Heavy Duty training? "Mike Mentzer"

[Rider91]

What do you guys think about this?

Like Mentzer said: "you should not spend more than 30min in the gym".. IMO that might overtrain you because you are training with a very high intensity, you are doing a 60-70min workout in less than 30min. I guess that may overtrain you.

What do you think? have you ever tryied this method before?

[DanielBeauchamp]

Mentzer sucks. In view of this, his ideas suck.

[Ka0s]

HIT is truly a horrible, horrible system

[seanoh]

went overboard with overtraining stuff, but you'd be a lot better off training his way than high volume

[Ka0s]

went overboard with overtraining stuff, but you'd be a lot better off training his way than high volume

Great physiques produced by HIT: about 3, although the majority of their training life was spend doing traditional routines
Great physqiues produced by higher volume, non-retarded training: every other bodybuilder ever

hmmmm

[MadDogMalesh]

Great physiques produced by HIT: about 3, although the majority of their training life was spend doing traditional routines
Great physqiues produced by higher volume, non-retarded training: every other bodybuilder ever

hmmmm

I know the answer to this one! Pick #2. But seriously doing routines like OP mentioned never work out well.

[seanoh]

okay let a kid with average genetics, sub par nutrition and no gear do 20 sets for chest

[Ka0s]

okay let a kid with average genetics, sub par nutrition and no gear do 20 sets for chest

No, it would be much better for him to do only 1 set of 8 repetitions on incline bench for chest, and of course only hit chest once every 10 days. This will result in massive size and strength gains.

[seanoh]

I know the answer to this one! Pick #2. But seriously doing routines like OP mentioned never work out well.

brb 6 olympias

[Ka0s]

brb 6 olympias

insert pics of arnold, haney, coleman, cutler... BRB over 25 olympias combined

And Yates "HIT" is significantly different from Mentzers

[seanoh]

cant say it doesnt work tho... and cutler / arnold / coleman likely never tried hit

i dont agree with everything mentzer says and his training def leads to undertraining imo but progress > no progress

[N01SYtZ]

Mentzer sucks. In view of this, his ideas suck.

HIT is truly a horrible, horrible system

wat

HIT is the ****in shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

mentzers isnt the greatest and i doubt he even did that lol
2 sets of chest for like 10 days
f that

[Ka0s]

wat

HIT is the ****in shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

mentzers isnt the greatest and i doubt he even did that lol
2 sets of chest for like 10 days
f that

Yeah he went too crazy with it. Im all for low volume heavy training, but Mentzer HIT is just ridiculous. And for pro BB'ers, high volume seems to work better (maybe because less bbers have tried low volume but w/e) for competitive BBing.

[N01SYtZ]

Yeah he went too crazy with it. Im all for low volume heavy training, but Mentzer HIT is just ridiculous. And for pro BB'ers, high volume seems to work better (maybe because less bbers have tried low volume but w/e) for competitive BBing.

yeha a lot of pro's need a ****load of sets to even get a minor tear of muscle cuz they been doing it for so damn long there body is used to it

as a noob we would benefit from HIT