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

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There was a clear period of commotion at the top of the sport when Mentzer could, and most likely would have gotten an Olympia title. He was found dead in his apartment, due to heart complications, by his younger brother and fellow bodybuilder Ray Mentzer. Mike Mentzer was a revolutionary in the bodybuilding world because he was the first to introduce concrete science. Due to both a shoulder injury and increasingly more responsibility in the Air Force, Mentzer was virtually inactive from bodybuilding until late 1974. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

Mentzer followed the bodybuilding concepts developed by Arthur Jones and endeavored to perfect them.He disregards the belief that people are different and get better results from different methodologies. Ken Leistner, published newsletters, penned articles, and proselytized for high-intensity training to strength athletes; and not only did a six-time Mr.

Mentzer's reasoning was simple: to build 10 pounds of muscle in a year, a total of 6000 extra calories needed to be ingested throughout the year, because one pound of muscle contains 600 calories. Jag kan försöka att optimera mitt träningsschema för att undvika mycket löpning efter en tung legday för att optimera återhämtning.

These guys were my heroes, so I followed suit,” Mentzer wrote in his book Intensity, Insights and Insults: How Mike Mentzer Changed Bodybuilding. 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.