It was so strange because in Zen you are encouraged to focus on action and the body whereas Mike Mentzer in this book about weight-lifting is telling you to focus on your mind.

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. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Dual-factor works with fitness and fatigue, and you can think of it similar to how you get tired during a workout, you build up fatigue over a longer extent of time to create adaption on a larger time scale. When proselytizing for greatly reduced workout volume and frequency, he often contrasted Heavy Duty with the high-volume, double-split routines of bodybuilding’s previous greats—and none were greater than Arnold Schwarzenegger. These anecdotes provide nothing of use to the aspiring bodybuilder and are also dubious as far as general inspiration.In 1975, he started attending the University of Maryland as a pre-med student where his hours away from the gym were spent in the study of "genetics, physical chemistry, and organic chemistry.

According to Mentzer, biologists and physiologists since the nineteenth century have known that hypertrophy is directly related to intensity, not duration, of effort (Mentzer 2003;39). Do four working sets for smaller bodyparts, like biceps, and 6-8 working sets for larger bodyparts, like back.Inspired by Ayn Rand, Mentzer was a proponent of objectivism — a philosophical doctrine defined by the idea that men must be guided by what makes them happy. What most distinguished the 5’6″ Labrada from the Mentzer brothers, Casey Viator, and Dorian Yates was his physique type. His desire to gain inner mastery—by proving his excellence and competence to himself—makes him immune to the routine anxieties and pressures that often attend success. It shares with the high-intensity training of Jones and Mentzer minimal workout volume (one working set for most exercises) and an emphasis on journeying beyond failure, in DC’s case with rest-pause, drop sets, and static contractions.