Markus, My gym has this machine: https://shop.lifefitness.com//products/hammer-strength-plate-loaded-iso-lateral-front-lat-pulldown?variant=44488810856645&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22850817767&gbraid=0AAAAAD_h8npCphb_Num7bp7pJhOYm-huN I usually do standard underhand cable pull downs but today I tried this machine just to see how it felt. It feels good, you get a much stronger squeeze in the contracted position due to the resistance curve. Which do you prefer for overall lat development?

Heavy Duty Nation, read this carefully. You walk into an old-school tanning bed with weak bulbs. You lay there 25–30 minutes. Mild stimulus. Mild result. Now step into a high-pressure bed. Six to eight minutes. Stronger intensity. Equal or better adaptation. But stay too long… you burn. That’s High-Intensity Training in one clean analogy. When UV light hits your skin, it’s stress. The body responds by increasing melanin production. That tan isn’t cosmetic — it’s protection. It’s the body adapting because the stress crossed a biological threshold. Below the threshold? Nothing happens. Above it? Adaptation. Way above it, too often? Damage. Muscle works the same way. If your set doesn’t recruit high-threshold motor units — the biggest, strongest fibers — you didn’t create a growth signal. You just exercised. If you train hard but never recover, you don’t super compensate. You accumulate fatigue. The formula has never changed: Brief. Intense. Recover fully. Sunburn isn’t a tan. Exhaustion isn’t hypertrophy. The body adapts when it has to — not because you clocked time in the gym. Heavy Duty is the high-pressure bed. Cross the threshold. Get out. Let biology do what it was designed to do. Markus (See you all tonite at 7:30 sharp in my Live Chat inside Premium!)

Heavy Duty Nation — listen up. We’re going live this Sunday at 7:30 PM for our next private HDN chat. And here’s the deal… Right now, Premium access is dropped to $29 — but only until the live chat starts Sunday night. Once we go live, I’m resetting it. If you’ve been sitting on the fence, this is your window. Inside this live session we’re not doing surface-level talk. We’re breaking down: - Real High-Intensity execution (what most guys still mess up) - Exercise hierarchy — what stays, what goes - Progression strategy when you’re stuck - Recovery mistakes killing your gains - Direct Q&A — your program, your sticking points, your questions - This is where I correct form thinking, not just form mechanics. This is where we separate effort from ego. This is where you actually learn how to train without wasting years. If you want in, get in now at $29 before I flip it back. Sunday. 7:30 PM. Be there. Markus

If you YouTube Mentzer, you’ll inevitably come across the videos of Mike training Boyer Coe in high intensity fashion. Coe actually worked with Arthur Jones and nautilus for some time. But he didn’t really believe in the HIT way of training. In the recent Shawn ray interview (link below, go to 28:30) he mentions that the “shorter is better” training philosophy was just a marketing ploy. My question is: if HIT works better, clearly Boyer would’ve seen this, as he had access to some of the best trainers and equipment while working for Nautilus right? Could it be that some people just don’t respond well to HIT? Video link: https://youtu.be/i4PZ5yPIq5M?si=xKirebtHe1TcTzda

HDN Premium only: You’re getting early access to the upcoming HITX Shoulder Press episode before it goes public. 👉 Please watch the entire video, then like and leave a comment on it. That helps the algorithm read it correctly before release. 🚫 Not public yet — don’t share it. This one’s for the HDN inner circle. More HITX coming. Markus