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Arthur Jones

Founder of BowFlex, Inc.Wikipedia

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Nov 4, 2026

Jeremy AminGUEST
14:18
I recall very distinctly the feeling that I had when he said this.
Jeremy AminGUEST
14:23
The interviewer asked him, In so many words, how did you come about? Your training style, the blood and guts, the 45 minutes, four times a week, what inspired this? And then he mentioned two names, Mike Mensah, who I had heard about in my previous stints as a trainer and training myself, and Arthur Jones.
Jeremy AminGUEST
14:47
I had never heard of that name before.
Jeremy AminGUEST
14:49
So this was 2023.
Jeremy AminGUEST
14:50
I was a professional before.
Jeremy AminGUEST
14:53
Been in and around the industry for a long time.
Jeremy AminGUEST
14:56
And just then I was being told who Arthur Jones is or was, or the name being mentioned.
Jeremy AminGUEST
15:00
Or at least a name coming onto my radar.
Jeff TomaszewskiGUEST
31:52
Our program is developed.
Jeff TomaszewskiGUEST
31:52
I've been asking your pros to stay in their early 80s, Arthur Jones and University of Florida Medical School and all that fun stuff.
Jeff TomaszewskiGUEST
31:58
But we also do this, this, and this, and this.
Jeff TomaszewskiGUEST
32:01
now so it adds on to that a great example of the messaging that i heard recently from donald miller was he when he talks about this all the time is or the aura ring right and so the aura ring it does a lot of things it tracks your sleep it tracks your steps it tracks your heart rate tracks your stress response all of the things and they must have done some great focus groups and said this is a sleep lab on your finger like that's what they lead with now it's the world's best sleep lab But it does a ton of other things.

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Jeff TomaszewskiGUEST
44:33
So I was using, you know, the Roger Baxter, the four minute mile, you know, that, and then I don't know how many days later, like 45, 60 days, like four or five people broke it.
Laurence SnellHOST
44:40
You're right.
Jeff TomaszewskiGUEST
44:40
Because the belief that they could, like, nobody believed that we could strength train in this way until Arthur Jones and then Ken Hutchins and all the other, and all the people that now have, you know, really put it on the mainstream.
Jeff TomaszewskiGUEST
44:51
But now people do.
Don MoxleyGUEST
8:40
Well, it was Nautilus Midwest back then.
Don MoxleyGUEST
8:44
Greg Jones, Arthur Jones's son, had started Nautilus Midwest.
Don MoxleyGUEST
8:48
And we had this really interesting connection to these high intensity.
Don MoxleyGUEST
8:51
This was a big deal back in the early 80s, you know.
John D’AmbrosioHOST
36:34
So that's a great point.
John D’AmbrosioHOST
36:36
um and we can't talk about high intensity training without i see you have the picture behind you arthur jones how has he influenced you i mean obviously you know you've been influenced upstream from him or downstream have you been directly influenced through you know nautilus bulletins and doing any research on him oh
Jay VincentGUEST
36:56
yeah
John D’AmbrosioHOST
36:57
oh yeah
Jay VincentGUEST
37:23
So that all began in like, you know, 2015, 2016.
Jay VincentGUEST
37:28
I read, definitely read the Nautilus bulletins numerous times, front to back.
Jay VincentGUEST
37:34
You know, but what I do a little differently is, you know, if Mike Mentzer says something, if Dorian Yates says something, if Arthur Jones says something, I don't take it as absolute fact or truth at face value.
Jay VincentGUEST
37:50
That's people, you know, and obviously...
Matt BrzyckiGUEST
29:50
And I think he did it all capital letters, like about 10 exclamation points.
Matt BrzyckiGUEST
29:55
So that's what you kind of get to get when you go besides... being able to rub elbows with some really high profile people, you know, in the industry, uh, you know, in some cases, literally parts of part of history, like besides Joe Dardy, Jim Flanagan, you know, again, he's got his, the early days of Nautilus, like both of those guys, one step removed from Arthur Jones, uh, You know, you're getting, it's a family of sorts because it's all the HIT community, the HIT community.
Matt BrzyckiGUEST
30:24
And you will kind of, I mean, we differ in our approaches somewhat, but we're all, I think we could lump them under the same quote unquote family, you know, and even in families, there's like, you get infighting of close relatives.
Matt BrzyckiGUEST
30:38
Of course.
Matt BrzyckiGUEST
33:48
Even if you show demos, they've seen almost everything, this group of people.
Matt BrzyckiGUEST
33:54
So it's really tricky in terms of finding a topic that has some great interest.
Matt BrzyckiGUEST
33:59
And so I was floating ideas around in my head, and it suddenly occurred to me that I don't know what prompted the how it entered my head, but it occurred to me that Arthur Jones had published an article back in 1986 in The Athletic Journal and That's exactly what was 40 years ago.
Matt BrzyckiGUEST
34:24
So I went back and I looked at it and I bounced off Luke.
Stephen WoessnerHOST
43:03
And Brett said it plainly, your agency cannot outgrow your leadership.
Stephen WoessnerHOST
43:10
And then he shared a principle he learned from Arthur Jones.
Stephen WoessnerHOST
43:14
And so this is me quoting Arthur Jones.
Stephen WoessnerHOST
43:17
All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they're currently getting.
Stephen WoessnerHOST
43:25
And so when he shared that, friends.
Maggie StewartGUEST
30:29
Right.
Maggie StewartGUEST
30:29
I still haven't read the Arthur Jones material.
Maggie StewartGUEST
30:32
I think it's online, you know, but that's where a lot of people that inspired me.
Maggie StewartGUEST
30:36
Yeah.
Maggie StewartGUEST
30:38
you know, talk about Arthur Jones and how he was a genius and he came up with those camps, you know, and how they helped your joints by, um, with that spiral shape.
Maggie StewartGUEST
30:51
But I don't know
Casey RuffHOST
30:51
that I understand it completely.
Laurence SnellHOST
2:44
But we had a really nice conversation the other evening.
Laurence SnellHOST
2:46
Um, and, uh, yeah, his business is doing really well in New York still, and, um, won't say too much 'cause I don't know how much he would like me to share, but, um, he did say one thing that I think he'd be, it'd be fine for me to share, which is, uh, he said when he was first running his business, he was very much, uh, influenced by, you know, Arthur Jones and a lot of the, um, high intensity training heroes of the time, um, and as many people were back in those days.
Laurence SnellHOST
3:14
And he said that when people would ring and contact him to, um, learn about his offer, learn about his personal training service, um, and they would invariably say they wanted to lose weight or something like that.
Laurence SnellHOST
3:26
He would say, he'd start lecturing them and turn into, you know, kind of cranky and, and, um, manifest his inner Arthur Jones and tell them how, like, you know, it's about diet and strength training's not gonna help with weight loss and blah, blah, blah.
Laurence SnellHOST
3:39
Um, and now he's completely changed his tune, and when people call in now, he's like, "Yeah, sure.
Laurence SnellHOST
3:44
You know, you wanna get toned and tight?" Like, [laughs] "Book an appointment," you know? [laughs]

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Laurence SnellHOST
21:45
Yeah
Pete CerquaGUEST
21:45
...
MobsterHOST
40:48
This is an extreme example.
MobsterHOST
40:50
So, when Arthur Jones and the high-intensity guys were working through the protocols, they had some rough science from 100 or 200 individuals.
MobsterHOST
41:00
For the most part, everybody falls in the mid-range.
MobsterHOST
41:02
But at the one extreme, they could have someone that could train, as you said, certain body parts every two or three days and still recover and still advance and still progress.
Sal Di StefanoHOST
5:13
And then Mike Menser comes along and he started training in that way because that's how bodybuilders worked out.
Sal Di StefanoHOST
5:19
And he learned a technique or a training philosophy from Arthur Jones.
Sal Di StefanoHOST
5:24
Arthur Jones was this scientist who tried to study how muscle growth happens, came up with this theory.
Sal Di StefanoHOST
5:31
He actually designed Nautilus equipment.
Sal Di StefanoHOST
5:33
So he's one of the first designers of like selectorized exercise equipment.
Sal Di StefanoHOST
5:37
Arthur Jones said to him, you know, all these sets that people are doing are a waste of time.
Sal Di StefanoHOST
5:44
They're compromising growth.
Sal Di StefanoHOST
5:45
What you need is just one super intense set, and that'll trigger the muscle growth.

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