C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

  A Hepburn-Inspired High-Frequency Strength Program      In April, I wrote an article entitled “ Size AND Strength: The Best Way to Train for Both .”  In it, I outlined a few Hepburn inspired routines based on the power/mass methods of the great Canadian strongman and world-champion weightlifter Doug Hepburn.  The methods in that article—as the title portends—are all about building a combination of size and strength, as most lifters who are trying to achieve both often go about it incorrectly.  The program here is going to be a bit different.  This is a program geared strictly toward getting the lifter as strong as possible on a few, select lifts.      The program I’ve designed here is based on another one of Hepburn’s methods.  Although Hepburn would often combine this particular strength and power method with multiple sets of “pump” work once finished with the strength sets, this program foregoes the pump work in favor of a pure strength-building workout.  This will allow you to ut

  Hardcore Strength and Power Training Part One: A Hepburn-Inspired Pure Power Program Doug Hepburn, the Canadian strongman, didn't let being born with a club foot keep him from becoming one of the greatest strength athletes of all time!      I thought I would do a series of articles on my true love, the one form of training that has always been closest to my heart: hardcore strength and power training.  The sort of training done by elite powerlifters and strength athletes, not for money or fame, but because they can’t think of anything better than being the absolute strongest human being on earth, man or woman.      I understand the mentality.      I love the mentality.      I had that same mentality when I was a powerlifter.  Until I was hit with a series of career-ending injuries, I had one goal and one goal only: to be the strongest powerlifter walking the earth, drug-free, at my bodyweight (I competed, most often, in the 181-pound category, so this was usually around 175 pou

  One time world's strongest man, Doug Hepburn, used methods very similar to the ones listed in this article.      Years ago, as in the previous century, when the internet was in its inception, I wrote regular articles for most of the major bodybuilding magazines.  At the time, there wasn’t much good information available on the internet—oh, there were a couple of sites here and there, but even when you could access them, they could take as long as hours to upload; you know, “dial up”—and so most lifters still got their information from the monthly bodybuilding and powerlifting rags.      Before Facebook (or even MySpace), and the advent of other social media sites, the primary thing that the internet was used for was email.  I sent my articles to the different magazines via the “traditional” method of mailing them through actual mail, the post office.  And if any readers wanted to ask me a question before email was a “thing,” they had to actually write me a letter.  So I thought