C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

  …but Moderate Most of the Time The great Tommy Kono, the inspiration for this essay Programming Made Simple      The legendary Tommy Kono—an Olympic gold-medalist in weightlifting and Mr. Universe; you don’t see that any-damn-more—believed in following the “American” system of weight training.  In the ‘60s (Tommy won the gold medal at the Olympics in ‘52 and ‘56; the silver medal at the ‘60 Games) he believed that too many American lifters were attempting to follow the Soviet-style (also used by the Cubans) that involved meticulously planning exactly what one was going to lift each day, and using a high-volume of training with multiple auxiliary movements (think of this as similar to Westside “conjugate” training today) or lifters of that era were following the Bulgarian style of heavy, daily maximal training.  And by the “American” system of training, Kono meant following simple, basic workout programs that rotated between hard, easy, and mo...

  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...

  One time world's strongest man, Doug Hepburn, used methods very similar to the ones listed in this article.      Years ago, as in the previous century, when the internet was in its inception, I wrote regular articles for most of the major bodybuilding magazines.  At the time, there wasn’t much good information available on the internet—oh, there were a couple of sites here and there, but even when you could access them, they could take as long as hours to upload; you know, “dial up”—and so most lifters still got their information from the monthly bodybuilding and powerlifting rags.      Before Facebook (or even MySpace), and the advent of other social media sites, the primary thing that the internet was used for was email.  I sent my articles to the different magazines via the “traditional” method of mailing them through actual mail, the post office.  And if any readers wanted to ask me a question before email was...