C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

  Tips and Programs from the Original Quadfather Millard “Mel” Williamson Mel Williamson in '56 when he won the Mr. Muscle Beach Before Paul “Quadzilla” DeMayo, and before the world ever heard of the “Golden Eagle” Tom Platz, the world’s most well-developed thighs belonged to… Millard Williamson?  If you’re wondering just who-in-the-heck that is, don’t worry, you’re not alone.  One day, around 15 years ago, I was lifting with my (then) workout partner.  He always liked to talk “old-time” bodybuilding with me, mainly because he wanted to pick my brain over the various methods the old-timers used.   On this day, he asked me what I thought about Mel Williamson.  My reply was, “who?”  I was incredibly surprised that, once I got around to doing some research, I had never heard of Millard Williamson.  Especially when you consider the fact that, at one time, he was considered to have the best developed legs in all of bodybuilding.  And this, despit...

PRIME time for sliced Hams and PUMPED quads! by Jared Smith How a person trains can tell you a lot about that person. There are always the guys and gals who only train the “beach” muscles and seldom pay attention to the really important things such as legs and back. You can also tell when someone has spent too much time doing the “more bang for your buck” movements without properly preparing themselves for it. I have fallen victim to the same thing in the past. I was so excited to get under the bar that I all but ignored the preparation aspect of training, and, after a while, I started feeling the effects. I have no intention of being that old man who still packs a little muscle, yet can hardly get off the toilet without the joints sounding like someone pouring milk over a bowl of Rice Crispies! There is a way to keep pounding at the king of all exercises while preserving your knees and hips—and I will show you how. If you have read the previous installments of Prim...

The Best Leg Workout You’ve Never Tried!      Two things work the best when it comes to moving massive amounts of weight, and/or gaining massive amounts of muscle: Simple work, combined with hard work.   Nothing else is going to cut it.      As Mark Rippetoe once remarked, “the most valuable lessons of the weight room: a simple, hard program works best, and that you get out of your training – and your life – exactly what you put into it.”      I could never have said it better myself.      I also have a good feeling that a whole lot of lifters know that simple, hard work is absolutely the best way to train for building slabs of muscle that is also capable of hefting ponderous poundages, but they don’t do it.   And I think they don’t do it for a couple of reasons.   First, either they’re lazy and/or have convinced themselves that fancier programs that don’t require hard work...

Hybrid Leg Training 21 st Century Bodybuilding for Awesome Leg Growth      I love training legs—always have, always will.  I love it because it’s what separates the men from the boys.  I love it because it creates a euphoric pump (when doing bodybuilding workouts, at least) that can’t be “beat” by the pump that’s achieved in any other sort of training.  I love it because leg training will add muscle everywhere .      About twenty years ago, I attended a seminar with Tom Platz.  He was back in awesome shape at the time, and when I saw him, he had just finished doing some photo shoots with several of the top magazines—namely Iron Man and MuscleMag International .  (I wrote for both of those magazines back then, which made it even cooler, and the rumor mill was saying that Platz was going to get back into competition—Masters Olympia, or something of the sort.  He never did compete, but he still looked unbe...