Quote of the Day: Masutatsu Oyama

"If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep."

—Masutatsu Oyama (founder of Kyokushin Karate-Do)

Comments

Bodyweight Training and Beyond

High-Volume, High-Frequency Bodyweight-Centric Workouts for Transforming Your Physique Part One: Bodyweight Training and Nothing But If you are going to achieve good results no matter your goals—be it strength, hypertrophy, or a combination of the two; whether you want to be “lean and mean” or big as a house—then you must learn to balance the 3 training variables of volume, frequency, and intensity. (Intensity in this article, unless otherwise noted, will be how it is used in strength training circles—as a percentage of your one-rep maximum, not as the manner it's used in bodybuilding vernacular, which is how “hard” you train.) As I have often explained, two of the variables need to be high—or, at least, one high and the 2nd one moderate—and the remaining variable needs to be low. The exception to this is if all of the variables are moderate in a program. Because of this stance, it means I have never believed that there is o...

Skill Training as Size Building

AKA: The 90% Rule for Mass and Power Some Thoughts and Programs on “Skill Training” as a Method for Gaining Size and Strength In my recent essay “Heavy and High,” I suggested that the key to gaining mass for the natural bodybuilder lies in the ability to do programs that utilize both heavy weights and a high workload. When a lot of modern bodybuilders think about training for hypertrophy, they largely think along the lines of training hard and then coupling this with plenty of rest and recovery. Almost every program you encounter—whether you read about them, watch a YouTube video discussing it, or have a casual conversation about them with a fellow gym-goer—revolves around the balance of “intensity” with rest days after workouts. The harder, or more , you train then the more you should rest. I’m not denying here that workouts do, and should , involve those considerations, but I prefer lifters to think in terms of workload and work ...

Bodyweight Training and Beyond - Part Two

Hybrid Methods and Programs Utilizing Bodyweight Training AND Weighted Workouts For Part 2 of our series, we turn to the hybrid method of training where you combine bodyweight training with weighted workouts. There are several different ways that this can be done, and the methods that apply to one also apply to the other. You can combine bodyweight training with weights in the same session or you can keep the two separate, doing weighted workouts on one training day and bodyweight only on the other. A great benefit of the 2nd approach is that you can still use high-frequency training without the need to go to the gym 5 to 6 days per week. Even if you prefer lower-frequency routines, you can go to the gym just once or twice per week and then do bodyweight training at home another one or two days. If the reason that you have for not training more, or not sticking to a training r...

C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Search This Blog