Burke, former bodybuilding and arm wrestling champion and long-time fitness-writer and trainer has done what no other person thought could be possible; he has "quantified weight training." Based on twenty years of collecting measurements, circumferences and other musculoskeletal data, Burke has a formula that works for everyone--so he says. "This is something that will revolutionize my Online Training Programs.

**Lincoln, MA., February 22, 2009. The author, bodybuilder and trainer, Paul Burke, is certainly on a roll. Burke, former bodybuilding and arm wrestling champion and long-time fitness-writer has done what no other person thought could be possible; he has "quantified weight training." Based on twenty years of collecting measurements, circumferences and other musculoskeletal data, Burke has a formula that works for everyone--so he says. Burke told us that he collects very specific measurements, circumferences and triangulations from each of his clients (many online, some in-person) and he then compares them to a data base that has every, possible, individual, measurement and circumference, on every human being from the height of 4'10" to 7'5." To match it, he has the exact and most leverage advantageous exercises for each individual body-part on each person--all based on the way a person's musculoskeletal system is shaped, and their individual body-parts. "We all have both unique skeletons and muscular formations," Burke says;" why would anyone want to train as another person does?" he asks."There is a right way for each person to train and that right way is established by taking in data and matching it with leverage advantageous exercises specific for the individual's musculoskeletal measurements.

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"This has never been done before," Burke says," and I doubt that anyone else is crazy enough to spend twenty years trying to figure it all out." According to Burke, his fascination with bodybuilding and leverage all began when he was twelve years old. A skinny kid, who grew up in a poor home just outside of Worcester, Massachusetts, Burke began lifting in his parent's basement. After a few years had past, pictures of Larry Scott and a young Arnold appealed to something deep inside of Burke's soul, but, how could one train in his environment?" he asked himself.
Battered by his strong but constantly inebriated father, he fled home with a sleeping bag and a plastic barbell set at age 16, and went off he went and joined the traveling carnival and circus. "I carried that bar and those plastic weights to every State Fair on the East Coast" Burke exclaims--"I trained when I wasn't lifting huge braces and buckets that went to the ride that became my-baby, The Spider"--a once popular ride that moves as its' namesake would--"that was it, my beginning of understanding leverage and weight training all at once." It was there, watching some of the big, strong men lift and winch huge pieces of circus and carnival equipment, Burke first realized that anything can be lifted with the proper leverage. Two life-long obsessions began--bodybuilding and how to gain leverage.
After four years with the carnie, Burke joined the US Air Force and was stationed at RAF Woodbridge, England. "I was the first Airman to win a Bodybuilding contest overseas," Burke humbly but proudly touts. "I was also British Arm Wrestling Champion for the three years that I was stationed there." Leverage does play into arm-wrestling, most of us who have watched it know that, but why bodybuilding? I asked the six-foot, 210 pound, 53 year old tower of lean muscle. 'It had to do with just me in the beginning," Burke begins. "I had met Arnold in 1975, just after his hugely popular Mr. Olympia win in Pretoria, South Africa, and I was absolutely memorized by his physique-- I just could not believe my eyes," Burke says nostalgically, "I knew that I wanted to look like that, but it wasn't so easy for me--I had some flaws in my skeletal structure and I would have to go through hell to find out how to build over and around those flaws." Burke was born with a Kypnotic curvature in his spine and something else was brewing in his nervous system atop of that. None it stopped Burke from chasing his dream, though, and after the military he was off to Venice Beach, California to train with all the famous bodybuilders of that era....read full article