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

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Mentzer's tips on weight training make a lot of sense, it's difficult to argue with what he says when you can see the results throughout the book, and I've started training using his method - too early to say whether it works or not, though am already stepping up the amounts of weight I can lift. The irony is, of course, that Mentzer did not come to believe in HIT by rational thinking, but he is driven entirely by empirical data. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

In the earlier chapters especially, Mentzer tried too hard to seem smart by using unnecessary and meaningless words with the only purpose to make the reader think of him as an intellectual superior.You can see the weight room as a place that caters to the cold, uncaring reality objectivism offers. It is empowering because it teaches you principles and gives you a starter deck that you are encouraged by Mike to doubt and challenge. But you can’t take that principle and blindly apply it to exercise and expect to get anything out of it. I’ll be following the heavy duty model in my gym routine for a month or so, maybe I’ll update this review with the result. Om man faktiskt ärligt tränar till failure innebär det oftast enbart att den första och svagaste styrkenivån – positiva kontraktionen – inte klarar mer påfrestning.

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. Man ska utvecklas varje pass och gör man inte det så får man se över intensitet, volym och återhämtning. If you’re skeptical [of Heavy Duty’s low volume], your subconscious child is telling you that more is better. I had for several years accepted the idea that my athletic peak was in high school and in a rare moment of doubting that idea I got this book on a whim. We aren’t competing with anybody in the gym, we are competing with history and that narrative of our ego that makes us doubt ourselves.Man ska inte blint lita på Mentzer för att han har en god fysik; Mentzer uppmuntrade människor att ifrågasätta hans filosofi och träning. Om jag får lite mindre muskeltillväxt för att jag springer några gånger i veckan (något som har haft mycket positiv påverkan på mitt tennisspel och mitt välmående överlag) så får jag ta den smällen. If only he would have put behind him the disappointment of the outcome of 1980, he could have risen to even higher planes.

But unexpectedly the book then morphs into an almost philosophical insight into the mind of a bodybuilder. He trained literally thousands of clients during these years and amassed himself countless experiences and results during this time. Mike Mentzer menar att man antingen kan träna hårt eller länge, och att det är intensiv träning som får muskeln att växa. He disregards the belief that people are different and get better results from different methodologies.In fact, hardcore training on most current Nautilus machines will send you straight to physical therapy. Dessa siffror är påhittade men summan av kardemumman är att för att uppnå äkta muskulär failure måste även den excentriska styrkan vara slutkörd. He also pushes negative reps and pre-exhaustion, which is real counterintuitive for me, but makes sense from a hypertrophy perspective. He wrote articles for Muscle Builder/Power (the forerunner of FLEX), many of which covered specific techniques for intensifying workouts.

As a 27-year-old IFBB Pro League rookie in 1979 noted especially for his delt, arm, and leg density, Mentzer was a phenomenon.It just makes sense, achieving total muscular failure due to exhausting the central nervous system and its ability to force tendons to contract as fast as possible. A man who trains regularly can coast on three or more weeks of complete inactivity without any loss in muscle or strength. Arnold excelled at bodybuilding, at acting, at governating, ESPECIALLY at PR, but his first and truest love was always recreational psyops. 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.