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

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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. Competitors often cut carbohydrates before a contest or, more commonly, went on grueling meat and eggs or meat and water diets.

The ardent individualist who competed in a bodybuilding contest for the final time at 28 in 1980, continues to provoke and inspire. With gyms re-opening I wanted to find a new way to weight train, while moving away from standard "bro" splits but something familiar enough that I could supplement my knowledge of weight training with it.

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Mentzer also learned that Viator almost exclusively worked out with the relatively new Nautilus machines, created and marketed by Arthur Jones in DeLand, Florida. After years of essentially starting and stopping again and being bored with weight training reading this book reignited that love I had for weight training and the allure of bodybuilding. This book does a great job not just discussing the requirements to reach physical success, but also the importance of the mentality. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. His highly effective, proven approach enables bodybuilders to get results--and win competitions--by doing shorter, less frequent workouts each week.All are welcome here but this sub is intended for intermediate to advanced lifters, we ask that beginners utilize the weekly and daily discussion threads for your needs. In this book, Mentzer shows why people need to use their reasoning ability to live happy, mature, adult lives, and he shows readers how to go about doing so. Until his retirement in 1980, Mentzer was one of the sport’s most controversial and fascinating stars. Av någon anledning har vi alla fastnat i tankesättet att ju mer man tränar desto bättre resultat får man. 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.

However, things didn’t progress the way Mike had hoped, and after six months, he and Jones severed their business relationship. Arnold excelled at bodybuilding, at acting, at governating, ESPECIALLY at PR, but his first and truest love was always recreational psyops. He trained literally thousands of clients during these years and amassed himself countless experiences and results during this time. In his last interview before his death, Mentzer said he was delighted to get so many phone clients and close personal bodybuilding friends, such as Markus Reinhardt, who had been influenced by him to become Objectivists. 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.Gay men in bodybuilding often have more 'beautiful' bodies as they pay more attention to the aesthetics and don't just wanna look like meatheads.

I had for several years accepted the idea that my athletic peak was in high school and in a rare moment of doubting that idea I got this book on a whim. This also affected his training style — he initially trained like everyone else before discovering that a high-intensity approach yielded better results. It’s highly unlikely high-intensity training or one of the neo-HIT philosophies will ever become the dominant workout methodology.

Created by Dante Trudel circa 1991, this bodybuilding training philosophy’s scatological moniker was Trudel’s screenname when he first posted his workout beliefs on an internet message board in 2000. Knocking 20 lbs off your bench set because you pre-exhausted with flies is a devastating blow to the ego, but well worth the trade of greater muscular activation and, consequently, more growth. Mentzer's training courses (books and audio tapes), sold through bodybuilding magazines, were extremely popular, beginning after Mentzer won the 1978 IFBB Mr. Just as Casey Viator was introduced to high-intensity training at the ’70 America, Viator introduced it to fellow 19-year-old bodybuilder Mike Mentzer at the ’71 America.