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BODYBUILDER BIO: Lee Haney
Lee Haney turned disappointment in one sport into a record-setting career in another. Lee began bodybuilding after he broke a leg playing high school football in South Carolina. Like many teens, Lee had aspirations of playing professional football—and he had the talent to make that dream come true. But while rehabilitating his injured leg in the weight room he discovered that he liked lifting weights more than playing football.
“They sent me into the weight room to rehabilitate my atrophied leg muscles, and I never came out again,” Lee said. “Once I had experienced the thrill of being able to add muscle mass to my frame, I was an ex-footballer and a lifetime bodybuilder.”
Lee found that his body quickly responded to weight , and he liked htrainingis new muscle mass. He could quickly envision success as a bodybuilder. It turns out that he was right. “Large Lee,” as he became known, won eight straight Mr. Olympia titles from 1984 to 1991. That’s bodybuilding’s top prize, akin to the Super Bowl in pro football. Lee even bettered the previous record of seven Mr. Olympia wins by the incomparable Arnold Schwarzenegger. Many people had thought Arnold’s record would never be broken. Lee started serious weight training when he was 16 years old and soon began winning youth bodybuilding contests. A photo of him at age 17 shows what an extraordinary physique he had already developed. Lee began accumulating national bodybuilding titles in 1979 when he won Teen Mr. America. He followed it up with victories in the 1982 Junior Nationals bodybuilding contest and the World Amateur Championships later that year.
In 1983, he entered his first Mr. Olympia contest and shocked people by finishing third—much higher than most competitors do on their first attempt. Still, he wasn’t content. The judges’ comments noted that his arms and calves were too small, and he set out to correct those flaws in his physique. The next year, he won the Mr. Olympia title—blowing away the field. Lee’s dominance in bodybuilding had begun. Throughout his career, he was known for his intense workouts and the incredible size he achieved. He was especially known for his massive back, which seemed to dwarf the backs of other competitors. Standing just under 6 feet tall, he carried 250 pounds of rippling muscle in contest shape. Today Lee is retired and lives outside Atlanta, Georgia. He owns a 40-acre ranch that he calls “Haney’s Harvest House,” and he works with inner-city youth. He’s one of the leading promoters of bodybuilding: He saw what it did for him, and he knows what it can do for others, in terms of both physique and self-esteem.
”Every bodybuilder wants to develop huge, powerful muscles,” says Lee, now 43. “In fact, that’s usually the main reason why most of us started working out with weights in the first place—to build up a skinny frame so we could look huge and powerful. No matter how massive a bodybuilder gets, he still wants to add a little more muscle to certain parts of his physique.”
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