C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

In Autumn When the Leaves Fall, the Sandbag is Carried, and the Thick Bars are Taken Outside      With fall upon us—though it doesn’t feel particularly fall-like here in west-central Alabama, where I live on a few acres down a little-traveled gravel road—I thought I’d return to an essay that I wrote three years ago, and originally titled “Outdoor Lifting in the Fall.”  Initially, I thought I’d just repost it as a “Thursday Throwback” piece, since I haven’t posted one of those in quite some time.  As I was reading over it, however, I realized that it could be fleshed out even more, so I’ve added additional, brand-new workouts, and I combined the original article with another fall training essay on outdoor training challenges that I wrote a couple years ago, about a year after the first one.  Perhaps it will give you some ideas for your autumn training…        “What should be sad in the falling of spent leaves, of leav...