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About Ray Mentzer
- Ray Mentzer (August 3, 1953 – June 12, 2001) was the 1976 Junior Mr.
- America, 1978 IFBB Mr.
- USA and was winner of the 1979 AAU Mr.
- America competition.
- Ray's brother, Mike Mentzer won the rival IFBB Mr.
- America in 1976 during Ray's Junior title.
- He was a proponent of heavy duty training along with Mike and although retiring from competition in 1982, carried on training to the heavy duty high intensity principles.
- In 1983, he flew to Florida in order to be trained by Arthur Jones.
- At a bodyweight of a then unthinkable 250 plus pounds, he added even more muscle within a month.
- At one time, training for just six weeks, he squatted 902 pounds for 2 repetitions. He died from kidney failure, a complication resulting from Berger's disease.
- Ray died just two days after discovering his brother Mike Mentzer's body in the same apartment due to heart failure.
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