C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Build Muscle the Classic Way with an Old-School Favorite      I’m going to stop writing that I’m going to stop writing about a subject, any subject.  For one, I never know quite where my writing is going to take me.  That’s correct.  I don’t really feel as if I write.  It’s more as if writing just happens through me. I sit down at my laptop in the morning, my heavy cream-laden coffee steaming next to me, with every intention of writing on a certain subject.  Only to find that it morphs into something completely different, sometimes not even remotely in the same orbit as my initial idea(s).  For another, quite practical reason, I never know what kind of questions my recently written articles are going to generate, often prompting another essay on a subject I thought I was finished with.      I mention the above because at the end of my recent Old-School Muscle-Building Once More , I wrote that I was going t...

How to Gain 50 Pounds of Muscle Part 2:  Larry Scott’s Mass-Building Program      A few days ago, I posted PART 1 of this 3-part series based on an article by Gene Mozee in a ‘92 issue of IronMan .  I won’t get into many details of the original article itself, but, if you haven’t done so, I would encourage you to read Part 1 first before reading this one.  In fact, if you’re interested in actually doing the program presented here, I would also encourage you to try your hand at Arnold’s “Golden Six” before embarking on this routine.  Scott’s program (as we’ll see shortly) is very similar to Arnold’s, but with a couple more exercises, and several more sets of each exercise.  It makes the program below sort of the “intermediate” workout of the 3 programs presented in Mozee’s piece.      For anyone who doesn’t know, Scott was the first Mr. Olympia, having won the inaugural Mr. O competition in 1965.  After that...