C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Various Tips and Thoughts on Developing Proportionate Strength, a Well-Rounded Physique, and Bringing Up Your Weak Points       “Achieving a high level of strength fitness is a constant, everchanging challenge.  The program that enabled you to reach one level may no longer be as effective when you try to move up another notch.  To some this is quite frustrating, for change is bothersome and requires you to adapt by learning new exercises, alternating the order of exercises or even switching the sets and reps sequence.  To me, however, this is what makes strength training so intriguing.  It’s also one of the main reasons that there aren’t many genuinely strong people in this country.” ~Bill Starr      The great strength and conditioning coach Bill Starr, in the same article where I discovered the quote above, wrote that one could count on two fingers the number of truly strong lifters in the average American gym. ...

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...