There are bodybuilding stars, then there are icons. Lee Haney falls below the latter as the primary eight-time Mr.Olympia, which on the time broke Arnold Schwarzenegger’s document of seven. So, when Haney speaks, these round him ought to pay attention as a result of it may assist them down the highway.
Dennis James, Chris Cormier, and Milos Sarcev had their ears extensive open for Haney as he joined the most recent roundtable of The Menace Podcast. Aside from answering questions on his personal profession, Haney shared his ideas about a few of the superstars of at this time. One man that Haney is impressed by is Andrew Jacked, who just lately gained the Texas Pro and Arnold Classic UK contests.
“Beautiful physique, great separation,” Haney stated about Jacked. He was additionally excited to speak about 2022 Olympia People’s Champion, Hadi Choopan, who completed third within the Mr. Olympia behind Mamdouh “Big Ramy” Elssbiay and Brandon Curry.
“Hadi had the best muscle maturity onstage that day, period. I would put (Jacked) up close next to that.”
While taking part in fantasy bodybuilding is enjoyable, Haney reminds the panel that what issues most is what occurs on contest day.
“You don’t know until you see these guys standing side-by-side. It’s hard to tell until you see them onstage together.”
When these athletes get onstage collectively, there’s something that he wish to see much less of – motioning for the followers to get louder throughout their posing routines.
“If you’re going to do your posing routine, do it, but once the routine is over, okay. Then, you can walk across the stage and say ‘ok, clap for me,’ but I say give the people something to clap for,” Haney suggested. “Then, you don’t have to do that (hand motions).”
The panel lined numerous floor on this episode, together with the controversial 1980 Mr. Olympia, his relationship with Joe Weider, and extra about Haney’s historic profession. Subscribe to the Muscle & Fitness YouTube channel to see this in addition to different roundtable episodes of TMP, and don’t overlook to observe @themenacepodcast on Instagram.