C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Some Thoughts on High-Volume, High-Frequency Training, Bodyweight Workouts, Program Design, and Progressive Resistance      Bill Starr is primarily known for his 5x5 training and his heavy-light-medium system of strength training.  Most of the articles that I write here on Starr revolve around those methods, as well, including an entire book I wrote on his methodology, The Strongest Shall Always Survive: Lifting Lessons from an Iron Legend .  Starr was a one-time world-class Olympic weightlifter and a world-renowned strength coach.  When it came to the athletes that he trained, it was all about increasing their strength and performance.  But he also wrote a lot of articles for the major bodybuilding rags that ruled the magazine rack during his lifetime.  When I was young, for instance, I knew of him only because of his many articles in Ironman magazine and MuscleMag International .  Starr was well aware that most of those readers ...