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...

The Truth About the Dietary Regimens of a Couple of Bodybuilding Legends!      When you think of intermittent fasting, you don’t usually associate it with the classic bodybuilders of the past.  For the longest time, I certainly didn’t.  Turns out, however, that I was more than just a little bit wrong.      I have written elsewhere that I think I can safely say, without much in the way of trepidation, that I was one of the first lifters I know of who tried intermittent fasting more than 25 years ago .  In fact, I first read about it in the late ‘90s, when Ori Hofmekler—who was actually, at the time, editor of Penthouse magazine of all things—published articles on his “Warrior Diet” in the online magazine T-Nation .  I didn’t refer to it as intermittent fasting—I don’t think that term had caught on yet—but simply told other lifters that I was going to try this (insanely sounding) Warrior Diet in order to lose enough w...