I'm honestly surprised that bodybuilders have picked up on this trend. I expect the first big-name bicep tear from filming a curl tik tok within the next 6 weeks.
I partially agree with this. Negatives to failure are a big deal for biceps but doing entire sets - do you mean multiple sets? That I don't agree with. Diminishing returns for me. I get one absolute failure set, then a second set can border counter productive. Though I was hitting 70kg a while back. It gets a bit dangerous to be hitting absolute failure negatives with heavy weights for biceps alone.
Oi. Where is our disappointment?
Yeah typo on my end, I mean one set of reps to failure including assisted reps with slow negative to total failure.
I'm a big proponent of single failure sets, for both muscle building and strength gains.
Show them a picture of prime Dorian Yates. Guy worked out 3-4 times a week 45 min a day and the dude was beyond jacked. People don't believe he worked out for such a small amount of time because they've never done reps to beyond failure including slow negative. It's literally the number one reason he won Mr Olympia 6 straight years.
Yeah. Mentzer was one of the OGs for it and to me, his physique was beautiful.
I like Dorian, and I’m sure you could make a case for the efficacy of his style of training. That said, his genetics and the anabolic she was on are the primary reasons he won 5 Mr. O’s.
Sorry bro. Better later than never.
He was doing a tweaked version of Mike Mentzers Heavy Duty, I think someone already mentioned it. People think it requires less work, it does but the working sets would be brutal, beyond failure. The movements focused on heavy weight using strict form being cognizant of keeping the resistance on the backside of the exercise, going until failure, then working past that by resisting the weight. You had to have a good workout partner, we would usually only train one or two body parts per week using Dorians “Blood and Guts”, when doing the large muscle groups like back or legs I’d be sore for days on end... sadly this training approach is why Dorian had to retire, he completely tore his bicep doing bent rows, then his tricep the next year IIRC.
