This most-muscular variation by Ray Mentzer on the beach may be his best condition ever. The photo is by Wayne Gallasch of GMV Productions out of Australia.
Gallasch took some incredible pics, as well as video, of Ray and older brother Mike, together and solo, in their heyday—and this is a great one…
It’s from around the time Ray won the 1979 Mr. America—the same time that Steve attended one of his seminars in San Antonio, Texas.
It was there that Ray said something that stuck with Steve to this day: Ray commented that he could make a 30-pound dumbbell feel like a 60-pounder…
He said control and feeling the muscle contracting and elongating all the way through the stroke did amazing things for his mass gains.
Good to know—and a get-big tip we can all use right now, as most people are training at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. And many, like us, are without a lot of poundage to work with…
All of that is the reason we just expanded our Quick-Start Muscle-Building Guide to a 2.0 version with many mass tactics, like Ray’s, infused into complete home workouts in a big, updated section…
The workouts are tailored to build muscle in a bare-bones home gym with only moderate poundages—all you need is an adjustable bench and dumbbells (we have only the 50-pound PowerBlock set, and it’s working great for us, which is why we updated this ebook)…
You can add this newly updated ebook to your mass-building library by clicking HERE.
Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
—Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
www.X-Rep.com
Mass-Building Lessons From the Master Trainer
Vince Gironda was the Iron Guru, a bodybuilding legend ahead of his time. His most famous pupil in the bodybuilding world was the very first Mr. Olympia Larry Scott, and he also trained many Hollywood stars back in the day, like Clint Eastwood, and even Arnold consulted with him and was a fan (even though Vince told Arnold that he was a “fat f**k” when he first arrived in the U.S.).
Many of Vince’s mass-building tricks and methods have been forgotten, buried by information and misinformation overload on the Internet, but now you can find them all, his true methods, in this must-have, 330-page Vince Gironda e-book anthology…
You get everything from “Train 21 Rest 7” to 10-8-6-15 to Vince’s Stone Age Nutrition, the 8×8 method and program and much, much more (remember, it’s 330 pages). And it’s on sale at a discount for a limited time: Simply use the code GIRONDA20 at checkout for an extra 20 percent off.
Vince Gironda: Legend & Myth (300-page anthology + many bonus gifts and programs) HERE