C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

For this week's "Thursday Throwback," I have selected an article that I wrote ten years ago, when I was just about to turn 40.  In the ten years since I wrote this one, more and more lifters and bodybuilders, thankfully, use high-frequency training, which is really the gist of what this article is about. If you have tried both "conventional" bodybuilding training (fairly high volume, split workouts, going for the "pump") and "hardgainer" training (low volume, all-out "intensity", a couple days a week of training, full-body workouts), but haven't gotten good results from either kind of training, well, you might just be...  The Other Kind of Hardgainer [1] C.S. about ten years ago, when this article was originally written. I think the majority of lifters—even ones who have been training a long time and  should  know better—mistakenly believe that there are essentially two kinds of training, and two kinds of lifters: the "ea