C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Double-Split Training, Part Two Understanding Why Double-Split Training is Effective      Here’s a cool thing about double-split training: there’s an endless amount of variety that you have at your disposal when it comes to double-split workouts.   In fact, however-the-heck it is that you like to train, you can make your training a bit more effective by turning all of those workouts into double-split programs.      Do you like to train each bodypart once-per-week, by training one bodypart-per-day, and blasting the living hell out of it, then giving it a week to recover?   (As I’ve written many times before, this was a very effective training system that I used to pack on pounds of muscle when I was much younger.)   If that’s your cup of tea, no problem, here’s what your double-split program could look like: Mondays: Chest Tuesdays: Back Wednesdays: Legs (quads and hamstrings) Thursdays: Shoulders Fr...

For the latest "Best of the Web" entry, I've selected an article from Christian Thibaudeau. Thibaudeau is a strength/bodybuilding coach who has written a ton of article for T-Nation. A lot of his articles are really good—as far as methods for building muscles mass goes, I would say that he's the most integral of all bodybuilding writers; he selects from various methods and incorporates them into a syncretic whole without just coming up with some wild mish-mash of training protocols that simply don't work. This article—"4 Hot Topics from the Beast"—is my favorite of his T-Nation articles. 4 Hot Topics from The Beast by Christian Thibaudeau 1. Train Hard, Recover Harder I've said it time and time again: The more you train without exceeding your capacity to recover, the more you'll grow and the stronger you'll get. I'll go one step further and say that most people don't train hard enough to progress past the beginning of the intermedi...