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If you enjoy reading my blog, please consider purchasing one of my books. You can purchase an e-book and/or a paperback version of my "Ultimate Mass & Power" series of books. You can also purchase a paperback version of my book "Ultimate Strength" from Vision Press. Descriptions and links for purchase are below:




Ultimate Mass and Power: A Collection of Training Programs for Getting Massively Big and Incredibly Strong


Are you looking for massive muscles? Monstrous strength gains? How about a combination of both?

There seems to be quite a bit of confusion out there—whether it’s on the internet or at the gym—about how to train for BOTH hypertrophy and serious strength gains. The first problem seems to be that some folks just don’t know how to do either. Guys go to the gym to “get big” but then spend most of their time attempting to max out on a lift. Or, conversely, a guy wants to be massively strong but spends too much of his time training for a pump or doing a lot of repetitions.

The training programs contained in this book will clear up this confusion. Herein you will find 16 different articles—each article replete with different programs—that offer various EFFECTIVE ways to lift for both massive muscles AND impressive gains in strength. In other words, if you want to be big AND strong, then this book is for you!




Ultimate Mass and Power Essays: A Collection of Essays, Thoughts, and Ideas for Getting Massively Big and Incredibly Strong
This book is a follow-up to my first book in this series, "Ultimate Mass and Power." That book is primarily a collection of different training programs to help you get incredibly strong and massively big. This book is concerned with the same topics - building massive amounts of strength, power, and hypertrophy - but is a collection of essays instead of programs. Oh, there are some programs thrown in here and there. But this is for anyone who wants to be informed and (hopefully) entertained with some of my thoughts and ideas when it comes to building the ULTIMATE in Mass and Power.

If you enjoy reading the likes of "old school" writers such as Bill Starr, Bradley Steiner, and John McCallum, or modern day writers such as Dan John or Pavel, this collection of essays should be right up your alley.





Ultimate Strength: Workouts for Maximizing Your Strength, Power, & Mass
Description from the Publisher:
C.S. Sloan, one of the world’s best-known and successful strength trainers, reveals his secrets for increasing strength, power, and mass. Everyone can increase their own strength, power, and muscle size using these methods. They work for the average Joe who just picked up his first weight, and for the advanced lifter who has been training for years. Some lifters will progress faster and further than others, but all will progress. We are all inhibited by our genetic structure, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be the best that you can be. There’s no reason everyone who reads this book and follows its regimens can’t increase their bench press by more than a hundred pounds and their squats and deadlifts (as well as all their other lifts) by more than 200 pounds. There’s no reason everyone can’t build a physique that other people will admire as an example of what can be achieved with the right training.

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