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Title: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: pellius on June 10, 2009, 03:18:33 PM: It's been 8 years since the death of Mike Mentzer and two days later, his brother, Ray. Even to this day no one seems to provoke such strong opinions. You either love him or hate him. Like his opinions, there doesn't seem to leave much room for gray areas. Nonetheless, no one can deny his impact and legacy in bodybuilding.

PIP Mike Mentzer
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: Bix on June 10, 2009, 03:58:36 PM: Mike was a GOD!
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: Mr Nobody on June 10, 2009, 05:58:32 PM: Quote from: pellius on June 10, 2009, 03:18:33 PM
It's been 8 years since the death of Mike Mentzer and two days later, his brother, Ray. Even to this day no one seems to provoke such strong opinions. You either love him or hate him. Like his opinions, there doesn't seem to leave much room for gray areas. Nonetheless, no one can deny his impact and legacy in bodybuilding.

PIP Mike Mentzer

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Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: Figo on June 11, 2009, 12:39:44 AM: What did he actually create on his own?
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: BigKevinD on June 11, 2009, 12:41:17 AM: how did they die?
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: Tapeworm on June 11, 2009, 01:19:38 AM: Great build but strict HIT is complete bullshit.
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: Figo on June 11, 2009, 02:33:26 AM: Quote from: Tapeworm on June 11, 2009, 01:19:38 AM
Great build but strict HIT is complete bullshit.

Mentzer did not follow strict HIT
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: Tapeworm on June 11, 2009, 02:55:01 AM: Quote from: Figo on June 11, 2009, 02:33:26 AM
Mentzer did not follow strict HIT

Do as I say, not as I do, eh?
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: LatsMcGee on June 11, 2009, 02:57:54 AM: Keep that homo Bluto off of this board.
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: Method101 on June 11, 2009, 04:37:01 AM: didn't he turn psychotic in old age like levrone?
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: webcake on June 11, 2009, 04:37:33 AM: Quote from: Method101 on June 11, 2009, 04:37:01 AM
didn't he turn psychotic in old age like levrone?

He drank his own urine.....
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: WillGrant on June 11, 2009, 04:42:17 AM: Quote from: webcke on June 11, 2009, 04:37:33 AM
He drank his ~~own~~ Brothers urine.....
Fixed
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: io856 on June 11, 2009, 04:43:05 AM: Quote from: WillGrant on June 11, 2009, 04:42:17 AM
Fixed
You didn't exactly steer clear of your brother's urine yourself there, stud
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: WillGrant on June 11, 2009, 04:43:18 AM: Oh and all meth/pcp/speed and what ever the fuk else he abused
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: WillGrant on June 11, 2009, 04:44:51 AM: Quote from: io856 on June 11, 2009, 04:43:05 AM
You didn't exactly steer clear of your brother's urine yourself there, stud
Im not from Tassie >:( :D
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: io856 on June 11, 2009, 04:46:34 AM: Quote from: WillGrant on June 11, 2009, 04:43:18 AM
Oh and all meth/pcp/speed and what ever the fuk else he abused
Maybe he didn't believe in the straight and narrow
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: Tapeworm on June 11, 2009, 04:47:37 AM: The Mentzer Brothers are still alive you idiots. It's a conspiracy.
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: Figo on June 11, 2009, 04:48:45 AM: Mentzer had a great physique, his training shots are some of the best gym photography ever.

But his training methods are adaptations/variations of Arthur Jones and Elington Darden's systems.

His philosophy was merely paraphrasing Ayn Raind.

Plus, he did intense low-volume training, not HIT.
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: kiwiol on June 11, 2009, 04:57:57 AM: Quote from: Figo on June 11, 2009, 04:48:45 AM
Mentzer had a great physique, his training shots are some of the best gym photography ever.

But his training methods are adaptations/variations of Arthur Jones and Elington Darden's systems.

His philosophy was merely paraphrasing Ayn Raind.

Plus, he did intense low-volume training, not HIT.

Exactly, Figo. I've talked about it before at length - Mike never coined anything original. Arthur Jones was the true genius who developed HIT as a viable theory (which I think might have been the marketing angle he chose to spin to the public when it came to selling his machines). Mentzer simply rehashed a lot of that stuff and tried to pass it off as his own, while quoting Ayn Rand all over the place.
Title: Re: PIP Mike Mentzer
Post by: WillGrant on June 11, 2009, 05:00:28 AM: Quote from: io856 on June 11, 2009, 04:46:34 AM
Maybe he didn't believe in the straight and narrow
His eyes would of been wonkier than huge nasser on all that shit..

Guy was a paranoid nut job at the end. :'(