C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

C.S. pulls over 500 in his powerlifting days.  Power Volume Training was one of the programs he—and his lifters—used at the time. For this week's "Thursday Throwback"—and since I didn't do one last week—I thought I would post an article/program of mine that you MIGHT be more familiar with.  Of all  of my many programs, Power Volume Training is one of my favorites—my program was the first time I can remember seeing a combination of high-frequency training  with Westside training  in one program.  And if you need to boost one, or all three, of your powerlifts, I promise: there's not a better program out there. Power Volume Training Redux      Power Volume Training is a system that I came up with a few years ago, and wrote an article about it in the November, 2004 issue of  Ironman.   Since that time, this is the one program that I have used more than any other when training someone who is solely interested in maximal strength—powerlifters, for instance.   Although m

I'm excited to announce that I have a new book that has just been published by Regimen Books. For regular readers of this blog, some of the chapters were previously published under some posts entitled "Ultimate Strength", as well.  There is also some additional content that was never in my original posts. You can currently order the book from Amazon.  Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=sloan%2C+ultimate+strength I will also post a link in the next day or so where you can order copies directly from Regimen Books.  Anyone who is interested in a signed copy, then email me and let me know.  I will gladly send you one.

     Power Volume Training is a system that I came up with a few years ago, and wrote an article about it in the November, 2004 issue of Ironman.   Since that time, this is the one program that I have used more than any other when training someone who is solely interested in maximal strength—powerlifters, for instance.   Although mainly geared toward building strength, it’s also a great means of building muscle mass, especially when you have been performing workouts with higher reps.   (It would be a great form of training, for instance, after a couple months of Staggered Volume Training .)      Power Volume Training works by incorporating 4 distinct methods of training into one week of workouts.   The methods used are: Dynamic lifting Very heavy training—max singles, doubles, and triples; and never more than five reps Partial reps Frequent training      Like a lot of good methods of strength building, the parameters of this program aren’t set in stone.   However,