C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

  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).     ...

Gene Mozee's Advice and Tips for Building a Massive, Deep, Chiseled Chest! Gene Mozee in his younger days, and in more recent years      When I was much younger—14 or 15—and just starting on my career in bodybuilding, strength training, and physique transformation, there were several writers who made a deep impression on my young, impressionable mind.  When it came to basic, barbell training, it was the likes of Mike Mentzer, Steve Holman, Bradley Steiner, and a few other "briefer and harder is better" writers who made the largest impression on me.  But when it came to volume training—which I eventually succumbed to—there were really only two writers who influenced me the most: Greg Zulak and Gene Mozee.  Zulak had the longer, more lasting influence.  But it was Mozee who influenced me first.  And, I must admit, he still holds a very special place in my bodybuilding heart.      Gene wrote many articles for many years in Iro...