C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Build Muscle the Classic Way with an Old-School Favorite      I’m going to stop writing that I’m going to stop writing about a subject, any subject.  For one, I never know quite where my writing is going to take me.  That’s correct.  I don’t really feel as if I write.  It’s more as if writing just happens through me. I sit down at my laptop in the morning, my heavy cream-laden coffee steaming next to me, with every intention of writing on a certain subject.  Only to find that it morphs into something completely different, sometimes not even remotely in the same orbit as my initial idea(s).  For another, quite practical reason, I never know what kind of questions my recently written articles are going to generate, often prompting another essay on a subject I thought I was finished with.      I mention the above because at the end of my recent Old-School Muscle-Building Once More , I wrote that I was going t...

An Effective Training Approach for Muscle Growth      I write a lot about high-frequency training (HFT).  I think it’s one of the most effective methods of training.  One of the main reasons that I write about it is because I believe it’s underused.  At least, it is among modern trainees in most gyms throughout the land.      Because it is a really popular way to train among modern lifters, I also write quite a bit about low-frequency programs, but ones that use high-volume and high-intensity.  Since it is so popular, I figure I might as well write about good programs that use that methodology.      But there is another way to train that can be highly effective for a lot of lifters.  It’s not flashy.  It’s not “sexy.”  And it’s without a doubt nothing new.  You might call it the everything moderate approach.  Moderate frequency.  Moderate volume.  Moderate...