Anyone trained using Mentzers HIT?

[kiddo24]

Nearly finished reading thorugh Mike Mentzers High Intensity Training. It's an interesting read, just wondering if anyone has trained using his style of HIT.
I'm struggling to get my head around 1 45 minute workout every 5 days!?

[bmit]

I used HIT principles but with much higher frequency than Mentzer. HIT has really come a long way. I really like the DC routine or using a 3 way split with low volume and high intensity

[Ulysses]

I train with insane intensity for 45 minutes, 6 days a week and one bodypart a day. Works for me! I can't abide the thought of stopping a set while you can still twitch - lol!! As I've got older, a little AAS is becoming helpful in keeping up this training method, but it works for me! :-)

[kiddo24]

im trying to up my intensity sticking with my 5 day split, i've been training real hard for the past 2-3 months and am starting to see some results. No doubt though it's starting to take it's toll on me a little and feel like I need to work in some kind of periodisation to maintain progress.
Mentzer seemed like a really clever guy but I just can't go along with one workout every 4-5 days, I no his intensity was insane but still come on, especially when on AAS?

[MotoLifter]

I used HIT principles but with much higher frequency than Mentzer. HIT has really come a long way. I really like the DC routine or using a 3 way split with low volume and high intensity

I use the DC training program also and its done some amazing things for me. you have to stick to the 6-8 week blast and a couple of weeks of lighter stuff or it really starts to beat ya down.


Moto

[Ulysses]

For me the main drawback of Mentzer's system was that I LOVE being at the gym - it's therapy, and after 20 years of training, it's 'home'. I'd hate only being there a couple of times a week. For me, the love affair is as much with the iron itself as with the results it produces. But maybe I'm just weird - lol!!!

[DHew]

So are 5 day splits really that effective?

[yannick35]

Mentzer was like Gironda, both of them where ahead of there time and there training principle stood the test of time.

Depending on what you want to achive, i trained HIT back in 1994 when it was so popular then and Muscle Media 2000 jumped on the band wagon. I liked it but i am looking to hit my muscles from every angle.

I am a bit older now then i was back then but still apply some principle, i never really train more then 40 minutes each time and if you hit the muscles hard enough you don't need to do more.

I usually train using a listen to your body principle, i have been training for so long now that i don't have fix days, i do have fix workout tough.

[oldschoolfitness]

for most of us the older mentzer routines are the most useful. check youtube mike mentzer high intensity training 3 parts and cool old vids. my advise drop the hd 2 and newer stuff unless thats all the time you have.

[Machdiesel]

I use the DC training program also and its done some amazing things for me. you have to stick to the 6-8 week blast and a couple of weeks of lighter stuff or it really starts to beat ya down.


Moto

Are you on the 2 way or 3 way?