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What Is Heavy Duty™ Training ?
We at Kevin's Gym subscribe to the Heavy Duty™ training system of Mike Mentzer. The
Heavy Duty™ system is the most scientifically correct system around, referring
to anaerobic exercise. It is supposed to be INTENSE. Being intense it
should be as brief as possible as glycogen is the source of fuel and it
is limited. Also, the body's recovery ability should be interfered with as little as possible, this is critical to your progress. After
your very intense short workout the overall body should be given enough
rest to enable it the opportunity to recover from the workout. The body
operates as a system (more about that later) and this is why the total
body needs to recover after a workout. The stress of an intense workout
on the body's total nervous system requires the total body to be rested! Only once total recovery has taken place can strength and muscle size growth start. Our pupils rest between 4 to 9 days between workouts.
What makes Heavy Duty™ Training Unique?
Most gyms and commercial fitness centers have been indoctrinated by the "more is better" principal. We have all made the mistake of thinking that if we don't get it right with 1 set we must do 3 to 4 sets to make up for a bad set. This is completely wrong.Exercise physiology teaches us that anaerobic exercise must be brief and intense. To grow you must also rest properly in order to recover completely.
Some of you might have visited my gym and seen me push my personal training students through a workout. Some of them are hardly in the gym for 10 minutes yet are making ridiculous gains like 1 to 1.5 kg weight gain between workouts.
Isn't this what you would call a productive training system. Beats those 2 hour workouts every day hands down.
Some of you might have visited my gym and seen me push my personal training students through a workout. Some of them are hardly in the gym for 10 minutes yet are making ridiculous gains like 1 to 1.5 kg weight gain between workouts.
Isn't this what you would call a productive training system. Beats those 2 hour workouts every day hands down.
Credit
All credit goes to Mike Mentzer for developing his Heavy Duty™ training system.
"Heavy Duty information is posted with permission from Joanne Sharkey, Successor-in-Interest to Mike Mentzer's Intellectual Property Rights, Copyrights, etc. Joanne is the CEO/President of Mentzer-Sharkey Enterprises, Inc., therefore, her permission to this web site does not mean that other sites can download any information from Mikementzer.com or Mike's writings onto their site without her written permission. "
"Heavy Duty information is posted with permission from Joanne Sharkey, Successor-in-Interest to Mike Mentzer's Intellectual Property Rights, Copyrights, etc. Joanne is the CEO/President of Mentzer-Sharkey Enterprises, Inc., therefore, her permission to this web site does not mean that other sites can download any information from Mikementzer.com or Mike's writings onto their site without her written permission. "
