C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

  A Unique Heavy/Light Training Approach for Bodybuilders Seeking Size and Power      I first discovered alternates a little over 30 years ago.  At the time, my primary interest (training wise) was bodybuilding.  I had just started writing for some of the popular bodybuilding magazines and it would be a few years before I discovered my real love—which, by the way, would be powerlifting and other strength sports.  However, even then, I loved being strong.  I couldn’t understand—and, I suppose, I still don’t, though I’m perhaps a little more sympathetic—bodybuilders who only trained for looks without the strength to go with it.  Even though I considered myself a bodybuilder at the time, I was definitely a power bodybuilder.  I wanted to be at least as strong as I looked.  I was actually stronger than I looked.  If I had known then what I know now, I would have known that I was “made” for powerlifting and strength ...

Slow and Steady Wins the Hypertrophy Race An “Easy” One-Exercise-Per-Bodypart Muscle-Building Program      Part of effective programming—whether you’re trying to build muscle, gain strength, or a combination of both—is learning how to balance volume, frequency, and intensity.  I often write that you must have two of the factors high —or one high and the other moderate—and the remaining factor must be low.  If you’re going to train with a lot of volume and intensity, then your frequency must be low (the standard method of training these days).  If you’re going to train using a high-frequency program—of which I am admittedly and unabashedly a fan—then you need to keep either your volume or your intensity low.  And so on and so forth.  But you can also do a program where all of the factors are moderate .  The program I want to present here takes this latter approach.      I have actually wanted to write about t...

If you are starting out in strength training, and interested in some sort of competitive strength sports, how do you know what strength sport?  Have you ever wondered why you're stronger than other guys your size?  Or why you can gain muscle, but have a very hard time building strength?  Then read on... this is YOUR article. Embrace Your Genetics...  And Gain Like Never Before! Part One   Many athletes, fighters, lifters, and bodybuilders don't succeed because they don't learn to embrace their genetics.  For a long time, I didn't embrace my genetics, and it cost me.  When I was a young man, for instance, I was very skilled at martial arts, but always small.  At some point, I decided that I wanted to look more like Arnold and less like Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was always the look I had "went" for when training, and this was actually smart if I would have been mature enough (I was only a teenager) to pay attention to my skills, and internal clues that w...