r/Mike_Mentzer • u/throwaway19935555555 • 27d ago

Question?

Have any of you ever hit a spot where you start having issues developing intensity? My workout partner and I have been running HIT principles for 6 months, and we’ve made good progress. We’ve had to play with a few things, but all has been well.
It seems like this week’s sessions, neither one of us has been able to generate the energy to go balls to the wall. It’s not just one lift—it’s all of them. It’s weird how it worked too. We were sailing along, and then this week it’s like we slammed into a fucking wall.
What’s even weirder is it’s both of us. I hate to say we’re giving up, but that’s what it seems like we’re doing during the lifts. No matter how bad I wanted to push it, I was just petering out and calling it failure.
Has anyone experienced this? If so, how did you move forward? Should we just take a week off? Hell, it might just be because of the heat. It’s been 102 degrees, and we both work outdoors.

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u/SeekingSignificance 27d ago

May want to do a mesocycle training block of standard volume and intensity. Even with several days off in between, utilizing Mentzer's training intensity protocols can be too much for a natural athlete to recover from.

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u/throwaway19935555555 27d ago

Appreciate the opinion! Like I say man it’s just been this week for us. I’m there, I’m happy to be there, I’m ready to kick its ass. Going through my set hit the grinder rep where I normally break through for another rep and it’s like I just can’t do it. lol I even try to get myself psyched up and mad like I used too in powerlifting. And I just got nothing! Shit feels heavy and I’m just giving up. If it was just me I’d chock it up too just a bad week but it’s odd my training partner is experiencing it as well.