Mentzer was ahead of his time cause he spoke about the necessity of the proper recovery, recovery capacity of the individuals with different level etc, while EVERYONE else spoke only now to do more/different overload and in what fashion.

1-5 rep maxes are extreme indeed, you can easily replace these with your typical 8-12 range and still get same intensity with low volume and progress significantly, following his overload advice and recovering in a smart way.

I worked out hard in my 20s and 30s. Stopped completely after I had a child. Recently, I started back at 52 yrs old, motivated by your book. I realized my biggest mistake was not resting enough...and I'm surprised at how quickly muscle memory reengage.

The fact that this book isn’t everywhere is insane. You Are Stronger Than You Think from Cryptic Lore is the only book I’ve found that explains how to naturally boost testosterone.

Yet, there isn't a single bodybuilder that built a great physique using this one set method. Even Yates, build 95% of his gains using different methods, more volume work as the beginning, for his first Olympia work he did 2 sets to failure.

My body's never responded better than when I started resting three if not four days between workouts.  Not sayin' it's for everyone but it can't hurt to give it a try.

Great video with a lot of great information.  The only thing I think I may disagree on is pre exhaustion and/or doing the isolation exercise first before compound, however; I have never tried this so I couldn't say for sure, but willing to try sometime.

The legend 🙌

It's obvious that pre-exhausting a muscle will reduce performance on the compound exercise. But that isn't the point. What matters is whether the resulting muscle growth will be the same - or better. And you seemed to suggest that it will be about the same. So, with pre-exhaust, you save time and put less stress on the joints, and if you grow just as much, isn't that the preferred method? Not for strength development, sure, but for hypertrophy.

Haney also swears by pre-exhaustion so you can induce hypertrophy with less weight and so better for the joints. I’m surprised there no evidence of his approach, which was obviously so effective for him and he’s one of the few body builders in great shape in his 60s.

Full-Body Workout: ##
1. Leg Press
2. Chest Press Machine
3. Seated Row Machine (Neutral Grip)
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Notes:
1. Perform only one set of each exercise. Choose a weight that allows you to reach muscle failure within 6 to 10 repetitions.
2. If you can perform more than 10 reps, continue without stopping. The primary goal is to reach muscle failure.
3. Perform this full-body workout twice per week, allowing at least two full days of rest between sessions.

I hate working out with weights. It's boring, repetitive and unproductive as getting anything done. Compared to, cutting a tree down with a beast chainsaw,  cutting into firewood size pieces,  move, stack and split larger pieces is meaningful productivity.

He used heavy weight I almost hurt my back last year. The guy was short me he almost beat Arnold

If you’re going to pitch a product during the video then don’t further monetize by adding outside advertising . It’s disrespectful, obnoxious and annoying. It also leads to the ironic circumstance of one commercial being interrupted by another . So please stop it!

I've been using Dorian's Blood and Guts style training split since 1/1/26 using TriCon sets (triple contraction). I've found it's the best blend of volume, frequency, and intensity for adequate recovery. TriCon sets are:3 reps with explosive positive, 2-3 sec negative, then 3 reps std positive, 2-3 sec static squeeze, 2-3 sec negative, then 3 reps very slow 2-3 sec positive with 2-3 sec negative. You'll have to use a lighter weight to make it through the sets but it's intense! And using lighter weights is injury prevention while getting an extremely good stimulus.

1-2 sets warm-up and 1-2 sets heavy lifting. Anything more fires backwards.

No more Crocs/Slides in the gym

Sometimes I got no choice!
If I can only get one really good drop set for those back muscles or shoulders , chest or wich ever.
As a natural, we’ve got to juggle our time and recovery and everything else .
With drop sets, I can get a killer one set workout on those muscles 💪🏼
I dig this channel! 💯
Awsome Info my bro!
👉🏼 There’s only so much you can do without being injected, but that’s what makes a natural physique, a unique physique.

Mike Mentzer was a true artist. Just like so many artists before him he became much more famous in death than he ever was in life. Mike was an impressive speaker. He was well spoken with an impressive vocabulary. Like so many others that excelled in his art form. Mike was an artist a "con artist" he was able to trick the uneducated and the gullible into buying his "magic beans." Everyone that was in bodybuilding around him knew he was wrong that's why his followers were very few. Now he's dead his intellectual property has been sold to a corporation. They are exploiting it for everything it's worth. They will milk this cash cow of gullible people as long as they can.
Let's be clear Mike's train past failure is careless and possibly dangerous.
His low volume is suboptimal at best.
His nutritional advice is terrible. Do not drink the coolade, spoiler it's poison!!! Nothing Mike said is backed by science "Nothing" it's all made up. I know it seems like he knows what he is talking about, just like a used car salesman. If someone tells you they switched and are making better gains they are 99.9% lying. Their seems to be a cult of Mike mostly paid for some just trolls I'm sure. No one and I mean NO ONE including Mike got big using this minimalist approach natural or enhanced. That's a fact. No don't start claiming Dorian or someone else. NO They didn't!!!
Stop it, get some help!!

Mentzer's ideas were mostly dismissed, despite their initial attractiveness, because they don't work. Usually HIT works for a few weeks only. Shortly after this period folks overload their CNS and got into a dead halt. The only reason why this method have so many devotees is because it promises miracles in exchange of so little work. By the way, Mentzer achieved his best results by busting his ass. He did at least 18 exercises all in supersets and almost no rest 3-4 times a week. How he came to this tripe that he suggests in Heavy Duty is beyond me.

Those who use exogenous testosterone and other drugs have protein synthesis constantly elevated in the background; you can train once every 14 days with just one set, like Mentzer or Dorian Yates, and you’ll still see growth. This won’t work without pharmacology. Optimal is 10–20 sets per week (for young body).