Long workouts are how guys hide from hard ones.
Mike Mentzer figured this out 40 years ago. Stop chasing volume. Start chasing intensity. One brutal set taken close to failure builds more muscle than five soft sets done while you're texting your buddy between rests. Heavy Duty runs that play. Three days a week, every other day, full body. Heavy compound movements driven hard, to or near failure on the lifts that actually move the needle. The other four days are for your body to do the part you can't do in the gym. Train less. Grow more.
A
Hack Squat
6, 5, 5
B
Barbell Bench Press
6, 5, 5
C
1-Arm DB Row
10, 8, 8
D
V-Bar Cable Tricep Pressdown
12, 10
E
DB Alternating Bicep Curl
12, 10
A
Barbell Deadlift
6, 5, 5
B
DB Incline Bench Press
8, 6, 6
C
Lat Machine Wide Grip Pulldown
10, 8, 8
D
DB Lateral Raise
12, 10
E
Lying Leg Curl
12, 10
A
Seated Leg Press
8, 6, 6
B
Barbell Overhead Press
8, 6, 6
C
Pull-Up
10, 8
D
DB Chest Fly
10, 8
E
Seated Machine Calf Raise
15, 12
You can keep training 5–6 days, long workouts, no recovery, and wonder why nothing changes. Or train hard 3 days a week, recover right, and build more muscle in 12 weeks than the last few years.
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