C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

     Sometimes the best workouts for building muscle mass look almost easy to the casual trainee or observer.  Too many times, lifters equate how hard you train at each workout to the results that are produced.  But it just doesn’t work this way in reality.  Some of the biggest, strongest lifters and bodybuilders I’ve known looked as if they were taking it easy in their workouts.  When I first witnessed this as a young man in the gyms of the early ‘90s, I chalked it up to “genetics.”  After all, I was told in many of the magazines from that era that, if you were a “hardgainer,” you needed to train with brief but incredibly hard workout sessions.  But with many years of training—and training others—under my belt, I just don’t think that’s the case.  Now, don’t get me wrong (I mean, really don’t get me wrong), there are definitely times when you should train hard and push it in the gym.  But the majority of the time, belie...

 For this week's "Thursday Throwback," I have selected an article that sort of "piggy backs" off of the Throwback  from last week on the "Top 10 Lifting Mistakes."  In that article, I mentioned the one that follows here, "Train Easy, Lift Big." To give you a feel of the sort  of article this one is, an alternate title could have been "Lift Big Using Russian-Style GTG Training."  If THAT whets your appetite—or has you wondering what in the hell I'm even talking about—either way, you should find what follows interesting... Train Easy Lift Big Slovenian lifter Erni Gregorčič is an example of an East European powerlifters that uses methods similar to this article. The legendary Russian powerlifting coach Boris Sheiko once remarked, “he who trains more—lifts more.”  For the most part, I agree with that statement, as many of the articles on this blog attest to, but you also have to put things into the proper context in order to unders...