Mike Mentzer Interview II Part 1

[@fender1000100]

The most intelligent TRUTHFUL bodybuilder that ever lived. Aswell as one of the greatest physiques in history. His logic and truth gave me the best results of my life.

[@eliteman58]

YOUR PHYSIQUE LOOK LIKE GARBAGE.

[@theway4660]

@@eliteman58 look who's talking!! Lol

[@Nobodyyoucarabout]

@@eliteman58 jesus dude get your anger under control, i just read all your comments on other video, its just sad.

[@eliteman58]

@@Nobodyyoucarabout if I wanted to engage in someone more intelligent than you. I would talk to a kindergarten kid. ENJOY THE JEALOUSY

[@eliteman58]

@@theway4660 ENJOY THE JEALOUSY

[@jm252]

Used to love Mike Mentzer as a young lad. I used to dress like him and even have his Tash :-) Thats as far as it went! I could never get in his condition. He was a Legend and still is! :-) RIP Mike and Ray.

[@Pom_pom_puddin]

I am related to him lol

[@fromtheotherside1980]

@@Pom_pom_puddin explain your self

[@u4ious]

Wow , he was a head of his time. Eye opening talk. The most intelligent bodybuilder till date.

[@fender1000100]

Without question. Which is why he aptly titled the book that changed my life HEAVY DUTY II MIND AND BODY.

[@gatorgoode8574]

Zane's pretty Sharp

[@josefraguas2768]

A cut above everybody. Lucky to met him. Opened doors of thought in my life. Always grateful for his friendship and shared knowledge.

[@Pom_pom_puddin]

I am related to mike lol

[@AllanSilva-yp3ro]

Mike Mentzer Born: November 15, 1951, Ephrata, Pennsylvania, USA Death: June 10, 2001, Rolling Hills, California, USA Ray Mentzer Born: August 2, 1953, Pennsylvania, USA Death: June 12, 2001, Rolling Hills, California, USA Too young and too strong to die, I imagine the family's pain when they feel their losses.

[@Jeff-bv7pw]

This is Great! I love Mike Mentzer's philosophies. I like listening to him for inspiration.

[@chocolatier9597]

Pure GOLD

[@fender1000100]

For sure. I got much better results training once every 5 to 7 days. Than training 4 times a week. My body required much longer recovery. And the problem is theres millions of guys out there who are the same as me. But who never realize it. So never reach their potential. It's that simple

[@chocolatier9597]

@@fender1000100 Exactly - too much of anything is bad.

[@Agui007]

Don't forget...listen to your body. If you are intuned with it you will know what is best by listening to it. 👍🏼

[@JuhaniPaasikangas]

🙏

[@smokingblues5067]

Thank your for uploading this

[@juanvaldes1837]

Great stuff. Thanks for putting this out

[@stefanosprokopis6974]

Imagine this guy on joe Rogan

[@FranknStrength]

Man thanks for sharing. This is so awesome.

[@blackvulturemusic4080]

AWESOME! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[@andrewbyng9249]

This is amazing.

[@petechumly985]

Mike certainly can talk

[@fender1000100]

He was a very intelligent man. Fragile and flawed in many ways. But when it came to HIT he was right on the money..Everything he said would happen to me with HIT. Happened.

[@isaiarosica6552]

That's incredible. Minute 35 what it is h appening in Italy (and in the world) today! Very actual.

[@Pom_pom_puddin]

I am related to him lol

[@stillnessinmotion81]

Thank you!!!

[@fordresurrectionest9556]

Mike has a good point. When I was a teen. I was bench pressing 210 pounds. It was so heavy I could only 2 reps. I was done. Called it good wand did that for many years. Mind you I'm only 5'-4" and 150 pounds on a good day. I when it came to fighting. I would pick guys up like rag dolls and tossed them. Don't over train. Your body will grow based on the weight you put on it. It has to or die. Guess what you're still here. So go push some heavy weights.

[@gporr7004]

I started giving this a try. When I look back at my progress after 20 years of working out I question the amount of gains I made. I shoukd be huge by now. There is a very good chance I did too much because I was always very tired and irritable after workouts even days after. There sboukd be no reason to wipe yourself out. So ima give it a few mo ths and check my progress. Worth a shot...

[@fender1000100]

Trust me it's better than 4 or more times a week. My deadlift for example went up 10lbs every workout for 15 straight workouts. My dumbell curls went from 35lbs for 12 strict reps to 50lbs for 17 strict reps. In 25 workouts. After being plateaued for months from severe overtraining. This man knew what he was talking about. We dont all recover at the SAME rate. You have to decrease your volume and frequency until you hit your zenith. For me it was 5 days rest between workouts. And 7 days to gain even further progress. And eventually 9 days to hit even further and ultimate progress. I'm telling you virtually everyone Is OVERTRAINED. And as a result will never see their full potential as a natural. Not ever. They try to train like elite bodybuilders taking 20k PLUS worth of drugs a year. And you just cannot. Millions of guys out there are just spinning their wheels. Theyll never get close to their true potential. And most give up. Or start taking STEROIDS.

[@gporr7004]

@@fender1000100 I agree

[@Icrshou]

How’s it going? Any results?

[@gporr7004]

@@Icrshou Put on about 10 lbs since the comment I made. Only supplements I'm on is 5mg of monohydrate afyer workout. No PEDs or anything so it's worked great for me.

[@gporr7004]

@@Icrshou I've also added a few sets since then for progression but not much. Doing an upper lower split also

[@richbrake9910]

Tom Teufel battling Dave Johns @ :27 is cool.

[@EquityCall]

Wonder what Mike would have thought of the Totalitarian COVID regime these days...

[@Nobodyyoucarabout]

the interviewer is so disinterested with anything intellectual, and only seems concerned with getting his listeners the crucial information, but misses the point that his fans werent drawn to the training routines, but to the voice of reason that Mike Mentzer was bringing

[@Geckoliga]

Thanks for uploading this - timedocument ... It´s good to hear Mike speaking and listening to his words, but your personality should be buildet out

[@nicholasjanke3476]

HIT WORKS! I train two exercises per week-two sets each (I don't lift weights, I do only bodyweight exercises) with nine days rest between workouts. I've seen great results! (though a good breakfast and plenty of sleep is important to my results).As a young man I only knew what I read in the muscles mags about two days one day off, three days on, one day off, six days on, one day off-and for years I gained little progress after awhile. Then I tried Mentzer's baseline HIT prorgamm and I've seen far better gains! Dorian Yates says that while he believes in HIT, he doesn't believe Mentzer's and Jone's ideas take competition into account. Mabey he has a point but HIT works for me despite all the naysayers say (one bodybuilder said that results would taper off after awhile but that hasn't happened to me).

[@Pom_pom_puddin]

I am related to him lol

[@nicholasjanke3476]

@@Pom_pom_puddin really? In what way?

[@Pom_pom_puddin]

@@nicholasjanke3476 he’s my grandfathers cousin! He died of steroids in 2001, my last name is Mentzer if you don’t believe me heh-

[@nicholasjanke3476]

@@Pom_pom_puddin well Mike was a genius!!! He was way ahead of other muscle men in knowledge! Was Mike ever married just out of curiousity? He always seemed like a rather private man I was curious.

[@lukeism2]

Two exercises two sets a week? This is barely anything. I bet your conditioning is absolutely terrible.

[@nicholasjanke3476]

Mentzer was a fascinating man. He was no dummy. He trained to be a medical doctor after all. There's some doubt about whether he himself trained as he preached. Franco Columbo once said that Mentzer trained with him and Schwarzenegger in the gym, for two hours and that he never left the gym before anybody else. Franco Columbo: "So it cannot be that he was training just one set per exercise."

[@lateralus2199]

​@Old Skool Bodybuilding Routines a lot of what Arnold says wasn't true either. especially when he told his ex-wife Maria Shiver that he didn't fuck the maid, but he actually did. Got the maid pregnant and had a child out wedlock! Lol! 😁😁😁😁😀😀

[@carpediem6568]

Mentzer, brilliant and a pioneer, someone who did his research and learned through experimentation as a coach to always look for what's important, results. And he contributed more than most any bodybuilder to the sport, especially in the area of rest to achieve muscle growth. But, in the end, he failed. Because his theory didn't match reality, much as his idol Ayn Rand's theories were so extreme they were dysfunctional and unrealistic. HIT in bodybuilding doesn't work because it's too hard on the psyche. Very few can even do it, much less, long term. Casey Viator (the person who introduced Mentzer to Arthur Jones) dropped out of his last contest, at a very young age and retired. He said he couldn't go through another contest prep. It was just too hard. That doesn't mean you can't use some of what he taught. Just have to be realistic about how much you can tolerate and not lose out like Viator did. Yates and Mentzer also gave up bodybuilding,

[@carpediem6568]

@Old Skool Bodybuilding Routines Especially in bodybuilding. It never made sense.

[@carpediem6568]

@Old Skool Bodybuilding Routines Right. No matter how you structure it, a workout has to have some volume in it. Trying to lift too heavy and too hard makes you stronger, not bigger.

[@DanLetts97]

It doesn’t sound to me like you understand the principles. If it’s hard on your psyche most likely you are simply over training, Mike recommended training just once every 4 to 7 days or less. And even then that would only be three working sets per week. I rarely meet anyone especially in the KZbin comment section that has the intellect or the functioning rational faculty to properly apply the theory.

[@carpediem6568]

@@DanLetts97 That's a good point. I just don't believe in any kind of negative while training. None of the pros go to failure. They all have trainers, and it's not a failure if someone assists you to complete a rep. I used to lift similar to HIT but never rested anywhere near the time Mentzer proposed, so can't say how well it works. It only makes sense that one would need that much rest. If I was younger I would try it.

[@GhettoPCbuilds]

I think the most weight for the most reps will make the best physique. Only way to test this “potential” is by a control group vs a test group. Take an athlete, given anabolics vs a natty; a training methodology of 1. volume pump training vs 2. frequent heavy HIT, vs 3. The middle ground of both using moderate weight for more reps than HIT but less volume than pump training. I believe Mikes method produced a dense muscle attributed to strength but he did enough reps to make one with the size of a volume trainer. Much harder than typical pump method. More common today than back then which makes Mike a true pioneer in his time. I’d say his method was succeeded with Yates, a taller man with enough effort and GH use that further accentuates mikes method. An evolution of mikes process that shows its true potential. Mike was just ahead of his time.

[@scottjessupjones6037]

"oh, and one more thing i'd like to say before i exit: the ALIENS are coming! the ALIENS are coming"!

[@jimgrieser9381]

20:00

[@creylion]

Why does it sound like it was 1970 it was only 2000 ffs!!😅😆🤪

[@Los-2212]

This was recorded in *1994

[@Nico-yn1vg]

His workout methodology may have strong merit but most of what he said is hot air. If there is no absolute authority ( God) and no absolute truth ( God's word) then there is no right and wrong. Mentzer said that philosophy( man's ideas) decide right and wrong. Ok so we should put our faith in what some Philosopher says and his decree on right and wrong, truth and lie? I think not. That same Philosopher dropped dead and couldn't raise himself back to life. Unfortunately the same fate awaited Mentzer. All of this intelligent sounding Ayn Rand type talk is all man rejecting his Creator ( God) in place of worshipping self. Man can do nothing apart from God. Man cannot keep himself alive even. We flatter ourselves and ignore God , only to die and stand before him one day. I respect Mentzer as a bodybuilder but apart from that he was truly lost. You can hear the confusion and inner misery that these Godless ideas bring.And then you die! Ugh. Look to the one who rose from the dead, the only one to raise from the dead, Jesus Christ. Not Ayn Rand. Put faith in the writings of the Holy Bible not the writings of Ayn Rand. You cannot even come close to comparing the reliability and validity of the 2. There is no other book on this planet that even comes close to the dependability of the Bible. If it is written there, it will come to pass. You can be confident of that.

[@imgoutedyt6841]

There is an absolute truth when it comes to life and that is that we’re all a consciousness experiencing life itself it is the only universal truth god is merely a metaphor for the pineal gland that releases dmt in your dreams so mike mentzer was right there is an absolute truth to rveruthig

[@SonsOfThunder229]

I wish he believed, he could be in heaven right now, but the knowledge of man blinded him.

[@PureTruth]

Ah, bless him. He thinks he knows everything but uses false reasoning regarding ww2 and the moon...

[@valueinvestor6715]

So what, look at the results

[@gporr7004]

Let's look at all the false reasoning and nonsense out there today on You Tube. It's laughable. I mean it even goes as far as someone inventing something you listen to to get big. Seriously! And people promising 1 inch to your arms in a week and all this nonsense. Fact is you need to use your common sense amd figure out what works for you. That being said, most people lack that very thing. Common sense!!