the BEST part of Mentzer's HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING

[chrisweidner]

Right now, at 65, I’m just trying to heal all of my injuries sustained from lifting too heavy for far too long. Listen to your body. Enjoy the process. All the best.

[The_Ancient_Geek]

I feel modern bodybuilders like a lot to shit on things that Mentzer got wrong without looking at the real gold of his scientific approach to bodybuilding and the fact he wasn't afraid to speak up against practices that were going against the physiological knowledge OF HIS TIME.

People for some reason expect Mentzer's lessons to be able to go 40 years beyond what the literature of physical exercise knew to be fact when he created his program. Why isn't everybody going back to stupid BS other big names have said in the past?

No, Mentzer is not the Way, the Truth and Life itself, but he was a dude who seemed to be genuinely making an effort to understand and optimize the body's reaction to exercise.

[Georgerajeevmuhammed]

Mentzers approach really helps natural intermediates and above those who have got no tons of time to spend in gym thats the best

[-Jozef]

Like both mikes, and recently I’ve been using mentzers training, I personally love it and if you listen to him he even mentions not everyone is meant for it.

[louissaunders]

Thanks for articulating that so well! So many people just soft and don’t want to do the work, like bro; you haven’t even went to failure in any of your workouts yet!

[JoshBenware]

Many great things came from his philosophies. Yeah, it was far from ideal in the beginning, but it did evolve training as we know it. Even for RIR training, without all out failure training, people wouldnt be able to properly guage how clise to failure they are...so mentzer essentially made multiple styles of training better.

[erikmielke]

For his time, Mentzer knew a lot, he falls a little behind modern knowledge but he is still better than what most people do.

[cheerfulheartdeepmind]

I never exhaust myself, never ever have a bath of cortisol, never disrupt my hormone balance, never fry my CNS, never do long or hard workouts YET, .. STILL..., I GROW.... because I know it's a life long game and I want to keep growing while doing fun, safe and healthy workouts... The only thing that matters is PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD.... whatever you do, you will grow as long as you progress... whether you want to feel pain or chill is up to you....

[albiole]

It's like he's going into the details and nuances of Mike's generalized advice that would be enoug for 95% of the trainees

[stevendeen]

I'll go with the guy who won a bodybuilding contest with a perfect score.

[jarlielloach]

1 set to failure is great for muscle growth, but to space it out the way Mentzer would may be a little lacking. 3 days a week has been working for me so far.

[kzuuu_tv]

Would appreciate a citations list at the end these shorts, if you got em! Thanks bro. Love the videos.

[playerzero]

"They go in the gym and just do stuff" 😂 That pretty much sums it up. Most people are there for a dopamine hit. My time is valuable, I'm there to maximize results while spending the shortest amount of it.

[paulaCvenecia]

😊 Best analysis for life in general... Can you do one on effort? Same thing, tolerance to it grows with time. People seem to think they'll love a minute of burning muscles, out of thr gate 😧

[ПравослављеПоследенВитешкиРед]

i love how some people want to complicate gym for normal people...after Arnold, Sam sulek for me is the next best physique

[Beggingbrigade]

Only thing ive noticed is when my meals are down i just dont have the full energy, definitely eat regilar 3 or 4 hours high protein and crabs and im always having great workouts, food makes sll the difference

[pino_de_vogel]

i train till i dont have another rep in me period. and if the amount of reps get to high add weight. It's that simple i did ZERO tracking as i can't be botered with all that. i already track my food which is a full time job.

people told me 3 sets of 30+ was way to much for my curls but 7 months ago i could barely do 10 with a 15 pound dumbell now i do 30+ with 30 pounds. And i skipped 2.5 months due to tendonitis. progress has bin fast and i have endurance and not just single rep strength.

[bryanstellfox]

One thing I've been trying lately is kind of similar to Dr. Stephensons program. Basically combining certain aspects of HIT along with higher volume sets for "pump training". It's more of an experiment for myself, but what I've been doing is choosing a pool of compound lifts for each body part (say incline BB press, flat db press, weighted dips for chest) and tracking those for progressive overload...THEN doing isolation exercises, getting some volume for pump as heavy as I can go while still remaining in the set rep ranges (12-15). This volume training allows for self automated weight fluctuations that naturally occur, but we are still focused on prog overload for the compound exercises, which are easier to progress vs isolation movements.

What are your thoughts?

[bbcat]

I guess you have to develope a feel for it to know if you're bitching or putting unnecessary stress on yourself

[thebackbencher]

I never know if pain I’m feeling is bitch pain or my body telling me to slow down a bit