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

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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.

Until his retirement in 1980, Mentzer was one of the sport’s most controversial and fascinating stars. In a five-year period, he won Mr. America and Mr. Universe titles, won the heavyweight division at the Olympia, and, perhaps most importantly, stood out against the typical bodybuilding approaches of his age. Heavy Duty Training For modern trainees, Mentzer’s life and writings should act as a call to arms to question everything, discover what is best for one’s body, and, more importantly, train with purpose and intensity. That alone makes Mentzer a worthy bodybuilding legend. References 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: I started receiving Zen instruction around the time I started weight-lifting. It was so strange because in Zen you are encouraged to focus on action and the body whereas Mike Mentzer in this book about weight-lifting is telling you to focus on your mind. It’s a great combination. If you’re skeptical [of Heavy Duty’s low volume], your subconscious child is telling you that more is better. In some cases, that’s true. More money is better than less. But you can’t take that principle and blindly apply it to exercise and expect to get anything out of it.” — Mike Mentzer HEAVY DUTY WORKOUT BASICSWow, not only an outstanding set of guiding principles, to realise a champion physic, derived from a life of rigorous pushing of one’s self, but an outstanding ideology to realise a champion mindset, derived from a life of rigorous learning of one’s self. With gyms re-opening I wanted to find a new way to weight train, while moving away from standard "bro" splits but something familiar enough that I could supplement my knowledge of weight training with it. 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. Mike Mentzer was a complex and gifted man who left an indelible mark on the bodybuilding landscape,” McGough wrote. ( 17) As Dorian Yates advanced, he pushed sets beyond failure with mostly forced reps, but sometimes partials, negatives, drop sets, and rest-pause. Less than two years after he began training, he took home the biggest trophy from the first bodybuilding contest he entered, and in November 1988 he won the British Championships in a landslide. He was 26 and weighed 226 pounds—46 more than five years earlier—and Dorian Yates was a pro. Mike Mentzer menade på att det fanns tre olika typer av styrka: den positiva kontraktionen, statisk styrka och negativa repetitioner. Om man faktiskt ärligt tränar till failure innebär det oftast enbart att den första och svagaste styrkenivån – positiva kontraktionen – inte klarar mer påfrestning. Om du klarar 70kg i benspark, klarar du antagligen att hålla 100kg i toppositionen ett tag, och du klarar antagligen att med någorlunda kontroll den excentriska delen av rörelsen. Dessa siffror är påhittade men summan av kardemumman är att för att uppnå äkta muskulär failure måste även den excentriska styrkan vara slutkörd.

According to David M. Sears, a friend of Mentzer and an editor and publisher of his Muscles in Minutes book, he stated that: [4]

Mentzer cut the number of sets he used and upped his intensity. The results were transformative, but life prevented Mentzer from truly showing them off. Due to both a shoulder injury and increasingly more responsibility in the Air Force, Mentzer was virtually inactive from bodybuilding until late 1974. (7) When doing working sets, aim for complete failure at 6-8 reps and extend beyond failure with 2-3 forced reps, rest-pause reps, or drop set reps.

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.First, he neutered the Junior Mr. America and earned first place at 190 pounds. Then, he took third at the 1975 Mr. America, stepping on stage cut at 195. He placed behind Roger Callard and Robby Robinson.