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)

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Everything Moderate

An Effective Training Approach for Muscle Growth I write a lot about high-frequency training (HFT). I think it’s one of the most effective methods of training. One of the main reasons that I write about it is because I believe it’s underused. At least, it is among modern trainees in most gyms throughout the land. Because it is a really popular way to train among modern lifters, I also write quite a bit about low-frequency programs, but ones that use high-volume and high-intensity. Since it is so popular, I figure I might as well write about good programs that use that methodology. But there is another way to train that can be highly effective for a lot of lifters. It’s not flashy. It’s not “sexy.” And it’s without a doubt nothing new. You might call it the everything moderate approach. Moderate frequency. Moderate volume. Moderate...

Easy Strength for the Older Lifter

A Complete Midlife Easy Strength Program (and Advice) for New Lifters, Beginners, and Those Returning to Lifting After a Long Layoff I believe synchronicity isn’t chance or random. There is a Power at work in the cosmos that permeates the in-between. It is the Tao, the Logos, the All Pervading One that somehow, some way is always at work. What it is exactly, I’m not saying that I know. I don’t. But it is there, weaving its wondrous energy through the luminosity of the space-between-spaces. And, apparently, through my email, as well. Don’t worry. I have a point for the above sentences. This isn’t going to be one of my mystic-eyed ramblings—well, I guess I can’t promise that entirely—but I write the preceding because of some questions I received yesterday. (At least, it was yesterday as I type these words at this moment in time, which will be a different this from your standpoint reading it....

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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