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...

More Training with Heavy Singles Where Heavy Singles Training, Bill Starr, and Full-Body Workout Routines Converge as One      Once I wrapped up my last article on training with heavy singles , I realized that there were several different points that I didn’t address, and a few different workouts that I didn’t get around to discussing.  I doubt this will end up being a long series, but I do want to write a few follow-up pieces.  This one is the first.      You can look at my last essay as more of an introduction to training with singles.  In this one—and whatever ones that might follow it—I want to focus on a single method of training (pun not intended) using singles.  Here, the method will be full-body workouts using a heavy-light-medium system.      I am going to give you two workouts here, a “beginning” program and an “advanced” program.  The first workout routine really isn’t for beg...