C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

  Some Thoughts, Tips, and Ideas on the Standard Basics of Eating and Training      I often extol other lifters to “get back to the basics,” when it comes to both training and eating.  Sometimes you’re stuck in a rut and need to get back to the basics.  Maybe you haven’t seen any gains in either size or strength—whatever it is that you’re trying to gain—and so you need to get back to the basics.  Or maybe you’ve been following too many convoluted multi-exercise, multi-angle routines and need to get back to the basic barbell movements.      Anytime I get confused about my own training, I do the same thing.  It’s what everyone needs to do on occasion; get back to the basics of simple, but not necessarily easy, methods of training and eating.       Seems pretty common sense, which it is, but I realized something else the other day when I was having a conversation with a young man: not everyone understands what the basics actually are.      It happened this way: A few days ago, I was che

  Minimum Training Time?  No Problem.  Follow this 2-Days-Per-Week Program for Maximal Mass and Strength A young Ken Leistner.  This program—with its basic, brief, but hard  tenets—would have probably made the late Dr. Ken proud.      My sons came to visit me this past weekend.  When they do this, they sometimes train with me in my garage gym, and sometimes they go to the commercial gym they train at instead.  So this past weekend, we somehow got on the subject of "what people know" at a commercial gym.  Keep in mind that I haven't trained at a commercial gym in a long  time.  I think the last time that I had a gym membership of any sort was in 2009, when I was going through a divorce, and had to move all of my weights—a quite extensive garage gym—to a storage facility.  Until I could find a new garage for my weights, I trained at a commercial gym for about six months.  But that wasn't your "average" gym, since it was a haven for powerlifters, arm wrestlers,