C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

How to Make More Mass-Building Gains and Continued Progress Over Months and Years      In this essay, I want to go into detail over a subject that I’ve touched upon in other articles and essays over the years.  By using the methods that I will propose, you will make more muscle gains and continuous gains for weeks, months, and years to come.  This is one of the ways to ensure that you progress continuously with little in the way of ruts or plateaus.      We are often shortsighted, not just as bodybuilders but as humans.  Although it is important to focus on the present moment and the current workout that you are doing, you need to have a long-term vision regarding your training that will ensure that you make continued progress.  Many lifters start on a basic, muscle-building program and make good gains.  Maybe a lifter starts his training journey with a full-body routine or, at the least, a limited split routine ...

A Golden Era-Inspired High-Volume Mass-Building Program but with a Twist      Since I started working on my recent series on the training methods and workouts of the golden era bodybuilding legends, I’ve had a lot of old-school routines, ideas, and plans running through my mind.  Those thoughts led me to write the program here.  This is a routine that uses some of the golden era methods but does so in a way that will better allow the bodybuilder to recover while still taking advantage of the various benefits with higher-frequency, high-volume training.      If you’ve read at least a couple of the articles in my on-going series—I have two more still to go—then you realize by now, if you didn’t beforehand, that most of the old-school bodybuilders, particularly those from the 1970s, favored training antagonistic bodyparts in the same workout session.  These days, many bodybuilders favor training just one muscle group at a wo...