C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

A Simple 3-Days-Per-Week, H/L/M Bodyweight Regimen      I received an email the other day asking me if I was going to write another part of my Bodyweight Training and Beyond series.  I wrote Part 3 of that series back in January, and mentioned at the end of it that I would soon do a 4th part.  I have yet to do so, however.  I have a tendency to get on “kicks” where I cover a certain topic for several different essays or for weeks on end before moving on to something else, and I haven’t written that much on bodyweight training of late.  I wrote back to the reader that, yes, I do plan on writing another part to that series, maybe even several.  I’ve made quite a few notes on isometric training along with “dynamic tension” that I plan on including in the next part.  The reader also had a request.  He asked if I had a suggestion for how to design a 3-days-a-week workout using only one’s bodyweight.  He has a chinning bar a...

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...