C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

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...

Tips and Advice for Tailoring Your Training Routine Part 2: Selecting a Program      In post-modern philosophy, there is a term that is important to understand.  I’m not a post-modernist myself—I am, if anything, an integralist , one who integrates different philosophies, East and West, into a singular whole—but I feel this concept is important.  It’s called “the myth of the given.”  The “myth” is when we take our given perception of things to be how they actually are.  We do this more often than we think.  It’s easy to understand this concept when it comes to simple objects, but less so when it comes to ideas.  We may not like how something tastes—raw oysters,for example—so we think oysters are simply bad.  Others, however, may love raw oysters—I could eat them by the bucket.  In this instance, it’s easy to see the myth of the given at work.  Even though you may find oysters personally unsettling, and it befuddles yo...