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The Man Who Told Lifters to Train Less Was Laughed Out of the Gym. Forty Years Later, the Research Caught Up.
In 1980, Mike Mentzer told bodybuilders that one hard set beat five easy ones, that a muscle needed days to recover, and that most men were training themselves into the ground. The sport laughed. Four decades of research on training volume, frequency and effort now say he was mostly right, and that the men his method fits best aren’t 22-year-old competitors but busy men over 50 with slower recovery and joints that keep a ledger. Here’s what the studies support, where Mentzer overreached, and a two-day, 35-minute program built on the parts that hold up. Continue reading The Man Who Told Lifters to Train Less Was Laughed Out of the Gym. Forty Years Later, the Research Caught Up.