it works?

CS: EDT is a method where you attempt to accumulate more and more training volume while holding the duration constant. EDT workouts consist of 15-minute time-frames called "PR Zones" (PR= personal record). We're VERY focused on PR's - quantifiable indicators of enhanced work-capacity.Much like Shakira's hips, numbers don't lie. And when your numbers go up, so does your metabolism, strength, and fitness capacity. At my facility, we actually have a "PR bell," which we ring to celebrate client PR's, whenever they occur.

NN:Now, in many of your articles and on your website, you talk about having an "athletic mindset" rather than an "exerciser mindset." Could you explain a little about this and why it's so critical?

CS:Many people think like an exerciser when they, well....exercise. This mindset is characterized by pain and deprivation, and it has its roots in the age-old "no pain, no gain" mantra. Exercisers tend to think in terms of thermodynamics: "OK, if I hit the treadmill for 90 minutes, I'll burn at least 400 calories...and then if I only eat 1400 calories a day, I should burn at least 2 pounds of fat a week!" It's all about seeing how little you can eat, and how to make exercise as painful as possible... kinda reminds me of the way anorexics think.
Athletes don't exercise, they TRAIN.
When you go to the gym or training hall to train, your mindset revolves around performance and PR's. You're trying to improve your performance... you're trying to improve your technique. And when you think like THIS, your gym time becomes very uplifting and self-motivational, which leads to consistency and results.Bottom line: when you think and act like an ATHLETE, you tend to LOOK like an athlete. And I think THAT is what most people are ultimately looking for.

NN:I've also read in your articles about EDT that the focus should be on "performance" and not "fatigue". What do you mean by that and how does a focus on performance translate into better muscle-building results?

CS:Well, I've already alluded to this, but to delve into it a bit more, many people instinctively equate pain with progress. It's much like the entrepreneur who mistakenly confuses motion with results - just because you're moving...just because it hurts, doesn't mean you're making progress or getting a result. Now, it's true that getting out of your comfort zone will involve some degree of discomfort, but that discomfort is a SIDE-EFFECT of the work you did - it shouldn't be the goal. Because when pain becomes the goal, you lose sight of the REAL goal, which is increasing work-capacity and hitting new PR's

NN: One of the key concepts with EDT is increasing the "density" of the training. What do you mean by training density and why is it so important to be constantly trying to increase the number of reps you're doing with a given weight?
CS:Density refers to the work-to-rest ratio of your training sessions - it's basically how many reps of an exercise you're doing within a certain set timeframe (e.g. 50 reps in 15 minutes). Many people mistakenly focus exclusively on increasing training intensity, or the amount of weight you can put on the bar. When you use EDT, you have to "earn" the right to increase your weights by first increasing your training density (performing more sets and reps within that set timeframe).
So in other words, density represents the BASE, while intensity represents the PEAK. If you try to build too high without a strong base, your structure will fall. Same thing with training. THAT is why EDT is all about focusing on the base and increasing your overall workload - it's just more effective for maximizing strength and muscle growth. The bigger the base, the higher the peak you will be able to achieve.

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The Staley/Tsatsouline Strength Seminar

Two of my favorite trainers in one DVD Set!!!!

How to shatter your personal bests in strength and power…
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Historic display of advanced strength secrets caught on tape—as two “masters of the art” reveal key, but little-known and often surprising strategies to dramatically enhance your performance…

The Staley/Tsatsouline Strength Seminar