![]() It wasn’t overly detailed, but it was still better than anything we had seen before in his predecessors. Olympia, one of Haney’s most formidable physique weapons was his wide, thick back. So even before he started adding muscle back there, he already had a pronounced V-taper. Lee’s structure alone had all the makings of a great back: very wide clavicles and a very small waist. Olympia titles just before my reign began, Lee Haney. Foremost on the list would be the man who won eight Mr. I would never have built my back to the proportions I did, had it not been for a few champions who came before me. Not to say that his back was better than mine- he had a bit more overall size and I had more detail to mine- but you get the point. After me, Ronnie Coleman took his own back to a new level of freakiness. Until I came along and set the new standard, bodybuilders never thought it was possible to build so much thickness, width, and detail in the lats. ![]() It was much the same with back muscularity. Yet once he had done it, the mental barriers came down and runners began doing it all the time. Until then, such a feat was considered impossible. That’s how it usually is in any sports endeavor, like when my fellow Brit Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile in 1954. Olympia reign, I became known for setting a completely new standard for back development, in much the same way that Tom Platz had done a decade earlier when it came to legs. ![]() New Standards and Breaking Down Mental Barriers NPC National Bodybuilding Championships.2014 NPC Steve Stone New York Metropolitan.2014 IFBB Australian Pro Grand Prix XII.2013 NPC National Bodybuilding Championships.2013 IFBB Australian Pro Grand Prix XII.2013 NPC USA Bodybuilding Championships.2013 NPC Steve Stone New York Metropolitan.
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