C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Gene Mozee’s Classic Secret for Building a Large, Magnificent Chest      I’m not sure when I first decided that I wanted to look like a bodybuilder.  Probably in the mid to late ‘80s, when I was 15 or 16 years old and just couldn’t stop reading all the bodybuilding magazines that hit the newsstand each month.  But the seed had been planted earlier, I suppose.  When I was 7, my dad took me to the drive-in movie theater to see Conan the Barbarian . I was enamored by the physical specimen that was Arnold.  (I think it was also the first time I witnessed my parents argue.  My mother was aghast that my father had taken me to a violent, nudity-filled movie.)  And then there was Bruce Lee.  I started taking Karate when I was 9, and soon I wanted to have the physique of the star of my favorite kung-fu flick, Enter the Dragon .  But eventually, and before too long, it was Schwarzenegger's body that I aspired to attain rather than L...

Learn the Training Methods and Workout Programs of the Silver Age Bodybuilders      What follows is, in many ways, nothing more than an extension of some of the subjects I have been discussing in recent articles, such as Part 3 of my ongoing Tailoring Your Workouts series, and my other essays on The Old-School Way , Effective Full-Body Training , and How to Train Through the Soreness . Enter Old-School      Old-school bodybuilders knew how to build muscle.  In many ways, I think the training methods and workout programs they utilized were a lot better than the routines of the modern bodybuilder.  I also realize that modern bodybuilders—many of whom have larger, sometimes much larger, muscles than their old-school counterparts—might scoff at such an idea.  After all, hasn’t training evolved in the last few decades?  Don’t modern bodybuilders know more about the “science” of hypertrophy than bodybuilders whose heyday...