C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

                4 Tips for Serious Lifters Loaded Carries - one of the 4 tips for serious lifters      I have been lifting weights since, I think, 1986 or ‘87, when, for either my 13th or 14th birthday, my father bought me one of those cement-filled, plastic DP weight sets replete with a flimsy bench.  I’ve come a long way since then - in other words, I’ve gotten friggin’ old - but I’ve never stopped lifting, and I’ve seen a LOT of different exercises, workout routines, and training programs (some good, most not) done by a lot of different people.  In other words, in 36 (maybe 37) years of training - and paying attention - I’ve seen damn near anything and everything you can think of in the lifting world.  And so I’m also pretty sure that in another 36 (or 37) years, the following tips will be just as good then as they are now. Consistency Trumps Everything       “It doesn’t matter ho...

For this week's "Thursday Throwback," I came across an article of mine that I completely forgot that I wrote.  In fact, I was looking through articles on my computer, and when I came across this, I thought it must have been penned by my son Matthew or my friend Jared, who used to write quite a bit for my blog at one time, only to discover that, no, I  wrote it.  Despite my amnesia toward it, it's a VERY GOOD article.  And all of the suggestions are just as good as when I wrote this over ten years ago.  I hope you find it just as much interest in reading it as I did in rediscovering it... The 10 Most Common Mistakes When Building Strength, Power, and Muscle Mass       What follows are 10 of the most common mistakes that lifters make when trying to add muscle mass and build strength.    Fix these mistakes and your mass-building/strength-gaining plateaus will be a thing of the past.       In true countdown...