C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

  The High-Frequency Training Manifesto Part 3: Some Powerlifting Specialization Programs      If you haven’t done so, please read Part One and Part Two first.  Each part in this series piggybacks off the previous one.  With that out of the way, on with Part Three…      Once you have trained utilizing high-frequency “easy strength” methods for several months, or if you’re already well-versed in HFT, you may want to specialize on a certain lift, a few lifts (such as the 3 powerlifts or the 2 Olympic lifts), or on a certain bodypart.  What follows are some specialization programs for powerlifting, although they will give you an idea of how you should train even if you want to specialize on something else.  Originally, my plan was to include some additional specialization programs in this one article, but after writing out the powerlifting programs, it was plenty long as it currently is.  In upcoming parts of...

C.S. pulls over 500 in his powerlifting days.  Power Volume Training was one of the programs he—and his lifters—used at the time. For this week's "Thursday Throwback"—and since I didn't do one last week—I thought I would post an article/program of mine that you MIGHT be more familiar with.  Of all  of my many programs, Power Volume Training is one of my favorites—my program was the first time I can remember seeing a combination of high-frequency training  with Westside training  in one program.  And if you need to boost one, or all three, of your powerlifts, I promise: there's not a better program out there. Power Volume Training Redux      Power Volume Training is a system that I came up with a few years ago, and wrote an article about it in the November, 2004 issue of  Ironman.   Since that time, this is the one program that I have used more than any other when training someone who is solely interested in maximal strength—pow...

 For this week's "Thursday Throwback," I have selected an article that sort of "piggy backs" off of the Throwback  from last week on the "Top 10 Lifting Mistakes."  In that article, I mentioned the one that follows here, "Train Easy, Lift Big." To give you a feel of the sort  of article this one is, an alternate title could have been "Lift Big Using Russian-Style GTG Training."  If THAT whets your appetite—or has you wondering what in the hell I'm even talking about—either way, you should find what follows interesting... Train Easy Lift Big Slovenian lifter Erni Gregorčič is an example of an East European powerlifters that uses methods similar to this article. The legendary Russian powerlifting coach Boris Sheiko once remarked, “he who trains more—lifts more.”  For the most part, I agree with that statement, as many of the articles on this blog attest to, but you also have to put things into the proper context in order to unders...