High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way (NTC SPORTS/FITNESS)

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In school and later in university, Mentzer distinguished himself by virtue of his remarkable grades. Mike's clunky jargon in these chapters is such a distraction it has become too easy for his critics to dismiss him as a flake. Do four working sets for smaller bodyparts, like biceps, and 6-8 working sets for larger bodyparts, like back.

It doesn't disappoint I came in looking for good advice from a legend, and was left with more knowledge and a new outlook on how I train. It's been more than ten years since Mike Mentzer passed away, and his ideas still spark heated debate among bodybuilders.Still, high-intensity training’s influence has been wide and profound, and, as it continues to evolve, HIT will no doubt continue to transform the way bodybuilders train, recover, and grow.

Mentzer’s diet approach was only really taken seriously when the above quote was touted by the IIFYM community in the 2010s as evidence of its efficacy. This book does a great job not just discussing the requirements to reach physical success, but also the importance of the mentality. Gay men in bodybuilding often have more 'beautiful' bodies as they pay more attention to the aesthetics and don't just wanna look like meatheads.Nevertheless, I gained some inspiration from the book, and I think it influenced me to try to out less volume and I'm seeing results already. Olympia follow the basis of Jones’ HIT philosophy, but Dorian Yates regularly used Nautilus (Jones sold the company in 1986). This also affected his training style — he initially trained like everyone else before discovering that a high-intensity approach yielded better results. Personally, as a gay man myself, with a certain amount of gaydar, looking at Mike's eyes and his voice ( not all gay men can be determined this way of course ad we all know straight men who 'sound' gay ) I'd be inclined to agree. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.

In his last interview before his death, Mentzer said he was delighted to get so many phone clients and close personal bodybuilding friends, such as Markus Reinhardt, who had been influenced by him to become Objectivists. så länge har jag kastat många övningar i sopsäcken och bytt ut vissa andra mot övningar som lättare tillåter träning förbi failure. Jag hade spelat två tennisträningar, två tennismatcher, sprungit tre gånger, spelat golf två gånger och varit i gymmet fem gånger. Hoje em dia pelo menos o que de fato funciona ja é muito manjado, e o que é maluquice tmb, então fica meio elas por elas.With the advent of "modern bodybuilding" (where bodybuilders became more massive than ever before) by the early 1990s, he ultimately modified that routine until there were fewer working sets and more days of rest. Jag tränar hårdare då och jag tror inte så många är sugna på att köra den konstiga träningen som jag har börjat köra nu. He emphasized the need to maintain perfectly strict form, move the weights in a slow and controlled manner, work the muscles to complete failure (positive and negative), and avoid overtraining. My attitude has shifted a bit and I've also taken a more aggressive approach to training as well as pushing myself to failure on both negative and positive movements.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, for example, wrote in his Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding that he trained twice a day, six days a week. He was a "my way or the highway" kind of guy, but they are a must read if you're at all serious about training with weights. Mentzer believed that carbohydrates should make up the bulk of the caloric intake, 50–60%, rather than protein as others preferred. He disregards the belief that people are different and get better results from different methodologies. In their 1997 book Power Factor Training, Peter Sisco and John Little created a HIT program which utilizes partial reps.However, things didn’t progress the way Mike had hoped, and after six months, he and Jones severed their business relationship. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.