Here’s high-intensity advocate and pro bodybuilder Mike Mentzer’s answer to those who asked how he accounted for the success of all of the top bodybuilders who used high-volume workouts (John Balik photo)…
While their physiques are in part the result of such training, so are the physiques of all the failures, whose numbers are legion. Furthermore, it is a mistake to point to the apparent success of a couple dozen title winners as indubitable proof that a certain training approach is efficacious. If one were to look back through the course of their bodybuilding careers and calculate the hours, months, and years of wasted effort resulting from their blind, non-theoretical volume approach, one would have to question whether their achievement could properly be termed success at all. It should be understood also that genetic endowment is the prime determinant of bodybuilding success.
In past quotes, Mentzer has also pointed to drug use, which gives an extraordinary boost to recovery and growth.
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