Mike Mentzer was not a player but an equipment manager for 1960s football dynasty John Harris High School. Yet his athletic passion matched anyone’s, and he succeeded better than most at extending the ...

Born in 1951, Pennsylvania, Mentzer started bodybuilding when he was just eleven years of age. His father bought him a set of weights that came with an instruction manual which outlined a three-days-a ...

Recently, I noticed a guy I’d trained around for a few years in the gym move some pretty impressive weight, far more than what he’d been regularly capable of. He was in good shape too. Naturally, I ...