Will this routine really build muscle?
>>76674039so what do you do just max out? or does he say the rep set count somewhere else i know hes the guy that does the weird shit, but thats it
that dude got the downs cant even keep the order of days correct definitely do not do whatever he says
>>76674039No. It won't. Never trust roidtrannies with anything.Stick to PPL or a Brosplit and progress with weight. That's all.
>>76674039How about you stop asking questions and just lift some heavy shit retard
>>76674039No\bread
>>76674157wdym order of days?the days are in order
>>76674063>max outYou go to muscular failure using a weight appropriate for the rep range. One set per exercise though if you think you need more you can do two. If you need more than that, you can do three. One set to failure is implying you are able to push yourself to the point where you get everything you can out of it or you have someone who can really push you. It also depends on having good MMC, of which Mike Mentzer was a believer in. You need to lift with good form too. No turning lat movements into lower back movements. No arching for maximum leverage at the expense of deloading the pecs.Mentzer's statements are deeply misunderstood by HIT shills as they take his minimal recommendations as something other than an ideal program in Mike's mind and that you can't deviate from it according to your individual needs. If you need to work a couple angles to get the most development out of a muscle, then do so. Mike Mentzer had nothing against what Yates, who was doing four exercises for most muscle groups in the corresponding workout, did. Rather it's the principals of Intensity of Effort and adequate recovery time that are most important. It's 6-8 reps for most lifts. Incline press is 1-3. Dips 3-5 reps. Leg day is 12-20 reps. >>76674157He's scheduling it with the idea of a workout once every four days. If you start on Monday your next workout is Friday, four days later. Four days after Friday is a Tuesday and then after that a Saturday. His "standard" recommendation coming from hardgainers he was training is 4-7 days between workouts. Mentzer allows for individual variation of training schedules. Once every other day would be fine for most people. 3-4 workouts per week.
>>76674039Apparently back then you could just call this guy and have him coach you from the telephone.
>>76674157This is your brain on volume training
>>76675162"What should I do Mike?""You should lift"
Mike mentzer had a cool skull
>>76674841Finally someone who understands HIT and is articulate enough to explain it properly. As a side note I think total beginners wpuld not benefit from HIT since they lack the mind muscle connection, proprioception and experience to reach proper failure and thus make the principles work.
>>76674841well i see nothing wrong with it if you are maxing out as that is extremely stressful/taxing on the body, i would say the issue is people are retarded and it could be more injury prone however.
how the fuck do u do weighted dips after isolating ur triceps with extensions in a superset?wouldnt ur dips suck absolute shit in performance doing them supersetted after tricep isolation?
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>>76675791>wouldnt ur dips suck absolute shit in performance doing them supersetted after tricep isolation?Yrs, but the key to HIT is achieve maximun fatigue. Reps and weight ate a means to an end, not a goal in themselves.
>>76674039Why try so hard in the gym id rather do less every/every other day, afraid of looking desperate in front of all the cute gym girls?
>>76674841>He's scheduling it with the idea of a workout once every four days.Isn't that too much? Do the muscle really needs 4 days to recover?
>>76677481>Do the muscle really needs 4 days to recover?At the weight/intensity that he was running, yeah kind of.
>>76675745No it went more like>What should I do mike?>"You should rest for two more days"
>>76677481There's "two recoveries" running side by side.The physical recovery, mps, electrolyte and glycogen replenishment, connective tissue modification ect.And the Strength recovery which is almost entirely neurological.The mps is mostly over after 16-24 hours in trained lifters but there's other recovery going on. Even after that is over there's still probably a lingering period before you're really primed for another growth stimulus. This is why you hear "3-5 days" everywhere now. It's mostly genetically controlled so if 3 doesn't work try 4 and so on. Some weird study showed some geriatric dude having some insane outlier number of days before he added leanmass in response to training. It was like 17 days. You don't want to train less than your number though. Because like right after it starts shifting towards atrophy.
