Right!?! 😅

Same, even on squats, somehow haven't ended up getting injured doing that like all these videos of people dropping the bar on their back 😂

Glad I’m not the only one who’s mentally ill😂

Hahaha I can’t relate more dude

just fail! that's what safety bars are for. This post Monday, d.b. Presses, I just moved my head to the right in case my chest, arm fails & d.b. falls to floor. It'll b alright! 💪🦵

​@@freya218source?

@@freya218yes really

@@freya218this and youre other comment prove youre a dumbass

That Brad Schoenfeld dude is kinda smart too.

@@freya218 shut up troll

Hell yes. If I aim for 10 reps and that 10th goes up pretty easy, I'll bust out a few more then add weight immediately. we both know what a good set feels like 😅

I feel ya. I hate the thought of stopping when i know i probably have 2 or 3 more reps in me. I prefer to just not grind out that rep where maintaining form is too difficult.

"If you stop now, you wasted your time."

What sport were you in as a child?

My set weights and reps are all over the place cus I ALWAYS go to failure lmao

Intensity*

can you tell us your program or workout plans bro? Ive been looking everywhere especially from mentzer himself

whats youre program routine? i am doing full body also so i would apreciate it

What’s your program?

Need that program bro lol

​@@daarksideyt I mean DC is the kind of newest version of Mentzer training. Its more of a split, and very effective.

Recovery is important but not as much as you think it is. Every high level athlete it any field in the universe incorporates volume. For some reason the only people who dont are Mike Methhead fans with anonymous accounts on KZfaq videos who are 100% small.

@@maxpowers4436depends on what your goals are. Recovery for maxing out lifts can definitely take 2 days, maybe 3 if you overdid it which isn’t hard when you’re feeling out a new weight or rep range you like to do. I personally have goals to better my flexibility due to past sports injuries, so my training is going to be diverse and not focused as heavily on max/near max strength. After stretching intensely and not overdoing it for just a week, I notice my legs and joints feel more like they did when I was younger. Just attempting a bridge requires a different type of strength, little tiny stabilizer muscles I could feel lighting up. Stretches are underrated for recovery and pre workout for sure. Look at any first baseman in the MLB, or just look at their pre game stretches. This is BASEBALL, a sport that gets a bad rap for having a few chubby guys who can slam home runs playing in its biggest league. And yet many players can do the splits casually.

I barely run but i always stretch and jump. If you saw me run, you could see some faults- im not no pro, but youd think i ran everyday. I can make a 30 min walk, a 15 min run and im not even going full speed. If i went full speed one, my muslces would give out before my lungs, hence the jumping and leg exercises.

so u train only 2 times in week, i smell cap

Nah it works for me after 27 years of training various methodologies. If you can train effectively it can be optimal. I posted 2 exercise focused videos on my channel. ​@@amarson2322

Thats awesome man happy for you

Love them. I’ve been training with two “warm up sets” and a set tot total failure with drop sets for each body part and I’m the results have been awesome. Workouts are less than an hour four days a week too.

Same

Great for lighter isolated movements but sbd or leg press drop sets to failure will ruin your training for a week

@@thehalfnam4331that depends on far too many other things, frequency, experience, volume, training specificity. If you’re doing a lot in a week, you’re right for sure, though.

​@PositiveDailyImpact same been doing this while cutting super slowly and it was phenomenal for 8 months. But now I've plateaued so I'm gonna cut properly. Excited to see how it works on a bulk.

I did the same, but only for like 6 months before I found this channel

yeah bro I was like that when I first started. I used to do squat 100kgx10x3, then leg press 16 plates for 15x3, then leg extension 140kgx10x3. I never understood how people did it twice a week because I always pushed to failure. wayyyyy tooo much volume lmfao. I was also in a weird position because for an untrained person I had pretty strongs legs so I didnt know wtf I was doing, but it worked and I pushed big numbers

Doubtful.

​@@ub3rfr3nzy94 Wtf does 16 plates mean?:D I really hope you don't mean 16x 20kg/45lbs plates.

@@-AxisA- 16 plates on a leg press machine yeah. 8 per leg. I used to use one of those isometric hammer strength ones so I did one leg at a time, because coordinating both legs at the same time on that damn thing is impossible. I dont really leg press anymore because i want to work on my squat, which was lagging because my lower back isn't strong enough compared to my legs.

Precisely. Drop sets are like doing low intensity cardio, where you obviously didn't reach failure.

​@@jimaldo7715True. But i almost laughed when he said "if you want best overall muscle growth, you have to do 3-1 RIR (Reps In Reserve). He refuted mike mentzer's valid argument, then came up with an even more stupid argument by going for 3 sets of 3-1 RIR😂😂.

Its crazy how many people talk about mentzer and get shit wrong

You need to get your fkn ears check you bozo and stop glazing Mentzer. He didnt refute anything he said Mentzer got good results with what he did and suggested that overall something else might be better. Also why are you making shit up? He literally never said the sentence in the entire video mentioning "3 sets" You literally hallucinated that because of how much ur glazing Mentzer. Secondly testing yourself to know your real RIR is a normal part of training. If you are literally doing any program you should periodically test yourself regardless. Thirdly he didnt make anything up working out close to failure and using RIR is a well documented and studies aspect of hypertrophy training. What it allows you to do its achieve great results by going close to failure but not burning yourself out and including a little more volume here and there. As much as you fkwits hate to admit it volume is important. Training like a HITard on side laterals, calves and a myriad of other exercises is stupid. Literally every high level athlete in any field incorporates high volume into their training. Only closet homosexuals fans on Mentzer think doing more than 3 sets per months is over training.

People also never talk about the fact that Menzter's system includes warm up sets on many exercises.

McEnroe did what? 🤔

@@positivelynegative9149lmao, idk how auto correct got that

@-Jozef It do be like that sometimes. 😄

Yeah, I like to do lateral raises every day at the gym, and calf raises(Lee Haneys advice). If you follow mikes split legs, back and chest, shoulders and arms, you’ll hit your arms twice anyways.

post physique

I’m glad you typed out exactly how I feel. Lol

@@gabriel1095 - Can't tell if you're mocking me or being awkwardly appreciative. Either way: Enjoy Dr.Mike's videos. Many gains to you and have a great day 👊

@@jeremiaha5167 no I’m really not mocking you bro 100% serious. I typically don’t binge watch videos from Content creators but I feel like this guy knows his shit. I’ve already tried, and implemented a few of his principles, and they work.

@@gabriel1095 - Shit. Misread your first comment. I thought you wrote "how you feel".... Yeah. He is very enjoyable. Straight to the point. No BS. Not trying to have some weird persona. A cool funny dude who knows his shit. I enjoy his uploads a lot

Cause he's bald, hes a big tough guy and he's chill

Are you new? 😂

Only happened to me on legs, wanted to increase the weight and still got the same amount of reps

Jesus you're going to the gym for the first time in your life?

@bi__tw1097 You've never been to the gym for the first time in your life? I've heard only few people do, the rest make fun of them on the internet

That's so stupid lol

Failure Every time and you don’t have to second guess is exactly it. No maybes.

Arthur Jones said that so he could sell his equipment its that simple and Mike got kickbacks out of it.

Nope.

you are not alone!

@@Jafmanz haha thanks! For five days I thought I was 🤪

"If you don't lift this you're gay" type shit

Wtf are you getting done in 15 minutes.

​@@ghost_trapz5932i do legs with 2 weeks rest and its just 10 minutes. İ had AMAZING results for my legs

if you’re talking about mentzer, then there isn’t a single realm of reality where you’d be able to do at least more than two sets in that amount of time lol

Post physique to prove claim or else you're just delusional.

​​@@karamagma576Doubt that. Post physique.

Well said. The problem with RP os thet 99% of people have no idea what failure is. Im 240lbs, thats me in my picture. When i see guys "Go to failure" then laughing and congratulating eachother after a set? Failure, im literally throwing up in a garbage can while my legs are shaking and i csnt stand

I doubt it's 35 lbs of lean muscle in one year unless you injected steroids. 35 lbs in general? Sure.

@@ssjayy-xs5lh I didn't inject them,they were pills. We thought they were Analog steroids. Anabolic, analog, who knew? But yeah, 165 to 200 in less than a year. I then went on to do speed skating for decades until Lyme disease reared its head. And I was 6' and still growing. 35 lbs goes a long way on my frame. I look pretty much the same whether I'm 180 or 220, which is my normal healthy range. Below 175 and I look skinny.

Multiple warm up sets allows someone the highest chance that your muscle is primed and in a position to perform at its potential during the high intensity sets. If all anyone did was a bunch of warm up sets your physique years later would be virtually unchanged.

@@evanpaulsmithfalconfogolin6147 you’re assuming a lot behind the idea of warm up sets, these are Mentzer warm up sets, not yours

Menzter also didn't train that way when he was starting out. He built his physique the traditional way. He spent two decades doing the classic golden era style. After he stopped competing he was paid to promote that HIIT method that everyone knows him for. All he managed to do after that was maintain a body that he'd already built. He never competed again and never showed any improvement from the style he was being paid to sponsor.

@@Vincent_Beers true, maybe he needed to make that point, that the amount of sets needed to maintain is much less than build, either way most ppl today train more like Mentzer than they do Arnold

This is one of the dumbest comments I've ever read, Dr Mike, and Mentzer both said ALL the muscle stimulation causing hypertrophy was from the 1 working set. You don't understand how it works: If you do 4 sets and none of the first 3 are anywhere near failure, you won't gain muscle from those 3 sets...

High volume works. Hit sucks.

Most gym goers shouldnt be trianing to failure because that takes time to understand and learn.

Myeah. I do a. Push pull leg split. I artieste end my laat at to failure and I do 3 excersizes the first half of the week and 3 excersizes the last half of the week where I do drop sets. And I do the Dropsets for the have muscles in the 2md part of the week, so they have an extra rest day on Sunday (the only day I do cardio longer than 8 minutes and I also do yoga/stretching for an hour)

keep in mind david stretches for apparently 2 hours a night😂 that would help his recovery a lot

Nope.

@@Mantastic-ho3vm more subjective variables = more reliable? Seems like an odd take

@@joshuadavis8265 Nope.

Nope.

Because you've been lifting weights for 20 years and you're comparing yourself to kids who've maybe got 2-3 years training at most under their belt LOL

It is true he literally has videos of him and his boyfriends helping him get more reps.

@@maxpowers4436 that’s called spotting

​@@maxpowers4436bfs 😂 bro....

i don’t do drop sets tho. i can’t handle much fatigue beyond a really thorough warmup and 2 sets for each muscle group i’m trying to hit that day

Truth. He also emphasized rest-pause and pre-exhaust

@@jimaldo7715I haven’t heard Mentzer speak about rest pause

@@vegaro214 OK. Presumably, there's still time. Keep listening

YEP MENTZER said you CAN have a life outside Gym

Another coper trying to rationalize doing basically nothing to get results. You cant afford to go to the gym 3 times a week for a few hours total? Poor time management on your part. My boss has 3 kids starts work at 6:45am and goes to the gym more than you.

You need better cardio then. I've only ever thrown up from training legs.

Same as me, as I don't fully trust myself in estimating how many reps I really have in reserve. Works for me, although I surely do not train as good as I would with a coach like Mike.

Cause of longer recovery And you probably don't train till failure

@@burningthecandleatbothends1658 i definitely do train till failure

​@@alexfox5834You definitely don't

@@Mantastic-ho3vm 😂😂😂