 Welcome to Max
Contraction On-Line, the home page of John Little
and his approach to rational, efficient education
to train your mind and body. In the world of
fitness and bodybuilding, John has been
responsible for no less than three revolutions in
how people view productive exercise. His first
two books (Power Factor Training and Static
Contraction Training, written in conjunction
with Peter Sisco) pointed out many of the
fallacies and deceptions that had become
entrenched as dogma within the bodybuilding and
fitness industries and then offered a scientific
alternative to the issue of building human
strength and muscularity. More recently,
John’s latest book, Max Contraction
Training (McGraw Hill, 2003), has further
refined and improved upon these approaches and
established that productive and efficient
training for the purpose of building human
strength requires a workout lasting no more than
10-60-seconds of actual training performed but
once a week.John has also
had an abiding interest in the mind, however,
particularly philosophy. And throughout all of
his books – from day one – has echoed
the adage of the great sages and philosophers of
ancient Greece, “A healthy mind in a healthy
body” (mens sana in corpore sano). To this
end, John has authored and edited numerous books
on the significance of philosophical thought
(both east and west) and has lectured on these
topics on national radio programs in America and
the United Kingdom, in addition to colleges and
universities (including Queens College, Belfast
and Trinity College, Dublin), as well as national
television forums such as A&E, The Learning
Channel, and the BBC. John has focused on key
individuals, past and present, in whom both of
the qualities of physical and mental fitness were
most supremely manifest.
To be fit and healthy does
not require you to become a hulking mass of
muscle, and to be philosophically informed and
mentally healthy and fit does not require that
you become a cloistered academic cut off from
life and the rest of the world in an ivory tower
of an ivy league educational institution. It
requires no more than a desire to improve
yourself as a mature human being in the two areas
of the Aristotelian definition of Man – the
“rational” (mind) animal (body)”
– and the fortitude to act on this desire.
To this end, Max Contraction
On-Line may be seen as a lighthouse of sorts on
the ocean of human performance. Here you will
find information and products that are engineered
specifically to provide you with the knowledge
you need to make more informed decisions about
your mental and physical well being, as well as
to better understand your place in the world, and
to draw inspiration for your journey from true
heroes; i.e., those great men and women from
history who have advanced the cause of bodily
health/fitness and/or critical thinking as they
made their own journey along life’s path.
 We
welcome you to a world of triumph; of
accomplishment, and of human beings actually
reaching their full stature of
self-actualization. This is not formal education
for John believes in Plato’s adage that
“knowledge acquired under compulsion has no
hold on the mind;” rather, this is informal
education, provided and undertaken by people who
truly desire it, at a pace that is of their own
choosing. There are no tests, there are no
grades, there are only opportunities for you to
learn of the ideas, examples and human
experiences that have relevance to the issues of
total (mind and body) health and fitness. You are
encouraged to partake of what you find useful and
develop your own views there from. John’s
view is that you are your own ultimate authority;
your own coach and trainer, your own judge and
jury, and must take full responsibility for your
own mental and physical development. His views on
such matters have already been of enormous
benefit to hundreds of thousands of individuals
the world over (with over 150,000 people
employing his fitness and training methods, over
500,000 reading his books, and hundreds of
thousands more watching his films). It is the
hope of this web site that he might also prove to
be of such help to you, if only by serving as
your conduit to experiencing sterling examples of
man at his best.
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