Traditional weight training often involves lifting while sitting, lying down or standing in place. While there can be undeniable strength gains from lifting heavy in these positions, your functional strength in real-world activities can remain fatally flawed. Conventional seated and stationary exercise restricts dynamic full-body movement, providing a dangerously artificial stability—and training only a few specific muscles at a time.
The Intrinsic Strength Training® (IST) program helps you break free from the limitations and vulnerabilities of these restrictive exercise patterns. Instead of being “all show and no go”, IST challenges and enhances your ability to control your body in multiple movement planes—getting functionally stronger than you could possibly get through conventional lifting strategies.
By training the body as a dynamic, integrated unit, IST reduces the chance of injury and pain while increasing not only your overall strength but your posture, balance, coordination and precise body control. Traditional weight training too often puts the brakes on your athletic power—resulting in sub-par, erratic performance. IST releases the brakes on your strength gains and unlocks your full athletic potential.
IST is a unique—and much-needed—upgrade to classic resistance training. This upgraded system assures symmetrical and balanced physique improvements. Each IST exercise incorporates the entire body and activates more muscles, toning your physique faster and more efficiently than traditional resistance training. IST burns more calories and improves full-body strength, dynamic stability and movement literacy.
After using IST, you will look and feel like a superior version of yourself. IST provides the aesthetic benefits of following a bodybuilding training regimen with the athleticism and health benefits of the three-dimensional movement training you truly need for your daily activities. With IST, you can build yourself a body that combines a gorilla-like strength, a Ferrari-like level of performance and the fluid movement skills of a high-level ballet dancer…
Intrinsic Strength Table of Contents
SECTION 1 - Out with the Old in with the New
Chapter 1: We Need a New Approach to an Old Concept... 7
How Did Exercise Regress to Sitting and Standing Still?... 9
Why Intrinsic Strength Training is Superior... 11
Chapter 2: You Have a Choice... 13
Are You All Show and No Go?... 15
Chapter 3: Stop Selling Yourself Short... 23
A Fundamental Fitness Failure... 23
SECTION 2 - Life is NOT Stationary
Chapter 4: Pieces Move Together to Move the Whole... 33
Chapter 5: The Core Does More... 39
Chapter 6: Full Body Functions... 47
Chapter 7: Protecting the Body from the Inside Out... 61
Chapter 8: Walking with Force... 67
SECTION 3 - Taking Control of the Problem
Chapter 9: We Are Only as Strong as Our Weakest Link ... 81
Chapter 10: With Repetition Comes Replication... 87
Chapter 11: Involving More of the Core with Upright Exercise... 93
Chapter 12: The 10 Commandments of Intrinsic Strength Training... 97
Section 4 - Intrinsic Strength Training Exercises
CHEST—Creating a Compatible Chest ... 131
BACK—Back Beneficial Workout ... 149
SHOULDER—Symmetrical Shoulders ... 177
LEGS—Limitless Legs ... 211
ARMS—Articulating Arms ... 235
CORE—Abdominal Focus ... 263
Section 5 - Sample Exercise Combinations, Circuits, and Weekly Workout Splits
SAMPLE EXERCISE COMBINATIONS ... 275
SAMPLE CIRCUITS ... 276
SAMPLE WEEKLY WORKOUT SPLITS ... 278
