C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Every so often I come across an article that I wholeheartedly agree with. The following article, from T-Nation , is one such piece. This one's written by a guy named Jackson Yee—who I've never heard of—but if this article is any indication of his training philosophy, then I'm sure I will enjoy other stuff that he writes. What he says about full-body workouts is especially true. Although it's been many years ago—as in back in the mid '90s for me—I went through something similar when I switched from one-bodypart-per-week training to full body sessions. Check it out: Morphing From Blobby Bodybuilder to Bad Ass by Jackson Yee For 20 years I was obsessed with getting big. I was a bag of bones when I graduated from high school and didn't even break 100 pounds. I was tired of looking like a skeleton, so I put all my effort into developing as much muscle mass as possible. I was fully dedicated to transferring my skinny five-foot-four frame into a meathead. With hard ...

For the latest "Best of the Web" entry, I've selected an article from Christian Thibaudeau. Thibaudeau is a strength/bodybuilding coach who has written a ton of article for T-Nation. A lot of his articles are really good—as far as methods for building muscles mass goes, I would say that he's the most integral of all bodybuilding writers; he selects from various methods and incorporates them into a syncretic whole without just coming up with some wild mish-mash of training protocols that simply don't work. This article—"4 Hot Topics from the Beast"—is my favorite of his T-Nation articles. 4 Hot Topics from The Beast by Christian Thibaudeau 1. Train Hard, Recover Harder I've said it time and time again: The more you train without exceeding your capacity to recover, the more you'll grow and the stronger you'll get. I'll go one step further and say that most people don't train hard enough to progress past the beginning of the intermedi...

The following is an article that I wrote a few years ago for T-Nation (now "T-Muscle"—I always thought T-Nation had a better ring to it). If you're into full-body workouts—and if you're not, then you NEED to get into them—the training program presented herein is one of the best. Train Long, Not Hard by C.S. Sloan You hear it all the time. It's one of the favorite sayings from high-intensity pundits and other "briefer is better" trainees. It goes something like this: You can either train long or you can train hard, but you can't do both. You know what? It's a pretty damn good quote, one I wouldn't mind using myself when I talk to different lifters seeking advice. The problem is that everyone seems to assume that the answer is to train harder . I don't exactly agree. In fact, I think the better option is to train longer , not harder. If you've been reading Testosterone for any lengthy period of time, then it's possible that you...