Here’s a shot of Mike (left) and Ray Mentzer, in the gym doing the Free-Mustache-Rides Club handshake. Both were massive dudes and Mr. America winners…
Mike won it in 1976, 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 which has stayed with Steve to this day. Ray was dating Ms. Olympia Rachel McLish at the time; she was at the seminar, so it’s lucky Steve heard anything at all…
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 each repetition did amazing things for his mass gains.
Following that advice is one reason Steve re-muscled his physique in his sparse home gym with only a 50-pound PowerBlock dumbbell set and an adjustable bench (see the cover photo of the diet ebook below)…
Interesting side note: Mike died at age 49 in 2001 of a heart attack, and Ray died two days later of kidney complications. Strange stuff—brothers dying so young only two days apart…
Both were great, innovative bodybuilders whose training methods and ideas still permeate bodybuilding today.
Rachel? We’re sure her physique still looks better than ours.
—Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
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