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

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As other reviewers have suggested, some level of temperance of the program with modern updates from Dorian Yates or others is advisable for completeness of modern understanding however the core training principles are rock solid in my opinion.

Mike's clunky jargon in these chapters is such a distraction it has become too easy for his critics to dismiss him as a flake. His desire to gain inner mastery—by proving his excellence and competence to himself—makes him immune to the routine anxieties and pressures that often attend success.så länge har jag kastat många övningar i sopsäcken och bytt ut vissa andra mot övningar som lättare tillåter träning förbi failure. It's been more than ten years since Mike Mentzer passed away, and his ideas still spark heated debate among bodybuilders. Just do the following: 1) Skip all the detours into politics and philosophy 2) Supplement the routines with articles that Dorian Yates has written for Flex and Muscular Development magazines and 3) use a Hammer Strength machine if doing forced reps or lifting extra-heavy. He trained literally thousands of clients during these years and amassed himself countless experiences and results during this time.

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. But you can’t take that principle and blindly apply it to exercise and expect to get anything out of it. Addeddate 2021-05-29 22:51:47 Identifier hight-intensity-training-the-mike-mentzer-way-with-john-little Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0fv9vx1s Ocr tesseract 5. 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.Mike Mentzer is no longer with us, so I implore the publisher to hire either Mike's most successful student, Dorian Yates, or the bodybuilding journalist Peter McGough to edit a new edition. He wrote the series to put an end to the ridiculous three hour workouts most people were doing at the time. This approach is generally regarded as outdated - and the dual-factor approach is more accurate to describe adaption. These anecdotes provide nothing of use to the aspiring bodybuilder and are also dubious as far as general inspiration.

Progress should be immediate and significant from the time you start using a routine, and it should be continous from that point on.

My third suggestion is that all chapters in which Mike shares his Ayn Rand-inspired philosophy be removed. on one page he says you need to be patient and expect only a couple of pounds of muscle each year, but on another place, he says you can reach your genetic potential within 1 year, which is nonsense.

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. Av någon anledning har vi alla fastnat i tankesättet att ju mer man tränar desto bättre resultat får man. 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. 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.He doesn't use failure with a negative connotation, instead, after each workout template he says, “Congratulations, you have achieved failure. Arnold excelled at bodybuilding, at acting, at governating, ESPECIALLY at PR, but his first and truest love was always recreational psyops. 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.