Mike Mentzer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational training and dietary practices, they give up training. Don't make the same mistake
-- Mike Mentzer

#Giving Up #Mistake #Practice
The only one you can accurately compare yourself to is you!
-- Mike Mentzer

#Compare
That last rep where you're trying as hard as you can and you barely make it! That is what turns on the growth mechanism in your body. That last almost impossible rep where you're bearing your teeth, you're shaking all over, you need assistance! That rep is very special, that rep is very different. There's something special going on inside your body when that happens.
-- Mike Mentzer

#Over You #Growth #Trying
In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd.
-- Mike Mentzer

#Order #Crowds #Orchestra
Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body.
-- Mike Mentzer

#Men #Mind #Body
You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into motion. It is the body itself, of course, that produces growth; but it does so only during a sufficient rest period.
-- Mike Mentzer

#Workout #Growth #Body
It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.
-- Mike Mentzer

#Achievement #Mind #Body
One cannot actualize his goals until he visualizes them clearly in the minds eye
-- Mike Mentzer

#Eye #Goal #Mind
Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero.
-- Mike Mentzer

#Hero #Men #Frustration
Presently, my understanding of the fundamental principles of the theory of high-intensity training is thorough and complete - not two plus two equals three-and-a-half, but two plus two equals four! Heretofore, I would only occasionally have clients gain 10 to 20 pounds in a month or 30 to 40 pounds in three to four months. Now such is no longer the exception , but the rule!
-- Mike Mentzer

#Two #Understanding #Training
The theory of high-intensity, anaerobic, bodybuilding exercise is not true because I or anyone else, no matter how many might agree, say it is true. It is the fact that the logic of the theory is unassailable which makes it true.
-- Mike Mentzer

#Exercise #Bodybuilding #Might

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