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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Hybrid Easy Strength

How to Design a “Hybrid” Easy Strength Program If you have read even an inkling of my writings—especially over the last 20 years—you know that I’m a fan of high-frequency training (HFT). Now, I must admit that this wasn’t always the case. If you read my early articles for IronMan magazine—from, say, 1994 to the end of that decade/century—I often recommended infrequent training done for relatively “high-intensity” and (fairly) low volume. But my views on training frequency, volume, and intensity shifted when I started powerlifting seriously in the late ‘90s and began to use the more frequent training regimens from (predominately) Eastern Europe and the heavy/light/medium system of Bill Starr. Before trying these regimens, I often had trouble gaining muscle and just weight in general. While using these methods, however, I had trouble not gaining weight even when I didn’t want to! Not everyone will...

Heavy/Light/Medium Training: How to Design a Powerlifting Program

Heavy/Light/Medium Training Part 7: How to Design a Powerlifting Program Using the H/L/M System At the beginning of February, I started this series on H/L/M training using the methods of the late, great, and, hell, legendary Bill Starr. For now, I believe this will be the last in the series, although I will still probably do a few more here and there when there is interest or when I think of a subject. Also, April 7 th was the 10-year anniversary of his death, and I have the intention of using this series—along with other articles and essays that I’ve done in the past—to publish a book on Starr sometime later this month in honor of him. Since this is—as the subtitle above indicates—the 7 th part of this series, you might do well to familiarize yourself with the previous installments. At the very least, read parts 1 through 4, as those cover similar concepts as this article, and it will allow you to se...

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 ...

C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

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