About

It all started back in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where Craig Ballantyne was an ambitious little junior scientist in graduate school.  Actually, it started long before that, when at age 16 I knew that somehow I wanted to combined my interests in sports and lifting weights with my nerdy desires to read, write and learn all day long. Heck, I remember creating a chart of the calorie contents of all foods way back when I was 16 – before the internet was invented – and that’s why even today I don’t have to count calories to know almost exactly how many I’ve eaten at each meal or for the day.

But I’ll tell you about my teenage years some other day (I’m working on a new set of memoirs dedicated to those times), and today we’re going to focus on the days I spent in the lab at McMaster University. Check out this goofy photo of me…this was taken for my graduate student ID Card.

I had just finished up a research study on the effects of androstenedione (the sports supplement taken by Mark McGwire during his home run chase of ’98) and I was analyzing subject’s blood in the lab for hormone changes before and after an intense workout. Here’s a screenshot of the study as you’ll find it on Pubmed.

That’s one of my 4 published research studies, and we’ll talk about more of them in part 2 of this ongoing series. Essentially, it was the combination of my experience in advanced training methods, including bodybuilding, bodyweight exercises, and athlete-based interval training plus my scientific research results and the knowledge gleamed from the hundreds upon hundreds of research studies that I had read in the Health Sciences and Mills libraries at McMaster University. I can’t remember exactly how many gorgeous spring days, blistery winter days, and evenings I spent photocopying studies, hunting down journals and pouring over those papers – all while trying to stay focused. It’s darn tough to do when you’re 22 years old and surrounded by groups of girls studying for nursing exams. Trust me.

But those hours in the library, the lab, and out on the backfields of the University training athletes with intervals all paid off. The end result was the first Turbulence Training workout performed in the winter of 1999. As you may recall, it went like this…

Workout A – Hamstrings & Upper Body Push

1A) Stiff-leg Deadlift

1B) Bench Press

2A) Reverse Lunge

2B) Shoulder Press

* Intervals: 6-12 sets.

Workout B – Quadriceps & Upper Body Pull

1A) Squat

1B) Pull-ups (or Chin-ups)

2A) Walking Lunge

2B) Back Extension

3A) Wide-grip Seated Row

3B) Cable Abs

* Intervals: 3-6 sets.

Yes, that was the first TT workout ever…an effective program. And it has evolved a LOT since then of course. The Turbulence Training Fat Loss System has been used by thousands of people around the world, and we now run three body transformation contests per year where people compete to lose fat with TT.

In fact, our best documented results for TT have come from these contests, with some winners losing 33 pounds of fat in just 12 weeks. Their body transformations are incredible.

And we’ll continue to cover the evolution of Turbulence Training in future articles. Don’t miss out on the most unique fat burning home workout you can start immediately.