Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

In the episode, does super slow training work?

You learned that when you do a type of weightlifting called super slow training,

you can actually

increase tension in your muscles by decreasing the speed of the movement.

And this helps you gain strength and lean muscle more quickly, but only if you actually

have time to go to a gym and do all of your weightlifting at half speed or slightly slower.

Well, later in an episode entitled, Is Weightlifting Bad for

Your Heart? You also learned how slow and controlled weightlifting like this can not only make you

strong and lean, but could actually give you a significant increase in your cardiovascular,

aerobic fitness, without actually requiring you to hit the bike or spend a long time

on the treadmill. Now, I'll link to both of those previous shows in the show notes over at

quick and dirty tips.com. But today, you're going to learn how to boost cardiovascular fitness,

strength, muscle building, and more without ever stepping foot into

a fancy gym by using something that kind of depends on a couple of those same concepts that you

learned with super slow training and the episode about weightlifting for your heart. It's a technique

called isometric training, and today you're going to learn everything that you need to know about it.

So on my personal blog over at Ben Greenfield Fitness, in a podcast episode aptly titled

How Underground Russian Techniques from Old Soviet Training Journals can turn you into an endurance beast.

I know, I know, that's a little much. I interview a coach

named Jay Schroeder, who works with professional athletes from around the world, and Jay uses

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