Note: Mentzer worked up to one all-out set of failure, typically lasting for six to nine reps for each movement listed above. Look at the evidence (as Mike would no doubt implore you). Pumping Iron is a video confessional of Arnold Schwarzenegger gaslighting his friends. Arnold excelled at bodybuilding, at acting, at governating, ESPECIALLY at PR, but his first and truest love was always recreational psyops. Mentzer, along with Jones and Viator, helped push a generation of bodybuilders to try high-intensity training. The best-known example of this was undoubtedly six-time Olympia winner Dorian Yates who entirely changed his approach after reading HIT works. Yates’ later ‘blood and guts’ routine was, in effect, a modified Mentzer approach. Nutritional Protocols 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]

Mike Mentzer menade på att det fanns tre olika typer av styrka: den positiva kontraktionen, statisk styrka och negativa repetitioner. Om man faktiskt ärligt tränar till failure innebär det oftast enbart att den första och svagaste styrkenivån – positiva kontraktionen – inte klarar mer påfrestning. Om du klarar 70kg i benspark, klarar du antagligen att hålla 100kg i toppositionen ett tag, och du klarar antagligen att med någorlunda kontroll den excentriska delen av rörelsen. Dessa siffror är påhittade men summan av kardemumman är att för att uppnå äkta muskulär failure måste även den excentriska styrkan vara slutkörd. This book changed the way I train substantially, but not only that, also my philosophy towards it, everything makes so much sense and follows logic, I don't overtrain anymore, 2 days a week is all I need, no stress about having to go 4 times a week, just true hard work and plenty of rest to let the muscles repair and grow. 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. 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 TRAINING Dorian Yates typically did only one (all-out, beyond failure) working set per exercise, but this would sometimes be preceded by as many as three warmup sets, and his warmups, though of moderate intensity and (for him) weight, could resemble the hardest sets of others. This spawned a persistent myth, for many have watched him train in a video or in person and declared he did a normal amount of volume. (Similar gotcha declarations have been made about most HIT notables.) In fact, it only highlighted the gulf between his intensity and that of most bodybuilders, for when he trained at their level it was for him mere preparation for the one set that mattered. LOWER WORKOUT FREQUENCYIn the late 1980s, Mentzer returned to training bodybuilders and writing for Iron Man magazine and spent much of the 1990s regaining his stature in the bodybuilding industry. Mentzer had met Dorian Yates in the 1980s and made an impression on Dorian's bodybuilding career. Years later, when Yates won Joe Weider's "Mr. Olympia", he credited Mike's "Heavy Duty" principles for his training. Mike, his brother Ray, and Dorian formed a clothing company called "MYM" for Mentzer Yates Mentzer, also known as "Heavy Duty Inc", in 1994. MYM was based on the success of Don Smith's "CrazeeWear" bodybuilding apparel. The three principals wanted to capitalize on the physically fit lifestyle, which today has gone mainstream. With the blessing and promotion of Joe Weider, the trio manufactured and distributed their own line of cut-and-sew sportswear. [4] 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. 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. I seem to be reading some very counterintuitive stuff at the moment...suits me, that's the way forward.

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 ] Mentzer's training courses (books and audio tapes), sold through bodybuilding magazines, were extremely popular, beginning after Mentzer won the 1978 IFBB Mr. Universe contest. This contest gathered a lot of attention, because at it he became the first bodybuilder ever to receive a perfect 300 score from the judges. Some time later, Mentzer attracted more attention when he introduced Dorian Yates to high-intensity training, and put him through his first series of workouts in the early '90s. [8] Yates went on to win the Mr. Olympia six consecutive times, from 1992 to 1997.Mentzer helped revolutionize bodybuilding training when, along with Jones and later Dorian Yates, he promoted an all-out intensity approach in training. Mentzer was a man unconcerned with what others expected of him. His books on bodybuilding, like Heavy Duty, were littered with philosophical passages and encouraged readers to think deeply. This was a problem. During the 1950s and 1960s, workouts in fitness magazines were often high volume, high-frequency training programs that neglected to consider the genetic (and later chemical) advantages elite bodybuilders had. As wonderful as it may be to have a well-developed physique, without the ability to think logically and effectively about a subject to which you have been passionately committed, you are, in effect, consigning yourself to living as one half of a human being." Mentzer's empirical answer? Go balls-to-the-wall in the gym to the point of absolute muscular failure. If muscle increases size through repairing these microtears, make as many microtears as you can by pushing yourself to your physical limit. This is the premise of high-intensity training. Then, once you've done your whopping 25 minutes of 2 agonizing sets to failure per body part? Go home for a week. Don't come to the gym for 7 days. Read a book. A philosophy book. Start a salsa company. Hug your dog. Get a hobby that doesn't involve having the fellas oil you up. Cultivate your mind.