C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Bodyweight Training and Beyond: Part 3 Upper Body Training Lessons and Workouts for Advanced Bodyweight Practitioners and Martial Artists      In November, I wrote a couple of essays with the titles “Bodyweight Training and Beyond.”  Part 1 focused only on bodyweight training.  Part 2 discussed how to incorporate bodyweight training combined with weighted workouts.  I originally had planned to write a 3rd part within a week or two of the previous essays, but I wound up writing so many different articles that the 3rd part went by the wayside.  However, as I was writing my last essay on bodyweight training, “ A Seldom Discussed Benefit of Bodyweight Training ,” I ended up with a lot of notes that I realized would make for another good article. So, it’s been too long in coming, but here, finally, is Part 3 of my Bodyweight Training and Beyond series.      In this essay, I want to discuss some various bodyweight ideas f...

  High-Volume, High-Frequency Bodyweight-Centric Workouts for Transforming Your Physique Part One: Bodyweight Training and Nothing But      If you are going to achieve good results no matter your goals—be it strength, hypertrophy, or a combination of the two; whether you want to be “lean and mean” or big as a house—then you must learn to balance the 3 training variables of volume, frequency, and intensity.  (Intensity in this article, unless otherwise noted, will be how it is used in strength training circles—as a percentage of your one-rep maximum, not as the manner it's used in bodybuilding vernacular, which is how “hard” you train.)  As I have often explained, two of the variables need to be high—or, at least, one high and the 2nd one moderate—and the remaining variable needs to be low.  The exception to this is if all of the variables are moderate in a program.  Because of this stance, it means I have never believed that there is o...