The most recent time I did biceps, I did the barbell curl just like this. Stood up against a wall and didn’t use any swinging, and lifting 4 sec up 4 sec down. It a whole lot tougher when you force yourself to stay still. Just one set and it worked well.
Hey, let's credit Markus Reinhardt a bit! He was a great student of Mike and had a great physique when I knew him in LA when I trained with Mike as well.
Dumb take. Mike could have come back and won the 1981 Olympia and cemented his legacy. Instead he chose to let himself get consumed over his loss in 1980 up until the point of his death. Not Arnold’s fault.
Mike should have been mentally stronger and shouldn’t have let Arnold bother him so much. Mike already received a perfect score. Mike was such a gift to the world.
gives assistance where 'needed' on what he thought was the last rep "one more" *gets another rep without assistance needed. *Mike's face.. "you cheating B*stard!"
@@Zrksys it basically just means he was cheating him self on that second to last rep before he gave himself a kick in the arse and started actually working and realised he did have a rep left lol. we've all done it at least once where we get that last rep then as soon as we put the weight down we know we cheated ourselves and pick the weight back up and get two more reps lol
I started doing high intensity long rest days before I knew about mike and when I saw him I confirmed my point, so how I discovered it ? Because of Leg day ! I hated working legs, I always do heavy weight on it just to get tired fast and get out of the gym i used to do 2 sets squad and leg extentions to faillure and leave Next week probably I skip leg day because I hate working it and didnt feel like working leg, so i was sometimes training legs once per 14 days with really heavy weight short workout .. and then I noticed, each time I train legs I could add a new plate, also people noticed my legs getting big and so my. And im sure it is the story of many of you noticing legs being stonger even tho you don't work them frequantly. So I started doing it for the rest of my muscle then by youtubr magic it started recommending mike mentzer videos.
@@aliendroneservices6621It does. One of the primary functions of the bicep is wrist supination. A straight bar will result in more bicep gains overall than an EZ bar. That being said, if you have wrist issues, or if you want to particularly target the brachialis more when curling, then it is good to use an EZ bar
nothing wrong with the curl bar, Mike was very opinionated and dogmatic in his approach but wasn't right about everything. Like anything or anyone's words take what's useful and reject which isn't
the problem with the EZ curl barl is that your hand does not properly, or rather fully, supinate - the bicep will still be affected, but this is true also of a pushup with bad form or uneven dips, works but less effective
@@papaspauldingthere’s nothing about being opinionated in here. The biceps’ role is ONLY supination. The EZ curl bar loses some of the tension to the brachialis, so the exercises becomes less effective for the brachii. You can’t have opinions about 1+1 or if the sun is hot. 🤦♂️ But everybody likes to play the “we all have different opinions” song.
If you do let’s say two bicep exercises first concentration curls 2 warm up then 1 to failure 8-10 then the same with biceps with standing bar curl. You have done enough 👌💯
@@Zrksys Devon v Levan, armwrestling, Devon tore his bicep due to training small movements. I train for armwrestling as well and have much lower injury rate opening my arm more and moving slower.
@summondominion It does , it increases time under tension, maximizes the weights you are lifting, decreases likelihood of injury, if your following Mike Mentzer style training HIT I'm assuming you appreciate TUT using slow negatives?
Need i ... for example for biceps...only 1 exercise for rest of the life- barbell curl? or is necessary change exercise for example every 2-3 months (muscles shocking/ adaptation to exercise)... i didnt notice any info about this from Mike.
His workout plan is mostly that fundamental basic exercise. When you have made a muscle memory after working out 2/3 months take another 1 to 2 weeks break and then come back again Or you can just change it with another fundamental basic exercise Focus is mostly on giving enough time for recovery.
Super slow reps isn't efficient. Actually there's nothing wrong on doing faster reps 'cause the muscle doesn't grow on account of muscle damage, it actually grows due to the load. Muscle damage is just a consequence of the load. One proof of that is that you can get muscle damage doing a lot of things but it won't make your muscles grow. You need load, energy. Despite that, I agree a lot of things Mentzer said, like the correct volume training, get a good rest between days of training and so forth
The stimulus for hypertrophy is the tension in the muscles generated by the nervous system. 'Load', by which you mean resistance working against the muscles, is only part of the equation. This video clearly demonstrates technique and mindset are paramount, and as you mentioned the importance of recovery.
