C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

A 2-Way Split Training Regimen for Building Incredible Strength and Power with a Size-Building Side Effect An East-Meets-West Strength and Power Routine      In September of last year, I published a training program called The Pure Power Program .  It is a full-body routine that rotates between heavy workouts, light sessions, and “speed” workouts.  Feel free to read that original program if you wish—especially if you are looking for a full-body regimen—but in this article, I want to show how you can use it in a 2-way split program.  I will also review all of the “tenets” that comprises the program, so don’t feel as if you have to be familiar with my original article to continue here.      This is an “East meets West” program because it utilizes principles from “Eastern” countries (Russian extensively but also Bulgarian to some extent), primarily on the “heavy” training days, along with principles that are borrowed from b...

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 ...