C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

A Not-Thought-Of, Often Not-Used Benefit of Bodyweight Workouts and/or Home Training      There are some real benefits to bodyweight training.  You don’t need a gym membership.  You can train no matter where you are or at any time, day or night, since you take your “gym” with you at all times.  You can train more often—a real plus in my book—since you don’t have to make that trip to the gym that might prevent you from otherwise training.  You can train more as in more days per week or more workouts per day.  Doing double-split, or even triple-split, daily workouts are viable for the same reason.  It’s just hard for most people with any kind of “normal” life—family, spouse, kids, job—to make it to the gym more than once per day.  You also don’t have to wait in line for equipment or put up with any of the other annoyances I always found when training in a commercial gym.      Most of the benefits of bodyw...

The High-Set, Low-Rep Training Manifesto Part 4: How to Grow Massive and Powerful Bis and Tris      After a brief reprieve in order to write on some different subjects, I have finally returned to the 4th part of our series on gaining mass, strength, and power with high-set, low-rep training.  When it comes to building a lot of mass along with an impressive level of strength, I don’t think any other training can compete with this method of lifting, especially for the natural lifter/bodybuilder.      If you haven’t done so, then I would encourage reading the first 3 parts.  Here are the links: Part 1: Legs and Back Part 2: Chest and Lats Part 3: Shoulders      This series has been arranged in this manner because I believe that different lifts should be trained slightly differently; each part represents how those muscle groups should best be trained.  Arms are no exception.     ...