According to Mike Mentzer's book, Heavy Duty Nutrition:
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Carbohydrates should make up the bulk of the caloric intake, 50-60%, rather than protein as preferred by others. The reasoning behind this was simple—to build 10 pounds of muscle in a year, a total of 6000 extra calories needed to be ingested throughout the year, because one pound of muscle contains 600 calories. That averages 16 extra calories per day, and only four of them needed to be from protein—because muscle is 22% protein, about one quarter.
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Some question Mike Mentzer's mental health. But the guy looked like this:
The guys over at Tnation picked apart his opinion:
TESTOSTERONE NATION | Mike Mentzer Nutrition? - Page 1
My favorite:
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He also had a section on fatloss. To lose 10 lbs a year of pure fat just do an extran 16 calories worth of activity. If you want to lose more just do 17 calories worth
I just pick my nose for an extra 15 mins each day. I'm losing bodyfat like crazy.
(You can clearly see how flawed his logic is.)
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Sometimes I don't know who to believe.
Maybe Mentzer wrote this book in the later part of his life, when his alphabet went from ABCD to BCAD...