Author, Bodybuilder, and Fitness Guru, Paul Burke Gives New Online Training Programs Based on Each Person's Musculoskeletal Measurements.

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.

"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.

Burke's own fame is on the rise and always will remain partially in England, for there he is still remembered, but it was when he went to Venice Beach that he saw just how many huge bodybuilders there were to compete against, and how hard it began to seem. Was there a short-cut for Burke? Listen to him tell it: "Look, I have always been up front about this," He says seriously, "I used anabolic steroids from 1979 to 1986, but it wasn't until I was 44, in 1999, when I had been clean for nearly fifteen years did I figure out how I had to train to overcome the physical hurdles put in front of me," Burke continues, "Additionally, I developed Multiple Sclerosis while working for billionaire and America's Cup winner, Bill Koch in 1995," Burke says and paused, "and I climbed out of that with training my body a very specific way, and with a special diet--but that isn't what drove me to work on this data-base, it was when I ruptured my assessory nerve in 2000 that stopped my progress cold in its tracks and it drove me do take up something that I could physically do." "One day I am being photographed in the best shape of my life, just there, in the old Columbus Circle in Manhattan, by some of the biggest physique photographers in the world." "Then," Burke continues, "the next day my arm was falling off and the world was spinning around, with my right scapular flapping out of my back."Burke entails. "That is when all hell broke lose--that is when I was told that I would die, that I would never use this arm again--never train with weights again, Burke says with fiery passion. "I was in horrible pain, my right arm carried in a sling for three years and then finally I just said to myself, "I'm not going to take this as my fate--I am going to do what I love to do--if I die, then I died happy, doing what I loved, that was my attitude."

Burke says it wasn't as easy as one might think. At first he used rubber cables and did nothing but back exercises--trying to get his scapular to stay in one place. "Five times a day I would lie on the floor and do cable-rows with those rubber cables." "It took me four more years to get back into a gym and I still have to be ultra careful."

In his absence from the gym, Burke began to write, his first published book--the critically acclaimed "Burke's Law," A New Fitness Paradigm for the Mature Male, which, at first, was a slow selling book, but soon Burke started to write for "Iron Man" Magazine and his books began selling both in stores and through the magazine. It was when writing about his "philosophies" of weight training in that first book that Burke started looking over the mountains of musculoskeletal measurements and what exercises worked for which people with specific measurements that he had noted down over his twenty-plus years as a trainer. It was while he could not lift weights that he began to load the thousands of numbers and corresponding exercises into his data-base to one day figure it all out. "Well, that time is now," Burke boasts. "Through all that I have been through, I really want to help people--not just get them into shape, but to avoid injuries and learn the right exercises for their body-structure. "This isn't about a mesomorph, or an ectomorph--this is about tens-of-thousands of variables in each body." "Every person should have a training program that is right for their body--each and every body-part on that body," Burke concludes.

"From what I have seen so far," Burke says with real enthusiasm, "people's musculoskeletal measurements line up just right every time with the data-base." "I can also predict what someone's muscles will reach in circumference at any specific body-fat-percentage/lean muscle mass ratio, but I prefer not to tell people, so that I can put a new number into that beast," I love the whole idea of it--it has been with me since I was a carnie."

(When Burke was leaving this interview he quoted the famous Psychologist, Carl Jung: "Coincidence, traced back far enough, is inevitable." What one man does when he cannot do what he grew up doing is our gain--quite a guy, Paul Burke--quite a guy).

For more information about Paul Burke and his books and online and in-person, Quantified Weight Training, go to www.paulburkefitness.com

Burke's latest two books, "The Neo-Dieter's Handbook," A Guide to Finding Your Nutritional Roots and How To Eat Them (Book-Surge/Amazon 2009) will be out in March and the book that he has been working on all of his life, "Burke's Law II," Finding Your Muscular Potential Through Musculoskeletal Designation (Book-Surge/Amazon 2009) will be out by mid-summer.