C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

  Whether You’re After Strength, Size, or Looking to Get Shredded, You MUST Follow These 6 Keys to Progress      Many lifters become frustrated because they can’t seem to make consistent progress.  It doesn’t matter what their goals may be, either, whether they want to get massive, build incredible strength, or just lose some bodyfat.  In this essay, we will look at what I believe are some of the major keys to ensuring you progress consistently, regardless of your specific goal.      Before we get around to these keys, let me say one thing that sometimes gets missed when pursuing a lifting/bodybuilding goal: gains are rarely, if ever, linear.  The truth is that gains are almost always non-linear.  There do seem to be a small segment of trainees who achieve linearity in their progress, but they are always the exception rather than the rule.  You see this misunderstanding most notably among the general population when it comes to losing weight.  (“Losing weight” should rarely be anyone’s

A 6-Week HFT Program for Fixing Muscle Imbalances, Getting Stronger, and Feeling Your Best      Sometimes, the more a lifter trains, the worse he looks.  I say “he” for a reason.  You just don’t see this problem so much in women, but we’ll get around to that in just a little bit.  The problem, to put it quite simply, is imbalance.  If you spend the majority of your training time blasting your pecs and “bombing and blitzing” your biceps, you may, indeed, develop large, muscular, and even downright strong, pecs and biceps muscles, but at an expense.  Because if a lifter keeps this up, he will end up looking more like an ape than the well-developed towering mass of muscle that he wants.  Doubly so if he’s eating everything in sight.  His gut grows along with his chest and biceps, turning him into a mountain gorilla minus the strong back, traps, shoulders, and legs that I’m pretty sure all mountain gorillas probably have.  But it’s not just about not looking good.  Oh, he may look imbalan