MIKE MENTZER: REST-PAUSE TRAINING

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11 ай бұрын

To learn more about Mike Mentzer's life, legacy and teachings, please visit: www.hituni.com/about/mike-men...
According to Mike Mentzer:
“Looking back over my career and analyzing the methods that yielded the best results, I can readily state that Rest-Pause Training was one of the most productive. I learned about it from Bob Gajda (former Mr. America) and Tony Garcy (former American weightlifting champion) at Gajda's Sports Fitness Institute in Chicago in late 1978. I began using Rest-Pause when I was preparing for my first professional bodybuilding competition, the Southern Pro Cup, held in Miami, Florida, in early February 1979."
In this presentation, Mike draws upon his phenomenal experience with this technique and explains how to use Rest-Pause in your own training. Warning: This is not a technique for beginners to bodybuilding, and Mike used the technique very sparingly with his personal clients as he found that it led to overtraining very easily. Keep in mind that this audio was recorded in 1980, ten years before Mike began training personal clients, so the volume and frequency he advocates herein is not as refined as it later came to be. This is presented for those with good to excellent recovery ability as it may be of assistance to advanced bodybuilders who have reached a plateau in their gains.
To see more of Mike Mentzer check out these videos by Wayne Gallasch of GMV:
MIKE & RAY MENTZER TRIPLE PACK DVD SET (V-209SP-DVD) tinyurl.com/ym4vdkta
MIKE & RAY MENTZER - GYM WORKOUT DOWNLOAD (V-121) tinyurl.com/2ua7p8rj
MIKE MENTZER - FINAL CHAPTER DOWNLOAD (V-208) tinyurl.com/yc4efn8y

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@andrewmeyers1853 11 ай бұрын

The fact that Mentzer was able to step back, analyze his training and apply a different training shows a lot about his personality.

@scottgood7888 10 ай бұрын

Yeah! Plus steroids. Don't forget the steroids! 👍

@sem6045 10 ай бұрын

@@scottgood7888?

@terencebooth 10 ай бұрын

@scottgood7888 he's comparing himself to other bodybuilders on steroids, too, so technically, it's still a fair comparison

@eliteman58 11 ай бұрын

This training, performed correctly, is brutal. I did a set of concentration curls with a 45# db. Then, once I reached failure at the 6th tep. I used the other hand to assist for 1 more rep. Then I did a negative only for 3 reps. My arm could not move because the biceps were literally destroyed but in a good, stimulatory way. GOOD STUFF😊

@ulyssesjr1274 11 ай бұрын

How many sets overall did you train for biceps that day?

@eliteman58 11 ай бұрын

@ulyssesjr1274 1 warmup, 1 all out set. If you do this properly. You can't do 2 sets, no way, no how

@eliteman58 11 ай бұрын

REST PAUSE GOT ME UP TO A 150# ON MACHINE LATERALS FOR 12 REPS. 1 WARMUP AND JUST 1 WORKING SET. ONCE I CAN'T PROGRESS IN STRENGTH. I FAIL THEN DO A CONTRACTED HOLD UNTIL NEGATIVE IS DESTROYED. DON'T OVER COMPLICATE THE PROCESS. JOHN LITTLE DID TRAIN ME ON IDEAL MANY YEARS AGO BUT NOW I REALIZE I HAD REPS IN RESERVE BACK THEN. GIVE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE TO THAT ONE SET. I PROMISE IF YOU ARE EATING A SMALL SURPLUS. YOU WILL GROW.

@nosegrindv4951 11 ай бұрын

this. @@eliteman58

@themacocko6311 10 ай бұрын

@@eliteman58So you only did 2 sets for the entire workout? 1 warm up and your failure set? Nothing for biceps the rest of the day? (Just trying to be clear)

@tektoniks_architects 11 ай бұрын

Mike added a lot of mass to his body late in his pro career using rest/pause....it was a dramatic change for a guy who was already one of the best in the world.

@peterlightning9235 11 ай бұрын

Mike was a genius.

@MdoubleHB 11 ай бұрын

Intelligent people do not smoke.

@DrCarriouse 11 ай бұрын

Mike could live longer if he had quit smoking, also this habit is inanity. this could affect on Mentzer’s focus ability too… Still if the habit of smoking is your biggest stulidity in the whole life you are very inteligent person. (This could match with Mike Mentzer.)

@blakki42 11 ай бұрын

@@MdoubleHBsmoking has nothing to do with someone being intelligent.

@MdoubleHB 11 ай бұрын

@@blakki42 Maybe not in your opinion, but in reality it does.

@acason4 11 ай бұрын

@@MdoubleHB No it doesn’t: it called a non-sequitur. It’s not an opinion it’s a fact! Smoking is a non-sequitur to intelligence. Go take an introductory level philosophy class. If you form a syllogism with your argument it is neither valid NOR sound. 🤦🏼‍♂️

@freeman37 11 ай бұрын

Mike's guidance is everything I need to train proper.

@richbrake9910 11 ай бұрын

Rest Pause works very well.

@hornsteinhof7592 11 ай бұрын

Also easy to perform at home alone quickly, which is a huge plus

@Murphator 11 ай бұрын

restraint was the hardest part of this guy's routine when I started it.

@Crxskx 11 ай бұрын

Mike Mentzer is legend

@gbrnineteen72 11 ай бұрын

I just started incorporating this method of training and wow, it is fantastic and made it interesting. I hated gyms, in and out most of my adult life, rejoined couple of months ago. I have no partner to train with and I also have joint problems (knees and shoulders), had several operations over the decades and arthritis. Due to this some exercises give me joint pain if doing a max lift, so I drop the weight until it’s comfortable and perform to failure to the best of my ability, then rest, drop the weight and continue until lightweight is more or less to failure. I do Mikes 4 day split routine which I liked the look of. My gym closes next week for maintenance so today I did all of the upper body routines (chest/back and delts/arms) as an experiment and I can see why he recommends to do these on separate days, it’s too much for my body to give the best quality reps controlled. Needless to say I still enjoyed it and I’ll have 6 days to fully recover. No one size fits all and I’ll tweak and experiment to get the optimum workout for me. 😊

@niktherd3 11 ай бұрын

This type of training reminds me of “effective reps training”. It consisted of 2 sets; 1st set was a warm up set with a light or moderate weight until failure, 2nd set consisted of 20 reps with a heavier weight. If you couldn’t make it to 20 in one go, you could take 15-20 sec rest between reps until you made to rep 20. But Mike’s approach is different yet somewhat similar.

@giovannimiani3609 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video! 💪👍 I don't know this method of rest pause! I know rest pause in the version of "20 reps" rest pause recommended by Stuart McRoberts and Claudio Tozzi

@luigirnotyourbusiness8127 11 ай бұрын

Muscle gets bigger and stronger

@RedLionGenetics 11 ай бұрын

very interesting

@justinmelendez3760 11 ай бұрын

I do every rep of every exercise like a deadlift. Stop momentum, refocus, and explode up. It feels.good and works pretty well

@aliendroneservices6621 11 ай бұрын

You're unloading at the top. Stop.

@justinmelendez3760 11 ай бұрын

@@aliendroneservices6621 yes, I'll stop doing what has made me the biggest and strongest I've ever been. Thank you

@aliendroneservices6621 11 ай бұрын

@@donniehunt2606 "...lifting a significant amount of resistance/weight." Exercise isn't what your muscles do to resistance. It's what resistance does to your muscles.

@zorlockts5744 10 ай бұрын

@@aliendroneservices6621then what should we do instead of unloading at the top ?

@aliendroneservices6621 10 ай бұрын

@@zorlockts5744 Maintain continuous loading.

@giacomo.461 11 ай бұрын

Hey John, is Mikes ideal workout the most optimal and efficient workout possible that I could do as a natural if done properly? I also saw that you have made a workout program for sale so is that better than mentzers official program that he prescribed to naturals ?

@dbozexpat894 11 ай бұрын

I understand completely where Mike is coming from. I also use rest-pause in my training on my working set. However, you can't lift up to nothing. You need a number as a guideline. You can play around with numbers (8 to 12 reps, 1 to 5 reps, 10 to 15 reps, etc). You need the reps to tap into fluid around the muscle fiber.

@Shamilt3 8 ай бұрын

I think if you have a lagging body part or plateaued this can break the curse.

@dbozexpat894 8 ай бұрын

@@Shamilt3 it can. Also, after five weeks of continuous HIT training, l perform one week of powerlifiting type training. Which means, l lift as heavy as l can for 1 to 5 reps. Its a excellent break away from the traditional 8 to 12 reps per set.

@robbo8074 11 ай бұрын

Would you say it might be better to do rest pause on an isolation movement, maybe even a machine to minimize potential injury

@nosegrindv4951 11 ай бұрын

I find that i do at least one rest pause in all of my compound sets because I always doubt that i have tried hard enough and truly reached failure in the regular portion of the set. I hope that i am not overtraining Ill hit rest pause really hard if i know i wont be returning the gym for a while because of my work schedule..

@RoidfreeSenior 11 ай бұрын

Funny timing, I am putting together a video based on an old Peary Rader Ironman article on a rest-pause variation

@themaverick7707 9 ай бұрын

Mike was not just a bodybuilder but an institution!

@samuraijack9694 7 ай бұрын

So at what point in time would one incorporate Rest Pause training. I recently got on Mike Mentzers HIT training and absolutely love it. Should I stick to the normal way of having a 1 all out set till failure or implement this rest pause training?

@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE 7 ай бұрын

Unless you are really advanced in development, you won't need Rest-Pause.

@froggerjohn427 11 ай бұрын

Not going to lie, after high volume training for like 4 years straight I almost got used to gauging the quality of my workouts by the time spent at the gym

@shaunguffey9199 8 ай бұрын

Our bodies are amazing. You can do a set to failure with a weight that you can do for 10 reps, rest/pause for only 5 seconds, and then proceed to do that same weight for another 5 reps!

@mohamadhacibi8521 5 ай бұрын

💢💢 An important question... can I do all my training as a rest pause?

@jaygun9516 11 ай бұрын

Im just stuck on how to safely do this type of thing with lets say a RDL

@gregthomas6637 11 ай бұрын

What if you hit your 4-6 week of heavy duty training and you starting to burn out ? What after that ?

@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE 11 ай бұрын

Begin to insert additional recovery days.

@pinzytoto7698 9 ай бұрын

dorian did 1-2 weeks of light workouts every 6 weeks or so

@AndyGinny1 9 ай бұрын

Listening to this is blowing my mind. Who is this guy?

@W34RD07 9 ай бұрын

Sorry for not understanding because of my gooby gobber brain but can someone explain it like a simple way and put like an training example with all the sets and reps?

@kendrick1410 11 ай бұрын

I unfortunately can’t workout with a partner! Any suggestions on how to achieve maximum failure without a partner?

@jayakrishnakittu1983 11 ай бұрын

Drop sets,supersets,cheats

@user-tb2td9ui2h 8 ай бұрын

You *need* a partner for failure training, or just ask someone to spot

@lesgibbs326 7 ай бұрын

Training to failure as Mike has explained many times is when you get to the last rep you can physically do in correct form anything after either forced reps drop set will constitute over training. There are many derivatives of HIT training that you can implement once you are advanced which does require assistance like rest pause.

@thesouloftheworld2434 9 ай бұрын

Is this ok f a beginner?

@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE 9 ай бұрын

No, it’s for advanced trainees.

@akrammohamed2823 11 ай бұрын

Third ❤

@americanthaiboxer7224 11 ай бұрын

First! ❤

@LinarKawthar 10 ай бұрын

AI voiced ?

@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE 10 ай бұрын

No.

@LinarKawthar 10 ай бұрын

@@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE alright Thanks sir for sharing

@LinarKawthar 10 ай бұрын

@@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE I asked this , because in other records His voice seemed a bit damaged and unclear

@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE 10 ай бұрын

@@LinarKawthar The various audio recordings form the audio beds of the various videos on this channel were recorded over a span of 22 years (1979-2001) under a variety of different conditions (over the phone, in an apartment with professional mic, while driving in a car, while seated in the middle of 40 other people during a seminar, in a professional studio, etc.). So you have a range in age from 27 to 49 and technical issues with the recordings, both of which will impact sound quality and the timber of one's voice.

@LinarKawthar 10 ай бұрын

@@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE makes perfect sense I appreciate the effort of keeping mr mentzer s knowledge alive He’ll always be remembered living through us