C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

A Hybrid High-Frequency Training Program for a Combination of Size and Strength      For more than 20 years, I have preached the benefits of high-frequency training (HFT) programs.  First in the pages of some of the major bodybuilding magazines, such as IronMan magazine and Planet Muscle , and then on the blog when I started it in 2009.  For the most part, the training I recommended was for strength first, with size, if it occurred, as more of a side-effect of the strength and power training.  And for more than a decade, one of my favorite ways to use HFT is through so-called easy strength methods.  However, I have in the last couple years proposed the theory of using an “easy muscle” approach, where you largely keep the “tenets” of easy strength but do it for higher repetitions, with the sole goal of hypertrophy.      I’m not alone in thinking that this might be a good method for many seeking gains in muscle mass....

A Complete Midlife Easy Strength Program (and Advice) for New Lifters, Beginners, and Those Returning to Lifting After a Long Layoff       I believe synchronicity isn’t chance or random.  There is a Power at work in the cosmos that permeates the in-between.  It is the Tao, the Logos, the All Pervading One that somehow, some way is always at work.  What it is exactly, I’m not saying that I know.  I don’t.  But it is there, weaving its wondrous energy through the luminosity of the space-between-spaces.  And, apparently, through my email, as well.  Don’t worry.  I have a point for the above sentences.  This isn’t going to be one of my mystic-eyed ramblings—well, I guess I can’t promise that entirely—but I write the preceding because of some questions I received yesterday.  (At least, it was yesterday as I type these words at this moment in time, which will be a different this from your standpoint reading it....