Lee Priest (Lee Priest)

Lee priest ("Priest Lee") was born on 6 July 1972 in Newcastle, Australia. His full name is: Andrew Lee priest Makkatchen. Lee grew up in a middle class family. In school days in Platsburg fond of competitive sports, among them was American football. Also took classes in karate. A little later his grandfather, who was an army fighter, sent grandson to the gym, which was in the police station. Lee liked the initiative of a beloved grandpa, and he began to regularly visit the gym and work with weights. At that time he was only 13 years old.

Anthropometry Whether Wor

Height: 163 cm
Competition weight: 97 kg
Weight in the offseason: 118 kg
Circumference of biceps: 55 cm

Performance history

Lee priest was small in stature, but had great genetics that allowed him even at such an early age to gain muscle mass. Already at age 14 he appeared on the podium of competitions among juniors and won them, despite the fact that among the contestants were guys 3-4 years older than him.

Workout Lee Priest

Young Lee was reading sports books, especially the magazines Muscle & Fitness and Flex. He loved Arnold, he was like Tom Platz and Eddie Robinson. By itself, it always was an extraordinary personality, able to surprise his outrageous actions. The evidence of this is the fact that he dyed her hair white to be like Tom Platz. The athlete also loved Superman comics, which he imitated, even as adults.

His mother was engaged in bodybuilding, too, and when the boy was 15 years old, invited him to perform on stage together. They did and they were the first. In such a pair, they performed again and again.

The first major bodybuilding competition was the "Sydney Bodybuilding classic", which took place in 1986. In this tournament he won and received his professional card on the version of IFBB. The victory, which brought him popularity – it's "Mr. Australia" from 1989 to 1991 (3 years in a row).

On the professional stage with Lee priest had a lot of UPS and downs. He often speaks at the main tournament of the bodybuilding "Mr. Olympia", but above 6, the result does not rise. The athlete believes that the reason his short stature. Quite before you leave bodybuilding, not that disappointed in it, but simply due to the fact that he understands that it was not his way of life. In this time he has actively keen on motor sport and has set several speed records. Lee attracted it races. Lasttournament in his career was the performance at the competition "Grand Prix of Australia in 2006, where the champion took second place.

Some time If Pris was married to a professional female bodybuilder Kathy Lefrancois. It seemed they were made for each other. It was comfortable, and they trained together constantly. But for unknown reasons, the couple parted.

Was in the career of athlete scandals and quarrels with the Federation IFBB. He tried to speak in another Federation, but, nothing good is not led. Not long ago, the champion surprised everyone, making a huge tattoo on your whole body including the face. But we already talked about the eccentricity of the athlete. However, in real life he's a great softie, which is actively involved in charity and twice a year sends is not a small amount to distribute meals for homeless people.

Whatever the hell it was, Whether to be remembered forever in the history of bodybuilding. It is very colorful athlete body type which does not have any one athlete to this day. With the growth of 160 centimeters, he jammed the scales at around 130 kilos and was violently physically strong.

Training biceps and triceps from Lee wor

Lee stands out with its huge hands, it is called tritasavit monster. To understand how he achieved such results, view his training hands: