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A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
High-intensity bodybuilding advice from the first man to win a perfect score in the Mr. Universe competition
This one-of-a-kind book profiles the high-intensity training (HIT) techniques pioneered by the late Mike Mentzer, the legendary bodybuilder, leading trainer, and renowned bodybuilding consultant. His highly effective, proven approach enables bodybuilders to get results--and win competitions--by doing shorter, less frequent workouts each week. Extremely time-efficient, HIT sessions require roughly 40 minutes per week of training--as compared with the lengthy workout sessions many bodybuilders would expect to put in daily.
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.
From the Back Cover
The advanced techniques, most productive workouts, and life-transforming personal philosophies of bodybuilding legend Mike Mentzer
Whatever your level of fitness, you can kick your muscles--and your mind--into high gear with the radical training philosophies and advanced bodybuilding techniques of Mike Mentzer, the first bodybuilder to ever garner a perfect score in the Mr. Universe competition.
The thinking man's bodybuilder, Mike revolutionized the art of training with his Heavy DutyTM system, proving that "less is more" when it comes to making great gains. But Mike's most advanced ideas have never been revealed--until now. Direct from Mentzer's inner circle--friend and colleague John Little along with Joanne Sharkey, the CEO of Mentzer-Sharkey Enterprises, Inc.--The Wisdom of Mike Mentzer gives you an insider's look at his most intense, in-depth lessons.
Inside these pages you will learn all the fundamentals of:
- HUNGER--the code of integrity for displaying a heroic physique
- Philosophy and character building--why you need never again fear your competition
- The science of productive bodybuilding exercise--Mentzer's fail-safe principles for building maximum size and strength
- Consolidation Training--a lightning-quick workout that works "like magic" for producing phenomenal muscle growth
- • Advanced Heavy DutyTM techniques, such as Omni-Contraction Training, Infitonic Training, and Rest-Pause Training
The Wisdom of Mike Mentzer provides readers with a unique insight into the world of Mike Mentzer--the man, the philosopher, and the legend.
Those readers who have been engaged in serious bodybuilding for more than a year probably have realized that the growth of muscle tissue beyond normal levels is a relatively slow process. Read the first page
Concordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A TRULY GREAT BOOK -- THE FINAL WORD ON HIT,
This review is from: High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way (Paperback)
Let me start by saying that it is impossible to do this book justice in such a brief review, although I will do my best.This is without doubt the best book I have read on weight training/body building, and I have read a lot. The book provides a detailed explanation of what exactly is meant by High Intensity training. Mike explains the theories behind High Intensity/Low Volume exercise, providing sound logical reasoning and common sense explanations as to why HIT is by far the best way to train. Throughout the book you are encouraged to think for yourself, rather than just take the author at his word, and apply his theories to your existing program and its results and how the theories of HIT apply. Detailed workouts are listed, including all the information needed like: Exercise selection. Each of the above is explained diligently, and an explanation is given for why a particular route is recommended. The book also encourages you to analyse your results and explains what to do if you stop getting consistent strength increases. I myself started using Mikes HIT regime a year ago now (having purchased another one of his books) and in the past year I have had the best strength and size increases since I started training 8 years ago. Believe it or not since starting HIT I have been stronger on every exercise, every workout for the last year! However the other book that I read by Mike was much briefer and left some unanswered questions in my mind. This, much more comprehensive, book has answered all those nagging questions and provided me with a much deeper insight into the science of HIT. Although the amount of training required with conventional methods never really caused me a problem (I would have trained 7 days a week if it provided the best results) Mike regime provides you with more than adequate rest time, and means that by the time I come to a work out I am so full of energy I feel like putting the weight through the roof. If you are into weight training/bodybuilding stop wasting time with all of the ridiculous, un scientific workouts listed in the current "Muscle Mags" doing the rounds and base your training on the sound principles of HIT and watch your strength/size sky rocket. As many of you will know Mike sadly passed away in 2001, so rest in peace Mike, and thanks for leaving us such a great legacy.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Only Way to Train that Makes Sense,
By A Customer
This review is from: High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way (Paperback)
I trained inconsistently for about 13 years from the age of 18 to the age of 31. I used the usual volume approach which is taught in the bodybuilding magazines and most of the bodybuilding books. At the age of 32 I finally decided to get serious about training. I found that I reached a plataeu after about 1 1/2 years of steady training in which I hardly missed a single workout. I was eating well and doing the things that the bodybuilding magazines teach (i.e. multiple sets per exercise, multiple exercises per bodypart, 60 to 90 seconds of rest between sets, ect.) yet my strength virtually ceased to make any progress. I was at a complete loss when I decided to look up Clarence Bass on the Internet. He is a well known bodybuilding author. He suggested Mike Mentzer and his training methods to all those seriously interested in making continued progress in bodybuilding. After trying Mike Mentzer's training methods for 6 months, I am convinced that this is the best way to train. I am now back on the road to continued gains in strength and muscular size. I would reccomend Dorian Yates also as a source of information (you can order his books thru this web site). Yates won 6 Mr. Olympia's using the Mike Mentzer high intensity system.
5.0 out of 5 stars
a logical approach to training,
By shahnawaz (peshawar,pakistan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way (Paperback)
its another great book by the legendary mike mentzer.his advice is full of logic and his is the only rational voice in bodybuilding.a reviewer with a stupid name showed his dismay at the picture showing mentzer reading a newspaper.it shows the usual concrete bound mentality that scoffs at any mention of the terms logic,reason or philosophy in a bodybuilding magazine or anywhere.he again whines that it is no big deal reading descartes or kant.well,mike didn't read to showoff his erudition the way scumbags like u do.and what does the comparison with arnold's stupid degree mean.with the current low standards in academia any fool can get a degree.how in the hell can u compare a business degree to philosophy.philosophy is the most abstract subject there is and MBA means just that:master of bull and advice.the reviewer is completely unaware of mike's revolutionary contributions to exercise science.so what that he didn't have a phd.neither did plato or aristotle.i have a masters degree in philosophy(cum laude),but i know it's worth.it belongs in a dustbin along with your stupid,cynical review.
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