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

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bill Dobbins. The new encyclopedia of modern bodybuilding (Simon and Schuster, 1998), 205. 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. His training advice had an almost immediate impact, but it took much longer for bodybuilders to loosen the reins on their nutritional edicts. The Forgotten Man of Bodybuilding? Why is Mentzer not an automatic legend in the eyes of some fans? His retirement and early death at the age of 49 meant that his contributions were limited. Mentzer won the heavyweight division at the 1979 Olympia and was tapped by many to become the sport’s next legend. Dove head-first into this book along with Mike Mentzer's audio tapes, thinking that I would only become more knowledgeable about the body, training, and bodybuilding. That’s the best spin. His actual addition that May was 45 pounds. The extra 18 was Jones’ conjecture about Viator’s fat loss—though, in fact, the 1971 Mr. America almost certainly gained fat. Mike Mentzer later wrote that Viator was “literally force-fed” and not drug-free. Nonetheless, the Colorado Experiment and its figure of 63 pounds in 28 days was widely featured in advertisements and became part of bodybuilding’s lore, helping sell Nautilus machines and propagate HIT principles. THE SECRET IS HIGH INTENSITY

From a 167-pound barely heralded middleweight when he turned pro in 2002 to a 212-pound legend in the Pro League (2004-2020), David Henry dramatically transformed himself by Doggcrapping. DC places a primacy on continuous strength gains (typically in the 11-15 rep range). It shares with the high-intensity training of Jones and Mentzer minimal workout volume (one working set for most exercises) and an emphasis on journeying beyond failure, in DC’s case with rest-pause, drop sets, and static contractions. But it also diverges from the HIT of the previous decades by prescribing a greater training frequency (hitting bodyparts three times every 14 days) and the use of features like continuous exercise rotations. Varför kör man 30 sets och inte 100 om mer volym är bättre? En maratonlöpare som utför tusentals repetitioner har inte stora muskler. Man måste ta träningen nära failure (dvs den punkt då man inte längre är kapabel till att utföra ännu en repetition). Tränar man till failure på riktigt kan man inte köra hur många sets som helst. De personer som spenderar två timmar i gymmet tränar inte hårt. Tränar man hårt nog kommer man naturligt att leta efter ursäkter till att avsluta passet. Det är inte helt fel med att bli klar med ett pass på under 45 minuter. Trots ett kort pass är man helt slut i musklerna och med bara fyra set ben har jag svårt att gå dagen efteråt (2 baksida, 2 framsida lår). Mike Mentzer was a revolutionary in the bodybuilding world because he was the first to introduce concrete science. Even with a heart condition he was the only person to ever get a perfect 300/300 score at the Mister Olympia. He wrote the series to put an end to the ridiculous three hour workouts most people were doing at the time. This is why he advocated for taking every exercise to failure because it meant you only had to do one set not five.Mentzer followed the bodybuilding concepts developed by Arthur Jones and endeavored to perfect them. Through years of study, observation, knowledge of stress physiology, the most up-to-date scientific information available, and careful use of his reasoning abilities, Mentzer devised and successfully implemented his own theory of bodybuilding. Mentzer's theories are intended to help a drug-free person achieve his or her full genetic potential within the shortest amount of time. [8] He talks about how so much of bodybuilding training amounts to folklore, and how the idea "everyone responds to different training methods" doesn't make sense from a medical standpoint. He also took issue with people taking successful bodybuilders' words as gospel, but had the class not to point out that the primary authority on bodybuilding lore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, lied compulsively and for fun all the time. More than a book about weights. High-intensity, low-reps are king. Arnie lied to you. Muscles cannot be confused, they do not have an identity. Read philosophy. Eat philosophy. Be philosophy. Do not divorce your warrior from your scholar. Rest well. Eat protein. Pray. He counted his calories and did not feel the need to deprive himself of food he enjoyed. A full three decades before “If It Fits Your Macros” became a common mantra in the fitness industry, Mentzer wrote the following: Mike Mentzer (November 15, 1951–June 10, 2001) was an American IFBB professional bodybuilder, businessman and author. [4] [2] Early life and education [ edit ]

Now for those who doubted Mentzer’s seriousness in making these claims, he reminded them of his 1979 Olympia diet: In the course of writing this article, a good friend — who loves bodybuilding — made the mistake of asking me about Mike Mentzer. After receiving a 20-minute, largely unsolicited lecture, they asked an even better question — was he a bodybuilding legend? This one-of-a-kind book profiles the high-intensity training (HIT) techniques pioneered by the late Mike Mentzer, the legendary bodybuilder, leading trainer, and renowned bodybuilding consultant. His highly effective, proven approach enables bodybuilders to get results--and win competitions--by doing shorter, less frequent workouts each week. Extremely time-efficient, HIT sessions require roughly 40 minutes per week of training--as compared with the lengthy workout sessions many bodybuilders would expect to put in daily. He disregards the belief that people are different and get better results from different methodologies. He says no, there is an objective truth. Human beings' muscles are fundamentally the same and they all obey the same laws of nature. Therefore his approach should only be practiced since it's the only approach that's rational. Discuss NANBF/IPE, INBF/WNBF, OCB, ABA, INBA/PNBA, and IFPA bodybuilding, noncompetitive bodybuilding, diets for the natural lifters, exercise routines and more!

Dom Mazetti is not an empiricist, or even a bodybuilder. He's technically not even real, and everything he says is satire. So you can't treat him as a source of lifting knowledge. Muscle and Fitness magazine is actually a worse source, because, like Mike Matthews said in Bigger, Leaner, Stronger, if they told you the truth you'd never have to buy more than one magazine.

While Mike Mentzer served in the United States Air Force, he worked 12-hour shifts, and then followed that up with 'marathon workouts' as was the accepted standard in those days. In his first bodybuilding contest, he met the winner, Casey Viator. Mentzer learned that Viator trained in very high intensity (heavy weights for as many repetitions as possible, to total muscle fatigue), for very brief (20–45 minutes per session) and infrequent training sessions. Mentzer also learned that Viator almost exclusively worked out with the relatively new Nautilus machines, created and marketed by Arthur Jones in DeLand, Florida. Mentzer and Jones soon met and became friends. [11] Look at the evidence (as Mike would no doubt implore you). Pumping Iron is a video confessional of Arnold Schwarzenegger gaslighting his friends. Arnold excelled at bodybuilding, at acting, at governating, ESPECIALLY at PR, but his first and truest love was always recreational psyops. So he's a dork, but he's credentialed. Let's give it a try. I'll hop on High Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer way for a few months, and if I'm shredded to the bone and 5'8" by June, we'll know it worked. Mentzer was an Objectivist and insisted that philosophy and bodybuilding are one and the same, stating that "man is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body." His books therefore concern themselves equally with philosophy and bodybuilding. [4]

Mike Mentzer was the big man before Arnie came onto the bodybuilding scene. He is as much philosopher as he is bodybuilder and his ideas on the mind/body balance have been pivotal in the way many of the great bodybuilders operate. His ideas on intensity and speed being one of the most important aspects of the workout have evolved my routine to great benefit. If you like your slow, steady, grinding workouts, don;t read this book. Read more His retirement in 1980, following Arnold’s controversial victory, disrupted these plans. Mentzer may have placed fifth in 1980, but there is no reason to believe he would not have finished higher, or even won the entire thing, in later years. lb of body weight? That's arbitrary. Use reason. Use Objectivism. A muscle is 22% protein. Eat 22% protein, and 63% carbs, and 15% ice cream."