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

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If dogma exists, it is purely in the mind of the beholder as time and time again, Mentzer gives explanation and reason to why SOME people are able to gain on high sets and most don't. An additional 17% is good “accessory reading” including the first few chapters where Mike explains that you have genetic potential for body building despite how hard you train. Wow, 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. The real value here is the more philosophical and mentality people should take with them into training as well as learning the principals and function of HIT.

It is empowering because it teaches you principles and gives you a starter deck that you are encouraged by Mike to doubt and challenge. Mike was truly ahead of his times, the book felt like reading something modern, so many notions turned out to be true, truly a thinker and philosopher, what a great man all around, I truly admire him. Jag har aldrig tränat lika mycket som honom men har alltid kört 6ggr i veckan med upp till 30 sets per muskelgrupp. 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.

Jag skriver nu lite anteckningar i min telefon och har än så länge blivit starkare efter varje pass trots att jag kör fem pass i veckan. Mentzer adopted the HIT philosophy of Arthur Jones and expanded it into his own radical system, named Heavy Duty. Mentzer's life was probably the best synthesis of Rand's objectivism out there, both its strengths and many shortcomings.

If you’re skeptical [of Heavy Duty’s low volume], your subconscious child is telling you that more is better. When muscle gets ripped it grows back stronger, in the short term you might be weak, but next time you workout you can lift more. Nevertheless, I gained some inspiration from the book, and I think it influenced me to try to out less volume and I'm seeing results already.Mentzer recommended lifting as little as once per week using his methods; we've since learned that you can effectively use High-Intensity training more than four to seven times per month. 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. Whereas Jones prescribed one 20-rep set per exercise, Mentzer lowered the ideal rep range to six to nine: Choose a weight so heavy that you reach absolute failure at six to nine reps, then keep going.