C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Bill Pearl is, without a doubt, in my top two or three list of "greatest bodybuilders of all time."  In my opinion, he was the first bodybuilder to look truly massive while in competition shape, not to mention massive in all of the photos that you saw in the magazines. Pearl was before my time.  But maybe that's why I hold him in such high regard. A lot of the bodybuilders and lifters that guys these days consider to be "old-timers" aren't old-timers to me.  Hell, I'm considered an old-timer by many. And maybe that's why he's always been so mythic to me. I can still remember (sometime in the late '80s) thumbing through a stack of old Iron Man  magazines that my uncle had kept from the '60s and the '70s.  Many of the bodybuilders I first came across in those pages were impressive, no doubt.  But THEN I came across Bill Pearl. Bill Pearl as I remember seeing him for the first time Everything was large on Pearl - his chest,

Once again - as usual, it seems - it has been too long since I last posted here, but why I had a moment, I wanted to give a brief update: If you are trying to email me at my old email address - cssloan@me.com - please don't! Please direct all your questions, comments, or info you may have for me at csintegralstrength@gmail.com. I love  getting email, and answering questions, or reading how I may have inspired or made a difference in your lifting lives.  I will no longer be able to receive email at my old address, so make sure you send all of your stuff to my new one. Keep the email coming!