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FITNESS TIPS FOR 6/12/2001
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SAD NEWS
Mike Mentzer Death
Mike Mentzer of Heavy Duty / High Intensity Training Fame
was found dead Monday morning by his brother Ray.
I got to meet Mike and wortkout with him 2 years ago, and
found him to be a great trainer and teacher.
Mike was one of the first to teach bodybuilders to think
for themselves rather then follow blindly the advice of
others.
This issue I am reprinting one of Mike's Articles, to pay
tribute to Mike Mentzer: The Thinking Man's Bodybuilder!
THE VALUE OF A TRAINING JOURNAL
By Mike Mentzer
To become a massively developed bodybuilder takes time,
a number of years in most cases. I do believe, however,
that the amount of time it would take any person to
develop to his fullest potential would be reduced
dramatically if he were to keep a training journal from the
day he began training.
In very few arenas of human endeavor will you find anyone
who finds the most direct route from objective A to objective
B at the outset. All learning and moving ahead is
accomplished by trial and error. Usually we begin by
making a trial, missing the mark, note the error, and make
the proper adjustments and then proceed to our target or goal.
I have come to view my own training career as something
of a journey, whose destination is the fulfillment of my
physical potential. As it is with any long journey along an
uncharted path, I am bound to the inevitable detour. It is
vital that if I am ever going to reach my destination I must
avoid hitting the same blind alley, the same detours twice;
otherwise I will end up like a rat caught forever in a maze,
frantically seeking the one proper path that will lead me
to success.
Keeping a training journal is like making a map of your
journey. You must make a record of every proper turn as
well as every wrong one. The road to building a great
physique is just too long to remember all the mistakes.
I began keeping a training journal back in June of 1978 just
as I was beginning my preparation for the USA vs. World
challenge match in Los Angeles. Since then I have recorded
preparations for six other competitions and now I have
begun to record my workouts and diet in the off-season.
My journal has evolved somewhat since those first recorded
observations back in June of '78. At first my journal served
merely as a record of my diet and my workouts while
preparing for a contest. With each succeeding contest,
however, I grew increasingly aware of how my journal
would serve me in the future for bigger contests. As time
went on I began keeping a record of my bodyweight before
each workout, other physical activities, as well as detailed
analyses after each contest. Recently I have begun to keep
charts which compare my fluctuating bodyweight with calorie
intake and activity level so that when preparing for a
contest in the future I will know exactly what I have to eat
and how active I must be each day to reach a certain condition
or peak in an allotted period of time.
In addition I have begun recording mental and emotional
patterns that attend contest training and, while I haven't had
the time to fully analyze this particular aspect fully, I have
made certain preliminary observations that suggest definite
patterns to motivation, emotional ups and downs, as well as
to progress. I now am beginning to understand much better
my limits as well as my strengths. For instance, in the
beginning of 1979 I turned professional and was anxious to
enter every show possible as I had looked forward to the
prospect of turning pro for some time. Recorded during the
preparation of my first pro show, the Southern Pro Cup, were
words and phrases that revealed an almost unbridled
enthusiasm and desire "to prevail." I did prevail and won
that first pro contest.
As the year proceeded, however, my contest preparation
was disrupted by a lot of traveling for seminars and
exhibitions as well as new responsibilities, like writing a
book for a major New York publisher. Each new responsibility
merely added to the stress I was under and my progress
began to suffer. The continuing presence of these and other
diversions caused me to place second in my second pro
show, the Night of Champions in Pittsburgh on April 19, 1978.
I found stress to be additive, and the stress of training and
dieting continuously for four continuous months along with
other life stresses we invariably encounter, caused me to
approach my preparations for the New York pro show in
May of 1978 with little enthusiasm. Even more notable
from reviewing my journal, was the obvious fact that while
my preparation for this show was essentially the same as
that for the first two, my body was not responding the way
it did for the first two. I placed a dismal third in that contest
and recorded in my analysis of it:
"I should not have entered this contest. I could see as long
as two weeks preceding the show that my body was not
responding to the training and diet as it had previously. The
physical and mental stress associated with preparing for
three shows in as many months, along with certain
emotional stresses resulting from family crisis
ended up to too much. I guess it just proves once
again Selye's notions about stress, especially that we
have a limited capacity to resist and adapt before we
reach exhaustion and must deviate, or rest..."
In addition, then, to just recording training poundages and
diet information, patterns to progress can also be detected.
I learned that I could not peak for three shows in a row, at
least while attempting to live a life full of other
responsibilities and commitments. I put this information to
use later in the year as I began my preparation for the
Mr. Olympia. Aware that too many other outside
commitments such as seminars and exhibitions tend to
deflect me off course, I accepted no such commitments
during the entire two and one half months of my
preparation and, as a result, ended up in my lifetime
best condition.
Reprinted with permission of Exercise Protocol Magazine.
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