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. In addition to sharing Mentzer's workout and training techniques, featured here is fascinating biographical information and striking photos of the world-class bodybuilder--taken by noted professional bodybuilding photographers--that will inspire and instruct serious bodybuilders and weight lifters everywhere. If you’re skeptical [of Heavy Duty’s low volume], your subconscious child is telling you that more is better. 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. It is empowering because it teaches you principles and gives you a starter deck that you are encouraged by Mike to doubt and challenge.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. 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. This approach is generally regarded as outdated - and the dual-factor approach is more accurate to describe adaption. 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.This is shown when he says, “You have to achieve failure, you have to take it that far, but nobody wants to go that far, it's too scary.

Whereas Jones prescribed one 20-rep set per exercise, Mentzer lowered the ideal rep range to six to nine: Choose a weight so heavy that you reach absolute failure at six to nine reps, then keep going. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. In the same way Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’ isn’t just about military tactics 'High-Intensity’ isn’t just a bodybuilding book, the concepts which apply to our muscles apply to the rest of us as well.It was so strange because in Zen you are encouraged to focus on action and the body whereas Mike Mentzer in this book about weight-lifting is telling you to focus on your mind. Mentzer's life was probably the best synthesis of Rand's objectivism out there, both its strengths and many shortcomings. 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.

Jag har sänkt antalet dagar jag tränar till fem vilket än så länge fortfarande känns bra och jag blir starkare mellan varje pass. I'll hop on High Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer way for a few months, and if I'm shredded to the bone and 5'8" by June, we'll know it worked. Mike Mentzer was a revolutionary in the bodybuilding world because he was the first to introduce concrete science. 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.Mentzer came to believe in a bodybuilding approach by observation and then stumbled upon Objectivism later on, then tried to justify his belief.

But unexpectedly the book then morphs into an almost philosophical insight into the mind of a bodybuilder.I recommend reading the book after watching a couple of his videos, that way you'll read the words in his style of speaking, which is very good. My third suggestion is that all chapters in which Mike shares his Ayn Rand-inspired philosophy be removed. I will continue to experiment with his one set to failure heavy duty workouts and revisit his motivational promos when I need them, if I ever get serious about it!