Welcome to my new blog

Welcome to my new blog. I've changed from my older one (web.mac.com/cssloan) because of the ease with which I can update this one, and because I would like to get some more traffic moving to it.

One thing that you might notice which is different is that this blog will focus on strength training, bodybuilding, health and fitness, and martial arts. My last blog - and my other website in general - also included plenty of spiritual stuff (integral spirituality, non-dual mysticism, contemplative Christianity). However, I found that many folks who read my blog for the strength stuff really didn't have much interest in the spiritual side of my life. And vice-versa. (With a few exceptions, of course.)

So... here's where you'll find all things strength, muscle, power, martial arts, and health in general. I am going to start another blog - with the tentative title of "Renegade Mystic" - which will focus on all things spiritual.

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High-Volume Hypertrophy

A State-of-the-Art Mass & Power Program for Outlandish Gains I’m fond of some forms of training over others. This doesn’t mean, however, that I believe there is one training program or method that reigns supreme. Some may make such a claim as that. HIT enthusiasts—who seem to think like the Highlander in that there can be only one —I’m looking at you. But there are also individual lifters and coaches who stumble upon a program that really works well for them , and they declare it to be the one program that stands above all others. No, I believe that there are quite a few different training methods and programs that are effective. But some are decidedly better than others, depending on your goals. I like full-body workouts, high-frequency training, Russian-style power programs, routines that utilize the “big 4,” and old-school “classical” bodybuilding routines. Those are all different, by the...

Marvin Eder’s Mass-Building Methods

The Many and Varied Mass-Building Methods of Power Bodybuilding’s G.O.A.T. Eder as he appeared in my article "Full Body Workouts" for IronMan magazine. In many ways, the essay you are now reading is the one that has had the “longest time coming.” I have no clue why it has taken me this long to write an article specifically on Marvin Eder, especially considering the fact that I have long considered him the greatest bodybuilder cum strength athlete of all friggin’ time . In fact, over 20 years ago, I wrote this in the pages of IronMan magazine: In my opinion, the greatest all-around bodybuilder, powerlifter and strength athlete ever to walk the planet, Eder had 19-inch arms at a bodyweight of 198. He could bench 510, squat 550 for 10 reps and do a barbell press with 365. He was reported to have achieved the amazing feat of cranking out 1,000 dips in only 17 minutes. Imagine doing a dip a second for 17 minutes. As Gene Mozee once put ...

Real Bodybuilding: Old-School Arm Specialization

An Old-School Program for Shirt-Busting Biceps and Titanic Triceps This essay is the start of a planned series on old-school, real bodybuilding training. It is a follow-up, however, to an article I wrote earlier this month entitled “Real Bodybuilding the Old-School Way.” That article has proven popular enough that I figured there would be interest in an entire series on the subject. So, I guess this is technically the 2 nd part, even though I never intended that first one as part of a series when I wrote it. I would advise reading that article before continuing here (and not just because it will help you understand this article but because I think it’s a pretty damn good read even if, you know, I’m a bit biased), but the gist of it boils down to this: Old school bodybuilders built impressive size, strength, and definition (before the advent of large amounts of PEDs) by following 3 “stages” of tr...

C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

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