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I’m Chad Howse, and I’m an alcoholic.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m kidding! But I am a recovering weak and scrawny under-acheiver.<\/span><\/p>\n

I spent the majority of my life as a successful, but under-acheiving athlete because I simply didn’t know the\u00a0right<\/em> way<\/em> to train.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here I am in high school going into the 12th grade. I have very few pictures with my shirt off… I’m guessing you can see why?\u00a0\"before<\/span><\/p>\n

You’ll also notice a basketball in my hand. I’ve been an athlete my entire life.<\/span><\/p>\n

I first strapped on a pair of skates on at the age of 3. Played AAA hockey until I met my first basketball. We became pals and I played basketball until an inury halted a budding career after my first year starting at point guard in college.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a year off from all sports, I got skinny fat. For the first time in my life, I wasn’t at practice everyday. For the first time in my life I also had the makings of a tire under my belly button.<\/span><\/p>\n

I woke up one day and realized what the hell was going on, so I walked into a boxing gym and fell in love once again.<\/span><\/p>\n

My identity is ingrained in athletics, and that’s why I first started weight training, and what eventually led me to start my business.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But for all of the love I poured into sports, I never accomplished what I knew I could. I knew how to develop the skill I needed, but I was always the skinniest, and weakest guy on my teams.<\/span><\/p>\n

That, however, changed in a dramatic way only a few years ago with a job.<\/span><\/p>\n

My old man’s friend owned a gym. A gym that was the training facility for the pro football team and a pro hockey team in my home city. It was – and is – the place to train for any elite athlete in my hometown.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had just started boxing, and I needed a job. So my old man set up a meeting with me and the owner, his friend. We hit it off, and he hired me. He liked my athletic background, and gave me a paid apprenticeship under the head trainer at the gym…<\/span><\/p>\n

… The guy in charge of making the programs for all of the pro athletes.<\/span><\/p>\n

To make a long story short, he didn’t just open my eyes to how guys like you and me should train to become better athletes, but how each of us are following myths that are actually holding us back from getting in the best shape of our lives.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He showed me how to do LESS WORK, at a higher quality, and get BETTER RESULTS.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When I started my apprenticeship, this is what I looked like…<\/span><\/p>\n

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9 months into this apprenticeship, THIS is what I looked like…<\/span><\/p>\n

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On the\u00a0very first day<\/em> he showed me how 3 things that I was doing, were holding me back from reaching my true potential. Everyone I know follows these myths at some point. They may be holding you back from reaching your potential as an athlete as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Myth #1 Cardio = Conditioning<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When we think of conditioning, we think of long runs. Long runs do two things:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. They raise our cortisol levels. Cortisol is a stress\u00a0hormone involved in our fight or flight response to stress – in this case, prolonged physical stress. It makes our bodies\u00a0use muscle and bone as fuel, storing fat for future emergencies (as a last resort).<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. They put a lot of stress on our lower back and knees – much more than the alternatives I’ll share with you below.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    He gave me a few alternatives, or “corrections”, as he called them.<\/span><\/p>\n

    A) Train to improve lung capacity and cardiovascular health.<\/span>\"sprinter<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    He showed me how to combine sets, alter repetitions, and use exercises that will not only help me become a better athlete by improving my explosiveness, power, and strength, but also improve my muscular endurance and\u00a0endurance<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    B) He showed me how to<\/em> sprint.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Sounds funny, but sprinting properly from a technique side of things, but also structuring a sprinting routine properly are rare. Few of us do either. He showed me how I should structure a sprinting routine to improve endurance, lung capacity, while also naturally raising human growth hormone (HGH) in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

    It’s weird to hear, but my previous sprinting routines weren’t structured the right way. I wasn’t seeing optimal results because the rest-to-work ratios weren’t allowing me to improve, or tap into the energy systems I wanted them to tap into.<\/span><\/p>\n

    C) Finally, he gave me a plyometrics routine.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Pyometrics are one of the most effective (if not the most effective<\/em>) ways to become a better athlete. And few of us actually do them!<\/span><\/p>\n

    They’ve been given a bad name from people who see them as “dangerous”, especially as we’re developing in the younger years of our lives, or as we age.<\/span><\/p>\n

    THE TRUTH: if you’re not doing a plyometrics routine, you’re not going to see the best results you can possibly see. Simple. End of story. It’s in doing these routines INCORRECTLY, that we run into trouble. He showed me the right way to do them. With the right tempos, the right pairing of exercises, and the proper work:rest ratio.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Myth #2 There’s such thing as sport-specific training, or training for FAT LOSS.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    What?!? Why is this a myth?<\/span><\/p>\n

    They teach us that cardio improves our lung capacity and helps us burn calories. My boxing coach even had me going on long runs to cut weight.<\/span><\/p>\n

    They also teach us to train one way to lose fat, and another way to build muscle. MYTH.<\/span><\/p>\n

    A recent study out of the University of Alabama, compared women who did cardio and lifted weights at high reps (trained for ‘fat loss), and women who lifted heavy weights.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Both groups lost the same amount of weight. But the group lifted heavy weights, lost more fat. Much more actually.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The methods that my mentor taught me help us improve power, speed, athleticism, AND muscular endurance. They help us get in better shape, build more muscle, and burn more fat.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The variation, depending on what your goals are, should come from your training, necessarily, but from your diet.<\/span><\/p>\n

    In the PowerHowse Challenge, I’ve included specific meal plans for every goal. The training that includes an awesome sprint program called\u00a0The Fast and the Furious Sprinting Routine<\/em>, will help you not only get in great shape, lose fat, but maintain muscle, even if you’re in a caloric deficit (dieting).<\/span><\/p>\n

    Myth #3 The Myth of Over-Training?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Yes, it’s a myth.<\/span><\/p>\n

    What ISN’T a myth is under-recovery.<\/strong> That’s where most of us fail. It isn’t that we’re training too much<\/strong>, while we might be doing the wrong stuff in the gym, we’re not recovering properly<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    So we’re doing all of this hard work, but we’re not letting our bodies recover and repair from the hard work. We’re basically going in circles, never accomplishing anything.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    He showed me unique recovery tips that helped me train more, and see greater benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n

    I had more energy, a greater ability to focus, and to be honest, life become better. My work was done at a greater quality. I slept better. I felt superhuman compared to where I was at before I met him and started the apprenticeship that would change my life.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

    To say the least, I was happy I got this job.<\/span><\/p>\n

    After winning my last fight, I decided I wanted to continue with my training, and instead build athletic muscle, not just athleticism. The transformation – that started with this apprenticeship – has led to me helping hundreds of guys like you and me build their ideal bodies, from an aesthetic, and an athletic standpoint.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Guys who are too skinny, too fat, too AVERAGE to have the confidence and the athleticism that we want. Through the principles he taught me I created the PowerHowse Challenge, a program that is specifically designed to help average guys – like I was – build exceptional bodies.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

    To help guys get in GREAT SHAPE.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    After my apprenticeship, I branched off and built my own successful training business. I became obsessed with finding the best training methods for guys like you and me to finally start seeing results in our training…<\/span><\/p>\n

    I mean THE VERY BEST METHODS ON THE PLANET.<\/span><\/p>\n

    I wanted to take what my mentor originally taught me, and build on it. Over the next few years I spent my waking hours helping guys build their dream body in the gym – and in the kitchen – then put my remaining hours towards research. I tried everything. Studied what worked best and what didn’t.\u00a0I still do this today.<\/span><\/p>\n

    I then decided I wanted more<\/em> guys like us to benefit from what I’ve found.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    I wanted guys like us to STOP wasting their time! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Stop hurting themselves! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Stop working hard and seeing no results!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    I wanted guys to START BUILDING THEIR DREAM BODIES!<\/strong><\/span>\"ebook<\/span><\/p>\n

    So, I started my online business (the web site). At first, it was a passion project. But that passion project blew up. I started writing blog posts, but – at the request of my growing readership – I put all of my training lessons, techniques, myths, and tactics into a 122-page ebook.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    More than that, I\u00a0knew the importance of following a specific program. The need to have something that you can print out and have in front of you when you’re in the gym so you can DOMINATE a workout, and not have to guess what you should do next.<\/span><\/p>\n

    I also saw my progress, and the progress of my clients who TRANSFORMED\u00a0their bodies with the programs. Guys who struggled\u00a0building athletic muscle, who, for the first time in their lives, were able to build their dream bodies in only a few months of training. So I added 9 months of programs specifically to help you improve every week, becoming stronger, faster, more powerful, and MUCH MORE athletic.\"EBooks_DVD_compilation<\/span><\/p>\n

    I then added…<\/span><\/p>\n