Hello Kevin, I found your channel through Mr America Heart who put you in his top three H.I.T bodybuilders... can't believe I hadn't seen you before. Just been looking at your content and nodding in agreement with all you talk about. Just to let you know I've had great results of my own with 1 x 20 minutes resistance training and 1x 10 minutes sprinting per week. Now at 57 I'm fitter, stronger and leaner than I was in my twenties! Keep up the great content!
Hi Kevin would you do a video with the same method using suspension straps/gymnastic rings ( bodyweight) at home? I think there's are a lot of people that might want to know about this. Keep up the good work!
Your system proves maybe it's the intensity that matters most and maybe a lot of people get results with more volume simply because they just can't or don't train hard enough. You see other channels that are science-based that say volume is king and talk about doing 20, even 30 sets per body part. But Kevin, you seem to be one of the most honest, sincere, genuine, nice people I've come across and I can't deny, based on all your evidence from all your clients and experimentation and your years of experience, that it doesn't work.
Thanks for watching and it's hard to say there may not be a case for high volume training, all I can say based on personal experience is that I didn't get very far with it and the average man or woman seems to have benefited from this form of training more so than high volume training. And as for science based, you can't really be following any scientific protocols if your subject numbers are so low and the time of study is only a few weeks. I think it's important that we take the time to look at real long term results with extremely large numbers of people and then start looking at the patterns. But it's always been training based on which most popular individual (who is almost always on drugs) advocates. Just trying to be a point of light in a place where a lot of people are in the dark and trying to help.
@@naturallyintense it's a good point there's never the funding nor the length of these studies to really have some true ones that can come to any certain conclusion.
I do wish people understood as well how difficult it is to procure funding and how the lack of any real profitable outcomes from strength or bodybuilding related studies makes most of what is done simply vehicles for publication rather than practical guidelines. When I was younger I always thought they would just do some studies and show conclusively what the best form of training is, but the older I got and the more I worked with people from the research community, the more I saw that this may not ever be the case. It would be a much better state of affairs if it was though.
Hi Kevin, You seems like a very genuine & honest person. But with such unconventional approach it would be hard to find many followers. I have recently started training with your approach as with conventional methods I was stuck on a platueue for many years. I still need to follow this method for next many months or years to see how it works.
Thanks for taking the time to look at my work and the focus is never going to be on maximizing followers, but rather on sharing what I can to help others realize their goals. Nothing is more rewarding than this and the only regret is that there is only so much you can share with videos, but I do my best and do let me know how it goes. Thanks again!!!
Thanks for taking the time to look at my work and our training are almost completely online, and I have a client in Melbourne (making it such that we have clients right now in just about every continent) as it's an international service at this point.
@naturallyintense Thanks Kevin I'll have a look at your website. I'm a personal trainer myself and I hope one day I could train people with your program.
I have questions dont know if this is in your field but heres the scenario: Say I workout my entire body to failure over the course of 3 days, (the 3day split you provided) I'm in a state of ketosis from a keto diet and I go on a 3-7 day no food maybe water fast. 1. Do you gain or at least fully recover previously stressed muscle when not taking protein? Because I know our bodys can pull protien from dead cells and other ways. If I dont eat any protein? How do my musclss recover while in a state of fasting 2. The day before I fast, would it be wise to eat say maybe 300G of protien (I weigh 170) and hope that could sustain me for a little bit as our bodies can keep protien for 2 days 3. What happens if I workout while on fast, can I recover muscle AT ALL ? Where is this protein coming from?
Kevin, I have watched a lot of your videos (I literally cannot afford to purchase, forgive me), and I have learned a lot, thank you. However, the one thing I don't yet understand is your insistence on using different exercises each (back, chest, leg) workout. Does this variety have a biological function? Is it more psychological? Maybe keeping workouts fresh and therefore helping consistency? I ask because yesterday, on impulse, I replaced skull crushers with triceps pushdown (I never ever introduce variety) and it worked really well, it felt fresh, interesting, exciting.
Thanks for watching and it's not an insistence when it comes to exercise and workout variety, it's a best practice that has worked now for decades based on simple physiology. Muscles get bigger and stronger in response to unaccustomed stimuli and overload. Keep the workouts different each time and in my experience results are always significantly better, and also importantly, you don't suffer from the overuse injuries that plague those training with the same exercises over and over. Hope that helps and keep it going!!!
For the first time in over forty years. Ive been able to stay consistent. Although ot actually takes me anywhere between one and three hours per week. It's still way better than anything i had tried before, and that includes the protocol i followed when i competed.
High intensity is key. Since Mike Mentzer already knew this, many athletes, especially natural athletes like you, have proven his theories correct. Of course with slight variations... But there is a point that Dorian also recognized. Most bodybuilders are mentally and physically unable to perform their best in one set. Especially when it comes to heavy workloads... But still, good work as always.
Thanks for watching and the one set idea to me always sounded just like an idea, not something you would be able to do in practice for years on end without getting hurt. And from what I understand, long before Mike and Arthur Jones there were people who simply figured out the idea of applying intensity as a driving force for their training. They just never made it to the magazines or were famous.
Thanks for the support and my literary agent said if the public interest was high enough in terms of i guess subscribers, there would be a strong argument for another book deal consideration. It's not my main focus, but if it happens there most certainly will be a book out. Thanks again.
Kevin, hello! Thanks for your videos. I have made significant progress over the last six months thanks to your training methods and I believe that what you teach is the best for building muscle mass. I also like the variety that these types of training principles imply - always fun. But I have one question and many have probably asked you about this: using the Bible quote Luke 12:48. What do you mean by this? Is God obligating you to do something?
Thanks for taking the time to look at my work and no one ever asked that before. But to answer your question, it's how I was raised and is simply a central tenet of how I try to live. My Mom always instilled in me by example the idea that whatever we have comes with a responsibility to share with those who don't have. So just trying to do my part as I have been truly blessed over the years to have been able to realize my goals and to be honest, helping others make their dreams come true and transforming lives has been one of the greatest parts of my life. And I am truly honored to be able to do it. Thanks again for watching.
You certainly can and you will make some impressive gains with it, but in full disclosure, my observations over the years has been that the having someone well versed in the system push you through the workouts always lead to significantly better results. Even with extremely experienced and highly motivated athletes, which makes sense as was designed to be done with either myself or a Naturally Intense certified trainer. But you can still make progress nonetheless.
Hi Kevin I am a subscriber to your channel, like your videos but I'm sorry it is so hard to believe you achieved an impressive physique with an hour a week. I'm sorry I am not calling you a liar but I have training for 20 years and I am not nearly as impressive as you are.But I'm going to try it and see what happens, thanks
Thanks for watching and here's what I would say to that, skepticism is the fuel that propels us to unthought of heights and no one was more skeptical about this working than I was when I started. It was only supposed to be a nine month experiment but it worked so well I never stopped and it worked as well for my clients. Thanks for taking some of the principles into consideration and do let me know how it goes!!!
Hello Kevin, I found your channel through Mr America Heart who put you in his top three H.I.T bodybuilders... can't believe I hadn't seen you before. Just been looking at your content and nodding in agreement with all you talk about. Just to let you know I've had great results of my own with 1 x 20 minutes resistance training and 1x 10 minutes sprinting per week. Now at 57 I'm fitter, stronger and leaner than I was in my twenties! Keep up the great content!
Thanks so much for taking the time to look at my work and I am honored to have been mentioned!!!
I always learn something new from you Kevin. Thank you very much.
And thank you for taking the time to look at my work!!!
Hi Kevin would you do a video with the same method using suspension straps/gymnastic rings ( bodyweight) at home? I think there's are a lot of people that might want to know about this. Keep up the good work!
Definitely Kevin is right I tried n doing them. It's really mind-blowing n made me rethink the volume of training .thanks Kevin
And thank you so much for taking the time to look at my work!!! Really appreciate it!!!
Hey Kevin do you train your adductors and abductors
Hey Kevin do you train your neck muscles?
I technically can't as I have a neck injury but I never did any specific neck exercises back in the day.
Your system proves maybe it's the intensity that matters most and maybe a lot of people get results with more volume simply because they just can't or don't train hard enough. You see other channels that are science-based that say volume is king and talk about doing 20, even 30 sets per body part. But Kevin, you seem to be one of the most honest, sincere, genuine, nice people I've come across and I can't deny, based on all your evidence from all your clients and experimentation and your years of experience, that it doesn't work.
Thanks for watching and it's hard to say there may not be a case for high volume training, all I can say based on personal experience is that I didn't get very far with it and the average man or woman seems to have benefited from this form of training more so than high volume training. And as for science based, you can't really be following any scientific protocols if your subject numbers are so low and the time of study is only a few weeks. I think it's important that we take the time to look at real long term results with extremely large numbers of people and then start looking at the patterns. But it's always been training based on which most popular individual (who is almost always on drugs) advocates. Just trying to be a point of light in a place where a lot of people are in the dark and trying to help.
@@naturallyintense it's a good point there's never the funding nor the length of these studies to really have some true ones that can come to any certain conclusion.
I do wish people understood as well how difficult it is to procure funding and how the lack of any real profitable outcomes from strength or bodybuilding related studies makes most of what is done simply vehicles for publication rather than practical guidelines. When I was younger I always thought they would just do some studies and show conclusively what the best form of training is, but the older I got and the more I worked with people from the research community, the more I saw that this may not ever be the case. It would be a much better state of affairs if it was though.
I need your help Kevin, where do I start?
Thanks for tuning in and you can reach me via my website at www.naturallyintense.net/
Hi Kevin, You seems like a very genuine & honest person. But with such unconventional approach it would be hard to find many followers. I have recently started training with your approach as with conventional methods I was stuck on a platueue for many years. I still need to follow this method for next many months or years to see how it works.
Thanks for taking the time to look at my work and the focus is never going to be on maximizing followers, but rather on sharing what I can to help others realize their goals. Nothing is more rewarding than this and the only regret is that there is only so much you can share with videos, but I do my best and do let me know how it goes. Thanks again!!!
Do yon have any trainers in Auckland NZ? Ive been following your advice for 8 weeks now and getting great results 💪 Thanks Kevin 🙏
Thanks for taking the time to look at my work and our training are almost completely online, and I have a client in Melbourne (making it such that we have clients right now in just about every continent) as it's an international service at this point.
@naturallyintense Thanks Kevin I'll have a look at your website. I'm a personal trainer myself and I hope one day I could train people with your program.
@@jasonjobsis6535 Thanks and we are looking at a certification program in the very near future as there has been significant interest.
I have questions dont know if this is in your field but heres the scenario:
Say I workout my entire body to failure over the course of 3 days, (the 3day split you provided) I'm in a state of ketosis from a keto diet and I go on a 3-7 day no food maybe water fast.
1. Do you gain or at least fully recover previously stressed muscle when not taking protein? Because I know our bodys can pull protien from dead cells and other ways.
If I dont eat any protein? How do my musclss recover while in a state of fasting
2. The day before I fast, would it be wise to eat say maybe 300G of protien (I weigh 170) and hope that could sustain me for a little bit as our bodies can keep protien for 2 days
3. What happens if I workout while on fast, can I recover muscle AT ALL ? Where is this protein coming from?
Another question, when fasting, will my body break down muscle to fuel the rebuilding of other muscle?
Kevin, I have watched a lot of your videos (I literally cannot afford to purchase, forgive me), and I have learned a lot, thank you. However, the one thing I don't yet understand is your insistence on using different exercises each (back, chest, leg) workout. Does this variety have a biological function? Is it more psychological? Maybe keeping workouts fresh and therefore helping consistency? I ask because yesterday, on impulse, I replaced skull crushers with triceps pushdown (I never ever introduce variety) and it worked really well, it felt fresh, interesting, exciting.
Thanks for watching and it's not an insistence when it comes to exercise and workout variety, it's a best practice that has worked now for decades based on simple physiology. Muscles get bigger and stronger in response to unaccustomed stimuli and overload. Keep the workouts different each time and in my experience results are always significantly better, and also importantly, you don't suffer from the overuse injuries that plague those training with the same exercises over and over. Hope that helps and keep it going!!!
@naturallyintense That definitely helps Kevin, simple and sensible, thank you.
For the first time in over forty years. Ive been able to stay consistent. Although ot actually takes me anywhere between one and three hours per week. It's still way better than anything i had tried before, and that includes the protocol i followed when i competed.
Thanks for watching and truly honored to have been able to help, my friend!!!
Please put all of your wisdom and expertise in a book a la Mike Mentzer
How many warm-up sets before you do the three working sets
Good question and the answer is none as the first sets serve as warm up sets! Hope that helps!!!
@@naturallyintense it does thanks
High intensity is key. Since Mike Mentzer already knew this, many athletes, especially natural athletes like you, have proven his theories correct. Of course with slight variations...
But there is a point that Dorian also recognized.
Most bodybuilders are mentally and physically unable to perform their best in one set. Especially when it comes to heavy workloads...
But still, good work as always.
Thanks for watching and the one set idea to me always sounded just like an idea, not something you would be able to do in practice for years on end without getting hurt. And from what I understand, long before Mike and Arthur Jones there were people who simply figured out the idea of applying intensity as a driving force for their training. They just never made it to the magazines or were famous.
Please write a book
Thanks for watching and if there's enough interest there certainly will be a book out. Thanks so much for the support!!!
John Heart brought me here !
Honored to have you and for the referral!!!
Please write a book/program
I would buy it!
Thanks for the support and my literary agent said if the public interest was high enough in terms of i guess subscribers, there would be a strong argument for another book deal consideration. It's not my main focus, but if it happens there most certainly will be a book out. Thanks again.
@@naturallyintense Thanks for the answer. Excelsior.
I would definitly buy the book.
I'm going for 3 weeks of training, the weights are dropping a lot in the 3 set
Keep it going!!!
@@naturallyintense Yes
Kevin, hello! Thanks for your videos. I have made significant progress over the last six months thanks to your training methods and I believe that what you teach is the best for building muscle mass. I also like the variety that these types of training principles imply - always fun. But I have one question and many have probably asked you about this: using the Bible quote Luke 12:48. What do you mean by this? Is God obligating you to do something?
Thanks for taking the time to look at my work and no one ever asked that before. But to answer your question, it's how I was raised and is simply a central tenet of how I try to live. My Mom always instilled in me by example the idea that whatever we have comes with a responsibility to share with those who don't have. So just trying to do my part as I have been truly blessed over the years to have been able to realize my goals and to be honest, helping others make their dreams come true and transforming lives has been one of the greatest parts of my life. And I am truly honored to be able to do it. Thanks again for watching.
Can I workout alone in this style of intensity?
You certainly can and you will make some impressive gains with it, but in full disclosure, my observations over the years has been that the having someone well versed in the system push you through the workouts always lead to significantly better results. Even with extremely experienced and highly motivated athletes, which makes sense as was designed to be done with either myself or a Naturally Intense certified trainer. But you can still make progress nonetheless.
@@naturallyintense Thank you I appreciate it.
Hi Kevin I am a subscriber to your channel, like your videos but I'm sorry it is so hard to believe you achieved an impressive physique with an hour a week. I'm sorry I am not calling you a liar but I have training for 20 years and I am not nearly as impressive as you are.But I'm going to try it and see what happens, thanks
Thanks for watching and here's what I would say to that, skepticism is the fuel that propels us to unthought of heights and no one was more skeptical about this working than I was when I started. It was only supposed to be a nine month experiment but it worked so well I never stopped and it worked as well for my clients. Thanks for taking some of the principles into consideration and do let me know how it goes!!!
I will ,thanks
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The first sets are the warm up sets.
@@naturallyintense ❤️🙏
@@naturallyintense حسب برنامجك يفضل مجموعات ثانية واحدة فقط. لكن حتى الفشل العضلي؟
Ne uklapa se tu matematika,ako klijente treniras 33 godine,imas 50,poceo si da ih treniras kad si imao 17.
Da, počeo sam kao pripravnik trenera sa 17 godina.
How many warm up seats ne for you do the 3 work sets?