C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

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 fashion, we’ll start with #10 before we make it down to  the  #1

The 10 Most Common Mistakes Lifters Make 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 fashion, we’ll start with #10 before we make it down to the #1 mistake that the majority of trainees make—not to mention coaches. #10: Using a Percentage-based Training Program       For some of you, this may seem like an odd thing that I would pick as a mistake.   Especially considering the fact that the most-effective powerlifting program I ever used was (is) a percentage-based program: the training plans of Boris Sheiko.   But Sheiko is the exception, not the rule, and it’s not something you need to attempt until you have plenty of training under your belt.      The training program that I most recommend that lifters follow—Bill S