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Mike Mentzer Quotes

Enjoy the top 12 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Mike Mentzer.

“To stimulate optimal size and strength increases, its imperative that you regularly attempt the momentarily impossible. For example, if you can curl 100 pounds for a maximum of 10 reps, but never attempt the 11th, your body has no reason to enlarge upon its existing capacity. It is only by regularly attempting to go beyond your existing capacity that inroads are made into your bodys reserves.”
— Mike Mentzer —

“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

“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

“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

“In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd.”

— Mike Mentzer

“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

“The only one you can accurately compare yourself to is you!”

— Mike Mentzer