MIKE MENTZER: THE CONSOLIDATED PROGRAM SEMINAR 1998
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
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In this video, Mike Mentzer presents a seminar on a logical approach to productive bodybuilding exercise. Mike Mentzer, emphasizes the importance of understanding the fundamental principles of exercise science, including intensity, volume, and frequency, in order to achieve optimal muscle growth. He presents a training program that involves performing two workouts, one per week, each consisting of 2 exercises done to failure, with an emphasis on exercises like squats, pulldowns, deadlifts, and dips. Mike cites the success stories of several clients who have achieved significant muscle and strength gains using this high-intensity, low-volume approach. He stresses the importance of allowing sufficient recovery time between workouts and avoiding overtraining, which he identifies as the primary cause of failure for most bodybuilders. The overall focus of the seminar is on developing a rational, logical understanding of exercise science rather than blindly following arbitrary training protocols.
The seminar is presented in four parts: An Introduction to his method; The Fundamental Principles of Exercise Science: intensity, volume, and frequency; The Importance of Recovery and Not Overtraining; The presentation of the Consolidated Program and Nutrition.
The content for this video is presented Mike Mentzer’s last book “High Intensity Training The Mike Mentzer Way” (Amazon: www.amazon.com...)
Special thanks to Ironman magazine publisher, John Balik, who has graciously allowed me to use many of his copyrighted photographs in this video (and others on this channel).
To see more of Mike Mentzer check out these videos by Wayne Gallasch of GMV:
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MIKE & RAY MENTZER - GYM WORKOUT DOWNLOAD (V-121) tinyurl.com/2ua...
MIKE MENTZER - FINAL CHAPTER DOWNLOAD (V-208) tinyurl.com/yc4...
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The greatest mind in bodybuilding history. Too honest and too ahead of his time.
I’ve been following his method for the past 2 months. The gains have been the best I’ve ever made. After 30 years of using different workout methods I’ve finally found the right one for me💪🏼
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Hell yeah! Only 15yrs for me and I'm in the same boat. 40-80lbs increase (from upper to lower exercises) in only 4-5weeks. It's insane. I'm irritated by folks who still bash Mike for his principles. Likely, as he points out that they cannot think of what to do with 1200hrs a year outside of the gym. Keep going brother👊🏼
Very interesting also the original consolidated training, in which we can see squat for lower body, incline presses for pecs, triceps and delts and pulldown for back and biceps!
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Thank you very much for your order and for your support of the channel
ive been commenting from time to time on mikes videos about my approach on high intensity training...in about 1 year of beign back to training after 2 years "break" i got back more muscle than i used to have and got stronger than i used to be, im never sore..but the thing that feels so different is the strenght the tempo 4 seconds down 4 seconds hold and 4 seconds up..dude you can feel the power within yourself..its like..beign forced to control it activates everything¡¡¡ of course theres only one valid theory and is this one...in 10 years this last year has been eye opening.
Mentzer was a genius. The 1980 Mr. Olympia title was stolen from him; but I believe Mentzer is going to have the last laugh (metaphorically speaking): HIT is making a comeback at an arithmetic progression, but eventually, I believe, HIT is going to see a geometric progression. (In other words, we ain't seen nothing yet.)
It's shameful what happened not only in 1980 to Mentzer but also in 1981 to Platz. Neither Schwarzenegger nor Columbu deserved these titles these respective years; they knew it, we who understand the politics knew it, and the Weiders knew it.
The real culprit of 1980 was Ben Weider. I believe it was his idea, and not Schwarzenegger's, for Schwarzenegger to enter the 1980 Mr. Olympia.
This begs this question: why? The answer is that Mentzer and HIT were threats to the Weiders, their publications, their supplements companies, and their high-volume bodybuilding courses.
But ultimately, their unethical--and perhaps illegal-- activities against Mentzer have backfired. (Karma's a confirmed A-1 bitch.)
Hi HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE, I wanted to ask you why in the book you wrote (Mike Mentzer's wisdom) the deadlift is replaced with the press and not the shrugs? Is it a printing error or is there a logic (which I probably guessed), also because in Muscles Minutes Mike recommends replacing the shrugs with the deadlift for those with back problems. Thanks
... 26 years later and majority of the people are going to train hard week after week whitout any meaningful strength gains... even pro bodybuilders are in same situation believing that they reached their genetic potential...
The Albert Einstein of bodybuilding.
Why does Mr. Mentzer advocate for smith machine squats? Are they superior to other forms of squatting?
They are safer if you take the squats to a point of positive positive failure.
@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE I see. Thank you for your reply and the uploaded video of Mr. Mentzer.
@@BingTheGallant You’re very welcome.
At 1:26:03 Mike mentions that you should take 2 full weeks off from training entirely, and then reduce your training frequency upon resumption of training. Does this mean that taking layoffs are absolutely required? For instance, if you're training once every 8 days and you stop making progress with that frequency, couldn't you simply just reduce your training frequency to one workout every 9 or 10 days instead of taking 2 full weeks off and then reduce the frequency?
I’m sure that some people could. However, while the consolidated program is brief and infrequent, there are some people for whom it can lead to a plateau or overtraining with. You have to remember that most of the people that sought out Mike’s advice on training were people who were hard gainers. The genetically blessed tend to make progress irrespective of what they do and therefore don’t believe that they need to do anything different than what they have been doing, even if there is a better, more efficient way. So, those with poor to below average recovery ability or poor to below average tolerance for intense exercise will require periodic layoffs. As Mike points out, you will not decompensate after a two week layoff, so there is no threat of a loss. But, with your recovery ability restored to 100%, there is the possibility of making better progress once you are fully recovered.
Hello, the tempo is 4-2-4 on every exercices? Even the big ones like deadlift?
Baseline Program: 4 Exercises.
it's interesting also original baseline program, three exercises: squat, incline presses, pulldowns 💪
If this was 1998, he died only three years later. What happened in them three years? As he looked a lot younger and healthier here. When did he have his silent heart attack John?
As I recall, it was in November 2000.
@@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGEthat would make sence for his deterioration then. I have such admiration for Mike, and so sad how his health went down hill. Never heard anyone speak with such Passion and fire 🔥 except maybe Hitler 🤣
Hi John I would like to ask you a question.Can someone practice high intensity training with resistance bands? Can you achieve proper muscular failure with bands or it’s impossible due to sticking points and not real muscular failure?
That’s a good question. I guess it would depend on what type of resistance band or resistance band unit you are employing. Years ago there was a Bowflex machine that incorporated the use of resistance bands. It was okay for some exercises but not very good for others. I know Mike liked Nautilus machines because their cams tracked with muscle function; reducing the resistance where the muscle was weaker and increasing it where it was stronger. Resistance bands just have a linear increase; the further apart you pull the bands, the more resistance is imposed on the muscles. The problem is that sometimes this is 180° out of sink with the strength curve of the muscles. Theoretically, at least, your muscles are only concerned about producing force; that is, sufficient force to accomplish whatever task you are asking them to do. Therefore, they don’t distinguish between resistance supplied by a barbell, resistance bands, or bucket of rocks. Therefore, you can tax your muscles with resistance bands, but they are far from ideal.
Thank you very much.
@@panos3505 You're welcome. Thanks for your post.
Third!
Mike still looked pretty big here, was he training in this time period John?
I believe he had returned to training about this time, but he didn’t stay with it.
@@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGEHe looks pretty Wide. I’ve heard he didn’t actually like to train?
Mike did enjoy training, when he was training with a specific goal in mind. His goal for years was to develop the ultimate physique. However, once politics entered and barred his path, his love affair with bodybuilding was over. He was never one to train just for the sake of training, he had to have a purpose. And I believe he found it hard to justify his high intensity efforts in the gym when there was no incentive even close to what had inspired him previously.
@@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE thanks for that in-depth reply John. And I totally get that.. I’m a all or nothing kind of guy myself. I still train at 47, but not with the intensity and fire 🔥 I did when in my 20s where having big muscles was everything to me, now I just like to keep in shape. Having your Channel John, it’s like Mike is still around 😊
@@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGEI find his story to be very sad but very inspiring
This is what an integrated mind on Objectivism sounds like, read Ayn Rand.
Does training a martial art like MMA impair recovery?
@@aleksandardevelopment It can, depending on how strenuous the art is and also one’s genetic tolerance for exercise and their innate recovery ability. Mike trained some martial artists over the decades, perhaps the most famous being Burton Richardson. For Burton, Mike had him working out once every five days and he made good progress.
@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE I think training would be more like cardio. Three one-hour sessions per week. My theory is that as I become strong, training martial arts is no longer of high-enough intensity in order to impair recovery. If you have any thoughts about this, please tell me. Thank you for the fast response.
If you are training MMA, that requires 100% of your momentary ability, particularly when grappling, so irrespective of how much your strength increases, you are still using 100% of it while on the mat. Consequently, you are in effect having another high intensity workout with each MMA session, which will aggressively compete for your recovery resources. Just my two cents’ worth.
@@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE That seems unfortunate. I am unsure what to do in this situation. Please tell me if you have any idea.
@@aleksandardevelopment The best thing to do (like Mike suggests) is keep a training logbook. If your reps and/or weights are going up, then you're doing fine as far as your recovery ability goes. If the numbers go down, then you are not recovering. The only way you'll know for sure is to try it and see what the data reveals.