He recommended eating a balanced diet and that carbs should be 50-60% of your daily calorie intake. He also recommended only 3 very high intensity workouts a week. Should I try his "Heavy Duty" program?
>>76476667 (OP)
yeah, I tripled my bench on the heavy duty program. but you need to take rest days seriously, and eat more, and eat properly. you really are forced to learn about physiology, nutrition, kinesiology, you have to be smart to make good healthy lasting gains.
>>76476667 (OP)
I wouldn't do heavy duty or Mike's later stuff. It was more coherent when it was almost entirely borrowed from Arthur Jones the more liberties Mike took with it the worse it got.
I'd definitely do HIT if you're kind of near your natty end game and further investment is not worth it. Or maybe if you're stuck in the intermediates. Beginners tend to gain strength too fast and their connective tissue can't keep pace with how fast the load is increasing so they can really fuck themselves up on HIT if they're not mostly using machines
I agree with him that if you train high intensity (and you should) you should get much more rest than people usually get.
I did Stronglifts 5x5 years ago and in hindsight the one thing that limited my progress was not being willing to rest more.
If instead of 48h I had rested 3-4 days instead I'd have progressed much faster.
I hit plateaus that forced me to deload that I probably could've broken through with a couple extra days of rest.
>>76476667 (OP)
3 months ago I started using HIT ideas, I only do one set that allows me to do 8 to 12+ reps untill failure, while I don't get a pump I have seen growth.
The other thing that literally works like a biohack(for me) is doing pulldowns for the biceps while, again, I don't get a pump I feel the inner part of my arm getting a stimulus and the size of my arms does seem bigger, not just the bicep.
>>76476722
any links or things to look up for the early mentzer / mostly arthur jones stuff? or the HIT stuff you think makes sense? i've run nsuns (high volume) for the last few years and enjoyed it, but kinda plateaued and I want to try something different.
>>76476826
Some guy and Lyle mcdonald are making YouTube videos he has on the ins and outs of all things HIT. Which I thought was good and pretty comprehensive. All you'd really take away from Mentzer is the lift selection and that's just the pamphlet thing.
12 ish effective reps an exercise 25ish effective reps a group per training interval. Is about a good as it gets for any natty routine you can certainly get that with HIT
>>76476667 (OP)
I've done starting strength for years, I needed to switch to a less frequent routine in the last year so I go just 2 days a week and I tried heavy duty, I varied some of the exercises during the months but kept the idea strong. I'm 170cm tall and weigh 64kg, around 14% bf. I'm currently at work but If someone is interested I'll take a body pic later and post it
