Mike Mentzer was my roomate and training partner in 1985 while I was preparring for the Teen America that year. We trained heavy duty high intensity just like Mike advocated. The only cardio we did was bicycle riding from Santa Monica down to Redondo beach and back a couple times a week on non training days. Mike won the heavyweight with a perfect score at the 1979 Olympia but lost the overall to Frank Zane. The following year he came in his best shape ever and was favored to win the 1980 Olympia. But as history tells Arnold jumped in at the last moment and stole the show. Mike never did get over that as he like many others fealt that he was robbed.

I do cardio 4 days a week, mainly because my brother died last year of a heart attack. He was only 62. I'm 55, and Jay, you have been a great inspiration to me. I've lost 30 lbs and am working out 4 days a week. I've been a fan of yours for years. Thank you for pushing me.

I’m 64. Finally retired. Able to focus more now on heavy lifting and long rest periods. After 10 months hitting personal bests in deadlift etc. However, developing a belly. Decided to start climbing on the treadmill and doing the stair master. Belly going down. Strength stable. Amazing how much better I feel doing that 2 times a week. Hope this helps.

Great subject of discussion. I'm a bodybuilder from that 60's 70's 80's era and it was a great time for bodybuilding. I trained at the old Tucson Health Studio owned by former Mr. Universe Carlos Rodriguez. Bodybuilding was gaining popularity across the globe and the magazine's were the main source of information. I met Mike Mentzer a few times during that time period. I was at the IFBB Mr. Universe contest then called the World Bodybuilding Championship held in Acapulco Mexico that year. The 3 class winners were light weight Carlos Rodriguez, middle class Tom Platz, and heavy weight Mike Mentzer who had a perfect score. Mentzer was very popular during that time and was doing seminars all over. So was Tom Platz. Heavy Duty training was being pushed not only by Mentzer but also by Arthur Jones who had come out with the Nautilus machines and training centers. I'm sure that plenty of people were into it but I think the majority of bodybuilders who using the good old Progressive volume resistance training. Mike Mentzer was a very intelligent guy and he was great at his seminars. He would definitely give time to anyone who wanted to talk with him after the seminar was done. Thanks for your video post and please keep up the good work. To bad someone besides Robby Robinson isn't putting out material for us from that period of time. Some of us still want to workout with our bad knees, shoulders, ect.👍🏋️‍♀️

Let’s go Jay! A living legend!

I do low intensity cardio for 10-15 minutes after the weights. Works great for me.

Can’t wait to see the transformation. My favorite training videos of all time are Jay from the Olympia years.

love HIT and mentzer. even more than his training methodology I appreciated his approach to knowledge sharing and how well thought out and structured a ton of his seminars/recorded talks are.

he says he's not doing cardio, as he walks miles in his neighborhood! LOL

Cardio training is essential for a healthy life. The heart is a muscle and our lungs become more efficient through exercise. Also our mental health improves with exercise, especially cardio. We were built to move.

Thanks Jay and Dave (FTB) for taken us along and letting in on your conversations it’s always great !!! SR. The history of bodybuilding is important !!!

I'm always surprised that more bodybuilders don't use the Concept 2 RowErg for their cardio rather than just plodding on the treadmill. The rower works upper and lower body and is perfect for active recovery rest days.

Jay you need to do live streams bro It will blow up like you wouldn’t believe Your more then just a bodybuilder your mind is iconic and your temperament is unmatched

Jayyyyyy number one💪💪💪💪

Great vid love the history talk.

Your The Best Jay Still the Best . Thank You Jay

Love the Jaywalking information!

Love these Jaywalks 🙏💯💯

Just about to go to the gym an then see this. Not doing cardio tonight! Thanks for the inspiration Jay.

Jay and the FTBB….. perfect morning start. Wish this was on daily 🎥🎥🎥

*Mike won the heavy weight of that show he passed June 10, 2001*

Love Jaywalking episodes. That’s Jay!

Definitely an inspiration!

It’s great to see all Of us 50+ year olds still in the game. Even with all our injuries, we’ve learned a lot. Bless ya Jay for keeping it real and doing this for us.

I'm routing for you jay good luck on your journey to your masters show!👊

Jays allright👍👍👍👍👍

Jay is such a beast. This is exciting.

Your a true Legend and can't wait to see your progress. Let's GOOO

Coach Greg screaming at his camera right now talking about how u quit cardio

Good video! Beautiful houses! No snow or grass, I’m from Winnipeg, sum1 mentioned Winnipeg in your comments ironically

Jay walking awesome great content again 💪👊

Jay, always the GOAT

I have a photo of Mike Mentzer and me in front of Gold's Gym when it was in Santa Monica for a couple years before they moved to the present location.

Hi J Would be great to see some footage with your family and where you grew up dude. Great content and keep up the good work.

The Legend and The Mad One 💪🏽

Love you jay ❤️ 💛 💓

❤ jay man one tge the greats

Very nice neighborhood!! Nice for walking.

So good to see someone FINALLY bringing back Mike's HIT principals and ideas. One thing I've noticed in the past is a massive increase in blood pressure.. due to the extreme time under load.

Thanks for sharing, just catching up.

GOOD too SEE your GOING to TRAIN again BROTHER 😊

Great video!

LISTEN to you guys twice. And I'm a busy guy. But enjoy it that much. Thanks ANDY O

Great episode guy’s. I’m 52 & just got back into bodybuilding again after 25+ years off. I’ve been doing one of Mike’s HIT programs for the last 9 months and I’m very pleased with the results. My schedule doesn’t give me much time at all so this program is perfect.

Love jaywalking bro

Would be great to see a video when you go back to Massachusetts and show us your early beginnings and journey into bodybuilding.

Great insight Champ, this logic should be carried in so many different avenues. People always looking for a quick solution adding too much cardio, supplements, or programs without letting their bodies build a baseline first. Looking forward to hearing about FIBO! Thanks for the videos.

The prodigal son is coming back to Massachusetts the Champ 👏👏👏👏👏 Jay Cutler aka the Hawk keep banging fam salute 💯 bra

💪🏾🔥🐐💯Great hear from you Jay

So great

On another subject Jay I wanna thank you Angie Daisy Capone for great content it keeps me positive.

Big love Dave to you & Jay. I've been enjoying your new KZfaq channel. Kindest regards, as ALWAYS, Richard U.K

Love this Jay-walking

I couldn’t imagine walking around talking with Jay Cutler. Fucking legend man💪🏻

Jay I learned that many moons ago from Chris Aceto (through the words of his articles) let the diet work until it doesn't work anymore then add cardio. Similar to a Italian mother testing the sauce then adding more ingredients as you go

Wishes from germany.

Keep it up jay! Your my inspiration when I wanna drag ass

I appreciate how These videos are “RAW”… not super commercialized or noticeably scripted… Jay and Dave make great Collaborators. Thanks for the Content.

I lift 4 days a week along with run/walk/jog 4 or 5 days a week the grind never stops baby

Jay Cutler the ageless wanderer 😂👏😂👏💪💪 let's go champ

Thanks Jay I really appreciate you bringing Mike Mentzer into the video. My living muscle monster is of course you. But my diseased idol is Mike. I'm a 54 year old natural But when I started getting into Mike with John little channel and I adopted this method and I can tell you with the fact that I do benefit from Mike and the heavy duty method. I wish I learned about Mike a lot sooner. I posted a comment not to long ago in your channel asking you what you thought about HIT. But I never got a response...lol. anyways great video!!!

I quit cardio before I even started x)

Is funny how I was watching that interview last week. He made sense in the interview.

Nice 👍

Mike Mentzer is the only one to develop the best routine and science for naturals even though he himself has used juice. Best gains of my life and got my life back. Lift twice a week at most and an hr in total. No more joint pains, no cramps, no back pain. I rem a a quote, not by heart. When someone asked Mike about getting bigger and stronger. Mike said , " train hard, not frequent and find a hobby." I never understood that until now. Weightlifting is not life. We need recovery to great extents to become stronger, getting bigger is intensity and less time. So no need to prioritize life at the gym. Thank you Mike, for everything you done for me!

I startet training with Jays videos (from A to Jay).If Jays coming back, i will too💪

Im from western mass and got into working out and bodybuilding back in 94. I was 15 and started hitting the gym and Buying all the muscle mags. I love the history of the sport and pumping iron was my inspiration. Jay is a legend as many others too! Keep training my man!...

11:24 ... Gotcha. I bet Jay competes 😁 HOO YAH!

Just walking for me, eff cardio 🤣

I mail ordered the Heavy duty program back in the 80's. I bought in a 100% and never gave anything else a chance until I was in my 40's. Something I definitely regret because I fell in love with training with more volume and sprinkling in the intensity and more frequency.

Capone aka the Big Boss 😂😂😂😂😂 around the neighborhood 👏👏👏👏

A couple weeks ago I discovered Mike Mentzer. Funny enough I was feeling overwhelmingly tired hitting not only a plateau but my lifts were getting worse. So as expected I related to his words on overtraining. I've decided to take a 10 days rest period and after that will try the Mentzer lower volume high intensity approach.

I always wonder how you keep cool? Never any anxiety

Hi Jay, yes I recently tried the high intensity training. Love the pre exhaust flyes incline press superset, my chest has more density to it since starting it. Recently bought Mike mentzers hit book and "the wisdom of Mike mentzer" interesting books indeed. And yes, everybody's body is sightly different , I was always best at short sprints and low reps heavy weight 4-6 so I love high intensity training

Mike Mentzer was one of the smartest bodybuilders ever. Great podcast Jay, big fan of yours. 💪🏻💪🏻

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Alot of people watch because of how you are able to train at the level you are today, at your age. The strength stuff all the time inst sustainable. what youre doing now is. Great episode. Especially the history and your input.

I do a quasi Jay culter volume style, Dorian yates, Mike Mentzer style training, lots of warmups and not to failure and one hard hard set to failure, depending on how I feel each week, sometimes super form and lot the form flow a bit like Jays style, good to know how the masters train, I worked at LVAC in 2007 to 2011 and loved seeing Jay coming in, he looked like a F150 and everyone bowed to him as the guru like they all should, go Jay, love the channel, I always tell people about it.

I'm 60. Started following bodybuilding in 1980. I love the history .

I'm in classic P. I just like to do HIIT at a separate gym made for that kind of thing. Once a week really. Maybe an incline walk before I start a session.

Another great jaywalking but man you got to get more into the history side of bodybuilding 😄👍🏼

I'm 58 years old, I swim 30 minutes 3 times a week, and this helps me stay fit, also with regards to breathing. You always need some cardio, not just weights.

I did the Mentzer/Yates principles of training but got injured very fast....so idk, its not for everyone. At least not for me at 40yo and working out for 20 years.

Hi Jay, I'm French Canadian and I just want to tell you how is easy to understand what you say, Nice prononciation, you talk slowly so I have time to follow the conversation. I'm a fan, you are a great bodybuilder champion, cool guy and gentle person.

Nice! Big fan of Mentzer and Heavy Duty. I loved Heavy Duty but it is exhausting as hell! Great gains on it though...

Jay should start his own brand of Jay Cutler Signature Series Sunglasses 🥽

I have a feeling Jay is going to be in the Masters

I like the general motivation Jay provides, making weightlifting approachable to everyone. I'd rather hear him talk through his routines and life than hearing someone take on every "snowflake" on the internet....ehm lion mane

Noooo don’t quit cardio Jay lol jk I’m about to watch this content. JayCutler TV is #1 💪🏽😈

Love Jay walking! HIT and High volume are actually same if you count the time under tension which makes the muscles growth. Like 10 sets 10 reps per body part are about 100 sec TUT, 1 set 8-12 reps can be done for 100 sec as well. Basically two way going to the same goal which is muscle growth! I think High Volume is more suitable for bodybuilding because you can hit different angles with more exercises but takes more time in the gym... For 1980 from what I've seen Arnold won because he had more muscle separations and much much better posing skills and looks like the judges that year were looking for that type of physic. No disrespect for Mike Mentzer but he just couldn't lose like a men and come back better next year to win, something Jay Cutler did which made him a legend.

I just bought Mentzer's book. I'm going to start his program. Actually, Ray Mentzer passed away 3 days after Mike passed.

I jumped into the mike mentzer/yates universe about 2 years ago. I found the heavy duty training is perfect for a guy like myself. I work full time, have 3 kids to wrangle around every day. My time is very limited. With the heavy duty style, I can get in, get my work in, and then get back to life. Mike past away June 10th 2001and his brother Ray past away June 12th.

I needed that laugh😂😂😅😅😂 Capone is a badass. 😅😂😅

Jay & Joan Pradells training.....coming soon

Markus REinhardt was working at LVAC then, and he trained under Mike Mentzer even in his videos, I studied all his stuff and videos and lectures and read his books, and john littles stuff.

Hi Jay, huge fan brother. Just thought I'd led you know that I enjoyed this very much. I always admired Mentzer. I don't believe everything he believed, but I definitely got benefit from his training style.

Mentzer’s heavy duty was different from Yates in the aspect that Mike did pre exhaust did isolation exercise them no rest did compound for same muscle . Had great results with it back in the day added a lot of thickness to my physique.

As an aging bodybuilder, In the off-season I dial back training to 4 days of week with active rest days (light hiking, swimming, calisthenics). But I still favor high volume training to get in shape modified from Steve Michalik a Mr Universe Champion.

Big fan sir pls reply

Wow this is perfect Jay, I was just talking about how high intensity at times in combination with volume training is probably more optimal than either, when you mention building up to the h.i.t. I remember my fastest gains were gotten whilst doing this on accident.