olympia

FLEX: YOU, RONNIE COLEMAN, DORIAN YATES, LEE HANEY, AND ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER–ALL OF YOU AT PEAK FORM–WHERE DO YOU FINISH? PHIL HEATH: Top three, at the least. Top three all day. I’m trying to figure that one out. I would like to put myself at No. 1—I mean, only two of us, me and Coleman, have...

Per Bernal THE CHAMPION SPEAKS YET AGAIN. We’re very familiar with him: the now seven-time Mr. Olympia Phil Heath. Only this time he doesn’t have quite as much to say. With a reputation over the years as one of the great trash-talking bodybuilders of all time, Heath was relatively quiet heading...

This was my second Olympia, and it felt totally different from my first. Last year, nobody cared about me. I was unknown, so I could just enjoy it. This time there was pressure. Some people were rooting for me to do well; others wanted to see me fail. I had done a guest spot in Northern Ireland...

Ian Spanier If you watch an athlete over the course of his career, you can see how he changes not only physically but also mentally. Andre Ferguson says that if you saw him at his first contest and told him he would eventually place in the top five at the Men’s Physique Olympia, he would have...

When a 19-year-old Jay Cutler won the heavyweight class at the NPC Teen Nationals in 1993, Branch Warren took home the light-heavies and the overall. Three years later, Jay took his pro card on his first attempt at the 1996 NPC Nationals. He did it by besting a heavyweight class that included...

Per Bernal PHIL HEATH WINS A LOT Starting with his first show in 2003, he’s 17-7, and he’s finished atop the bodybuilding world at the last seven Mr. Olympias. He’s won so much this decade it’s hard to remember him ever losing. But no one is a born winner. Success is a mindset that needs to be...