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In this thread we make tribute to the great bodybuilder, who was controversial at times, Mike Quinn
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You have a crush on Mike Quinn, bro…
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You have a crush on Mike Quinn, bro…
Bro...
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Was that like in 1999? Didn’t he get into it with Craig Titus one time?
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^It's time to get the juicy details
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Mr. O upper body. Great back, chest, arms.
Not so much lower body.
Feel bad for him. He's got a few mental/emotional issues. Been through a lot of shit.
He was more or less sucker punched by some mob guy. Smashed with a beer bottle....so the story goes for the black eye.
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Mr. O upper body. Great back, chest, arms.
Not so much lower body.
Feel bad for him. He's got a few mental/emotional issues. Been through a lot of shit.
He was more or less sucker punched by some mob guy. Smashed with a beer bottle....so the story goes for the black eye.
Brutal if true
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Was that like in 1999? Didn’t he get into it with Craig Titus one time?
"Michael Quinn never saw the blow coming. The five-foot eight-inch, 270-pound former Mr. Universe was sitting in the nightclub Liquid with a young couple the night of June 25, 1996. After the woman, who was white, borrowed a hat from a black man, Quinn told her to "give the ni--er his hat back." Then BAM! A beer bottle slammed into Quinn's face. The bodybuilder struggled to stay conscious, but he crumpled to the floor. Then someone repeatedly kicked him.
The bottle-wielding attacker wasn't the cap's owner, Quinn recounts. It was Liquid proprietor Chris Paciello. Quinn, who now is ashamed at having used the racist term, sued the nightclub and Paciello in 1996. The trial was scheduled to begin this month, but on November 23 a federal grand jury in New York indicted Paciello for robbery and murder. Prosecutors say he was involved in a mob-affiliated gang, known as the Bath Avenue Crew, that was responsible for a series of brutal murders and robberies in the early Nineties.
Paciello's connection with gangsters may explain a few things. Peter Mineo, Quinn's Fort Lauderdale attorney, says a witness to the attack suddenly disappeared. "We're having a hard time locating her," Mineo says. "She had agreed to give a deposition, but she never showed up. Someone overheard her telling a friend that Chris Paciello offered to bribe her not to testify." Another explanation for the witness's reticence comes from champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, who is a friend of Quinn: "I got a call from an acquaintance. He told me to tell Mike to back off because these are bad people and something could happen to him." (Paciello's attorneys declined to comment on the case.)"
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/goon-over-miami-6357173 .
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Daddy and Momma Quinn with their boy on the day he turned pro -
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^Thanks for the contributions
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Quinn looked like a pussy slayer
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Saw them onstage together and watched them both train… Quinn was almost the only IFBB Pro that could have ever beaten a prime Lee Haney. No, he never did. He was just the only one that could have.
Amazing potential.
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Often seemed a little watery but his upper body was really good. Looked really impressive when he dialled it in.
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Ive always been confusing Mike Quinn,Jim Quinn and Mike Francois.
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Those late 80's/early 90's add on magazines of him jacked playing pool with his mullet ... ;D
very popular he was in those days I wanted to look like him when I was in high school
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I Heard he didn't age well though
WoooSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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One of the best in the world in his heyday!!
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He has the rare combo of big chest + big triceps, usually it's one or the other. Outstanding genetics overall.
Maybe it's the sheen of nostalgia but Mike Quinn & Craig Titus just seemed cool musclemen who got the girls
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Quinn looked like a pussy slayer
Still is ;D
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Still is ;D
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He does personal training now I believe. He was an intense trainer. I think one of the stronger dudes back in the day but a very hard trainer
John Hansen has done a few interviews of him over the years and a few fairly recent ones. Last 3 years or so.
Had some health problems years ago but is better now.
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I remember reading seeing him in all of the BB magazines at the time. He kind of looks like a muscular Andrew Dice Clay. I suspected he was of similar personality as well.
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Roid rage. ;D
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Quinn going for the Arnold pose -
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Wow! My thread exploded! ty guys :D ;D
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I assume you are reacting to the ear-ring? Yeah, I know, ugly as fuck! ;D
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Some of these pics are insanely awesome.........he looks incredible ....way better than todays parade floats.
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The Black Sheep of Bodybuilding
An interview with former pro Mike Quinn
by T Nation | March 26, 2004|Leave a Comment
TAGS LIVING BETTER, PHARMA, TRT
Here at T-Nation, we don't interview pro-bodybuilders unless they're willing to cut the BS and dish the dirt. Since telling the truth about steroids and crazy lifestyles isn't good for business, most of them won't talk to us until they retire from competition.
Mike Quinn doesn't really fit that mold however. He was considered a black sheep and a "bad boy" even before he retired. Many even consider this former Mr. USA and NABBA Mr. Universe to be the original bad boy of bodybuilding. Quinn got into fights and had a reputation for being hostile. He also spoke his mind and pissed off a lot of people. In short, he was fun to watch and the magazines loved him.
But by the mid-nineties, Quinn had all but disappeared from the sport. Since Mike had inspired me in the past in my bodybuilding efforts, I decided to track him down and get the whole, uncensored story.
Testosterone Nation: Mike, you had a reputation as a fighter when you were competing. Did you get into a lot of fights as a kid?
Mike Quinn: I grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts, home of Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler. It's known as a pretty rough city. I was picked on a lot and got the shit beaten out of me until I was thirteen or fourteen. Then, later, I beat the fuck out of anyone that had ever beaten me up.
People have this idea that I'm some kind of bully, but the truth is that I hate bullies. The only fights I've ever been involved in were always with guys who were assholes and picked on those smaller and weaker than they were.
T-Nation: What type of kid were you?
MQ: I was a weird kid; I had a nervous condition. Technically I was mentally ill. I was basically raised by my grandfather until he died when I was eleven. I really don't remember a whole lot from my childhood because it's all blocked out, but mental problems aren't unheard of in my family. Just on one side, eight of my relatives have either committed suicide or attempted it. [Note: Mike's sister took her own life.]
Plus I have ADHD. I wonder sometimes if all the vaccinations as a kid had anything to do with it, because back then all the vaccines had mercury in them.
T-Nation: How did you get into training?
MQ: My dad had a little gym in the cellar and one day when I was thirteen, he decided it was time for me to start lifting. That first day, just messing around, I benched 220 pounds.
T-Nation: Were you already muscular?
MQ: I was a husky kid, chubby, you know? Instead of pecs I had boobs. That's why it's always been tough for me to get ripped. I trained at home until I was fifteen, then football kicked in. I was a really good football player and regret not going pro. I thought I was too short at 5'8" for the NFL.
But my weight training was always my therapy–where I could get all my anger out and finally relax. I'd finish a two-hour football practice, then take the bus across town to the gym and train for an hour and a half to two hours.
T-Nation: When did you know you had a gift for bodybuilding?
MQ: I actually competed in powerlifting for a while as a teenager. When I was eighteen and getting ready for a meet, I was supposed to squat 550 for five that day. I only got four reps and all of a sudden I just said, "Fuck this! I'm gonna be a bodybuilder!" Six weeks later I entered the Teen Mr. Bay State and won.
A few months after that I won the Teen Mr. Massachusetts as well as my class in the Men's Open, and then capped it all off with the Teenage Mr. America title. Even as a teenager I was as good as most of the older guys competing in the sport.
A couple years later I took third in the Mr. America to Joe Meeko, a guy who never did anything else in the sport, but right after that I won the 1984 NABBA Universe in London, the same show that Arnold and Steve Reeves had won. Of course, when I wanted to become a professional in the IFBB they made me start all over again with state-level shows until I won the USA in '87.
T-Nation: How were you first introduced to steroids?
MQ: The first few years I trained in a gym, my dad trained there with me and kept all the steroid dealers away from me. It's probably the only good thing he ever did for me. But I was getting bigger and stronger all the time naturally anyway. Why would you think about steroids if everything was going so well?
Then when I was eighteen, I decided I'd try them. First I educated myself, then I went to a local doctor who would prescribe steroids to athletes in the area. My first cycle was a hundred milligrams a week each of Test and deca, three D-bols a day and four Anavar. I won my first show on that. I never used steroids to build muscle, only to hold on to muscle while I dieted.
T-Nation: Is it fair to say that there was more emphasis back then on hard training and less on the drugs you took?
MQ: To sum it up, bodybuilding in the eighties was awesome and the nineties were a huge disappointment. In the eighties, your training was the most important thing, then came diet, and the drugs were a distant third. That hierarchy seems to have reversed itself since then. Now kids will come up to me and their first question is usually how much I bench. Right after that they want to know what steroids I use. It's so pathetic.
T-Nation: Do you think too many kids jump into using steroids these days without taking the time to build a natural base of size and strength?
MQ: Definitely, and the thing that makes no sense to me is that with all the information they can get online now, almost none of these kids are educating themselves about drugs before they start using them. They're just going by hearsay and duplicating what they think the pro's are using. I think you have to be mentally ill these days to be a bodybuilder.
T-Nation: You were always known as a very intense trainer. Did people get frightened or intimidated by you in the gym?
MQ: All the time. In fact, it's still hard for me now to get personal training clients because people think I'm crazy. But I've never once turned down an autograph from a fan. You have to understand that the gym is my office; it's where I go to work.
I have ADHD, which gave me the ability to hyper-focus for short periods of time. When I was finally diagnosed, I studied the disease and how it manifests itself. Suddenly a lot of the bad decisions and impulsive behavior in my past made sense. ADHD is like a slide projector. You're always one slide ahead of the one on the screen.
T-Nation: You also had the reputation of being bodybuilding's "bad boy." How did that come about?
MQ: I never, ever proclaimed myself to be a "bad boy." I think it sounds stupid, really. I guess it was just the way I trained and the photos they ran of me looking so hostile. But those pictures sold. When I had my first Ironman cover, their sales doubled.
I would've been perfect for contact sports like football or hockey, but the funny thing is the myth of me being a brawler or a troublemaker became a reality. I'd go out and guys would want to start trouble with me just because of that image. I always had to be on the defensive. I was never afraid to speak my mind and I never could stand to see a bully push people around. If that makes me a bad boy, fine.
T-Nation: You struggled with a recreational drug problem for several years, correct?
MQ: It was an on and off thing. I wasn't a drug addict. I was actually self-medicating the anxiety from my ADHD with cocaine. When I used coke, I could read, I could think straight, and I was centered. I thought it made me normal. ADHD is the opposite of ADD. You aren't hyper-active, you're hyper-reactive to stimuli. It's why I had no control over my anger as a young man.
T-Nation: I assume you're on more traditional medications for it now, right?
MQ: I was on Wellbutrin for years and it was very effective, but I could never sleep. Now I'm on Paxil for my manic depression and Stratera. I still don't feel a hundred percent normal.
T-Nation: When was the last time you really lost your temper or had any type of physical altercation?
MQ: It was last November. This asshole – who turned out to be a little juiced-up bodybuilder – thought my wife stole his parking spot at Home Depot and started threatening her. She was scared so she called me. I was twenty-five minutes away so I told her to block his car in so he couldn't leave.
By the time I got there he'd gone into a GNC store that was next to Home Depot. I threw that piece of shit around like a rag doll. I put him through every display in there. But I'm 42 years old now. I tore a couple of ligaments in my shoulder tossing that dirtbag around.
T-Nation: How big do you stay these days anyway?
MQ: I'm trying to get smaller, but I'm still 240. The biggest I ever got was 290, but it was very, very uncomfortable. I don't know how these guys now can walk around like that. You take a few steps and you're out of breath. We stayed in better shape in the 80's and weren't so much into this extreme bulking up. We just knew it couldn't be healthy.
T-Nation: There was also an incident where you lost your gym over some dealings related to the mob, right?
MQ: Yeah, it was a pretty scary thing. I had two partners in my gym in Florida. One was a guy from England who owned a supplement company. The other was a chiropractor from Boca Raton. We each put a quarter million into it, and the chiropractor was supposed to get five grand a month.
I let my partner run the business, not knowing that he had a drug problem and wasn't managing the money properly. He missed a few payments to the chiropractor. One day we got a visit from four "real" Italian men who let us know that it was really their money the chiropractor had given us, and they didn't appreciate us not making the payments on the loan. These guys were from one of the top crime families in the USA. I got scared and signed all my shares away.
T-Nation: So you never had anything to do with the Mafia?
MQ: I had friends who were involved, but I never had any part in that stuff and never asked about that. Thank God I knew them though, because there was an incident a few years ago where a club owner in Miami wanted me dead and put a hit out on me. I made a phone call and the hit was off. The guy had smashed a tequila bottle over my head and face.
T-Nation: Nice. Why did you stop competing?
MQ: I stopped because the sport became a cult. The winners started becoming the guys with the best chemists. The only true genetic freak in the pro's today is Ronnie Coleman. He actually turned pro when he was still clean. There's so much bullshit and politics in the sport now. It's all a bunch of crybabies who bitch and moan but never make a stand.
You want to get things changed? Boycott the Mr. Olympia! This is the only sport I know where the federation turns its back on athletes when they have health problems. In Europe, when a soccer player gets ill, they put on special charity matches to raise money for him.
T-Nation: Some people look at the pro's in the magazines and assume they're getting laid like NBA stars. Do the guys get a lot of different women?
MQ: Sure, there were some guys I knew who had their share of bodybuilding groupies and it's probably the same nowadays. I was always a one-woman type of guy, not a womanizer. Some of the guys who had a lot of different women were also swinging both ways and that still goes on too.
T-Nation: That's the rumor for sure. Let's talk drugs. Can you explain, at least from your experience, what steroids do to your sex drive? And what happens to your mojo when the cycle is over?
MQ: I can say that the older you get, the worse of a "letdown" you experience when the cycle is over. But I never had much of a problem. I'm a Scorpio and we're known to be very virile. The only thing that's ever ruined an erection for me is stress.
I never had the wild highs and lows with the sex drive because I never abused Testosterone. A lot of guys love Test because it's cheap and you get all the fast strength and weight gains. I never liked the way Test made me feel. I always used deca as my base and would stack that with a little Equipoise and D-bol, going six weeks on, two weeks off. The last six weeks before a contest would just be Primobolan, Winstrol-V, and a real androgenic oral like Halotestin toward the very end.
T-Nation: So you think Test is bad news for just about everybody?
MQ: It works well for some guys and not others. With me it always created a weird imbalance, probably because my body always produced plenty on its own. When you come off it, your joints stop producing synovial fluid. Another drug that's horrible on your joints is Winstrol. I could never stay on either one of those drugs for more than four weeks at a time.
Another thing is that I always made sure to have blood work done during the cycles, not after like most guys do. If my enzymes were too high, I'd back off on the dosage. Bodybuilders need to know that they have to stop exercising for two days before a blood test or else all the waste products from training will make the liver and kidney values too high.
T-Nation: Did steroids make your temper worse?
MQ: No. The only thing that ever pissed me off was dieting. I always had to really suffer to get ripped. Now these guys just use a ton of thyroid and DNP and still eat like pigs up until the day of the show.
T-Nation: How relevant to the average guy in the gym is a training article talking about what a top-ten Mr. Olympia competitor does?
MQ: It has no relevance whatsoever. These guys are on so many drugs they can get away with training almost every day for hours. If the average guy tries to do the same thing, he'll kill himself overtraining in a week or two.
T-Nation: In your experience, are most pro's experts on the subjects of training and nutrition?
MQ: Absolutely not. Bodybuilding at that level is pure narcissistic behavior. These guys go to very unhealthy extremes. Like this high-protein, high-fat diet so many of them are on. Number one, you get hypoglycemic from the lack of carbs. Two, your pancreas will be damaged, and three, with no fiber to help you eliminate waste, you're at a very high risk for colon cancer.
I read about all these guys now eating five hundred grams of protein a day and telling kids to do the same. How ridiculous! Nobody needs more than a gram per pound a day.
T-Nation: What else are these guys doing that's dangerous?
MQ: Insulin! Anyone who isn't diabetic and takes insulin just to get big is a moron. That's why the guys are so big now, the insulin and GH, but you can't put your organs out of balance like that and expect no long-term health problems.
These guys now eat way too much food, too. All that force-feeding ages your body really fast. They're burning out their digestive enzymes stuffing themselves every two hours. You should only eat when you're hungry. It's such a common sense thing, but there isn't much common sense in bodybuilding anymore.
T-Nation: Does it shock you to see how much the drug use has increased and become more complicated since the 80's? Would you consider it overkill?
MQ: It shocks me to see the lack of intelligence and the total disregard for health. There's no doubt in my mind these guys now are all using far more than they need to. Whenever anyone asks me about steroids, I usually tell them that I might have been insane, but I was never stupid!
T-Nation: In your day, I don't ever recall hearing about you guys needing gurus to get into shape. Why do you think the pro's today all seem to have them?
MQ: Well, we didn't have gurus, but you can't be a top bodybuilder without a great support system. I had a great training partner named Paul Fetters, my girlfriend back then, Dana Golden, helped me with my diet and Rick Valente worked with me on my posing. You need to have a few people who'll give you their honest opinions on what you look like.
I don't really know Chad Nicholls and have never heard anything bad about him, but I have heard of guys paying him up to ten grand to get them ready for a show. That's ridiculous. All you need to do is keep a good food log and a mirror. Just make notes as to how various types and quantities of foods affect your particular body.
T-Nation: It seems like you and the other guys from the 80's had a lot of fun competing. Were you all friendly with each other?
MQ: It was a fun time. We were like comrades because we saw each other so much. The only guy who was hard to get to know was Richie Gaspari. He was stressed out all the time.
T-Nation: What do you think about pro's trashing each other and threatening to kick each other's asses?
MQ: I say if you're really gonna kick someone's ass, you just do it. You don't talk about it for months and years. That's how you know these guys are all talk. They see each other a few times a year and have plenty of chances to fight if they really wanted to.
T-Nation: Out of all the men you competed with and met, who were the biggest gentlemen and who were the biggest jerks?
MQ: Almost all the guys were real gentlemen back then: Lee Haney, Lee Labrada, Berry DeMey, Mike Christian, Ron Love, and Bob Paris. Toward the end when I was competing, two European guys, both now dead, struck me as being the same way. That was Andreas Munzer and Momo Benaziza.
The only jerk I knew from my day was Shawn Ray. I was standing next to him once when this young kid, maybe ten or eleven years old, walks up with his mom to Shawn. The kid's mom says her son has Shawn's pictures up all over his bedroom wall and would love an autograph. Shawn just blew him off and walked away. I felt so bad I gave him one of my photos and signed it. Later I got a letter from the mom saying her son had torn down all of Shawn's pictures and put mine up.
T-Nation: Are you still a fan of bodybuilding? If so, who are your favorite guys on the circuit today?
MQ: I am a fan, yes. I like Ronnie Coleman a lot. He reminds me a lot of Lee Haney with his natural, easy going spirituality. Plus he was a police officer all those years, so obviously he's the type of guy who likes to help people. I'm also a big fan of Darrem Charles. He's one guy who's really paid his dues. Most people don't know that for years, even as a pro, he was totally natural.
T-Nation: What are you up to these days?
MQ: I started a supplement line called Lifestyle Essentials. The target market is the mainstream. It's not a bodybuilding supplement line and my name and image will never appear in the marketing. I'm negotiating with GNC now to carry the line. You can find out about the products at www.healthyeffects.com.
T-Nation: The last time I spoke with you over a year ago, you were considering the Masters Olympia. Is that still a possibility or have you changed your mind about that?
MQ: Yeah, there's no way I'd do it now. If I were to use steroids and growth hormone now, I'd do it legally through a life extension clinic, so it would end up costing me thirty grand to get ready for a show with a first prize of ten thousand dollars. It just doesn't add up.
T-Nation: If you were starting out in bodybuilding nowadays, would you still want to be a pro?
MQ: No. I'd train for my own health and satisfaction, but the extremes the sport has gone to with the drugs and the diet are something I'd never want any part of.
T-Nation: Thanks for the candid talk, Mike.
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http://bodybuilding-mauritius.blogspot.com/2015/02/conversation-with-mr-universe-mighty.html i remember he hated joe meeko who beat him for the aau mr. america contest. 1984 Mr America - AAU
Overall Winner Joe Meeko
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4 John Moore (1)
5 Phil Rohde
6 Dave Dupre (2)
7 Roland Jehl
8 Greg Tefft
9 Paul Druash
10 Danny Wingham
Medium
1 Joe Meeko
2 Abe Cuesta
3 Mike Quinn
4 Richard Roy
5 John Gust
6 Raymond York
7 Robert Reis
8 Tommy Lamparski
9 Randy Holman
10 Gerald Riley
Short
1 Joe Gomes
2 Quincy Roberts
3 Cliff Koons
4 Allen Kirsch
5 Glenn Knerr
6 Wayne Martin
7 Doug Larrison
8 Francis Volpe
9 Vince Comerford
10 Tony Bordon
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Wow! My thread exploded! ty guys :D ;D
Yeah this thread unironically changed my opinion of him. Thanks for posting 8)
That interview is pretty interesting, I wouldn’t have guessed that he was a no-test guy
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The Black Sheep of Bodybuilding
An interview with former pro Mike Quinn
by T Nation | March 26, 2004|Leave a Comment
TAGS LIVING BETTER, PHARMA, TRT
Here at T-Nation, we don't interview pro-bodybuilders unless they're willing to cut the BS and dish the dirt. Since telling the truth about steroids and crazy lifestyles isn't good for business, most of them won't talk to us until they retire from competition.
Mike Quinn doesn't really fit that mold however. He was considered a black sheep and a "bad boy" even before he retired. Many even consider this former Mr. USA and NABBA Mr. Universe to be the original bad boy of bodybuilding. Quinn got into fights and had a reputation for being hostile. He also spoke his mind and pissed off a lot of people. In short, he was fun to watch and the magazines loved him.
But by the mid-nineties, Quinn had all but disappeared from the sport. Since Mike had inspired me in the past in my bodybuilding efforts, I decided to track him down and get the whole, uncensored story.
Testosterone Nation: Mike, you had a reputation as a fighter when you were competing. Did you get into a lot of fights as a kid?
Mike Quinn: I grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts, home of Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler. It's known as a pretty rough city. I was picked on a lot and got the shit beaten out of me until I was thirteen or fourteen. Then, later, I beat the fuck out of anyone that had ever beaten me up.
People have this idea that I'm some kind of bully, but the truth is that I hate bullies. The only fights I've ever been involved in were always with guys who were assholes and picked on those smaller and weaker than they were.
T-Nation: What type of kid were you?
MQ: I was a weird kid; I had a nervous condition. Technically I was mentally ill. I was basically raised by my grandfather until he died when I was eleven. I really don't remember a whole lot from my childhood because it's all blocked out, but mental problems aren't unheard of in my family. Just on one side, eight of my relatives have either committed suicide or attempted it. [Note: Mike's sister took her own life.]
Plus I have ADHD. I wonder sometimes if all the vaccinations as a kid had anything to do with it, because back then all the vaccines had mercury in them.
T-Nation: How did you get into training?
MQ: My dad had a little gym in the cellar and one day when I was thirteen, he decided it was time for me to start lifting. That first day, just messing around, I benched 220 pounds.
T-Nation: Were you already muscular?
MQ: I was a husky kid, chubby, you know? Instead of pecs I had boobs. That's why it's always been tough for me to get ripped. I trained at home until I was fifteen, then football kicked in. I was a really good football player and regret not going pro. I thought I was too short at 5'8" for the NFL.
But my weight training was always my therapy–where I could get all my anger out and finally relax. I'd finish a two-hour football practice, then take the bus across town to the gym and train for an hour and a half to two hours.
T-Nation: When did you know you had a gift for bodybuilding?
MQ: I actually competed in powerlifting for a while as a teenager. When I was eighteen and getting ready for a meet, I was supposed to squat 550 for five that day. I only got four reps and all of a sudden I just said, "Fuck this! I'm gonna be a bodybuilder!" Six weeks later I entered the Teen Mr. Bay State and won.
A few months after that I won the Teen Mr. Massachusetts as well as my class in the Men's Open, and then capped it all off with the Teenage Mr. America title. Even as a teenager I was as good as most of the older guys competing in the sport.
A couple years later I took third in the Mr. America to Joe Meeko, a guy who never did anything else in the sport, but right after that I won the 1984 NABBA Universe in London, the same show that Arnold and Steve Reeves had won. Of course, when I wanted to become a professional in the IFBB they made me start all over again with state-level shows until I won the USA in '87.
T-Nation: How were you first introduced to steroids?
MQ: The first few years I trained in a gym, my dad trained there with me and kept all the steroid dealers away from me. It's probably the only good thing he ever did for me. But I was getting bigger and stronger all the time naturally anyway. Why would you think about steroids if everything was going so well?
Then when I was eighteen, I decided I'd try them. First I educated myself, then I went to a local doctor who would prescribe steroids to athletes in the area. My first cycle was a hundred milligrams a week each of Test and deca, three D-bols a day and four Anavar. I won my first show on that. I never used steroids to build muscle, only to hold on to muscle while I dieted.
T-Nation: Is it fair to say that there was more emphasis back then on hard training and less on the drugs you took?
MQ: To sum it up, bodybuilding in the eighties was awesome and the nineties were a huge disappointment. In the eighties, your training was the most important thing, then came diet, and the drugs were a distant third. That hierarchy seems to have reversed itself since then. Now kids will come up to me and their first question is usually how much I bench. Right after that they want to know what steroids I use. It's so pathetic.
T-Nation: Do you think too many kids jump into using steroids these days without taking the time to build a natural base of size and strength?
MQ: Definitely, and the thing that makes no sense to me is that with all the information they can get online now, almost none of these kids are educating themselves about drugs before they start using them. They're just going by hearsay and duplicating what they think the pro's are using. I think you have to be mentally ill these days to be a bodybuilder.
T-Nation: You were always known as a very intense trainer. Did people get frightened or intimidated by you in the gym?
MQ: All the time. In fact, it's still hard for me now to get personal training clients because people think I'm crazy. But I've never once turned down an autograph from a fan. You have to understand that the gym is my office; it's where I go to work.
I have ADHD, which gave me the ability to hyper-focus for short periods of time. When I was finally diagnosed, I studied the disease and how it manifests itself. Suddenly a lot of the bad decisions and impulsive behavior in my past made sense. ADHD is like a slide projector. You're always one slide ahead of the one on the screen.
T-Nation: You also had the reputation of being bodybuilding's "bad boy." How did that come about?
MQ: I never, ever proclaimed myself to be a "bad boy." I think it sounds stupid, really. I guess it was just the way I trained and the photos they ran of me looking so hostile. But those pictures sold. When I had my first Ironman cover, their sales doubled.
I would've been perfect for contact sports like football or hockey, but the funny thing is the myth of me being a brawler or a troublemaker became a reality. I'd go out and guys would want to start trouble with me just because of that image. I always had to be on the defensive. I was never afraid to speak my mind and I never could stand to see a bully push people around. If that makes me a bad boy, fine.
T-Nation: You struggled with a recreational drug problem for several years, correct?
MQ: It was an on and off thing. I wasn't a drug addict. I was actually self-medicating the anxiety from my ADHD with cocaine. When I used coke, I could read, I could think straight, and I was centered. I thought it made me normal. ADHD is the opposite of ADD. You aren't hyper-active, you're hyper-reactive to stimuli. It's why I had no control over my anger as a young man.
T-Nation: I assume you're on more traditional medications for it now, right?
MQ: I was on Wellbutrin for years and it was very effective, but I could never sleep. Now I'm on Paxil for my manic depression and Stratera. I still don't feel a hundred percent normal.
T-Nation: When was the last time you really lost your temper or had any type of physical altercation?
MQ: It was last November. This asshole – who turned out to be a little juiced-up bodybuilder – thought my wife stole his parking spot at Home Depot and started threatening her. She was scared so she called me. I was twenty-five minutes away so I told her to block his car in so he couldn't leave.
By the time I got there he'd gone into a GNC store that was next to Home Depot. I threw that piece of shit around like a rag doll. I put him through every display in there. But I'm 42 years old now. I tore a couple of ligaments in my shoulder tossing that dirtbag around.
T-Nation: How big do you stay these days anyway?
MQ: I'm trying to get smaller, but I'm still 240. The biggest I ever got was 290, but it was very, very uncomfortable. I don't know how these guys now can walk around like that. You take a few steps and you're out of breath. We stayed in better shape in the 80's and weren't so much into this extreme bulking up. We just knew it couldn't be healthy.
T-Nation: There was also an incident where you lost your gym over some dealings related to the mob, right?
MQ: Yeah, it was a pretty scary thing. I had two partners in my gym in Florida. One was a guy from England who owned a supplement company. The other was a chiropractor from Boca Raton. We each put a quarter million into it, and the chiropractor was supposed to get five grand a month.
I let my partner run the business, not knowing that he had a drug problem and wasn't managing the money properly. He missed a few payments to the chiropractor. One day we got a visit from four "real" Italian men who let us know that it was really their money the chiropractor had given us, and they didn't appreciate us not making the payments on the loan. These guys were from one of the top crime families in the USA. I got scared and signed all my shares away.
T-Nation: So you never had anything to do with the Mafia?
MQ: I had friends who were involved, but I never had any part in that stuff and never asked about that. Thank God I knew them though, because there was an incident a few years ago where a club owner in Miami wanted me dead and put a hit out on me. I made a phone call and the hit was off. The guy had smashed a tequila bottle over my head and face.
T-Nation: Nice. Why did you stop competing?
MQ: I stopped because the sport became a cult. The winners started becoming the guys with the best chemists. The only true genetic freak in the pro's today is Ronnie Coleman. He actually turned pro when he was still clean. There's so much bullshit and politics in the sport now. It's all a bunch of crybabies who bitch and moan but never make a stand.
You want to get things changed? Boycott the Mr. Olympia! This is the only sport I know where the federation turns its back on athletes when they have health problems. In Europe, when a soccer player gets ill, they put on special charity matches to raise money for him.
T-Nation: Some people look at the pro's in the magazines and assume they're getting laid like NBA stars. Do the guys get a lot of different women?
MQ: Sure, there were some guys I knew who had their share of bodybuilding groupies and it's probably the same nowadays. I was always a one-woman type of guy, not a womanizer. Some of the guys who had a lot of different women were also swinging both ways and that still goes on too.
T-Nation: That's the rumor for sure. Let's talk drugs. Can you explain, at least from your experience, what steroids do to your sex drive? And what happens to your mojo when the cycle is over?
MQ: I can say that the older you get, the worse of a "letdown" you experience when the cycle is over. But I never had much of a problem. I'm a Scorpio and we're known to be very virile. The only thing that's ever ruined an erection for me is stress.
I never had the wild highs and lows with the sex drive because I never abused Testosterone. A lot of guys love Test because it's cheap and you get all the fast strength and weight gains. I never liked the way Test made me feel. I always used deca as my base and would stack that with a little Equipoise and D-bol, going six weeks on, two weeks off. The last six weeks before a contest would just be Primobolan, Winstrol-V, and a real androgenic oral like Halotestin toward the very end.
T-Nation: So you think Test is bad news for just about everybody?
MQ: It works well for some guys and not others. With me it always created a weird imbalance, probably because my body always produced plenty on its own. When you come off it, your joints stop producing synovial fluid. Another drug that's horrible on your joints is Winstrol. I could never stay on either one of those drugs for more than four weeks at a time.
Another thing is that I always made sure to have blood work done during the cycles, not after like most guys do. If my enzymes were too high, I'd back off on the dosage. Bodybuilders need to know that they have to stop exercising for two days before a blood test or else all the waste products from training will make the liver and kidney values too high.
T-Nation: Did steroids make your temper worse?
MQ: No. The only thing that ever pissed me off was dieting. I always had to really suffer to get ripped. Now these guys just use a ton of thyroid and DNP and still eat like pigs up until the day of the show.
T-Nation: How relevant to the average guy in the gym is a training article talking about what a top-ten Mr. Olympia competitor does?
MQ: It has no relevance whatsoever. These guys are on so many drugs they can get away with training almost every day for hours. If the average guy tries to do the same thing, he'll kill himself overtraining in a week or two.
T-Nation: In your experience, are most pro's experts on the subjects of training and nutrition?
MQ: Absolutely not. Bodybuilding at that level is pure narcissistic behavior. These guys go to very unhealthy extremes. Like this high-protein, high-fat diet so many of them are on. Number one, you get hypoglycemic from the lack of carbs. Two, your pancreas will be damaged, and three, with no fiber to help you eliminate waste, you're at a very high risk for colon cancer.
I read about all these guys now eating five hundred grams of protein a day and telling kids to do the same. How ridiculous! Nobody needs more than a gram per pound a day.
T-Nation: What else are these guys doing that's dangerous?
MQ: Insulin! Anyone who isn't diabetic and takes insulin just to get big is a moron. That's why the guys are so big now, the insulin and GH, but you can't put your organs out of balance like that and expect no long-term health problems.
These guys now eat way too much food, too. All that force-feeding ages your body really fast. They're burning out their digestive enzymes stuffing themselves every two hours. You should only eat when you're hungry. It's such a common sense thing, but there isn't much common sense in bodybuilding anymore.
T-Nation: Does it shock you to see how much the drug use has increased and become more complicated since the 80's? Would you consider it overkill?
MQ: It shocks me to see the lack of intelligence and the total disregard for health. There's no doubt in my mind these guys now are all using far more than they need to. Whenever anyone asks me about steroids, I usually tell them that I might have been insane, but I was never stupid!
T-Nation: In your day, I don't ever recall hearing about you guys needing gurus to get into shape. Why do you think the pro's today all seem to have them?
MQ: Well, we didn't have gurus, but you can't be a top bodybuilder without a great support system. I had a great training partner named Paul Fetters, my girlfriend back then, Dana Golden, helped me with my diet and Rick Valente worked with me on my posing. You need to have a few people who'll give you their honest opinions on what you look like.
I don't really know Chad Nicholls and have never heard anything bad about him, but I have heard of guys paying him up to ten grand to get them ready for a show. That's ridiculous. All you need to do is keep a good food log and a mirror. Just make notes as to how various types and quantities of foods affect your particular body.
T-Nation: It seems like you and the other guys from the 80's had a lot of fun competing. Were you all friendly with each other?
MQ: It was a fun time. We were like comrades because we saw each other so much. The only guy who was hard to get to know was Richie Gaspari. He was stressed out all the time.
T-Nation: What do you think about pro's trashing each other and threatening to kick each other's asses?
MQ: I say if you're really gonna kick someone's ass, you just do it. You don't talk about it for months and years. That's how you know these guys are all talk. They see each other a few times a year and have plenty of chances to fight if they really wanted to.
T-Nation: Out of all the men you competed with and met, who were the biggest gentlemen and who were the biggest jerks?
MQ: Almost all the guys were real gentlemen back then: Lee Haney, Lee Labrada, Berry DeMey, Mike Christian, Ron Love, and Bob Paris. Toward the end when I was competing, two European guys, both now dead, struck me as being the same way. That was Andreas Munzer and Momo Benaziza.
The only jerk I knew from my day was Shawn Ray. I was standing next to him once when this young kid, maybe ten or eleven years old, walks up with his mom to Shawn. The kid's mom says her son has Shawn's pictures up all over his bedroom wall and would love an autograph. Shawn just blew him off and walked away. I felt so bad I gave him one of my photos and signed it. Later I got a letter from the mom saying her son had torn down all of Shawn's pictures and put mine up.
T-Nation: Are you still a fan of bodybuilding? If so, who are your favorite guys on the circuit today?
MQ: I am a fan, yes. I like Ronnie Coleman a lot. He reminds me a lot of Lee Haney with his natural, easy going spirituality. Plus he was a police officer all those years, so obviously he's the type of guy who likes to help people. I'm also a big fan of Darrem Charles. He's one guy who's really paid his dues. Most people don't know that for years, even as a pro, he was totally natural.
T-Nation: What are you up to these days?
MQ: I started a supplement line called Lifestyle Essentials. The target market is the mainstream. It's not a bodybuilding supplement line and my name and image will never appear in the marketing. I'm negotiating with GNC now to carry the line. You can find out about the products at www.healthyeffects.com.
T-Nation: The last time I spoke with you over a year ago, you were considering the Masters Olympia. Is that still a possibility or have you changed your mind about that?
MQ: Yeah, there's no way I'd do it now. If I were to use steroids and growth hormone now, I'd do it legally through a life extension clinic, so it would end up costing me thirty grand to get ready for a show with a first prize of ten thousand dollars. It just doesn't add up.
T-Nation: If you were starting out in bodybuilding nowadays, would you still want to be a pro?
MQ: No. I'd train for my own health and satisfaction, but the extremes the sport has gone to with the drugs and the diet are something I'd never want any part of.
T-Nation: Thanks for the candid talk, Mike.
That sounds similar to a MuscleMag International interview done back in 2002. I have it in my garage.
Edit - I just found it. It's issue 242, Aug 2002, page 60.
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Can't remember but was that courtesy of Vinny Paz?
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Can't remember but was that courtesy of Vinny Paz?
He trained Vinny Paz. Here they are on WBF BodyStars
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He trained Vinny Paz. Here they are on WBF BodyStars
Now I think I remember. It was Greg Haugen in the lead up to his (Haugen's) fight with Vinny Paz.
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Mike Quinn was awesome (I see him here in Florida from time to time) https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/lifestyle/health-fitness/2013/06/30/building-body-soul/7926410007/ (https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/lifestyle/health-fitness/2013/06/30/building-body-soul/7926410007/)
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Quinn loved a cock too. was a closet Homo.
Brutal if true
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Srs question though, who would win in a fight, prime Craig Titus or prime Mike Quinn?
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Quinn loved a cock too. was a closet Homo.
Hi Beefheavyweight
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http://bodybuilding-mauritius.blogspot.com/2015/02/conversation-with-mr-universe-mighty.html i remember he hated joe meeko who beat him for the aau mr. america contest. 1984 Mr America - AAU
Overall Winner Joe Meeko
Tall
1 Arthur Prince
2 James Monson
3 Tim Bell
4 Jeff Monson
5 Tim Smolinski
6 Ron Thrash
7 Craig Cole
8 Ric Dittmar
9 Sam Pasco
10 Antonio Lopes
Medium-Tall
1 Rich Poston
2 Craig Heber
3 Carl Meisenhelder
4 John Moore (1)
5 Phil Rohde
6 Dave Dupre (2)
7 Roland Jehl
8 Greg Tefft
9 Paul Druash
10 Danny Wingham
Medium
1 Joe Meeko
2 Abe Cuesta
3 Mike Quinn
4 Richard Roy
5 John Gust
6 Raymond York
7 Robert Reis
8 Tommy Lamparski
9 Randy Holman
10 Gerald Riley
Short
1 Joe Gomes
2 Quincy Roberts
3 Cliff Koons
4 Allen Kirsch
5 Glenn Knerr
6 Wayne Martin
7 Doug Larrison
8 Francis Volpe
9 Vince Comerford
10 Tony Bordon
Three of the guys above trained at my gym back in the day.....Arthur Prince,Rich Roy,and Joe Gomes.....great fucking bodybuilders who all worked with Jeff King.
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Wasn't there an unpleasant back story to that shoot..? :-X
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Srs question though, who would win in a fight, prime Craig Titus or prime Mike Quinn?
Likely Quinn.
Cool pics. I think those were the glory days of bodybuilding.
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Likely Quinn.
Cool pics. I think those were the glory days of bodybuilding.
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Mike was pure rage, a psycho, no?
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Mike was pure rage, a psycho, no?
He said he used amphetamines for years.
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Wasn't there an unpleasant back story to that shoot..? :-X
Mike was just a man that loves animals :). It's said he played with them long after the shoot was done.
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I forgot how great Mike looked back in the day.....great build with an insane back.
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He said he used amphetamines for years.
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What a bizarre spectacle. This is 180 degrees south of the artform Zane had elevated the sport to by the late 70's.
I know the drug testing ruined the physiques so im trying not to judge tge bodybuilders too harshly. But listening to mean gene ejaculating adjectives while moaning ooh's and ahh's as a fat guy prances around on stage. The outfits, the storylines it was so campy. More Chippendales than bodybuilding. This didn't age well.
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What a bizarre spectacle. This is 180 degrees south of the artform Zane had elevated the sport to by the late 70's.
I know the drug testing ruined the physiques so im trying not to judge tge bodybuilders too harshly. But listening to mean gene ejaculating adjectives while moaning ooh's and ahh's as a fat guy prances around on stage. The outfits, the storylines it was so campy. More Chippendales than bodybuilding. This didn't age well.
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How come he didn't place higher in contests? he would have dwarfed lee labrda and rich gaspari, were they so well-conditioned as to overcome their lack of size?
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How come he didn't place higher in contests? he would have dwarfed lee labrda and rich gaspari, were they so well-conditioned as to overcome their lack of size?
The wrap on Quinn was inconsistent conditioning, and relatively subpar lower body. He sometimes had a reverse Platz thing happening - great, great upper, small lower. Also bad timing, mid 80's - 90's just had so much talent.
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How come he didn't place higher in contests? he would have dwarfed lee labrda and rich gaspari, were they so well-conditioned as to overcome their lack of size?
No, they were more complete. Gasapri placed 2nd at the 1988 Olympia, while Labrada placed 4th; Quinn placed 6th. Labrada placed 2nd in the 1989 and 1990 Mr. Olympia shows. Gaspari placed 4th and 5th, respectively. Quinn placed 7th and 11th, respectively.
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The wrap on Quinn was inconsistent conditioning, and relatively subpar lower body. He sometimes had a reverse Platz thing happening - great, great upper, small lower. Also bad timing, mid 80's - 90's just had so much talent.
He placed top 10 at the Olympia multiple times, back when doing so (automatic qualification for the next year's show) was more prestigious than winning lower-tier contests. Quinn, like many others, competed only at the O.
The fact that Quinn did so well, against competition like that, shows he was one of the best in the world. No wonder the WBF made him one of its early signees.
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He placed top 10 at the Olympia multiple times, back when doing so (automatic qualification for the next year's show) was more prestigious than winning lower-tier contests. Quinn, like many others, competed only at the O.
1988 6th 1989 9th
he placed 11th in 1990
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Ive always been confusing Mike Quinn,Jim Quinn and Mike Francois.
The best way to identify them is to know Mike Quinn once measured Mike Francious body fat at 0.0% with Jim Quinn’s calipers in the posing room at the Golds in Venice.
Francious was working as a PT at the time and unintentionally had also gotten himself into great shape.
Flex Wheeler can confirm this story.
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The best way to identify them is to know Mike Quinn once measured Mike Francious body fat at 0.0% with Jim Quinn’s calipers in the posing room at the Golds in Venice.
Francious was working as a PT at the time and unintentionally had also gotten himself into great shape.
Flex Wheeler can confirm this story.
Jim Quinn is "The Future", the guy with the big ears. Think of a giant Rich Gaspari.
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I pointed that out later where he placed when I compared him with Labrada and Gaspari.
Edit - Quinn placed 7th in the 1989 Mr. Olympia.
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Post your pics soy boy
Let’s see how you match up with your Tig ‘O Bitties and Grandma Triceps
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Massively overrated and full of his own hype. I remember as a kid reading how Mike Quinn "tore a pec throwing some 6'4" 300lb out of a club and how he was such a nasty fucker" and knowing even at that age that he was full of shit and had a sub-par physique. Decent back in some shots, but packing everywhere else plus poor presentation on top of that.
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Massively overrated and full of his own hype. I remember as a kid reading how Mike Quinn "tore a pec throwing some 6'4" 300lb out of a club and how he was such a nasty fucker" and knowing even at that age that he was full of shit and had a sub-par physique. Decent back in some shots, but packing everywhere else plus poor presentation on top of that.
You don't place top 10 at the Olympia multiple times with a "sub-par physique". He was among the best in the world in the late 80s and early 90s.
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You don't place top 10 at the Olympia multiple times with a "sub-par physique". He was among the best in the world in the late 80s and early 90s.
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Massively overrated and full of his own hype. I remember as a kid reading how Mike Quinn "tore a pec throwing some 6'4" 300lb out of a club and how he was such a nasty fucker" and knowing even at that age that he was full of shit and had a sub-par physique. Decent back in some shots, but packing everywhere else plus poor presentation on top of that.
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Quinn beating Samir and Buchanan in rear double bi
From the waist up he could just about match Haney. He just couldn't get the wheels to match.
Met him at the Beacon Theater during the NOC - nice guy.
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From the waist up he could just about match Haney. He just couldn't get the wheels to match.
Met him at the Beacon Theater during the NOC - nice guy.
Never had the chest of Haney though, not even close
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Never had the chest of Haney though, not even close
C'est vrai, monsieur.
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Massively overrated and full of his own hype. I remember as a kid reading how Mike Quinn "tore a pec throwing some 6'4" 300lb out of a club and how he was such a nasty fucker" and knowing even at that age that he was full of shit and had a sub-par physique. Decent back in some shots, but packing everywhere else plus poor presentation on top of that.
There was one NOC where he looked freaking amazing. Can't recall which year but he looked really sharp.
Didn't he have some type of 'curl competition' with Troy Zuculotto at some point?
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Never had the chest of Haney though, not even close
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I always thought Quinn was a joke but honestly he didn’t get his fair due. Big dude, all the way big dude.
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Srs question though, who would win in a fight, prime Craig Titus or prime Mike Quinn?
Prime Titus - no contest.
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Quinn considered his pecs a weak point, but they weren’t too bad
The chest is supposed to sag, look at Strydom, his chest sags, the idea is to build so much mucle mass in there that it literally sags in a relaxed pose, kinda like Ronnie, Arnold, Ferrigno, etc
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I always thought Quinn was a joke but honestly he didn’t get his fair due. Big dude, all the way big dude.
Thanks pamith for making the thread , you changed my opinion 8)
You're welcome :)
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Prime Titus - no contest.
Are you sure? Mike was one crazy mofo in his days, no?
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^He had massive biceps, very thick
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^He had massive biceps, very thick
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There was one NOC where he looked freaking amazing. Can't recall which year but he looked really sharp.
Didn't he have some type of 'curl competition' with Troy Zuculotto at some point?
It might be the 1994 NOC, where he took the final Olympia qualifying spot of 5th place. He made the cover of IronMan magazine shortly afterward and even bragged that he was in the running for top 6 at the O, because Flex Wheeler was injured.
I believe the quote was, "Sorry, but with Flex out, Mighty Mike is in the mix!!. He ended up "16th".
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Yep! That's the 1994 NOC, won by 1993 NPC Nationals Champion, Mike Francois. The late Nasser El Sonbaty was 2nd. 1992 NPC Nationals Champ, John "Tank" Sherman, was 3rd. 1990 NPC Nationals Champion, Alq Gurley, was 4th, and the Mighty One got 5th.
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Are you sure? Mike was one crazy mofo in his days, no?
Anything can happen but Titus looks to be more robust frame wise - look at his paws.
I remember reading that Mike had to throw a big boxer(6'4"+) out of a club and tore a muscle in the process... there's no doubt that Mike(+his psychosis and drugs) would easily obliterate most normal males.
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It might be the 1994 NOC, where he took the final Olympia qualifying spot of 5th place. He made the cover of IronMan magazine shortly afterward and even bragged that he was in the running for top 6 at the O, because Flex Wheeler was injured.
I believe the quote was, "Sorry, but with Flex out, Mighty Mike is in the mix!!. He ended up "16th".
Yep - that sounds familiar. I remember that lineup. Don't remember that quote about Flex though - hahaha - didn't go quite as planned by the sound of it.
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Yep - that sounds familiar. I remember that lineup. Don't remember that quote about Flex though - hahaha - didn't go quite as planned by the sound of it.
I don't see how he figured he was in the running for even the top 10, after barely qualifying for the Olympia. This was more about making sure the last memory of him wasn't the 1992 WBF championship.
At the NOC, Francois was the runaway winner.
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I don't see how he figured he was in the running for even the top 10, after barely qualifying for the Olympia. This was more about making sure the last memory of him wasn't the 1992 WBF championship.
At the NOC, Francois was the runaway winner.
I remember in 1994 when that show was covered by the various magazines. I remember thinking that Nasser definitely beat Francois in several poses.
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Anything can happen but Titus looks to be more robust frame wise - look at his paws.
I remember reading that Mike had to throw a big boxer(6'4"+) out of a club and tore a muscle in the process... there's no doubt that Mike(+his psychosis and drugs) would easily obliterate most normal males.
Yeah plus the dude was strong af
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Mike mentions a few times he wasn't naturally lean, so had to suffer to get ripped
Anyone got a really good Mike Quinn 'death-face'?
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Mike mentions a few times he wasn't naturally lean, so had to suffer to get ripped
Anyone got a really good Mike Quinn 'death-face'?
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VNjslzQTKkc/VO2IGcpeJGI/AAAAAAAAF7s/pRNRfNpukSE/s1600/mr-o-88.jpg).
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Lean face, but not a death face. Bottom is probably the closest.
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Mike mentions a few times he wasn't naturally lean, so had to suffer to get ripped
Anyone got a really good Mike Quinn 'death-face'?
Face looks lean here:
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=679287.0;attach=1374961;image)
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At the 1994 NOC, Quinn looked like DeNiro in “Cape Fear”
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Lean face, but not a death face. Bottom is probably the closest.
Yeah, he's got the thin diuretic lips there for sure
Face looks lean here:
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=679287.0;attach=1374961;image)
That's another good one
Thanks both 8)
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He had the face of a skeleton in his prime (contest ready), possibly 3% body fat
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Looking through this thread Quinn may have been a tad underrated in his heyday.
Do you think if he had a better reputation/cleaner image he would have done a lot better?
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Looking through this thread Quinn may have been a tad underrated in his heyday.
Do you think if he had a better reputation/cleaner image he would have done a lot better?
Yes. He did the 1993 NOC and was “punished” for his stint with the WBF (as was DeMey and Baker)
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Quinn had some emotional issues. In fact he seemed like the type to run on emotions.
I wonder how Quinn would feel if he was told his renewed popularity and appreciation on Getbig?
He seems like a natural getbigger. Probably fare better than Gary Strydom did here.
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sickening. lighting is favorable but that is a terrific looking back. dry and hard
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Quinn had some emotional issues. In fact he seemed like the type to run on emotions.
I wonder how Quinn would feel if he was told his renewed popularity and appreciation on Getbig?
He seems like a natural getbigger. Probably fare better than Gary Strydom did here.
;D i was just thinking that someone should message him on instagram and let him know he's finally getting his due on the G&O
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Looking through this thread Quinn may have been a tad underrated in his heyday.
Do you think if he had a better reputation/cleaner image he would have done a lot better?
His image was part of his appeal. It was definitely a factor as to why the WBF wanted to hire him.
When you're an IFBB pro for three years and place top 10 at the Olympia for two of them, it's hard to get much better than that.
Again, back in the 80s, being in the top 10 was a LOT more prestigious than it is today.....especially when you consider almost nobody skipped the Olympia if they qualified for it.
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Anyone remember the “Battle of the Biceps” held at the 1991 Mr. USA ?
Quinn vs Zuccalotto.
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Anyone remember the “Battle of the Biceps” held at the 1991 Mr. USA ?
Quinn vs Zuccalotto.
I remember reading about that in MuscleMag international at the time
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I remember reading about that in MuscleMag international at the time
They were both in the WBF by that time, weren't they?
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They were both in the WBF by that time, weren't they?
Yes, and Weider magazines like Muscle & Fitness and FLEX would not cover anything related to the WBF. To Weider, the WBF was simply a group of TRAITORS
MuscleMag and Ironman Magazine definitely provided good coverage of the WBF though
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Yes, and Weider magazines like Muscle & Fitness and FLEX would not cover anything related to the WBF. To Weider, the WBF was simply a group of TRAITORS
MuscleMag and Ironman Magazine definitely provided good coverage of the WBF though
But three of them (Zuke, Jim Quinn, and Aaron Baker) never competed in the IFBB pro division, prior to joining the WBF.
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MIKE QUINN ...THE "BAD BOY" OF BODYBUILDING
Mike Quinn was born and raised in Brockton, Massachusetts. Growing up, he was often involved in fights with other kids. However, most of the boys Mike fought were larger in size – because of this, he was often bullied and couldn’t do anything to defend himself.
“I grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts, home of Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler. It’s known as a pretty rough city. I was picked on a lot and got the shit beaten out of me until I was thirteen or fourteen.”
However, as he grew older, Mike gained some size and strength naturally. This gave him the confidence to fend off any bullies that would want to fight him. As Mike said; “Later, I beat the fuck out of anyone that had ever beaten me up.”
Bullying wasn’t the only problem that Mike faced as a child. He also suffered from mental disorders such as ADHD. This made it hard for Mike to stay relaxed and focused while he was in school.
“I was a weird kid; I had a nervous condition. Technically I was mentally ill. Plus I have ADHD. I wonder sometimes if all the vaccinations as a kid had anything to do with it, because back then all the vaccines had mercury in them.
Mike’s first training session took place in his home’s cellar, when he was 13 years old. His father, who built a small gym in the cellar, invited Mike to lift weights.
Since he was already naturally strong, Mike found it surprisingly easy to train. He said, “That first day, just messing around, I benched 220 pounds. I was a husky kid, chubby, you know? Instead of pecs, I had boobs.”
Mike trained at home until he was 15, then he became interested in American football. He quickly realized that he had a gift for the sport, however, he’d believed that his height of 5’8” would prevent him from reaching the elite NFL level. He decided to stick to bodybuilding, which served him as a natural therapy for his ADHD and anger issues.
After every football practice, which lasted for 2 hours, Mike would head into the gym to train for another two hours. He says this wasn’t exhausting for him because he loved it. Mike’s interest in lifting weights later led him to become a powerlifter.
However, it didn’t take long for Mike to realize that powerlifting wasn’t his true passion. When he was 18, Mike was getting ready for a powerlifting contest, and was supposed to squat 550 lbs for 5 reps that day. He only managed to get 4 reps, which made him say, in his words, “Fuck this! I’m gonna be a bodybuilder!”
Just six weeks later, Mike entered his first bodybuilding show and won.
After winning his debut show, the Teen Mr. Massachusetts, Mike went on to earn an even more prestigious title – the Teenage Mr. America.
These early victories bolstered Mike’s confidence. So much so, that he said; “Even as a teenager I was as good as most of the older guys competing in the sport.”
In 1984, Mike took third place at the Mr. America. He went on to win the medium NABBA Universe London shortly after, joining the elite group of bodybuilders who’d previously won this show, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steve Reeves.
A year after winning his Pro status, Mike started competing in elite shows around the world.
In fact, 1988 was the most contest-dense year in Mike’s career. He took part in 9 contests that year, some of which included:
England Grand Prix, IFBB, 5th place
Grand Prix Germany, IFBB, 4th place
Mike also made his Mr. Olympia debut in 1988, finishing amongst the top 5 bodybuilders in the world.
In 1994, Mike took part in three shows: Night of Champions, Mr. Olympia, and IFBB San Jose Pro Invitational.
After this, Mike took a long break from competing. It wasn’t until 1999 that he appeared once again on the stage, claiming 17th place at the IFBB World Pro Championships.
Mike Quinn was always honest about his steroid usage. He started taking steroids at the age of 18, prescribed by his local doctor.
However, according to Mike, he’d never taken these substances to gain muscle, but to preserve his muscle mass while dieting.
Mike had tried countless variations of training over his career as a bodybuilder. However, by far the most effective for him was power-bodybuilding.
With this training style, Mike did four days of heavy training, followed by four days of light exercises. On heavy days, he’d take more rest between sets to “stimulate testosterone release”.
On lighter days, Mike trained with more reps and short rest between sets to raise his growth hormone levels. These light sessions also enabled Mike to recover from his heavy training days and prevent muscle wasting. As Mike states, “training consistently leads to a catabolic state”.
Along with power-bodybuilding, Mike also loved doing quick and intense workouts. He’d do a series of high-intensity exercises with extremely short rest periods.
Some of the exercises he’d do included barbell squats, bench press, and overhead press. Mike says, it’s these movements that built the foundations of his physique.
But, while he enjoyed lifting heavy, Mike never let the weights affect his form. He said: “The key things to my type of training are heavy weights with strict form, not to overtrain, not letting my ego get in the way and hurt myself.”
Mike was, and still is a huge believer in cardio for fat loss. In fact, aerobics was an essential part of his show preparations.
His favorite form of cardio was the stationary bike. Or occasionally, stair climbing. On his rest days from weightlifting, Mike would do 45 minutes of aerobics before breakfast to maximize fat loss.
“I’ve come to realize just how vital a role aerobics plays in my program. Quite simply, to get ripped you need aerobics. I used to do one and a half hours of daily aerobics. I would break up the aerobics into two 45-minute sessions right after I complete my weight workout. Then, the muscle glycogen stores are empty and the body burn fat faster.
There was a period where Mike trained extremely hard for his contests. He would train several days in a row without any rest. He says this led to over-training symptoms such as muscle loss.
But then, Mike changed his approach. He started training two days in a row before taking a day off. By giving his body a break every 3rd day, he’d noticed much better progress in his physique.
According to Mike, when he trained too hard, his body went into a catabolic state (muscle-wasting). But as he added more rest to his routine, Mike’s muscles were able to catch up with his workouts. As he said, “By interspersing two training days with a rest day I prevent my body from slipping into a catabolic state.”
Mike believes that nowadays, bodybuilders focus too much on protein. He says, 1g of protein per pound of lean body weight is more than enough to build muscle. He also says that far too many people avoid carbs, which he believes is not healthy for the body.
In fact, Mike says simple carbohydrates are the best energy source. He would often increase his carb intake before shows to make his muscles appear fuller. He also ate proteins and fats from foods such as chicken, cheese, and avocados.
“My body oxidizes protein more efficiently than it does carbohydrates. But I still need carbohydrates. My mistake in the past was dropping carbs to 50-100 grams a day, which caused a loss of both muscle and training intensity.”
Whenever he prepared for a show, Mike ate in a caloric deficit so his body would steadily lose fat.
10 weeks before the contest, he’d eat 2000 calories per day. He’d do this for three days, and then, on the fourth day, Mike would add 800 calories from protein and carbs to ‘ignite’ his metabolism. On the fifth day, he’d start the process all over again by reducing his calories back to 2000 kcal.
Mike’s first influence in bodybuilding was his father. When Mike was still a child, he saw his father training in their small home gym. However, Mike’s father didn’t allow him to train with him because he was still too young to begin weight training.
It wasn’t until Mike was 13 that he was finally invited for his first workout with his father. "When I was thirteen, my father decided it was time for me to start weight training."
Mike Quinn had one trait that made people either love him or hate him – his unapologetic honesty.
He was never afraid to speak up his mind and was also often aggressive towards those that provoked him. He couldn’t stand bullies, because he knew what it was like to be picked on as a kid.
Later, Mike channeled his frustrations and anger by lifting weights. Bodybuilding became his therapy. Throughout the years, his passions for the sport grew further to become a professional bodybuilder.
There are many lessons we can take from Mike’s story. But perhaps the most important one is that you should be yourself and never apologize to anyone for it. This might bring criticism – but it will also attract people in your life who’ll respect you for who you truly are.
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MIKE QUINN ...THE "BAD BOY" OF BODYBUILDING
Mike Quinn was born and raised in Brockton, Massachusetts. Growing up, he was often involved in fights with other kids. However, most of the boys Mike fought were larger in size – because of this, he was often bullied and couldn’t do anything to defend himself.
“I grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts, home of Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler. It’s known as a pretty rough city. I was picked on a lot and got the shit beaten out of me until I was thirteen or fourteen.”
However, as he grew older, Mike gained some size and strength naturally. This gave him the confidence to fend off any bullies that would want to fight him. As Mike said; “Later, I beat the fuck out of anyone that had ever beaten me up.”
Bullying wasn’t the only problem that Mike faced as a child. He also suffered from mental disorders such as ADHD. This made it hard for Mike to stay relaxed and focused while he was in school.
“I was a weird kid; I had a nervous condition. Technically I was mentally ill. Plus I have ADHD. I wonder sometimes if all the vaccinations as a kid had anything to do with it, because back then all the vaccines had mercury in them.
Mike’s first training session took place in his home’s cellar, when he was 13 years old. His father, who built a small gym in the cellar, invited Mike to lift weights.
Since he was already naturally strong, Mike found it surprisingly easy to train. He said, “That first day, just messing around, I benched 220 pounds. I was a husky kid, chubby, you know? Instead of pecs, I had boobs.”
Mike trained at home until he was 15, then he became interested in American football. He quickly realized that he had a gift for the sport, however, he’d believed that his height of 5’8” would prevent him from reaching the elite NFL level. He decided to stick to bodybuilding, which served him as a natural therapy for his ADHD and anger issues.
After every football practice, which lasted for 2 hours, Mike would head into the gym to train for another two hours. He says this wasn’t exhausting for him because he loved it. Mike’s interest in lifting weights later led him to become a powerlifter.
However, it didn’t take long for Mike to realize that powerlifting wasn’t his true passion. When he was 18, Mike was getting ready for a powerlifting contest, and was supposed to squat 550 lbs for 5 reps that day. He only managed to get 4 reps, which made him say, in his words, “Fuck this! I’m gonna be a bodybuilder!”
Just six weeks later, Mike entered his first bodybuilding show and won.
After winning his debut show, the Teen Mr. Massachusetts, Mike went on to earn an even more prestigious title – the Teenage Mr. America.
These early victories bolstered Mike’s confidence. So much so, that he said; “Even as a teenager I was as good as most of the older guys competing in the sport.”
In 1984, Mike took third place at the Mr. America. He went on to win the medium NABBA Universe London shortly after, joining the elite group of bodybuilders who’d previously won this show, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steve Reeves.
A year after winning his Pro status, Mike started competing in elite shows around the world.
In fact, 1988 was the most contest-dense year in Mike’s career. He took part in 9 contests that year, some of which included:
England Grand Prix, IFBB, 5th place
Grand Prix Germany, IFBB, 4th place
Mike also made his Mr. Olympia debut in 1988, finishing amongst the top 5 bodybuilders in the world.
In 1994, Mike took part in three shows: Night of Champions, Mr. Olympia, and IFBB San Jose Pro Invitational.
After this, Mike took a long break from competing. It wasn’t until 1999 that he appeared once again on the stage, claiming 17th place at the IFBB World Pro Championships.
Mike Quinn was always honest about his steroid usage. He started taking steroids at the age of 18, prescribed by his local doctor.
However, according to Mike, he’d never taken these substances to gain muscle, but to preserve his muscle mass while dieting.
Mike had tried countless variations of training over his career as a bodybuilder. However, by far the most effective for him was power-bodybuilding.
With this training style, Mike did four days of heavy training, followed by four days of light exercises. On heavy days, he’d take more rest between sets to “stimulate testosterone release”.
On lighter days, Mike trained with more reps and short rest between sets to raise his growth hormone levels. These light sessions also enabled Mike to recover from his heavy training days and prevent muscle wasting. As Mike states, “training consistently leads to a catabolic state”.
Along with power-bodybuilding, Mike also loved doing quick and intense workouts. He’d do a series of high-intensity exercises with extremely short rest periods.
Some of the exercises he’d do included barbell squats, bench press, and overhead press. Mike says, it’s these movements that built the foundations of his physique.
But, while he enjoyed lifting heavy, Mike never let the weights affect his form. He said: “The key things to my type of training are heavy weights with strict form, not to overtrain, not letting my ego get in the way and hurt myself.”
Mike was, and still is a huge believer in cardio for fat loss. In fact, aerobics was an essential part of his show preparations.
His favorite form of cardio was the stationary bike. Or occasionally, stair climbing. On his rest days from weightlifting, Mike would do 45 minutes of aerobics before breakfast to maximize fat loss.
“I’ve come to realize just how vital a role aerobics plays in my program. Quite simply, to get ripped you need aerobics. I used to do one and a half hours of daily aerobics. I would break up the aerobics into two 45-minute sessions right after I complete my weight workout. Then, the muscle glycogen stores are empty and the body burn fat faster.
There was a period where Mike trained extremely hard for his contests. He would train several days in a row without any rest. He says this led to over-training symptoms such as muscle loss.
But then, Mike changed his approach. He started training two days in a row before taking a day off. By giving his body a break every 3rd day, he’d noticed much better progress in his physique.
According to Mike, when he trained too hard, his body went into a catabolic state (muscle-wasting). But as he added more rest to his routine, Mike’s muscles were able to catch up with his workouts. As he said, “By interspersing two training days with a rest day I prevent my body from slipping into a catabolic state.”
Mike believes that nowadays, bodybuilders focus too much on protein. He says, 1g of protein per pound of lean body weight is more than enough to build muscle. He also says that far too many people avoid carbs, which he believes is not healthy for the body.
In fact, Mike says simple carbohydrates are the best energy source. He would often increase his carb intake before shows to make his muscles appear fuller. He also ate proteins and fats from foods such as chicken, cheese, and avocados.
“My body oxidizes protein more efficiently than it does carbohydrates. But I still need carbohydrates. My mistake in the past was dropping carbs to 50-100 grams a day, which caused a loss of both muscle and training intensity.”
Whenever he prepared for a show, Mike ate in a caloric deficit so his body would steadily lose fat.
10 weeks before the contest, he’d eat 2000 calories per day. He’d do this for three days, and then, on the fourth day, Mike would add 800 calories from protein and carbs to ‘ignite’ his metabolism. On the fifth day, he’d start the process all over again by reducing his calories back to 2000 kcal.
Mike’s first influence in bodybuilding was his father. When Mike was still a child, he saw his father training in their small home gym. However, Mike’s father didn’t allow him to train with him because he was still too young to begin weight training.
It wasn’t until Mike was 13 that he was finally invited for his first workout with his father. "When I was thirteen, my father decided it was time for me to start weight training."
Mike Quinn had one trait that made people either love him or hate him – his unapologetic honesty.
He was never afraid to speak up his mind and was also often aggressive towards those that provoked him. He couldn’t stand bullies, because he knew what it was like to be picked on as a kid.
Later, Mike channeled his frustrations and anger by lifting weights. Bodybuilding became his therapy. Throughout the years, his passions for the sport grew further to become a professional bodybuilder.
There are many lessons we can take from Mike’s story. But perhaps the most important one is that you should be yourself and never apologize to anyone for it. This might bring criticism – but it will also attract people in your life who’ll respect you for who you truly are.
Brutal if true
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I know I could Google it, but I've just kinda realised I always had Mike down as being of Italian stock - couldn't tell you why - but Quinn's an Irish name... :P
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I know I could Google it, but I've just kinda realised I always had Mike down as being of Italian stock - couldn't tell you why - but Quinn's an Irish name... :P
Bro...
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I know I could Google it, but I've just kinda realised I always had Mike down as being of Italian stock - couldn't tell you why - but Quinn's an Irish name... :P
His mom definitely looks Italian, but maybe his father was half Irish and half Italian
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Trained with Quinn back in the 80's at Golds in Sunrise FL. One of the best upper bodies of all time. No Bullshit always told it like it is.
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It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce, Mike Quinn has passed away.
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(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=623916.0;attach=701749)
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Trained with Quinn back in the 80's at Golds in Sunrise FL. One of the best upper bodies of all time. No Bullshit always told it like it is.
Cool !!
Where ya` been Ronnie.....good to see you back brother. :)
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(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OfWaJypLtnk/maxresdefault.jpg)
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Very good upper body; arms were excellent! But quads, hams, and glutes were unremarkable. Calves were forgettable. And that hair… balding mullet ponytail thing always looked horrible. :-X
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Is that his late sister?
How late was she ? - what time did she arrive ?
;D
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How late was she ? - what time did she arrive ?
;D
Before him