Mehdi is author & founder of StrongLifts.com, a website with tens of thousands of daily visitors. His StrongLifts 5×5 routine has helped people from all over the world to build muscle & lose fat through strength training.
Mehdi got into strength training in 1997 doing Push-ups at home. He joined a gym in 1999 and started lifting weights doing bodybuilding routines. In 2004, he built a home gym and began training for strength solely.
Mehdi has read hundreds of books about strength training, weight lifting and nutrition and spent hours on forums learning from the best. People where he lives know he has been training for years. He gets questions about it all the time and has helped family & friends build muscle, lose fat and lift weights.
One day Mehdi realized he could change people’s life on a worldwide scale. May 1st 2007 StrongLifts.com goes online. Within a few months it establishes itself as the #1 strength training site in the world with readers from +180 countries.
Strength Stats.
- Deadlift: 170kg
- Box Squat: 142,5kg
- Box Front Squat: 130kg
- Bench Press: 100kg
- Overhead Press: 65kg
All done raw, without belt, at 73kg/160lbs body-weight. Strength stats are still increasing. Follow Mehdi’s training log in Stronglifts.com Forum. Body fat hovers around 10-12% year-round. Height: 1m73/5’8”.
Mehdi is 28 and lives near Brussels in Belgium. The name “Mehdi” is of arabic origin and pronounced “Médi”.
