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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Old-School Muscle Building Methods - Pat Casey, King of the Powerlifters

The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, currently titled "The Book of Old-School Bodybuilding Methods." (It's my tentative title, so it could change.) This is the chapter on Pat Casey. It's a revision of a much earlier article that I posted in 2017. I am posting this excerpt for a couple of reasons. One, obviously, is to drum up interest in my new book. The second is to demonstrate how different this one is from the earlier article. Although most of the chapters in my book are revisions of articles I have already written for the blog, I have added a good bit to each one, and revised them so that they are, I believe, MUCH better than what I originally wrote, meaning that I think you will want to purchase the book even if I have articles already available on most of the book's subjects. With that out of the way, here is Chapter 11 of my upcoming book: Pat Casey, King of the Powerlifters... ...

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 ...

Big Beyond Belief, HIT, Phil Hernon, and Other Things from the '90s

Before you even begin this post, let me warn you: it may be one of the most rambling things I’ve written. This is primarily because I’m not sure if I know exactly what the hell I’m going to say—which has never exactly stopped me in the past, mind you—but I do have several things on my mind as of late. (Add to the fact that I’ve not written too much in the last few weeks, and so I knew I needed to get something on my blog.) It all started a few days ago when my friend Josh texted me—I hate texting, but I must admit that it has become a pretty good way to communicate with friends who live several states away—and wanted to know if I remembered the book “Big Beyond Belief” from the mid to late ‘90s, and wanted to know what I thought/think about it. Did I remember it? Heck, yeah, I remembered it, I proceeded to tell him. Hell, I shelled out a hefty $50 for the thing, at a time when I had l...

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