C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

      In the summer of ’91, I dove headlong into training.   I read all of the various bodybuilding magazines that I could get a hold of—or, at least, all of them that I could both afford and get a hold of.   I was lucky, however, in that I had an off-again/on-again training partner who had stacks of magazines from around that time frame—primarily Ironman , Muscle and Fitness , and Flex —and I also had an uncle who had many older issue of Iron Man and Flex , plus things such as Strength and Health , and other such forgotten magazines that seemed (to me, at least) as if they were from another era.      Ironman had the most influence on me due to the “hardgainer” articles written by such writers as Steve Holman, Randal Strossen, Bradley Steiner, and Richard Winnett.   All of these preached a “less-is-better” and “hard and heavy, but infrequent” training philosophies.   (Not to say that Ironman only presented training ph...