Further, if one set is all you need for each exercise because multitudes aren't necessary, why are two exercises better than 1 exercise per workout?

Dom Mazetti is not an empiricist, or even a bodybuilder. He's technically not even real, and everything he says is satire. So you can't treat him as a source of lifting knowledge. Muscle and Fitness magazine is actually a worse source, because, like Mike Matthews said in Bigger, Leaner, Stronger, if they told you the truth you'd never have to buy more than one magazine. While Mike Mentzer served in the United States Air Force, he worked 12-hour shifts, and then followed that up with 'marathon workouts' as was the accepted standard in those days. In his first bodybuilding contest, he met the winner, Casey Viator. Mentzer learned that Viator trained in very high intensity (heavy weights for as many repetitions as possible, to total muscle fatigue), for very brief (20–45 minutes per session) and infrequent training sessions. Mentzer also learned that Viator almost exclusively worked out with the relatively new Nautilus machines, created and marketed by Arthur Jones in DeLand, Florida. Mentzer and Jones soon met and became friends. [11] This book changed the way I train substantially, but not only that, also my philosophy towards it, everything makes so much sense and follows logic, I don't overtrain anymore, 2 days a week is all I need, no stress about having to go 4 times a week, just true hard work and plenty of rest to let the muscles repair and grow. From a 167-pound barely heralded middleweight when he turned pro in 2002 to a 212-pound legend in the Pro League (2004-2020), David Henry dramatically transformed himself by Doggcrapping. DC places a primacy on continuous strength gains (typically in the 11-15 rep range). It shares with the high-intensity training of Jones and Mentzer minimal workout volume (one working set for most exercises) and an emphasis on journeying beyond failure, in DC’s case with rest-pause, drop sets, and static contractions. But it also diverges from the HIT of the previous decades by prescribing a greater training frequency (hitting bodyparts three times every 14 days) and the use of features like continuous exercise rotations. Like Darden and Leistner, Ken Hutchins was a protégé of Arthur Jones and employee of Nautilus. In the ’80s, he developed a high-intensity program of very slow reps (10 seconds down, 10 seconds up); and in the ’90s brief workouts of 2-8 sets of SuperSlow reps became a minor exercise fad. PARTIALS AND STATIC CONTRACTIONSThe 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. Why is Mentzer not an automatic legend in the eyes of some fans? His retirement and early death at the age of 49 meant that his contributions were limited. Mentzer won the heavyweight division at the 1979 Olympia and was tapped by many to become the sport’s next legend. 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. 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's life was probably the best synthesis of Rand's objectivism out there, both its strengths and many shortcomings. If I knew more about either I'd probably write a longer review. Despite all of this, Menzter’s name is still held respectfully within the bodybuilding community. He is a legend despite never winning an Olympia title. Becoming Mike Mentzer

Developed by Paul Delia, Maximum Overload Training prescribes moderately low volume (six to nine sets per bodypart), 30-40-minute workouts, and low-reps with basic exercises. Max-OT advocates using weights so heavy that failure is reached in no more than six reps but diverges from high-intensity training in cautioning not to go beyond failure. This system peaked in popularity when its most prominent practitioners, drug-tested bodybuilders Skip LaCour and Jeff Willet, won the overall IFBB Team Universe Championships in 2002 and 2003, respectively.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. He described Objectivism as the best philosophy ever devised. He also criticized the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, which he described as an "evil philosophy," because according to him Kant set out to destroy man's mind by undercutting his confidence in reason. He also criticized the teaching of Kantianism in schools and universities and said it's very difficult for an Objectivist philosopher with a PhD to get a job in any of the universities. [13] Final years and death [ edit ] Mentzer followed the bodybuilding concepts developed by Arthur Jones and endeavored to perfect them. Through years of study, observation, knowledge of stress physiology, the most up-to-date scientific information available, and careful use of his reasoning abilities, Mentzer devised and successfully implemented his own theory of bodybuilding. Mentzer's theories are intended to help a drug-free person achieve his or her full genetic potential within the shortest amount of time. [8] https://youtube.com/watch?v=BIEGhiEHc48 Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Fat Loss vs Muscle Gain Macros: How to Eat for Your Goals (https://youtube.com/watch?v=BIEGhiEHc48) Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bill Dobbins. The new encyclopedia of modern bodybuilding (Simon and Schuster, 1998), 205.

He talks about how so much of bodybuilding training amounts to folklore, and how the idea "everyone responds to different training methods" doesn't make sense from a medical standpoint. He also took issue with people taking successful bodybuilders' words as gospel, but had the class not to point out that the primary authority on bodybuilding lore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, lied compulsively and for fun all the time. As wonderful as it may be to have a well-developed physique, without the ability to think logically and effectively about a subject to which you have been passionately committed, you are, in effect, consigning yourself to living as one half of a human being." Only 13 years old at the time, Mentzer went so far as to set out a future schedule for his bodybuilding career. It read:

To go beyond failure, do pre-exhaust supersets. For example, do a set of dips immediately after triceps extensions. A high-intensity trainer, bodybuilder Mark Dugdale competed in the IFBB Pro League from 2005-17. Dugdale did anywhere from four to nine sets per bodypart, some of them rest-pause, some low-rep (six to eight), and some Doggcrapp widowmakers—a final blow-out set of 20-30 reps. For a week in 2007, he trained under Dorian Yates’ supervision in Temple Gym. Hammer Strength pulldowns: Yates trains Dugdale in Temple. / YouTube DOGGCRAPP TRAINING Mentzer's tips on weight training make a lot of sense, it's difficult to argue with what he says when you can see the results throughout the book, and I've started training using his method - too early to say whether it works or not, though am already stepping up the amounts of weight I can lift. I came into this book looking for a comprehensive way to train. Until recently I didn't have a foundation to lose the weight and keep it off after a few knee injuries saw my weight balloon. A place for for those who believe that proper diet and intense training are all you need to build an amazing physique.

Note: Mentzer worked up to one all-out set of failure, typically lasting for six to nine reps for each movement listed above.While in school, Mentzer's father motivated his academic performance by providing him with various kinds of inducements, from a baseball glove to hard cash. Years later, Mike said that his father "unwittingly ... was inculcating in me an appreciation of capitalism." [4] Mentzer's book inspires to put one's mind into full use in bodybuilding. 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. Discuss NANBF/IPE, INBF/WNBF, OCB, ABA, INBA/PNBA, and IFPA bodybuilding, noncompetitive bodybuilding, diets for the natural lifters, exercise routines and more! Recent studies have vindicated Mike Mentzer, of course. A man who trains regularly can coast on three or more weeks of complete inactivity without any loss in muscle or strength.