He was and is still right, though the training 1 once per week shtick feels like more of a marketing trick.2 times per week for big muscles seems about right, and maybe 3 for smaller muscles, depending on how you train and depending on your individual recovery capacity.Training heavy and allowing enough rest is key. Spamming exercises with low weight doesn't grow shit
>>76844996If you apply his methodology in a way that works for the most amount of people you end up with a routine where you hit a muscle once every 4 days with 1 working set per lift and about 4 lifts per muscle with varying angles and strength curves.
>>76844996He was a fraud and you are an idiot for believing him
>>76845432I've had great results training with intensity
yates did 2 warmups (and the second some people might consider a working set) and 1 top set, and 2-3 exercises per muscle. I think unless you're advanced you should do a body part twice a week. that's 4-6 sets per muscle per week. it's actually not crazy at all if you train hard
>>76844996When I train whole body and then all muscles with high intensity I am like 2 hours in the gym. after work, then i have to cook and eat. Ill already not be able to get into bed intime. The next day I will be sure to not be able get up in the morning with all that exhaustion + less sleep.What if I split my gym days for time reasons into lets say 3 days, push, pull and legs?Now lets say I am not blessed with perfect 0,001% peak human ligaments and joints and so in order to prevent injury I will do a light warmup set and one mediocre. And then on the last set I go to failure.Now lets say 3 days later I feel like I could go to the gym again and repeat the whole procedure and not only could I, also have I made the experience that this would increase my gains and I just enjoy being in the gym a lot.Wow! heavy duty for a natty who also has a full time job sounds damn well exactly like high volume. Damn what if its actually the exact fucking same just that bodybuilders who dont have a job outside from lifting can take their shit to the extreme.
>>76844996Working up to 1 set every day is probably optimal. I've been ohping 4 days a week for months and it's improving more than anything else.
>>76846718I just to do this with bench. No matter what day it was I started my routine with 3 working sets on bench. It went up insanely fast. Its a long time ago, but im talking about 65Lbs gain in 6 months
>>76845504Right, maybe american_ubermensch will even share your tiktok profile if you keep posting mentzer memes
>>76844996I'd like to believe everything he said was right, I spend too much time in the gym, sessions easily stretch to 2 hours (I don't have much else going on rn). Seeing footage of him training people and how quickly it's done, I think it's the right direction for me.Only 1 set to failure is a bit extreme, that was his main thing and consensus now seems to be that it was nonsense. Some links if you like:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znAiXJAN_9whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LhpVg-o2ZgApparently that last one was filmed only a few days before he died.
>>76844996Hitting a muscle even once per week is too much for some people.
>>76846856actually kill yourself
drama queen that was always injured and got butthurt when he lost
>>76846834>Only 1 set to failure is a bit extreme, that was his main thing and consensus now seems to be that it was nonsense.There is no consensus. If you only do it 2-3x/week 2 sets is better, but try that every day and you'll probably degrade from fatigue.
i do a six day program where i do eight exercises per day, three times frequency per week for each muscle group, one warmup set one working set, 5-7 reps with 0-1 RIR
>>76846834A bunch of people call him a genius even though he didn't really invent anything. People seem to think he's very eloquent, but it just seems like he has a good speaker with a modest vocabulary, not unlike someone who actually took their high school education seriously.I guess with the caliber of retard in the white house these days, anyone who's speech averages over two syllables is seen as impressive.
>>768488112 x to-failure sets in a week isn't usually enough to even prevent detaining in most of the population. If you look at what mentzer was doing in beginning like his 1 set pex deck 1 set machine press (he called it a super set so he was counting it as 1) but in reality that's 2 sets 10 effective reps every 4 days that will do something slowly but it will.
>>76849061>2 x to-failure sets in a week isn't usually enough to even prevent detaining in most of the population.If it's 1 set every 3-4 days, really to failure, it's probably positive, but unless it's a drop set or rest pause it's not optimal. My theory has been going toward high frequency low volume, which fazlifts has been talking about too. If I was competing for some lift in a month, I would probably do it 12x/week, morning and night six days, one hard set.
