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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Q&A: Powerlifting for Muscle Growth? - Over-60 Hypertrophy Training - Big and Strong Series for High Reps?

This is my 2nd Q&A article. If you want to read the first one, click HERE . Here are some random questions that I received of late. Question: Can I use the 3 powerlifts as the only exercises in my program but do them for higher reps in order to build muscle? Answer: Maybe. (I know readers don’t care much for it, but as I pointed out in our 1st Q&A piece, the answer to a lot of questions is “maybe” or “it depends.”) So, also, it depends. I think the squat and the bench press should be mainstays of all hypertrophy programs, or at least the squat and the bench along with some iterations. Ultimately, you wouldn’t want to just do squats for your legs or bench presses for your chests. But squats along with front squats and lunges would be about all you need. Bench presses along with dumbbell benches and incline bench presses, both the barbell and dumbbell version, would also be...

Double Ramps

Increase Your Workload and Work Capacity with this Size and Strength Building Method Natural lifters and bodybuilders—in other words, those of us who don’t use any anabolic steroids, testosterone replacement, and other performance-enhancement drugs—need a different strategy from lifters and bodybuilders who do use them. One of the tenets of my training philosophy, and, therefore, the methodology that my programs utilize, is that building muscle and strength, for the natural lifter, is not just about hard training sessions coupled with enough rest and recovery supplemented with a good nutritional strategy. Instead, if you’re serious about building muscle and strength naturally, you need to follow workout programs that focus on increasing your work capacity—your ability to handle more and more “work” in the gym—through frequent training using big, compound lifts. As you do this, and in order to do this, the workload of your training sessio...

The Training Secret to End All Training Secrets

I write a lot about lifting because I think a lot about lifting. I am a writer after all. Sometimes I even write about writing. When you’re a writer, that’s what you do. You write. Anyway, I was thinking earlier about why I write about lifting and why in the world I continue to write about it, even when I’ve penned around 800 articles at this point, but who’s counting? No one but me. I think I’ve written more articles, essays, and musings this past year than I have in any other year of my life. That’s saying something since I’ve been writing training articles since 1993, when I sold my first articles to IronMan magazine and MuscleMag International . Earlier this year, at some point, I remember briefly thinking something along the lines of, “What if I run out of ideas to write about? Maybe I should slow this thing down.” But then I realized that it’s not possible....

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