John Little, author and former writer for Flex Magazine, joins the Bodybuilding Legends Podcast to talk about the life of Mike Mentzer in Part One of his interview (12:40). John talks about how he met Mike at a seminar in Toronto about six months before the 1980 Mr. Olympia (13:42), the start of a friendship that lasted over 20 years. John also gives his thoughts on the controversial 1980 Mr. Olympia contest (24:33), the career of Mike Mentzer (30:23), how Mike Mentzer's training philosophy changed bodybuilding (37:30) and the role of genetics in bodybuilding (45:30)

John Little's books on Mike Mentzer - The Wisdom of Mike Mentzer, High Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way.

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