Mike Mentzer: "Your Recovery Ability Determines Your Training Requirements"

In this video Mike Mentzer explains why "cookie-cutter" or "one-size-fits-all" training programs are largely doomed to failure. The reason, he says, is that each of us has our own unique tolerance for exercise. If this is not accounted for, then you are merely engaging in bodybuilding training as a social ritual rather than as a productive discipline. He covers topics such as exercise tolerance between different people, how to determine personal recovery ability, why bodybuilders are confused, overtraining and overlapping muscle exercises.