Love Dr. Mike's style of using a story or an analogy to discuss a process. My professors were all like - bueller bueller bueller bueller... Ok read the next two chapters and test on Monday.
20 mins sauna puts me in a zen-like state that lasts for hours after. Aside from the abundant physiological benefits, I think the mental state of relaxation will jump start recovery for those who enjoy it.
@@TheGreektrojan Sticky? You should be sweating until you're WET like after a swim or shower, of course unless it's a "sauna" (just a warm room). If it's a real sauna and it's not hot enough, throw some water on the rocks for the steam.
As a massage therapist who lifts. I only get body work done when it's needed. Something is pinched, or something got over trained now it's locked up. I don't use massage for muscle recovery. I do however work at a spa that has a vapor caves (natural sauna) that thing is my favorite. I soak all the time.
I need that gym hack for recovery.I switched from basic hypertrophy, squats once a week to learning olympic lifting with squats three times a week and after deload and days without lifting and only low weights these different odd pains in quads. Actually looked up how to know if you have rhabdomyolysis at first.
Dave you mentioned on a previous podcast, think it was with Wenning, that some guys you knew only trained once a week which sounds similar to Mentzer rest principles between workouts. Question? I presume these guys were competing at a high level which would suggest adequate rest between sessions is the best recovery method, do any competitive powerlifters employ this style of training today, would be a good experiment to run to see what’s more beneficial training every three days or once every 4/5 days?
Usually the guys that only train a lift once a week either aren’t the strongest anymore… or they do hypertrophy training on other days… or they’re 300+lbs and monstrously large
It's also worth mentioning and remembering that Mentzer built his body using more conventional methods and he only switched to high intensity training well into his professional career. And the training he prescribed after that that is popularized is something even more diluted from what he actually did. In training, and hypertrophy specifically, there is a big difference between how you got there and staying where you are. Methodologies differ greatly. It's easier to maintain muscle than it is to build it. So people point to Minster and go look at the high-intensity training he did. Well, he already had that body so maintaining it could have been done through any number of methods. He chose high-intensity. Building? Another story
@@Gargarks inclined to agree however, in some interviews he mentions putting 40lbs on an untrained guy in 6 months if memory serves, personally I’ve had great results, not so much going to extreme failure on sets but utilising a four day recovery period between workouts and keeping them to around 45mins.
Hey Dave when you get time I would really like it if you can make a video talking about when you guys were at westside what's your work schedules were like. What I mean by that is I'm a guy that's 37 years old I do power lifting but I also work construction and sometimes I'm working 12 hours A-day 7 days a week. And I'm still able to lift fairly heavy. But by no means is it easy. I never see anybody talk about how they manage being tired from work after a 12 hour day of hard manual labor and then still going to the gym and being able to progress when it comes to power lifting. If I have to make my own videos about it I will but I would like your perspective on something like that.
Love Dr. Mike's style of using a story or an analogy to discuss a process. My professors were all like - bueller bueller bueller bueller... Ok read the next two chapters and test on Monday.
20 mins sauna puts me in a zen-like state that lasts for hours after. Aside from the abundant physiological benefits, I think the mental state of relaxation will jump start recovery for those who enjoy it.
I'm the opposite. I just feel hot and sticky with no noticeable effects. Different strokes I suppose.
@@TheGreektrojan Sticky? You should be sweating until you're WET like after a swim or shower, of course unless it's a "sauna" (just a warm room). If it's a real sauna and it's not hot enough, throw some water on the rocks for the steam.
Yessss
@@TheGreektrojan I enjoy hot soaks in the tub; maybe give that a go.
same, sauna is powerful
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As a massage therapist who lifts. I only get body work done when it's needed. Something is pinched, or something got over trained now it's locked up. I don't use massage for muscle recovery. I do however work at a spa that has a vapor caves (natural sauna) that thing is my favorite. I soak all the time.
Thanks guys!! I would love to hear more about what people finds help them recover.
Firefly is the best recovery tool of all time
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The Yoda of the gym
i hate the sauna too
I need that gym hack for recovery.I switched from basic hypertrophy, squats once a week to learning olympic lifting with squats three times a week and after deload and days without lifting and only low weights these different odd pains in quads. Actually looked up how to know if you have rhabdomyolysis at first.
Both of my dads in 1 video??
For a sec i thought thats a rich piana photo , so consider yourself a deltoideus
Dave you mentioned on a previous podcast, think it was with Wenning, that some guys you knew only trained once a week which sounds similar to Mentzer rest principles between workouts. Question? I presume these guys were competing at a high level which would suggest adequate rest between sessions is the best recovery method, do any competitive powerlifters employ this style of training today, would be a good experiment to run to see what’s more beneficial training every three days or once every 4/5 days?
I remember JM Blakeley talking about only training bench one day a week doing 6x6 and afaik only supplementing with the JM press another day.
Usually the guys that only train a lift once a week either aren’t the strongest anymore… or they do hypertrophy training on other days… or they’re 300+lbs and monstrously large
@@zbronstein3901 yeah and he said he benched more frequently before when he wasn’t that strong and didn’t need that long of a recovery period.
It's also worth mentioning and remembering that Mentzer built his body using more conventional methods and he only switched to high intensity training well into his professional career. And the training he prescribed after that that is popularized is something even more diluted from what he actually did. In training, and hypertrophy specifically, there is a big difference between how you got there and staying where you are. Methodologies differ greatly. It's easier to maintain muscle than it is to build it. So people point to Minster and go look at the high-intensity training he did. Well, he already had that body so maintaining it could have been done through any number of methods. He chose high-intensity. Building? Another story
@@Gargarks inclined to agree however, in some interviews he mentions putting 40lbs on an untrained guy in 6 months if memory serves, personally I’ve had great results, not so much going to extreme failure on sets but utilising a four day recovery period between workouts and keeping them to around 45mins.
The Frenchman fired shots, Dr. Mike.
Debate?
No need to discuss with zealots. The man is rabid about steroids.
who is french
Natural Hypertrophy
Hey Dave when you get time I would really like it if you can make a video talking about when you guys were at westside what's your work schedules were like. What I mean by that is I'm a guy that's 37 years old I do power lifting but I also work construction and sometimes I'm working 12 hours A-day 7 days a week. And I'm still able to lift fairly heavy. But by no means is it easy. I never see anybody talk about how they manage being tired from work after a 12 hour day of hard manual labor and then still going to the gym and being able to progress when it comes to power lifting. If I have to make my own videos about it I will but I would like your perspective on something like that.