Dorian Yates Blood and Guts Routine

[speeddemon]

Huge assumption. The mentzer rotuine will in fact increase strength....up to a point. Too bad about it not increasing size nearly as well.

I guess the 3 sets of 10, and the 45-60 reps per bodypart, 2x per week evidence from the scientific community is right.

Assuming your diet is what kept you from gaining size is a HUGE assumption. Any moderate volume training will increase size with strength. It's the drastic, over the top HIT dudes that get stronger and say "just wait until the size gains come!" They won't. The body won't increase the size of the muscles with that little volume.

It is precisely why Dorian Yates took little to no info from mentzers abbreviated routines. Also why Yates trained ech bodypart once every 6 days. I saw you say it takes 2 weeks to recover a muscle group? Post the studies. It doesn't take anywhere NEAR that. Not even half that for most people. 5-6 days is a sweet spot for a reason.

I'd be happy to talk HIT training with anyone, I've only been doing it for 1.5 decades. EVERY iteration imaginable, with myself and others. I grow best in size/strength on 3 sets of 8-10, total volume of about 60-90 reps per body part, and best strength on 2 work sets of 5-8 reps....MAX-OT + a few reps. Hitting each body part every 5-7 days on both. REALLY like a push/pull/legs split training every other day indefinitely. (each bp every 6 days)

thanks

 

[Southernfish]

This needs a bump. I see so many people doing 3 sets 10-12 reps which might for a certain period of time but one has to switch thing up from time to time, and not just exercises, the whole routine. This routine surpasses any program ive ever done in terms of muscle growth and strength gains. bump for Dorian, bump for getting jacked.

 

[Metalhead]

^^^agreed. This is one of my favorites also. Definitely a good scheme to utilize

 

[STAUNCHED427]

I am finding it hard to believe me being able to grow with such a low amount of sets, but I'm not going to hack without trying it first ! I need a change up in training routine anyway, well over due I've foolishly been sticking to the old 10-12 rep range so I think I'll benefit a lot from this.

Also need to cut down on these total training times, it's getting out of hand I have been training on average 90 minutes for far too long now.

Going to give it 6 weeks, thinking about creating a log of it here on 'ology so just others can see what sort of results this produces.

I'm also curious as to if anyone here has tried it, without a spotter. I've asked a friend if they wanna jump in this routine with me but I'm not counting on it. Has anyone had success using pause sets, partials and in particular drop sets to achieve total failure without a training partner?

 

[STAUNCHED427]

So I decided to give this routine a shot for sure and started today off with Chest/Tris... Don't dig at this till you try it, slow negatives+forced reps+drop sets really will cause some damage, good damage lol. I like it after tonight and will deffintly be sticking with it for atleast 6-8 weeks.

I'll be posting a log up in the training forum in the next 20 minutes or so and update it every session just if anyone is curious!

 

[Pitbull55]

This needs a bump. I see so many people doing 3 sets 10-12 reps which might for a certain period of time but one has to switch thing up from time to time, and not just exercises, the whole routine. This routine surpasses any program ive ever done in terms of muscle growth and strength gains. bump for Dorian, bump for getting jacked.

Could not agree more with this, hands down my favorite program!

 

[STAUNCHED427]

I see so many people doing 3 sets 10-12 reps which might for a certain period of time but one has to switch thing up from time to time, and not just exercises, the whole routine.

Guilty, until now. Happy I changed it up, I was hesitant, but I like this routine and it looks promising.