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Title: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: Wiggs on January 13, 2013, 09:01:56 PM
Title: Re: Training with Mike Mentzer
Post by: Dr Dutch on January 13, 2013, 10:01:42 PM
Mentzer doesn't exactly look like a former almost-mr O.... :-\
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: oldtimer1 on January 14, 2013, 06:36:54 AM
Mike was a sickly looking old man in his 40's. Same with Ray. Watch some of the tapes toward the end of their life. They walk like they are 75 years old. I know Ray had serious kidney problems and maybe both had serious heart disease.
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: Wiggs on January 14, 2013, 07:55:47 AM
Mike was a sickly looking old man in his 40's. Same with Ray. Watch some of the tapes toward the end of their life. They walk like they are 75 years old. I know Ray had serious kidney problems and maybe both had serious heart disease.

I was noticing the same thing in this video series. He and his brother seemed alot older than their age. R.I.P.
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: Thespritz0 on January 14, 2013, 08:58:01 AM
I was noticing the same thing in this video series. He and his brother seemed alot older than their age. R.I.P.
^^
I met him at Gold's in the mid-90's when I was staying in LA for a few months, he actually asked me if I smoked and I said no- he went outside and smoked a Marlboro red!!  Not kidding.
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: dj181 on January 14, 2013, 08:58:58 AM
^^
I met him at Gold's in the mid-90's when I was staying in LA for a few months, he actually asked me if I smoked and I said no- he went outside and smoked a Marlboro red!!  Not kidding.

did he train you at that time?
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: Wiggs on January 14, 2013, 09:00:25 AM
^^
I met him at Gold's in the mid-90's when I was staying in LA for a few months, he actually asked me if I smoked and I said no- he went outside and smoked a Marlboro red!!  Not kidding.

LOL. Marlboro reds are hardcore.
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: Donny on January 14, 2013, 09:05:48 AM
I was noticing the same thing in this video series. He and his brother seemed alot older than their age. R.I.P.
looks very much like a guy of 70..
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: Thespritz0 on January 14, 2013, 09:38:22 AM
did he train you at that time?
^^
What I'm going to say is from the Heart- Unfortunately, no.  I was just out of the military, and just returned from fighting in Bosnia- I was lean and 170lb or so, I wasn't lifting heavy like now.  I easily could have organized it at the time, he was actively training guys that day!  I sort of was just SHOCKED to have actually met him, and then JUST AS SHOCKED to see him outside smoking... guess it was my time for my "revelation" that Bodybuilding was not all about healthy living- shook me up big time, seriously....
P.S.  One of the FEW pros/amateurs I actually met, other than Shawn Ray, Cormier, Charles Glass, Boyer Coe, Dennis Tinerino
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: epic_alien on January 14, 2013, 11:18:39 AM
thats video serious is funny and is disturbing as shit. one of the clips shows him and his brother outside smoking their asses off, and the producer or director begging them to come in the gym and keep filming cause time is money. and they dont even give a fuck. its quite funny, goes to show you those guys lived on their own terms.


here it is

Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: Thespritz0 on January 14, 2013, 02:10:32 PM
thats video serious is funny and is disturbing as shit. one of the clips shows him and his brother outside smoking their asses off, and the producer or director begging them to come in the gym and keep filming cause time is money. and they dont even give a fuck. its quite funny, goes to show you those guys lived on their own terms.


here it is


^^
What is even MORE ironic, as the SAME night they finished the last tape, Mike died.  They were really on borrowed time, and I actually feel the director "knew it".
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: arce1988 on January 14, 2013, 03:00:09 PM
  Too many stimulants  :(
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: Viking11 on January 14, 2013, 03:20:08 PM
Mike has like no grey hair or wrinkles. He seems more like his back was f'd up and that he wasn't feeling that well. Ray looks worse.
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: Donny on January 14, 2013, 03:27:22 PM
still...they are both guys who influenced Mr Yates.
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: BB on January 14, 2013, 03:50:06 PM
Fun sorta fact -

Mike and Ray Mentzer were supposedly cousins of Mob Hitman(Cotton Club hitman) and Zodiac killer suspect William Mentzer -

(http://murderpedia.org/male.M/images/mentzer_william/mentzer_mugshot.jpg).

(http://murderpedia.org/male.M/images/mentzer_william/mentzer_69poster.jpg).
Title: Re: Training with Mike Mentzer
Post by: Vince G, CSN MFT on January 14, 2013, 04:10:08 PM
Mentzer doesn't exactly look like a former almost-mr O.... :-\

That was shot in the late afternoon....a few hours later he was dead.
Title: Re: Training with Mike Mentzer
Post by: Mr Nobody on January 14, 2013, 04:19:32 PM
That was shot in the late afternoon....a few hours later he was dead.
True and Ray died the next day.
Title: Re: Training with Uncle Mike
Post by: MAXX on January 14, 2013, 04:32:48 PM
Mike was a sickly looking old man in his 40's. Same with Ray. Watch some of the tapes toward the end of their life. They walk like they are 75 years old. I know Ray had serious kidney problems and maybe both had serious heart disease.
amphetamine and chain smoking probably has that effect.

cool guy though was a huge fan in my teens