Mentzer always made shit difficult.....just train hard and for the most part eat clean healthy bodybuilding type food with a junk day here or there and get adequate rest and water.
Any older guy here that has no idea what or how to eat for his best progress after decades of training should just quit and go for the dad body look.
Of course we should never stop trying to learn but psuedo egghead Mike made things more complicated than they should have been and got rich doing it when no one needed his silly ass training fad of training once a year.
He built his initial size with plenty of volume and drugs, and maintained it with less frequent training and more drugs........bid fucking deal, plus he was a crybaby,a quitter,and a sore loser.
Never was a fan like most sheep who were enthralled by his idiocy and acted like he was explaning rocket science.
Just fucking lift,and lift hard..... over time if you have half a brain you`ll find out what makes YOU (NOT MIKE) respond best.
Dont forget Mikes genetics would have had him looking like a beast no matter what he did.....especially while being on a ton of gear.