C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Spring is the Time for Getting Serious, Losing Some Bodyfat, and Looking Good      Winter is done.  Spring is upon us.      As I type these words, sitting in front of the window in my office, looking out upon the sunny skies, it’s the first day of Spring.  A couple of months ago, on a cold, decidedly wintry day, I wrote an article on winter bulk-building .  In it, I mentioned the idea of training seasonally, especially for the casual lifter who doesn’t have a competition of some sort.  If you have a bodybuilding competition in January, my ideas wouldn’t really apply, but for lifters that don’t compete in some kind of physique show, strength competition, or athletic event of some sort, here are my ideas—mentioned first in that article—on how one should train seasonally: Winter: basic, brief, hard workouts.  Train like a madman, then go home.  Eat like it’s winter-time, as well, the way a bear does when he is...

Tips and Insights for Getting the Most Out of My Mass Construction Program +Some Training Variations      During the ‘90s and until (around) 2010, I probably wrote 100 articles, give or take a few, for Ironman magazine.  I won’t get into it here—in fact, I have never discussed what transpired and don’t plan on it; water under the bridge, as they say—but I stopped writing for the magazine when I received a phone call from Jeff Everson late one evening in ‘09, asking me if I would write for his magazine, Planet Muscle .  It didn’t take much for Everson to convince me.  He said he’d pay me $800 to $1K for each of my original articles.  Double that of most magazines, save Muscle & Fitness , at the time.  I write “original” because he also asked me if I would re-write some of my older articles, particularly ones that I had written for MuscleMag International .  Since I didn’t have to do much for these older articles, other than giv...