C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Arnold doing behind-the-neck presses, a Golden Era favorite Golden Era Training Secrets for Old-School Shoulder Size, Strength, and Symmetry      This is the 2nd part of what will be an on-going series dedicated to the training of old-school bodybuilders, particularly those of the “golden age” of bodybuilding, the ‘70s and ‘80s, though it will also pull upon the “silver era,” as well, if I think some of the training methods used by those bodybuilders is needed for our discussion.  You don’t have to, but I would recommend reading Part One first, just so you will have an “overview” of the training methods that the golden era bodybuilders used.      Initially, I didn’t think about turning this into a series.  After I was about halfway through my previous essay, however, I realized that I had enough ideas rattling around in the ol’ bodybuilding brain that I could easily turn it into a series.  I also realized that a multi-pa...

       Before we get started here, I want to apologize for the delay in posts.  I have been working on, and formatting, my e-books so that I can start selling paperback versions of the same books.  Be on the lookout for those in the next week or two.  With that out of the way...       I have a semi-regular, semi-ongoing series which I have titled “Real Bodybuilding.”   The first installment—which I never, by the way, planned on being the first in a series of training articles—was some scribblings and thoughts on how old-school, real bodybuilders actually trained before the advent of large doses of various anabolic steroids in bodybuilding (which changed everything).   And after writing that one, there was enough interest in the topics discussed that I thought some follow-up articles and essays were in order.      Before we go any further, here are the links to the past installments.   Reading th...