John: reading your book, The time savers workout, a question came up: in your previous book, Beginning Bodybuilding: Real Muscle, you had presented the method of how to Calculate Your Specific Individual Repetitions (I.S.R.). So the question arises that in the book The time savers workout you did not explicitly relate the I.S.R to the protocols presented, but there is, on page 137 onwards, your recommendation to increase the weight load by 10% in the first and second series, totaling 20%. This 20% value is the value that must be reduced to the maximum weight load for a single repetition that will be used as a reference for calculating the I.S.R. So, I would like you to draw up a parallel comparison between I.SR and the method described on page 137 of the book The time savers workout.

Doug look like a spargel tarzan

Naturally I can see people have asked questions and there’s no interaction here. Doesn’t really inspire confidence.

I was considering buying this course but it seems like you would do at least a brief example.

"I want to see the latest fad..." As Bugs would say, "What a maroon!"

Dr. Doug McGuff is a genuis. So was Mike Mentzer (R.I.P) and Arthur Jones (R.I.P).

How many reps with this kind of cadence would be impressive on the chin ups? I weigh 197lbs atm

What is that breathing method he is doing?

I worked at a Nautilus facility in the late 70's and early 80's when Nautilus first came out.......THIS machine will give you THE best lat workout ever!!! This exercise demonstration shows proper form....(trainee could use a little better stretch at the top of the movement= prestretch) Nice and slow and push with the elbows ALL the way down; until the bar touches the midsection. When you have completed the set - your lats will feel so big that you can hang glide!!

The hyperventilating doesn't make sense.

What time do you shoot for with each rep?

so no weight stack? you just resist yourself?

(1) hard, slow, painful set of 10-15 reps on this machine for bi's & tri's done VERY infrequently will build some BIG arms.

Phenomenal knowledge. Just watched his ADX workout. Amazing contribution to advancements in health.

I'm just glad he's gorgeous and barefoot 😅

Impecably described! Thanks so much! I¨m doing research on my own,since I don´t get much jhelp around. I live in JUnin.Buenos Aires. Argentina. I´m Cris, 70 years old, trying to reverse a sarcopenia process that took me by surprise about a year or so ago!I´m been going to gym training for about a year and a half now, but I´m not pleased with the results so far, eventhough there has been some reversal.... Right now Im about to incorporate HI interval exercises! I´m doing research about that.If you are willing to share reliable source, I will fully appreciate it!!! Congratulations for your precious5 minute gift!

How many times a week do you do that? Just to understand the recover time. Thank you

Has james Steele achieved his genetic potential or he is not interested in gaining muscle?

Intense workout but not high intensity, or 85 of their max.

Such great information. So would alternating between one low load and one heavy load workout a week be a good middle ground? One with a TUL goal of 90 seconds and another with a TUL goal of 70 seconds?

I have a bad shoulder which will require replacement. I am using the Life Fitness pulldown, row, overhead press and chest press machines. The shoulder gives out before the major muscle groups do. Would there be alternative exercises I could do that would help circumvent this issue?

Does the order you do the exercises matter?

No linkage on the footplate is extremely odd given the angle and position the feet end up in at the bottom of the ROM

Simon still looks like an 11 year old college kid, would love to see you run through a basic 5x5 routine with plenty of food for six months……

Is there a book or a reference guide to follow if we wanted a full body workout or if we wanted to do legs one day , abs and arms the next etc..

This trains the myscles but does not cause the greatest hypertrophy.

STEVE REEVES, was doing High intensity EVEN BEFORE Mike Mentzer.

Did Jay tell you hes taking TRT too, as he already admitted it?

Hello doctor. I do push pulls legs. 4 times by week. Rest 3 days by week. One training is repeat two time in a week. 3 or 4 sets by muscle with heavy duty method. Is it good please? Sorry for my english. Eric from France

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Best machine ever: Feels like moving through heavy air.

I am not looking at the doer but the trainer fitness. Nothing spectacular there, anyways I do this but older version where you do a smooth transition at end of travel vice any kind of squeeze hold. Somewhat faster 5-8 sec pace but a superset, failure at one weight, reduce weight as fast and safe as possible then failure at the lower weight, immediately move to next machine. Just at a Planet Fitness center. I feel like I do more in 30 min than most folks there do in a week, as in they are doing short bursts and then remaining on the machine with their stupid phones. Which is fine, if it works for them. Anyways I am 64, fit and muscular. Also run around 20 miles a week. The shaking part, utterly unable to lift another time, for me 90 seconds+ on the constant muscular tension is very familiar.

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100% undertraning!

From what I see, it’s no different than the traditional 3 sets of 8 - 10 recommended by trainers…only without the messing around on your phone for 10 minutes between each set like I see the kids at my gym doing….

4 of these in a small HIT studio is the dream!!!.... 😢

Bring this back please!!!!!

As a sailor, I used Nautilus with a trainer in Newcastle Upon Tyne 1979 through 83: my best period of strength; flexibility and recovery time.

High responders will respond to anything. Low responders might have more modest end results. Multiple sets of course CAN work and for arguments sake let's just say multiple sets are "optimal." In the long run, you will meet your genetic limit sooner or later. Consider the ROI. If I can reach my genetic potential within 5+ years using either method, "optimal" is irrelevant and with a fraction of the time investment overall.

Unfortunately they don't make these machines anymore

My name's James Fisher too! 😂

Yes. When what we do becomes the discipline of Exercise Engineering, it will expand again. GREATLY, and QUICKLY.

Search on google: When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?

Utter empirical and effective TRUTH. Indisputable cause and effective relationship derived from universal physiological principles. It has true from BC to the future of human existence. Intensity is the main driver of muscle growth.

I have a home Nautilus machine from the early 80's. Is as good today as when I first bought it. I am now 73 years old. It is a very important piece of equipment to help me keep going. Easy circuit training. Even back then it cost $5500.00 to bring to home and set up. In the long run was well worth it.

A sympatic man but to thin . His programm is for fitness not for bodybuilding

Extremely informative just recently discovered myokines so good foundation to start learning more.

I don't see a diference in free weights or nautilus except wasteing a ton of energy hoisting up dumbels. Now haveing to stabilize them more with other muscle groups

Here in 2023 when HIT actually gets more popular