Mike Mentzer - Discussion

[kepler2008]

[Disgusted]

looks good

[FREAKgeek]

looks good

Top pic I can see how anyone would be high on themselves. Bottom pic, you can see the lacking chest.

Mike was a smart guy. I think the real reason he quit was because he knew he lost. He knew he didn't have it to be Mr Olympia.

[NarcissisticDeity]

 

[BSN]

Sometimes Mike impresses more in those semi-relaxed shots.. with that powerful look

[BSN]

One of his favorite pose

[jwb]

Mike was way better in 1976, 1977 and 1978 than he was in 1979 and 1980.

He was a shadow of his 1978 form in 1980.

[BSN]

 

[karasan]

If there would be no video images and only still pictures of Golden Age Bb'ers I would rank Mentzer a close second after Sergio...
His posing is so dramatic, those crazy forearms, triceps, cannonball delts and nice biceps, perfect waist...
Extended arm poses, vacuums, arms above head poses...
What is even more funny is, both Sergio's and Mentzer's posing seems flawless and dramatic in magazine pictures, but it was quite the contrary...

[Nether Animal]

Perfect waist? He had notoriously wide hips, plus a weak chest. Disappears on some shots posted on the last page. Great bber but far from perfect

[Henda]

Had the same stupid tash and haircut forever, great physique in some shots but looked like he was an absolute jerk

[NarcissisticDeity]

 

[Thespritz0]

Had the same stupid tash and haircut forever, great physique in some shots but looked like he was an absolute jerk

^^
I don't know how old you are, but that was the style back then look at the group photos, there are many over 1/2 of the guys had those moustaches...

[NarcissisticDeity]

 

[BSN]

1979 MO

[NarcissisticDeity]

 

[NarcissisticDeity]

 

[NarcissisticDeity]

 

[pellius]

Perfect waist? He had notoriously wide hips, plus a weak chest. Disappears on some shots posted on the last page. Great bber but far from perfect

I was in my late teens early twenties when Mentzer was in his prime and the biggest thing during that time. He was the most influential bber to me and I followed and read every article about him and every article he wrote. As with all bbers, there were criticisms regarding his physique. A lot having to do with him taking first place in the heavyweight division at the 79 Olympia but losing the overall to Zane. The criticism mostly focused on the need to improved his conditioning and allowing his gut to sag more than once during the show.  A sagging gut is something everybody has when you let yourself relax. Arnold was especially good at always sucking it in. But look at some of the guys standing in the background. Waller and even Padilla had a bit of a pouch.

Anyway, never had it ever been mentioned that he had a wide waist during that time. Never. That was never an issue during his era when he actually competed. That came decades later and I don't know how it caught on. Just look at him straight on. Sure he didn't have a tinny tiny waist like Buchannan or that extreme taper like Olivia. But a wide waist? No way, you can pull a vacuum with a wide waist. Arnold had a wide waist. Tinnerino had a wide waist. Roger Walker, Ken Waller and Franco's waist was no more narrower than Mentzer.

Even his chest wasn't criticized as being sorely lacking. Mentzer at the time was considered almost perfectly proportioned. But someone along the way made the wide waist crack and it caught on and everybody just falls in line parroting someone else.

[Nether Animal]

I was in my late teens early twenties when Mentzer was in his prime and the biggest thing during that time. He was the most influential bber to me and I followed and read every article about him and every article he wrote. As with all bbers, there were criticisms regarding his physique. A lot having to do with him taking first place in the heavyweight division at the 79 Olympia but losing the overall to Zane. The criticism mostly focused on the need to improved his conditioning and allowing his gut to sag more than once during the show.  A sagging gut is something everybody has when you let yourself relax. Arnold was especially good at always sucking it in. But look at some of the guys standing in the background. Waller and even Padilla had a bit of a pouch.

Anyway, never had it ever been mentioned that he had a wide waist during that time. Never. That was never an issue during his era when he actually competed. That came decades later and I don't know how it caught on. Just look at him straight on. Sure he didn't have a tinny tiny waist like Buchannan or that extreme taper like Olivia. But a wide waist? No way, you can pull a vacuum with a wide waist. Arnold had a wide waist. Tinnerino had a wide waist. Roger Walker, Ken Waller and Franco's waist was no more narrower than Mentzer.

Even his chest wasn't criticized as being sorely lacking. Mentzer at the time was considered almost perfectly proportioned. But someone along the way made the wide waist crack and it caught on and everybody just falls in line parroting someone else.

I said wide hips. His waist itself is actually fine, but the disparity between that and the hips is/was the knock on him, specifically.

[BSN]

The problem is that the form of abdominals not help him too. Same for Coleman.

[kepler2008]

In those ancient times, drugs showed very positive effects on those long and sharpened quadriceps.

[NarcissisticDeity]

 

[The_Iron_Disciple]

In those ancient times, drugs showed very positive effects on those long and sharpened quadriceps.

Perfection.

A damn shame Mike never won the Olympia.

[NaturalWonder83]

Perfection.

A damn shame Mike never won the Olympia.

agreed