How does STS differ from your previous workouts?
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The biggest difference is of course is Periodization and how the workouts are designed to work together. Experience and research has shown through the years that when workouts are designed to work together following the rules of periodization the results to the user are greater than if they had randomly selected their workouts.
Secondly, STS differs in that we will be using 1RM tests to help you determine the correct weight to use. Research has shown that when left to the exerciser with no guidance they usually will choose a weight 20% to 30% lighter than what they should have. Thus, results suffer.
Thirdly, we will vary the intensity (weight lifted) and the volume (sets and reps) throughout the numerous STS workouts to help keep your muscles constantly challenged and confused. Most workouts on the market today don’t do this and thus users quite often find they hit a plateau from which they can’t continue to get more improvements.
Fourth, we will work more muscle fibers in STS than our other workouts as the intensity and volume will change with each mesocycle to recruit and challenge different muscle fibers.
Fifth, we have spent a lot of time tweaking the exercises in STS to eliminate and replace moves which we found not be as effective as others. This is especially true in the lower body routines where we have spent a lot of time finding just the right moves to work the areas our users are interested in. There are many moves in STS that you will have seen before, but there will also be many that we have not used in any of our DVDs. We’re not introducing new moves to be fancy or to try to impress you. The number one and only criteria for any move in STS is that it had to be the most effective exercise for that body part that could be done safely and with minimal equipment at home. We looked at iEMG studies on different exercises as well as used our test groups and experience as health club operators to select the absolute best exercise we could.
Lastly, STS has a major advantage over any other program we or anyone has done in that it gives you a different workout every week. The two main principles for successful strength training are “muscle confusion” and “progressive overload”. If you were to hire a master trainer and price wasn’t an issue they would probably put you on a program just like STS. The only reason you haven’t seen a program like STS from us or anybody else is the expense in producing such a large volume of workouts. That is why we’re excited to bring you what we feel will simply be the best program of its type on the market today and better than anything we have done before.
Secondly, STS differs in that we will be using 1RM tests to help you determine the correct weight to use. Research has shown that when left to the exerciser with no guidance they usually will choose a weight 20% to 30% lighter than what they should have. Thus, results suffer.
Thirdly, we will vary the intensity (weight lifted) and the volume (sets and reps) throughout the numerous STS workouts to help keep your muscles constantly challenged and confused. Most workouts on the market today don’t do this and thus users quite often find they hit a plateau from which they can’t continue to get more improvements.
Fourth, we will work more muscle fibers in STS than our other workouts as the intensity and volume will change with each mesocycle to recruit and challenge different muscle fibers.
Fifth, we have spent a lot of time tweaking the exercises in STS to eliminate and replace moves which we found not be as effective as others. This is especially true in the lower body routines where we have spent a lot of time finding just the right moves to work the areas our users are interested in. There are many moves in STS that you will have seen before, but there will also be many that we have not used in any of our DVDs. We’re not introducing new moves to be fancy or to try to impress you. The number one and only criteria for any move in STS is that it had to be the most effective exercise for that body part that could be done safely and with minimal equipment at home. We looked at iEMG studies on different exercises as well as used our test groups and experience as health club operators to select the absolute best exercise we could.
Lastly, STS has a major advantage over any other program we or anyone has done in that it gives you a different workout every week. The two main principles for successful strength training are “muscle confusion” and “progressive overload”. If you were to hire a master trainer and price wasn’t an issue they would probably put you on a program just like STS. The only reason you haven’t seen a program like STS from us or anybody else is the expense in producing such a large volume of workouts. That is why we’re excited to bring you what we feel will simply be the best program of its type on the market today and better than anything we have done before.
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We have always said that we have used test groups for STS. Perhaps you're confused because we also said that we have not done a controlled scientific study of the STS program?
amazondotmom
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When did Cathe start thinking about STS? I'm curious because it seems like it probably took several years from her first thoughts to the actual creation of the program.