C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

  Muscle-Building Resolutions:  Part Two - Training for Mass Old-time strongman Sieg Klein, who used methods similar to what are recommended in this essay.      If your New Year’s resolutions involve getting as massive as possible, and you are interested in how to eat for muscle mass gain, make sure you read Part One first.  If it’s training ideas that you are most in need of for reaching your 2024 goals, however, this is your article.  But realize, no matter what training program you get on, you will still need to make sure you are eating big to get big.  With that out of the way, on with the training…      Here are a few tips to help you build as much muscle as possible in the shortest amount of time.  While genetics play a large role in determining just how much muscle you can gain, the following tips will ensure that you reach your genetic potential this year. Tip #1: Try a High-Frequency Training Progr...

  Muscle-Building Resolutions:  Part One - Eating for Mass Garrett Sloan takes his muscle-building diet serious, and the results show.      It is, once again, the start of a new year, the time of year—the only time it seems—when the majority of people (at least here in America) make some “serious” resolutions, which usually involves either kicking a habit or getting in better shape.  Typically, “losing weight” is the New Year’s resolutions’ raison d’etre.  But “losing weight” is really no better of a resolution than “gaining weight” if you’re a bodybuilder or strength athlete.  In other words, it’s just too damn vague.      I thought this week and the next, I would post a few “resolutions” articles.  This one, quite obviously, is for those of you with the resolution to get big, or get jacked, or get massive, or, well, you get the point.  This one is all about building mass for the new year, with the emp...

  New Year, New You A.K.A.: Designing a Kick-Ass Program to Achieve Your Goals Simplifying Your Workout Program Now that it's the start of a new year (yes, I know, I'm a month late in getting this out😏), I thought it would - quite obviously - be a good time to put out a series of posts on some of the various keys to designing, and then maintaining, a workout program, whether your goals are building muscle mass, losing body fat, gaining prodigious amounts of raw strength, or some combination therein.  And perhaps the fact that I'm putting this out at the end of January may not be such a bad thing.  If you are already  having trouble sticking to your New Year's resolution(s), then just maybe I can be of some assistance.  For Part One in this series, I would like to offer some basic tips for getting "back to the basics" and simplifying your workouts.  Each post in the series will build upon the previous ones, so this seems as if it's a good way to start. Tip...