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

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Push sets past failure with forced reps and negatives. Train with a partner, so he or she can assist you. Mentzer's book inspires to put one's mind into full use in bodybuilding. The part of the book that I enjoyed the most was the analogy with NASA: putting a man on the moon was a result of careful preparation and planning - so should also one's attitude be towards bodybuilding.

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. That Mentzer sported a lean and dense physique suggests that this was a good approach for him. Oddly, given the apparent appeal that this kind of dieting style should have, Mentzer’s dietary protocols were not as popular as his training advice. Now for those who doubted Mentzer’s seriousness in making these claims, he reminded them of his 1979 Olympia diet:

The above video, featuring Mentzer training Boyer Coe, is rather clinical and stunted. Focus, however, on the content — he pushes one set to all-out failure. This, he believed, made the muscle grow. Modifying Jones’ principles somewhat (Mentzer used fewer reps), Mentzer became a high-intensity disciple. One of his earliest intensity routines — later dubbed his Heavy Duty routine — was as follows: (10) Day 1 (Chest, Shoulders, Triceps) Mentzer started off the book by trying to tie Objectivism with his bodybuilding approach. A bold endeavor which, to my eyes, utterly failed. Mentzer used abstract philosophical principles to try to convince the reader that by merely understanding principles and rational thinking, you will conclude that his methodology is the right one.

Note: Mentzer worked up to one all-out set of failure, typically lasting for six to nine reps for each movement listed above. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bill Dobbins. The new encyclopedia of modern bodybuilding (Simon and Schuster, 1998), 205.Mentzer died on June 10, 2001, in Rolling Hills, California. He was found dead in his apartment, due to heart complications, by his younger brother and fellow bodybuilder Ray Mentzer. Two days later, Ray died from complications from his long battle with Berger's disease. [2] See also [ edit ] According to David M. Sears, a friend of Mentzer and an editor and publisher of his Muscles in Minutes book, he stated that: [4] While in school, Mentzer's father motivated his academic performance by providing him with various kinds of inducements, from a baseball glove to hard cash. Years later, Mike said that his father "unwittingly ... was inculcating in me an appreciation of capitalism." [4] 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. Conor Heffernan, ‘Before the Carnivore Diet,’ Physical Culture Study, December 16, 2019. https://physicalculturestudy.com/2019/12/16/before-the-carnivore-diet-rheo-h-blairs-meat-and-water-diet-1960s-2/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PgtX97SIMek Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Legendary Mentzer Brothers (https://youtube.com/watch?v=PgtX97SIMek) 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 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. A high-intensity trainer, bodybuilder Mark Dugdale competed in the IFBB Pro League from 2005-17. Dugdale did anywhere from four to nine sets per bodypart, some of them rest-pause, some low-rep (six to eight), and some Doggcrapp widowmakers—a final blow-out set of 20-30 reps. For a week in 2007, he trained under Dorian Yates’ supervision in Temple Gym. Hammer Strength pulldowns: Yates trains Dugdale in Temple. / YouTube DOGGCRAPP TRAININGWorkout Systems: Mike Mentzer’s Heavy Duty’, Poliquin Group. December 20, 2016. https://www.poliquinstore.com/articles/workout-systems-mike-mentzers-heavy-duty/ 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: To go beyond failure, do pre-exhaust supersets. For example, do a set of dips immediately after triceps extensions. Addeddate 2018-03-20 03:53:00 Identifier FitnessBooksCollection Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t78t1bj24 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ppi 600 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3 Source Jones wrought a fundamental change in how I thought about training, but an even greater influence was the one he had on my thinking,” Mentzer told the late bodybuilding journalist Peter McGough. “While my parents and teachers had paid what amounted to, in retrospect, only superficial lip service to the values of thought, logic, and reason, Arthur Jones was absolutely passionate about those values.” ( 6)