My Encounter with Mike Mentzer - The Seminar April 07, 2017 • Strength Oldschool By Magnus (Part 2: An Eyewitness Account of Mike Mentzer's Training Seminar). Mecanica de fluidos cengel cimbala pdf free. The principles behind Mike Mentzer's high-intensity workout system. M&F New Year Emergency Shred: Four-Week Workout Plan thumbnail Intermediate.

Mentzer was unorthodox and unrepentant about his iconoclastic training views. He railed against researchers who, in his eyes, essentially were false prophets of speculation, not true scientific work. He ranted against bodybuilding officials whom he felt failed to honor his physique accomplishments, cheating him of the 1980 Mr.

Olympia title. And he dismissed bodybuilders who adhered to the more-is-better school of training without question. To say his low-volume theories worked or didn’t can become an exhausting effort.

Countless trainees swore by his approach, while others scoffed. Whatever one thought about Mentzer’s training philosophy, one had to applaud his near-perfect marriage of symmetry and mass.

Clearly, Heavy Duty worked for him. But how well would his approach work for today’s fitness culture in which people still want to put on muscle, but increasingly want to be able to do something functional with that muscle? This gave us a radical idea. What if we melded modern needs, ideas and research with adaptations of some of Mentzer’s time-tested strategies to create a post-modern post-Mentzer training protocol for the man who wants muscle? We looked around and found just the guy to deliver the goods: Andrew Speer, co-founder of SoHo Strength Lab in New York City. With a quarter century of fitness and athletic experience (former gymnast, track-and-field athlete, competitive pole-vaulter at the University of Miami), Speer collects certifications after his name like others collect stamps: CSCS, RKC-1 kettlebell instructor, Level 1 trainer in the Training Warriors system. Speer came up with a system that combines a number of modern theories while adapting some of Mentzer’s.

The result is a wholly original approach. Not only will it build muscle, but that muscle will be strong and functional. And each highly intense workout lasts 30 minutes or less — another modern prerequisite.

Why Post-Modern Works Each of the workouts consists of a series of compound sets (multiple sets for the same muscle without rest between sets). “I break down the program into workouts A, B, C and D,” Speer says. “Other than some minor variations, the compound sets are essentially identical for workouts A and C and B and D, respectively. The major difference is that identical sets are each treated to different aspects of High-Intensity Training (HIT) depending on which workout they appear.”. The primary focus of workouts A and C is concentric in nature. Concentric training pumps glucose and volumizing fluids into muscle cells, producing a twofold effect: energy and increase in muscle size.