C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

An “Everything Moderate” Approach to Heavy Singles, Full-Body Training, and Continued Progress      As the saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat.  I’m unsure where this idiom originated from—as an avowed animal lover I can’t imagine skinning any sentient being—but it does contain a certain truth.  If one method fails at something you are trying to achieve, you should find another.  Training is no different.      In my last article , I presented a Bill Starr-inspired method of implementing heavy singles into a full-body routine using Starr’s heavy/light/medium system.  When training with full-body workouts—singles or otherwise—you basically have two options that are the most effective for the majority of lifters.  You can cycle your training loads with the H-L-M method—or something similar, but load-cycling is the point—or you can follow an “everything moderate” approach, where, essentially, all ...

Tips and Insights for Getting the Most Out of My Mass Construction Program +Some Training Variations      During the ‘90s and until (around) 2010, I probably wrote 100 articles, give or take a few, for Ironman magazine.  I won’t get into it here—in fact, I have never discussed what transpired and don’t plan on it; water under the bridge, as they say—but I stopped writing for the magazine when I received a phone call from Jeff Everson late one evening in ‘09, asking me if I would write for his magazine, Planet Muscle .  It didn’t take much for Everson to convince me.  He said he’d pay me $800 to $1K for each of my original articles.  Double that of most magazines, save Muscle & Fitness , at the time.  I write “original” because he also asked me if I would re-write some of my older articles, particularly ones that I had written for MuscleMag International .  Since I didn’t have to do much for these older articles, other than giv...