hello and welcome muscle and strength this is Lee Haney we're gonna have an
awesome time today I'll get a chance to walk you through a little bit of my
legacy you'll get to see my home we'll get to talk about some of the trophies
and some of my experiences appreciate having you guys here come on
all right we're now standing in front of my fireplace and we're checking out the
sandow trophies only the best in the world gets one of these I got eight of
them which makes me a bad motor scooter so anyway guys as far as which ones were
the first to the last I'm not sure all of these guys are as you see the same
nationality sandows and just a little bit of history about the Sandow trophy
Eugene Sandow was the first documented strong man other than Samson in the
Bible so this has been a trophy that epitomized
the greatest physique in the world that's as far as the IFBB is concerned in the
world of professional bodybuilding now you have two different types of Sandow
here one is the this was a first style and I can't tell you guys which year
then you have the other one here there's a little bit have a smoother base and a
lot of people say well Lee why didn't why didn't you do 9 or 10 mr. Olympias I
took this is an omen there was only enough room for eight so eight was
enough and very proud of that you see here the a plaque in the back this was
given to me by mr. ben wieder himself who was the founder of the International
Federation of bodybuilding that is a Distinguished Service Award and it was
truly honor to receive that and this is also a medal given by the IFBB again mr.
ben weider for the achievement medal so I was truly honored to receive all of
these different type of awards from the IFBB
well I would say the greatest of all of them was I would say the first and last cuz the
first was truly a dream come true you know winning the first one said wow
you've arrived you've made it mr. Olympia that's a miracle in itself and
at that point I said well you know one Olympia is great but I would love to do
at least three mr. Olympia and all sudden I won three I had three mr.
Olympia trophies like wow this is incredible
then I thought to myself well how about five because five is a record in itself
you know Sergio Olivia won three Frank Zane had won three so let's try to at
least best their record and I was successful in doing so by winning five
but after getting to five I said well okay uh seven in a row is a record in
itself because Arnold had won six consecutive wins and still had seven
overall and so all of a sudden I got to my seventh Olympia
and at that time I said well listen this is a record in itself no one has ever
won seven consecutive mr. Olympia trophies and I never will forget I sat
down with my wife Shirley and we had a discussion and I said there I said well
baby no one has ever won seven in a row this is a record in itself what do
you think should I stop now she's says to me well what do you mean stop
you gotta go for the 8th what's the matter with you
so almost embarrassed but I sucked it up and we jumped in there together and went
for the 8th mr Olympia and I won
well when physiques started to change and that changed began with Dorian I
really felt 1991 was a great year of course for me it was a record-breaking
year but I thought it was a great year for Dorian too to see where he was at
that particular time that beautiful physique he had very nice lines I still
thought there were some things a little bit different about his physique
you know I wore a 32 inch waist oh you know we did compare the shoulder in a
waistband that was that was very different
ah Dorian came in a little wider waist but what sort of went differently well
the following year he had gained probably I don't know or the 15 to 20 pounds more
which gave him a total different look a more massive grainy look not one that
the world of bodybuilding was used to seeing but it also said because of his win
that the judges were ready to see something new something different
was that good for the sport beauty is in the eye of the beholder
I'll let the organization make its own decision about that you know my era was
my era and everybody like to feel that their era was the best era I feel that
way about my era so does Arnold feel that way about
his and so forth so the physique started get bigger and bigger and I felt
they started to lose the symmetry and the balance and things that wasn't
allowed during my era became common place which means a heavier waist
structure you no longer saw the vacuum as a regular staple when it came to
physiques and so it was it was different it was different I like the fact that
bodybuilding now has room for everybody there is room for the massive physiques
there's room for the classic physique there's room for the physiques so
there's several different categories now and who's to say which is the most
lovely there's choices and I like that you know and the people like that so
there you go