C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Anthony Ditillo’s Leg and Back Specialization Program for Bulk and Power Ditillo as cool as ever. “The quickest way to a massive upper body is to specialize on lower back and thighs. Believe me, there is no other way.” ~Anthony Ditillo* If you’ve read my blog, or any of my writings elsewhere, for any length of time, then the chances are that you’re familiar with Anthony Ditillo. Even if you don’t know it. He was one of my early inspirations, as both a lifter and a writer, that inspired a lot of the programs that I would go on to write about in the pages of Ironman or MuscleMag International early in my writing career. Ditillo himself was inspired by lifters that had been around before him, namely the strongman Doug Hepburn, and the bodybuilders Reg Park and Marvin Eder. You can see their “inspiration” almost everywhere in his programs, along with other great—but not as well-known—lifters and bodybuilders from the ‘50s. One of the things that Ditillo believed in was “specializatio...