If you read nutrition labels, sucrose, glucose, fructose, and maltose, all refer to sugar. Conroes head football coach, W. T. Stapler, who had been there for 10 years, told me that Hutchins bench-pressed 50 pounds more and dealifted 100 pounds more than the strongest guys on the team. It was during this time that he developed his largest physique. Is there anything Im missing here? The #1 Source For Oldtime Strongman Training Secrets. From an initial body weight of 198 pounds, three weeks later Viator weighed 205 pounds and he easily won the Teenage Mr. America. High Intensity Training For Muscle Growth Ray, like his brother, trained using Heavy Duty High Tntensity Training. A little known fact is that Arthur Jones went through the same training program in Colorado as Casey, with one exception: He did no lower-body exercise. And of course, lets not forget about that middle 68 percent, the wishy-washy majority, who have trouble believing seriously in any training philosophy for very long. Ellington Darden: Mike moved to Lake Helen, Florida, in 1983 and worked for Nautilus approximately 6 months. Today, he weighs a lean 220 pounds and has muscular forearms, thick wrists, and a vise-like grip. Much of the credit goes to its nature as a big, three-joint exercise (hips, knees and ankles are all involved). Rodales marketing team assures me that the book will be: Excerpted in Mens Health MUSCLE magazine (September issue). Wrist curl1 1/4 reps Mike and Ray Mentzer Dead Monday morning, June 11, 2001, an e-mail was sent to us saying that Mike Mentzer has passed away June 9th. He and some other guys would perform squats for hours on end. But trainees have found overall strength and size increases as a result of squatting - even when it is the only exercise performed for long periods. Ray had become a full-time competitor by the age of 23. Ellington Darden: I certainly think timed static contractions have value. My hamstrings seem very stubborn that way, and isometric exercise produces virtually no soreness there, as if Ive done next to nothing despite willing a 100% exertion. This crazy author thinks I want spaghetti arms! And Mike made at least one appearance at the old Lancaster Health Spa. This can be carried to a logical extreme. His reps and negatives were similarly sluggish. We both tried at least a half-dozen times each, to wedge a comment into Coopers dissertation. Increase The Bar, (Workout) Ray won the title of IFBB Mr. USA in 1978. Ray would subsequently go on to become a legend in the bodybuilding world with his vascular 20+ inch arms and then-unimaginable weight of 275 pounds. Also, Ive worked out with Ken Leistner, Pete Grymkowski, Robby Robinson, Jim Haislop, Richard Baldwin, Chris Dickerson, and Lee Haney. Reduce your resistance 30% and your reps about half of normal. Let me explain. Mike believed in training with a partner who can assist when reaching failure. The strange thing was that the entire 6 months Mike was at the Nautilus headquarters, I never saw him take an intense workout. He prided himself in being able to keep a straight face, which threw you off, until you figured out his style. Ray Mentzer was even stronger than Mike, right? McCutcheon believes in simple, get-as-strong-as-you-can, basic exercises. But the arithmetic of bodybuilding soon presents a difficult problem, If he needs, say, 20 exercises to work everything, and he's decided to cut back to 16 total sets of high intensity work in order to keep gaining, how does he cover all bases? Casey could make his biceps, in a series of three distinct contractions, grow more massive as he moved his forearm closer to his shoulder. Ive experimented with all styles of leg presses and this one is the hardest of all. Was Arthur Jones the first person to introduce negative work to bodybuilding? Does he start splitting his workouts? And Whitley achieved that without the help of creatine. Ray lost his fight against Bergers Disease and was found dead in his apartment less than 48 hours later. Barbell CurlStage reps Besides training Viator over the next year, Jones would make sure he entered all the national bodybuilding contests. Mike was 11 years old, while Ray was 9 years old. No other HIT books covers NTF training. Drew Baye: Shoot straight with us. Rest 2 minutes And How tall is Arnold? Ray continued working out diligently behind the scenes even though he was no longer in the spotlight on the bodybuilding stage. Stump later introduced me to the guy who eventually became the editor of The New High-Intensity Training. Disclaimer: This website is an educational service that provides general health information. Ellington Darden: I certainly did. Chest & Back. None of the suggestions (including exercise, diet, products or services) mentioned should be performed or otherwise used without clearance from your physician or health care provider. I think the major limiting factor to true isometrics is the lack of negative work which appears to be the most important part of the exercise for stimulating strength and size gains, and the lack of full-range strength improvement. Thank you for your reply; I appreciate that this is stuff yet to be fully resolved by science but for me your considered opinion nevertheless carries weight. And when an almost unbelievably muscular Mentzer materialized in 1979, once again it was due to another application of increased intensity. In the end, Rays life was both successful and tragic. Home BLOG Products Online Courses Videos About Support Search. Triceps ExtensionSuper-slow Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. At the contest, he weighed 215 and blew away the competition. Drew Baye: When Nautilus hired you, did Ken visit you in Florida? Mike Mentzer 3 day workout routine I found this on youtube and wanted to share it with you guys. The information contained within is not intended to provide specific health advice, or any other advice whatsoever, for any individual or company and should not be relied upon in that regard. Doing low reps with a big weight was one of Rays main training tenets. I followed Mentzer's prescribed routine in his Heavy Duty 2 Mind and Body book. In a local physique contest, however, Hutchins would have been pressed to finish in the top 10 (just kidding, Ken). When an intermediate or advanced bodybuilder finds himself on a plateau, he is wise to consider cutting back on workout volume, while reasserting his commitment to a high intensity of effort. One of the greatest bodybuilders of his time was Ray Mentzer. Forced negs had the same effect. Doesn't he realize I plan to win Mr. America next year looking like Larry Scott? My reasoning is that a younger body can handle cheating much better than an older body, so as you get older, youd be wise to focus more on form than intensity. Since they were a few of the forerunners of High Intensity Training, one question I get about them is: How intense was their training? Instead, he announced that combating successfully what was on the interior was the final test of a Nautilus obstacle course, and let her enter ahead of him. And laugh all the way to the big-shirt store! Drew Baye: How many bodybuilders do you figure are interested in HIT? At that time, Cooper was the #1 running guru, as a result of a couple of best-selling books on aerobics. 06-08-2013, 11:15 AM Ray Mentzer Workout Here are some excerpts, from a 1979 interview where Ray talks about his workouts leading up to his Mr. America victory. Recently, I attended a reunion of Texas bodybuilders and lifters from the 1960s, which was held at Ronnie Rays home in Dallas. Rays strength also grew as a result. He achieved the same in the AAU Mr. America competition one year later. Dip The amazing thing about Miller was that he never worked out in a commercial gym and never had a training partner. Regarding what he learned from Ayn Rand, Mentzer said in an interview:. Upright Row Also make sure to increase the weight in a particular exercise whenever possible. Sadly, Ray passed away just two days after skipping his kidney dialysis appointment. The sad story does not end here. The latest statistics from the Sports Goods Manufacturers Association reveals that approximately 20,000,000 males in the United States are actively involved in bodybuilding and strength training. Incline barbell bench press (5 sets, 6-8 reps) Back Workout On this back routine, Mentzer hit 5 different exercises. Ellington Darden: The last Mr. Olympia contest that I attended was in 1995 in Atlanta. In the end for me, I consider him a genius in his principles (as well as Yates, Jones, Viator, Ray Mentzer). It didn't take long for Ray's body weight to climb from 250 to a lean 260 pounds. that would be a real eye-opener. a side for 11 reps his 1st day back. Heavy Duty: Mike Mentzer's Most Productive Routine, by John Little. For more than ten years, Mentzer's Heavy Duty program involved 7-9 sets per workout on a three day-per-week schedule.With the advent of "modern bodybuilding" (where bodybuilders became more massive than ever before) by the early 1990s, he ultimately modified that routine until there were fewer working sets, and more days of rest. Ellington Darden: Yes he was. He always trained alone, after finishing his day job. He quickly competed in and won the Junior Mr. America and IFBB Mr. America competitions. I want to focus my query on the Timed Static Contractions section because I have been dabbling in isometric & isokinetic exercises due to lack of access to equipment. I choose to remember the drug-free bodybuilders who influenced me when I was growing up. Breakfast. When I visited Rodales main photography studio in Emmaus, I met with my editor, Lou Schuler, who also is the fitness director for Mens Health. They shared an apartment after moving in together, and during the ensuing months, they became closer. How do you get a physique like Chris Evans? . It was Dr. Kenneth Cooper. Pay particular attention to the bottom turnaround. Ray noticed physical changes in him that soon produced results. We read the sarcastic and bitter attacks of strength coaches and naturally gifted weightmen who try to tell us that everyone knows that one-set-to-failure is an exercise philosophy that never really worked. Today, if you walk into any serious gym in the United States (or in the world), doing negatives is a regular part of a lifters vocabulary. Thus, he simplified his routine to upper body only.