C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Bodyweight Training and Beyond: Part 3 Upper Body Training Lessons and Workouts for Advanced Bodyweight Practitioners and Martial Artists      In November, I wrote a couple of essays with the titles “Bodyweight Training and Beyond.”  Part 1 focused only on bodyweight training.  Part 2 discussed how to incorporate bodyweight training combined with weighted workouts.  I originally had planned to write a 3rd part within a week or two of the previous essays, but I wound up writing so many different articles that the 3rd part went by the wayside.  However, as I was writing my last essay on bodyweight training, “ A Seldom Discussed Benefit of Bodyweight Training ,” I ended up with a lot of notes that I realized would make for another good article. So, it’s been too long in coming, but here, finally, is Part 3 of my Bodyweight Training and Beyond series.      In this essay, I want to discuss some various bodyweight ideas f...

  Part One of a "How to Get Strong On (fill-in-the-blank)" Series      Based on a whole slew—or, well, at least a handful—of emails that I’ve received in recent weeks, I thought it might be a good idea to do a series dealing with how to get strong on various lifts and exercises.  I don’t know how long or short this series will be.  It depends on how many exercises I end up covering, and if there’s interest from readers for additional tips about exercises I don’t cover at first.  So, hell, this thing could just be two articles or it could be five or six.  We’ll just wait and see.      Questions I receive regarding getting stronger on certain exercises come in, generally, two forms.  Some readers will ask about specific powerlifts or quick lifts; stuff such as how to get stronger on the bench press, the squat, the deadlift, the overhead press, the power clean, or some variation of those seem to be the most c...