Lee Haney: "America Now Has A Sick Society Of Young People" | The Mike O'Hearn Show

america now have a sick society of young people because we're not taking care of teaching them the basic fundamentals of good nutrition and exercise my team's saying am i going to bring the action i'm going to bring everything i have to this because you don't even understand four decades ago 40 years ago i met this man and he influenced me so much by what he was doing and to me he's the greatest bodybuilder ever to walk on stage lee haney the mr olympia he's not even just the best bodybuilder he's a mr olympia to me he's the best role model to me he is tremendous what's cool is i met him 40 years ago when i first started competing and then i get to interview him now and to me it's pretty darn cool it's pretty darn cool sorry i'm nervous man this guy he means so much to me because i set my life up at that stage 40 years ago i'm mimicking a lot of the stuff he was doing so this is a huge opportunity for me and an honor and to know that he knows me and respects my career at this stage is tremendous so i am so proud to be able to do this and bring you guys the legend my hero lee haney can i say you're looking sharp and i mean i'm driving mike you know we got to stay on top of this as we start to mature years you know what i'm saying i i got a term i'm wondering if you agree with this minimize the decline i like that that falls right in line with one of my terms like you call age management yeah i love that because and that's what i wanted i'm sitting there going i'm one of these guys that's uh lee haney barry demay you know rich gaspari um and i don't know if we'll go into when rich was living with you he told me some great stories he's telling me some great stories um and he told me one story and and i'm just kind of give you that a little hint to this if i if we go into this later but he he gave me a story about you demanded the respect and and you did it in a very nice way but you go uh-uh it's a respect this location this this this place here and uh we may go into that later because i just like the old school respect i grew up in a martial arts kind of family and so i learned early to walk behind the individual i learned to uh respect and look the person in the eyes when you shake their hand um not this kind of handshake like hey how you doing it just it's those little details that i learned and i and i picked that up from you on how you you know how you carry yourself at appearances discussions casual conversations that you're raised right i guess you would say um or at least my take you were raised right and good parents and and good family yeah that makes a huge difference mike and what you were saying you know in your background coming from martial loss you know that's a huge demand there with the sensei you got to respect and walk it on an integrity but as you were saying that's something that i sort of size a guy up uh when you know talking to him if he's either wondering or he's looking off another direction that's like a level of disrespect or sometimes it's a level of just not being focused and uh that's something that we see a quite a bit of i recently was at um mad house gym you're familiar with mad house here in mapleton georgia yeah i mean it's mad too i made equipment everywhere but anyway i was doing an interview with a young man he was 18 he's uh he's going to be entering the league games the 2022 leaning game coming up november 12th and so i'm talking to him which i will be at oh oh yeah so you come in my great i'm there great me the whole time thank you thank you so anyway i'm talking to this young man and as i'm talking to him all of a sudden his eyes start to wander around in the room and say hey i said look here at me don't look around the room i'm talking to you that's a level of respect i mean if i'm here giving you my time and information as an eight-time mr olympia you better pay attention anyway i jacked him up as he was saying that with his uncle long to say tellingly of course his uncle was around my age so you know you have to sort of you know in a nice positive way sort of bringing up the people's attention you know when i'm meeting even young boys because i got a mentoring program i make sure that they look the person straightening that you know and that's that's a big thing with me i you said something during that stage because you because you are the eighth time greatest and you said hey if i'm gonna give my time to you you should do that i wish i wish we didn't even have to say i'm the eight time greatest i wish it would just be like i'm an individual across from you talking to you give me some respect and listen to me or or say you don't want it but i wish it was just a more common thing that just that respect of yeah yeah i'm around so many of the uh the 70s and 80s guys at goals and you know these guys are older obviously and i get a kick out of talking to him because i'm a 14 year old boy again it's instant and i'm like oh so tell me about this tell me about that and i'm just so focused on it and like the kids i'm training with are like yeah but that's the guy over there's a ifbb pro right now and stuff and i'm like i don't care there's so much knowledge in this individual that was here in the 70s and 80s 90s 2000s it's like i want to learn from that right and that was that was powerful for me coming up you know i never will forget walking to uh world's gym goes in my first trip to california and i'm seeing people like albert beckles and uh robbie and arnold and frank zane i mean the guys that i grew up watching in the magazines and there i was a youngster uh within their presence and and man it was like i knew them before i actually met them because i had read everything i could get my hands on concerning each of these iconic legends and they meant so much to me i looked at their their workout plans their eating regiments and the care of developing a finnish and politics polish physique so it was a tool of of inspiration and a sort of a how-to for me to arrive to where i did as a time mr olympia i love that you say that because it it's so similar to me and i don't know if it's because of our times and that we've lived in this but like my training partner is robbie robinson you know yeah first train when i got to california at 1920 was tom plaz and so when i got there i'm like these are the guys that i grew up with and now i'm training with him and i'm still training with robbie now and i'm saying it's such like you said it's we knew them before we met them yeah and they didn't let us down albert beckel come on yeah come on you know i y'all when i lived there in california i lived in the san fernando valley you know me and my wife shirley and there was a ghost gym in the uh receding office receded boulevard and the valley naval were trained there and uh we would see a lot of different guys there but particularly albert i had the honor of befriending him and man we went when we went out to dinner almost every week if not every other week and just watching our habits watching them eat you know and his friendship it just did so much for me as a younger bodybuilder i i love albert becker's dearly and the one thing that admires so much about albert in which i tried to powder myself after i never saw albert out of shape he was always eating i saw him do fish and rice and vegetables i never spoke so i would do anything other than those things which is going to keep him you know within striking distance of being contest ready he was he was a lord of discipline i i i 100 agree with you on that aspect but i went somewhere while you were saying that because i could see the i could see you picturing him at dinner as you're telling me this story and and the the friendship and even though i i mean i i saw pumping iron 2 you know um and mike christian and everything for me when i always talk about the 80s and 90s i always talk about that we would talk smack but it's to get them the other because we wanted the best out of the other guy that we're competing against we weren't talking smack to bring him down we want your very best show me your best because if i'm going to win i want to be the very i want to beat the best you and it brought a friendship and and everything and it take it took everybody's level of lifting up a notch yeah it did it happened in that way and uh you know it's amazing like me and my christian we were fighting out in the gym all the time i mean you see something recorded like oh i'm coming for you i'm coming i said mike you don't want none of this you just think you want somebody else and man but you know mike was my babysitter when i first moved to california i didn't know how to ride the bus i didn't know where where to go grocery shopping i knew nothing and matter of fact i stayed at the hotel that mike was sort of the security head of when i first got there and man he took real good care of me me and my wife and there we are in the gym you know messing with each other but at the same time loving each other yeah you know that camaraderie was just so special and it's still and it still lasts until today i still love mike we still still in touch with each other rich just a whole team of guys i mean leela brother i love these guys although i i pick one on the street so my question is you and i started very young uh 9 10 years old and it seemed to help me in a lifetime what did it do for you uh besides winning the miss teenage america and competing against men as still a teenager and doing these things did it set you up for life to win and can you give me some insight on what parents should do with their kids in training okay well you know what my it's very important and always when i'm speaking i do a lot of public speaking particularly in me and share group i just did one of those last saturday and i let them know of the importance of listening and watching your kids you know they they can tell you what they want to be or what they want to do if you just follow them and watch you know watch what they're doing i mean i have a tendency when i was a youngster trying to pick up things tell you what i did at the age of six years old uh my brother and i were hanging out in the in the in the yard and uh i had this tendency of trying to pick up stuff so anyway he's three and a half years older than me big i mean i'm i'm 5 11. my brother's six foot four so he's always been bigger than me so anyway dad have the baby blue fairlane ford i'm six years old i'm thinking i'm hercules today i pick up a boulder and thinking i could throw it over the car i thought i was strong enough as hercules and samson to toss that boulder over the car my brother looked at me and said you better not do it and then of course i didn't listen to him man i took three steps forward four step uh three step backwards three step forward and launch it through the air and boom it landed in the background my dad is fairly forward oh man he came out of the house and said who did it hey man look i had to compete i lied he looked like me if my brother looked like he was struggling to lift up that bowler but i did i was a little bitty guy with a little skinny arms and my dad looked at me and looked at my brother and all of a sudden him of our brother took off running down the wall but you know getting back to that my dad later figured out when he started taking me the bodybuilding competition and got bigger and muscles and everything started going he knew it had to be me at that point because you know it was in me even as a youngster is trying to throw this bowl over the car so if parents watch their kids just look at their mannerism what they love to do if they pitiful a lot you know uh being a little girl or a little boy it's in them so one of the mistakes that parents make is trying to mold them in the way that we think they should go no you're going to be a doctor you're going to be a lawyer you're going to be objective wait a minute this little guy every time you turn around he's putting stuff together he's either building legos guess what the engineer or architect or he's drawing something so why are you trying to make him become a doctor that's not who he is so and a lot of times otherwise people grow up and be miserable and professionals that their parents push them into so you have to watch listen and pray and relate to your kids and bringing them up in the way that they should go my parents listen to me actually said awaits for christmas when i was 10 years old and they listened they got me a set of weights and guess what i helped my dad get his first tractor trailer truck my mom now she's a widow her mom is surely one that got them in a beautiful duplex all they do is plant flowers they listen to me as a young boy so that young boy was able to provide health and wellness to them as they grow and beyond just me taking care of my own family but that's just listening to your kids it'll be amazed as to how they'll turn out and they'll be happy people because money is not everything most people look at money well they'll make 400 million dollars doing that or whatever if you made 50 000 and you're happy then you're gonna have a longer healthier life if you make a hundred thousand you're miserable then you won't live long i got i got one last question and i i gotta get you back on the show because i have so much to ask i mean there's i mean i could i could do every week with you technically but i do have one more question for today and that is did health and fitness and understanding or not just being taught about nutrition but discovering nutrition best for you has that helped you live a long uh not just a long life because i i i don't look at you as one of these guys going i i have longevity and longevity is that time it's the quality of life that you have that's impressive and i wish more people would say yeah i want to live until 100. okay but if you're in a wheelchair and on a couch fat overweight at 25 you know that's not really living life so did weight lifting and eating right help you to be productive and live a longer healthier life than the guys that are competing we're losing these guys so much younger and younger now um but just to you your fact about your life yeah you know mike that's that's very important that you ask that because i've always said as i'm speaking to people in conferences i do a lot of age management seminars uh one of my books is called fit at any age 15 aids i talk about functional nutrition functional training they help manage age and age management it it should start from day one from children all the way through adulthood to senior hood you know so why day one why can't you start it at 60 exactly you know age management it can start at 60. 64. but the fact of the matter is if you tore yourself up for the first 40 50 years your body didn't forget it if time is unforgiving you can do your best going forward that's why we have to emphasize health fitness at an early age with our kids with our youth and so forth because america now have a sick society of young people because we're not taking care of teaching them the basic fundamentals of good nutrition and exercise it was past chairman to the president's council man we looked at statistics showing that you know this new generation and i'm saying that now they're not living past 50 years old because of fast foods because of not taking ownership of their health they're dying prematurely so yeah one of the things i always emphasize to people is that your health is your wealth you know one of the things that the dalai lama said and i just hopefully is a true statement from him it's true whether he said it or not that man one of the things he said that surprises him most about man is that he spent his entire life trying to attain wealth only to lose his wealth trying to get his health back i said that this morning i cannot believe you said the same thing i said to mona this morning that's crazy pretty much as i said to say as like they they work so hard to make the money and then they get to my age or your age or just around this time and they go i'm going to spend all that money trying to get time and health and it's like start young it's pretty simple you know i had a gentleman ask me because i i trained athletes i'd still train some athletes but mostly i work with a lot of ceos but this young man said to me uh um it was something that relates to okay how did i structure the nutritional percentages you know ten percent fat thirty percent protein six percent carbohydrate and of course those can fluctuate depending upon the body type of the person and where they personally presently are you know most mesomorphic which you're mesomorphic i'm mesomorphic we have a natural fast metabolism and we're we become leaner at a shorter period of time matter of fact a lot of time we have to eat up for a competition instead of eating diet which is a blessing we don't have to live off of green beans and tuna fish he said green beach that's old school i love it yeah man so the whole deal if you don't flex if you can't flex it don't carry it you know so i was trying to get him to understand the importance of understanding nutrition and clean eating and clean clean eating doesn't mean you don't have to eat you just have to be have enough knowledge to what's clean and what's dirty listen sweet potatoes are always going to be cleaner than french fries you know baked chicken is always going to be cleaning the fried chicken you know and so is the fried chicken tastes good most of you get in the south you know this is about a learning how to eat you know because as i trained for the muscle olympia i was never on a miserable diet i had to train up which was great listen i love sweet potato high beta carotene high in fiber you know so it's a there's an antibiotic type of uh i know you know and um you know it's one of these type of vegetables that help promote growth throughout the entire body you know so it's great for those things you know chicken particularly fish it digests easy i was never a beef person it takes steak over 48 hours to digest and there's a lot of guys are finding out and you witnesses to mike is that a lot of us are sick from heart disease well my ticker is perfect my my orders is nice and clean by where my blood work because i've never used that steak in my in my preparation off-season our own i've stayed with chicken fish eggs and i've used spinach i've used pineapple i've used sweet potatoes to keep my arteries nice and healthy so bringing kids up in the way that they should go and managing age should begin with good nutrition and managing age doesn't mean just as uh as you grow older it means even when you're in a bar in the bodybuilding level of just getting started to intermediate to advanced bodybuilding you know one of my faith has always been trained to stimulate not announce weight you know i've been i use your quarter life yeah i've been expressed 500 pounds one time like just messing around just want to see if i can do it and i did it pretty easy but also dude if i rip my pec that would have been the end of it yeah it didn't take a 500 pound bench to develop my chest because i understand there's some yesterday doing ballistic training let's say let's say on the bench press you come down you almost like a plyo type of movement you stimulate fast twit fiber just by way of the movement you come down control and you back up does it take a million pounds i put i brought evanna for 192 pounds up to 214 pounds in six weeks by using that type of training and he never went past 180 pounds on the bench press but hills was just in late fast with fiber he became explosive he put on muscle size and he knocked buster douglas out then we beat riddick both i mean i have this huge 15 diamond ring to prove that as one of those team members but and you made him look like a freaking bodybuilder in the ring he's those shoulders and traps on holly oh beautiful he walks out and you're just like wow okay um i i wanted science of training you can take the body where you want it that's why the other viewers international associates of fitness science i pride myself on that because i know how to get the best out of the body how to feed the body and how to do correct training without tearing the body up which is the reason why here i am at 1862 i have no knee problems no hip problems no back problems no shoulder problems i don't have any of that because of being smart about training stimulate not so i know the fans are watching they're like i want to learn about nutrition i want to learn about training philosophies i want to rest recover what are the best foods and we will get that i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna bug you to get you on down the road when you have a time to talk about the fundamentals of training but i hope that people watching this today understand you're talking and you're looking at one of the greatest that's ever stepped on stage um who who by living his dream motivated me to do it and i think that the little key things that we talked about today the mindset how to interact i think those are so much bigger than the nutrition and training to me because we're talking about life and the competitions are just for a short period of time but we're talking life and loving life and and and trying to be a good person and trying to do your dream and raise a family and be the best human you can i think today's talk even if it didn't satisfy the fitness buffs i hope they understand what we're talking about is the real stuff the real grit behind why you are who you are and you know a lot of guys dieted a lot of guys trained but there's only one lee haney there's just and it's an amazing thing to see and and props to you because i was uh i was with arnold and he was talking about you and uh i told him that i'm gonna sit down with you and he says one of the best humans he's ever met so yeah i just well i hope the fans today enjoyed this time i will get you back on to talk about the fundamentals of nutrition training your best foods and what you saw other people doing um and we'll talk about rich kaspari staying with you um where you're both dieting um so we got to go into all that in another time and i will definitely see you at your games and we'll put all the links down so you guys can get his book um follow him on instagram all social media and about his projects he's working on helping communities and kids and humans i think really appreciate it all that you do for the entire world of bodybuilding man i was telling my wife hey i'm going to be on with tonight today i said he's that pretty guy you know he said oh yes i know him you know for sure there's a big michael heard or heard saying and uh i appreciate everything that you do for the entire bodybuilding world it's a real honor to have been on with you man god bless you your beautiful family and uh that beautiful little man did you bring it up he's going to be a world changer just like his name you know yeah i i one real quick thing and we want to go on this next time but i'm going to take you back to the childhood of how you grew up with the outhouse and all this stuff because my baby mama grew up in romania during the communist party and the uh the civil war and the way she grew up was very hard and it made such a strong individual coming to america at such a young age and living in new york not speaking the language but i want to talk about that because i think that's something i've seen with a lot of people that grew up very humble beginnings beyond humble beginnings and became such powerful strong individuals that helped the world so that's next time though i don't want to hold you up anymore love you brother god bless you mike [Music] what do i say uh i don't think i need to say much he said it all um he's lived a lifetime of health and fitness and that was just like the root of it you know what i mean the foundation of it it is the lifting and i wish you guys would understand this and a lot of us that have done this journey keep trying to tell you it's that's foundation work the trainings foundation the nutritionist foundation but what it does is so much more than create a body so much more it's again like mona always says like lee haney all these guys that i interview that are at that elite level all come back to the same thing it's the mindset it's just it comes down to not how strong your body is how strong is the will your mindset that's it you guys you picked it up right there he crushes it like always and that's why he's to me again even more so now the goat to me because i have so much respect of how he's lived his life in outside of the gym community helping people i go on forever you just watched my i got tingles knowing that i got to do this today that's it have a great day generation iron thank you so much subscribe to this and i'll see you guys next week you

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Published: Fri Aug 26 2022