C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

       Before we get started here, I want to apologize for the delay in posts.  I have been working on, and formatting, my e-books so that I can start selling paperback versions of the same books.  Be on the lookout for those in the next week or two.  With that out of the way...       I have a semi-regular, semi-ongoing series which I have titled “Real Bodybuilding.”   The first installment—which I never, by the way, planned on being the first in a series of training articles—was some scribblings and thoughts on how old-school, real bodybuilders actually trained before the advent of large doses of various anabolic steroids in bodybuilding (which changed everything).   And after writing that one, there was enough interest in the topics discussed that I thought some follow-up articles and essays were in order.      Before we go any further, here are the links to the past installments.   Reading th...

  Part One: Arnold’s “Golden 6” Workout for Bulk-Building (Plus a Bulk-Building “Extra”)      I often wonder what my teenage life would be like if I was a teenager right now in this generation of text messaging, smart phones, Wikipedia (and therefore information at your fingertips), along with blogs, YouTube videos, and Instagram stories filled with an absolute plethora of mass-building, strength-gaining information.  But, the thing is, I’m glad that I was a teenager in the 1980s.  I think it’s the reason I have a vast, encyclopedic, almost kaleidoscopical knowledge of hypertrophy training and strength-building.  And I’m really not bragging about my bodybuilding “expertise.”  You see, I don’t think I’m different from anyone else.  Because anyone who read every single bodybuilding magazine that hit the newsstand month-after-month, year-after-year from cover-to-cover many times—and did so from the mid ‘80s all the way up to at least...

Some "Mass-from-the-Past" Training Ideas of Classical Bodybuilders Arnold looking massive in his "Pumping Iron" days from the mid '70s.      When I began training in the late ‘80s, I was enamored with “old-school” bodybuilders, particularly - as with most young men my age at the time - that of Arnold Schwarzenegger and his other cohorts in the “documentary” Pumping Iron.  The funny thing is that I thought of Arnold, and other bodybuilders from the ‘70s (and even bodybuilders from the ‘80s), as “old-school” even though it had only been a decade, or less, since the time of their heyday competing, not to mention training at Gold’s Gym in Venice, California.  And I still love old-school “classical” bodybuilding, both the bodybuilders themselves, and their assorted training methods.  It’s the reason I still write about them to this day, such as what you’re currently reading on your computer (or mobile device or whatever).     ...