C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Use This Training Concept for Better Athletic Performance and/or New Gains in Size and Strength      In my article The Fighter’s Physique , I mentioned the benefit of “weaving” together one’s strength training with one’s fighting art in the same session.  While proper strength training improves athletic performance, martial arts or otherwise, it will have even more benefits when both the strength training and the sport one competes in are performed simultaneously.      This concept is nothing new.  The idea was originally “created” by German strength coach Peter Tschiene in the 1980s, though I have a feeling that other athletes going back decades—or perhaps even centuries—were already using the method, even if Tschiene coined the term “mixed training” and was the first to widely promote it.  Monks at the Shaolin Temple were combining resistance training—bodyweight calisthenics, isometric holds, and lifting stone locks (ca...

A 2-Way Split Training Regimen for Building Incredible Strength and Power with a Size-Building Side Effect An East-Meets-West Strength and Power Routine      In September of last year, I published a training program called The Pure Power Program .  It is a full-body routine that rotates between heavy workouts, light sessions, and “speed” workouts.  Feel free to read that original program if you wish—especially if you are looking for a full-body regimen—but in this article, I want to show how you can use it in a 2-way split program.  I will also review all of the “tenets” that comprises the program, so don’t feel as if you have to be familiar with my original article to continue here.      This is an “East meets West” program because it utilizes principles from “Eastern” countries (Russian extensively but also Bulgarian to some extent), primarily on the “heavy” training days, along with principles that are borrowed from b...