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

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Even with a heart condition he was the only person to ever get a perfect 300/300 score at the Mister Olympia. 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. 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.

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. Jag har alltid tänkt att man ska träna så mycket som möjligt och att det inte finns någon gräns man kan överskrida. We aren’t competing with anybody in the gym, we are competing with history and that narrative of our ego that makes us doubt ourselves.

The only problem I ran into in his explanations is that the science can sometimes be vague, but following his logic makes a lot of sense for his training methodology. For example, do workout A on Monday, B on Wednesday, A on Friday, B on Sunday (or Monday, if you prefer to take weekends off). Mentzer adopted the HIT philosophy of Arthur Jones and expanded it into his own radical system, named Heavy Duty. Jag har sänkt antalet dagar jag tränar till fem vilket än så länge fortfarande känns bra och jag blir starkare mellan varje pass.

Jag vill upp och ge min kropp stryk för att sedan ta ett bad, träna min hjärna, äta ordentlig mat och kolla på några schyssta tennismatcher från Roland Garros. 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. He wants you to learn the science behind the muscle building process and then make informed decisions based on that. Mike Mentzer was an incredible man, and his philosophy has fundamentally changed the way I view exercise after reading his book. Progress should be immediate and significant from the time you start using a routine, and it should be continous from that point on.

If only he would have put behind him the disappointment of the outcome of 1980, he could have risen to even higher planes.

Inte bara kommer varje ytterligare set utföras med sämre koncentration och insats, de kommer också att fördärva återhämtningen. Although his approach to training can be extreme in certain aspects, pulling training information from this book can be useful when applied to your own training leading me to confidently say this book is worth reading. He was a "my way or the highway" kind of guy, but they are a must read if you're at all serious about training with weights.To make a dynamite explode you have to hit it hard with a hammer once, but it will never explode even if you hit it a hundred times with light strikes. As a 27-year-old IFBB Pro League rookie in 1979 noted especially for his delt, arm, and leg density, Mentzer was a phenomenon.

My attitude has shifted a bit and I've also taken a more aggressive approach to training as well as pushing myself to failure on both negative and positive movements. He has developed the liberating knack to compete with himself, or with something abstract like history. Jag har aldrig tränat lika mycket som honom men har alltid kört 6ggr i veckan med upp till 30 sets per muskelgrupp. But, he did the work, and he's coming from an era when dweebs used to be smart, instead of just really into collectibles and Disney IPs. To buttress his self-esteem, the Olympian becomes a self-actualizer, one who looks increasingly to intrinsic rewards for his motivation.

Om jag får lite mindre muskeltillväxt för att jag springer några gånger i veckan (något som har haft mycket positiv påverkan på mitt tennisspel och mitt välmående överlag) så får jag ta den smällen. Mentzer talar för att enbart träna en gång var 4–7 dag vilket jag finner extremt och svårt att tro på. It doesn't disappoint I came in looking for good advice from a legend, and was left with more knowledge and a new outlook on how I train. The last 25% of the book he talks about being a bodybuilder, likening it to being a warrior, and an Olympian, and reading Nietzsche for five hours precontest to get himself pumped up. Jag hade spelat två tennisträningar, två tennismatcher, sprungit tre gånger, spelat golf två gånger och varit i gymmet fem gånger.