As a Philosophy fan, a bodybuilding fan, a Mike Mentzer fan, and a John Little fan, this checks all my boxes. Thanks for making this videos. We are on exactly the same wave length.
@Old Skool Bodybuilding Routines Sir, l said what said, and you said what you said (reply). What more needs to said? Or, are you starting to doubting what you said?
John was amazingly handsome..I read the french book about Mike Mentzer and the story of bodybuilding ( Monsieur Amerique-Nicolas Chemla...amazing book, no translation yet. Someone interested?) and they talks about John Little and how athletic and handsome he was. I was curious. Verytrue
Would you say training 6 day a week with moderate weights is most optimal for growth and health at a young age? Full body ofcourse Or rather 2 times a week, as heavy as possible, 2 sets? Thanks
The heavy as possible for two sets shit is a meme. You're never going to get anywhere close to the maximum recoverable stimulus with two sets. Your muscles can only push so much load and there is zero way to make one set as stimulative as 5. Also by trying to eke out all this extra intensity you're inevitably going to get injured. Standard high volume bodybuilding splits are the good standard because they work.
@@oldskoolbodybuildingroutin7178 People have an obsession with having a secret hidden little trick that will set them apart from everyone else, especially if that "trick" makes everything easier. It reminds me of people who are convinced that calories don't matter and only carbs make you fat. They like the idea of eating three greasy burger patties and not getting fat because there is no bun lol.
Is probably for guys with just awful genetics. Mike said he encounter individuals at golds gym that just couldn’t grow until he had them train only once a week.
If you’re natural, the only things that you will gain from HIT are weird grimaces while you train and a destroyed CNS. Let’s hit it. H.I.T. Is Too Easy On The Body HIT-brahs always brag about how HIT is really difficult. Yates does the same, but the reality is painfully different. What is it? HIT = EZ on The BODY, Hard On The Brain You see, the brain is the smartest organ in your body, allegedly, but it can be tricked. So, here’s what’s happening. During a hard set, the CNS signals to the brain that the organism is under fire. So, you naturally conclude that you’re working hard. And that’s the case, but only for 1 set. Then you rest…way too long. The body is hit (lol), but each muscle group does not receive enough stimulation throughout the entire week to grow. However, since every day is CNS day, you conclude that you’re working hard when in fact, the overall BODILY fatigue is quite low. To grow muscle, you need to do more WORK. It’s that simple. Back in the day, some guy asked Mentzer why his calves weren’t growing, so Mentzer told him that he was overtraining them and advised a reduction of calf training frequency to once every 14 days. (I read that in a magazine.) This isn’t very intelligent advice on Mentzer’s part. Why? Doing a few hard sets for the calves (one of the toughest muscles in the body) and then going for a 2-week vacation is akin to expecting to raise your IQ by reading for 40 seconds a day. In reality, if you have a lagging muscle group, you have to do the exact opposite, namely - increase the frequency and volume. In other words, you must train it HARDER. And harder does not mean one look-at-me-I-am-puking set, but multiple “money sets” done more frequently. This is true for unnaturals and even truer for naturals. Dorian’s HIT contains slightly more volume, but the frequency will not be enough unless you’re genetically gifted everywhere. “But have you watched Blood n’ Guts,” says the dreamer. Yes. I have. If you mute the annoying screaming, the training doesn’t look as tough as you think it is. I’ve been to gyms where average people who have regular jobs train just as hard and with even more frequency. Everyone Tries HIT and Quits Not Because The Program Is Hard…but HIT has been here a long time. Virtually every serious muscle constructor has tried it. And yet the methodology is still not popular. Why? The HIT fetishists will say “Because it’s super hard and people can’t handle it”. That’s incorrect. The true answer is: Because it’s not as effective as other methods. Don’t you think that if HIT was all that effective, the pros would have switched a long time ago? Professional bodybuilders and other hypertrophy-addicts are doing everything in their power to get bigger. The sacrifice includes the following rituals: Daily injections of known and unknown steroids. Some compounds are literally designed for horses and yet people introduce them to their bloodstream. Growth hormone injections Insulin injections (you can get into a coma and die as a result of this practice) Training 6-7 days a week Following expensive and complicated diets Paying glorious amounts of money to personal trainers Don’t you think that individuals who are willing to do all of that in the name of the Hypertrophy God are afraid of HIT? Think again. Harder. The painful truth is that a muscle addict will go all the way to add muscle to his frame. And if HIT was the difference between being average and the KING, everybody would be a HITTER. Injuries Here’s a questionnaire for geniuses: When do you think you are more likely to tear a muscle? A) When you perform a set until you know that the next rep will require you to break form. B) When you perform a set to total failure, and then some sweaty fella with raisin-like balls lifts the weight all the weight for you so that you can get 3 more reps with extremely slow negatives? Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how effective your training is when…you can’t train due to an injury. If you want to tear a muscle, go ahead and HIT it hard. Not Practical HIT forces you to jump on the machines because applying it to compound exercises is often dangerous. Do you think that it’s a coincidence that HIT was heavily promoted by Arthur Jones, the inventor of the Nautilus machine series? A wise man once told me that -- there is no such thing as a coincidence. HIT Treats You Like a Machine High IQ training realises that humans are not robots. Hence smart programming comes with carefully engineered deload phases (one step back, two steps forward type of thing). HIT could have this sophistication too but more often than not doesn’t because the teachers are too focused on squeezing your CNS until you vomit. They think that it’s awesome to feel like you were just HIT by a car after a workout. Additional Hard-Hitting Facts Mentzer and Yates both built their bodies with volume before allegedly switching to HIT. (According to many mentzer was doing higher volume than advertised.) Yates already had a pro physique when he switched to lower volume and that was to MAINTAIN the mass he'd already built. During the so-called Colorado experiment, Casey Viator didn’t build any new muscle. He simply regained what he’d lost before. Hit is a myth.
As a Philosophy fan, a bodybuilding fan, a Mike Mentzer fan, and a John Little fan, this checks all my boxes. Thanks for making this videos. We are on exactly the same wave length.
Babe wake up, new mike mentzer lore just dropped
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My girlfriend just yelled at me and said she didn't want to hear anymore about mentzer. I think I'm gonna break up with her.
28:55 "Sun and Steel is extremely popular with a CERTAIN group of online bodybuilders" LOOOOOOOOOL🤣🤣🤣 good vid based very interesting
An honest, intelligent, down to earth pod
Great discussion. Underrated channel.
Not only is the information amazing but the way john little explains it is even better...👌
This is brilliant. Mentzer was certainly exceptional in various ways. Overall an engaging discussion. Nice one.
Fascinating conversation, love training but could listen to this all day, well done sir!
Thank you. It's nice to listen about Mike in good sound quality.
Got this in my recommendations, is you tubes algorithm broken ? Fantastic channel under the radar.. binge watching now
Mythical recommended video pull
It’s harder to find something when you don’t know what you are looking for.
Wait-John Little is Tom Brady? This changes everything!
More Isn't Always Better!
@Old Skool Bodybuilding Routines it depends on what you are taking about. The human body isn't a bank account!
@Old Skool Bodybuilding Routines that's funny! To you be your way and to me be mine!
@Old Skool Bodybuilding Routines thank you for your comments in assisting the algorithms for this video. Please keep it up! ☝
@Old Skool Bodybuilding Routines Sir, l said what said, and you said what you said (reply). What more needs to said? Or, are you starting to doubting what you said?
@Old Skool Bodybuilding Routines and massive amounts of PEDS
thank you for sharing your knowledge with us 🔥
WE LOVE YOU MIKE!!!!!
Great stuff.
You should get Natural Hypertrophy on He talks about lifting and philosophy and Nietzsche a lot.
Gracias
I missed the conversation a bit. Thanks anyway.
Very interesting.
John was amazingly handsome..I read the french book about Mike Mentzer and the story of bodybuilding ( Monsieur Amerique-Nicolas Chemla...amazing book, no translation yet. Someone interested?) and they talks about John Little and how athletic and handsome he was. I was curious. Verytrue
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Would you say training 6 day a week with moderate weights is most optimal for growth and health at a young age? Full body ofcourse
Or rather 2 times a week, as heavy as possible, 2 sets?
Thanks
Your on every Mike video just admit your a fan haha
The heavy as possible for two sets shit is a meme. You're never going to get anywhere close to the maximum recoverable stimulus with two sets. Your muscles can only push so much load and there is zero way to make one set as stimulative as 5. Also by trying to eke out all this extra intensity you're inevitably going to get injured. Standard high volume bodybuilding splits are the good standard because they work.
@@oldskoolbodybuildingroutin7178 People have an obsession with having a secret hidden little trick that will set them apart from everyone else, especially if that "trick" makes everything easier. It reminds me of people who are convinced that calories don't matter and only carbs make you fat. They like the idea of eating three greasy burger patties and not getting fat because there is no bun lol.
@BlueBeamProjectionist Here you are again! Your ignorance of what true HIT training is embarrassing.
For beginners… if you’re athletic enough train 3 days a week, full body. M, W, F for a year and a half.
Franco Columbo or Colimbu 🤨 I remember him as Columbo too.
Columbu.
Giving new meaning to 'do you even lift bro?'
Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow!!!!!😭😭
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47:35
Geez, let John talk.
Women only care about the size (i.e., thickness) of my wallet, which sadly is normally anemic. Well, I'm a physics professor.
A physics professor and your wallet is anemic? Are you being irresponsible with your spending?
@@connorperrett9559 I like ladies - not the laddies.
2 sets every 2 weeks? That’s not enough exercises to hit all muscle groups. Someone enlighten me.
Is probably for guys with just awful genetics. Mike said he encounter individuals at golds gym that just couldn’t grow until he had them train only once a week.
@@josecavazos1869 Could it also be that they are just not eating enough?
@@kattam312 the food has nothing to do with your genetics. If these type people would eat way more food they would just get fat.
@@josecavazos1869 it’s hard for me to maintain muscle mass, getting fat not an option but eating enough is a chore to maintain.
@@josecavazos1869 Sure he did..
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Algorithm.
he don't look all that little to me tho!
He is quite little though.
john is a little weird with the pessimism and morals against steroids and working out to look good etc, caught me off guard lol
He is totally right
Ayn Rand? If i sat in isolation i could write good bs too. JS
If you are as green as grass you need to experience a few mowings.
Neitchie wrote some of his shit while he was in an asylum. WTF
D-did you really spell Nietzsche as Neitchie just now?
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If you’re natural, the only things that you will gain from HIT are weird grimaces while you train and a destroyed CNS.
Let’s hit it.
H.I.T. Is Too Easy On The Body
HIT-brahs always brag about how HIT is really difficult. Yates does the same, but the reality is painfully different.
What is it?
HIT = EZ on The BODY, Hard On The Brain
You see, the brain is the smartest organ in your body, allegedly, but it can be tricked.
So, here’s what’s happening.
During a hard set, the CNS signals to the brain that the organism is under fire. So, you naturally conclude that you’re working hard.
And that’s the case, but only for 1 set.
Then you rest…way too long.
The body is hit (lol), but each muscle group does not receive enough stimulation throughout the entire week to grow.
However, since every day is CNS day, you conclude that you’re working hard when in fact, the overall BODILY fatigue is quite low.
To grow muscle, you need to do more WORK. It’s that simple.
Back in the day, some guy asked Mentzer why his calves weren’t growing, so Mentzer told him that he was overtraining them and advised a reduction of calf training frequency to once every 14 days. (I read that in a magazine.)
This isn’t very intelligent advice on Mentzer’s part.
Why?
Doing a few hard sets for the calves (one of the toughest muscles in the body) and then going for a 2-week vacation is akin to expecting to raise your IQ by reading for 40 seconds a day.
In reality, if you have a lagging muscle group, you have to do the exact opposite, namely - increase the frequency and volume.
In other words, you must train it HARDER.
And harder does not mean one look-at-me-I-am-puking set, but multiple “money sets” done more frequently.
This is true for unnaturals and even truer for naturals.
Dorian’s HIT contains slightly more volume, but the frequency will not be enough unless you’re genetically gifted everywhere.
“But have you watched Blood n’ Guts,” says the dreamer.
Yes. I have. If you mute the annoying screaming, the training doesn’t look as tough as you think it is.
I’ve been to gyms where average people who have regular jobs train just as hard and with even more frequency.
Everyone Tries HIT and Quits Not Because The Program Is Hard…but
HIT has been here a long time. Virtually every serious muscle constructor has tried it.
And yet the methodology is still not popular. Why?
The HIT fetishists will say “Because it’s super hard and people can’t handle it”.
That’s incorrect. The true answer is:
Because it’s not as effective as other methods.
Don’t you think that if HIT was all that effective, the pros would have switched a long time ago?
Professional bodybuilders and other hypertrophy-addicts are doing everything in their power to get bigger.
The sacrifice includes the following rituals:
Daily injections of known and unknown steroids. Some compounds are literally designed for horses and yet people introduce them to their bloodstream.
Growth hormone injections
Insulin injections (you can get into a coma and die as a result of this practice)
Training 6-7 days a week
Following expensive and complicated diets
Paying glorious amounts of money to personal trainers
Don’t you think that individuals who are willing to do all of that in the name of the Hypertrophy God are afraid of HIT?
Think again.
Harder.
The painful truth is that a muscle addict will go all the way to add muscle to his frame.
And if HIT was the difference between being average and the KING, everybody would be a HITTER.
Injuries
Here’s a questionnaire for geniuses:
When do you think you are more likely to tear a muscle?
A) When you perform a set until you know that the next rep will require you to break form.
B) When you perform a set to total failure, and then some sweaty fella with raisin-like balls lifts the weight all the weight for you so that you can get 3 more reps with extremely slow negatives?
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how effective your training is when…you can’t train due to an injury.
If you want to tear a muscle, go ahead and HIT it hard.
Not Practical
HIT forces you to jump on the machines because applying it to compound exercises is often dangerous.
Do you think that it’s a coincidence that HIT was heavily promoted by Arthur Jones, the inventor of the Nautilus machine series?
A wise man once told me that --
there is no such thing as a coincidence.
HIT Treats You Like a Machine
High IQ training realises that humans are not robots. Hence smart programming comes with carefully engineered deload phases (one step back, two steps forward type of thing).
HIT could have this sophistication too but more often than not doesn’t because the teachers are too focused on squeezing your CNS until you vomit.
They think that it’s awesome to feel like you were just HIT by a car after a workout.
Additional Hard-Hitting Facts
Mentzer and Yates both built their bodies with volume before allegedly switching to HIT. (According to many mentzer was doing higher volume than advertised.)
Yates already had a pro physique when he switched to lower volume and that was to MAINTAIN the mass he'd already built.
During the so-called Colorado experiment, Casey Viator didn’t build any new muscle. He simply regained what he’d lost before.
Hit is a myth.