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Darius Tehrani. Back & Biceps Day...
The Building Of A Rising Star
By Stan Gilmour
Photos by Alex McKenna
Definitively, building a great physique isn’t easy, or quick. Even those blessed with the best genetics have to work hard for many years before being able to accumulate a good quantity of muscle. Ask any of the top muscle stars and most will tell you they have 20 years training under their belt. Darius Tehrani knows this well, so and keeps silently working away and step-by-step improving his already nicely built physique. You can certainly expect a new, bigger and rock hard Darius in the near future on the competition scene.
In the meantime Darius keeps training with what he calls a logical and basic training routine, and you can bet that the man is improving at a fast rate. There’s no doubt his strategy has being paying good results for him.
The man was born in Brighton, on November 12th, 1981, so he’s still only 26 years old. That is quite young for this sport if you take into consideration that most of today’s champions are in their late thirties. Darius is still single and he has plenty of time to become one of the greatest.
Darius measures 5’5” (165cm) in height and weighs 15st 4lb (97kg) off-season, while at contest time he comes in at 12st 2lb (77kg). And while he doesn’t check his measurements very often, but rather prefers to see what the mirror has to show him back, the last time he took them they were quite impressive: arms – 19” (48cm); chest – 48” (122cm); waist – 31” (79cm); legs – 23” (58cm); calves – 17” (43cm); and neck – 18” (46cm).
Considering that the young man had only competed once when these were measured, and that’s when he won the UKBFF First Timers at Portsmouth in 2006, that’s not bad at all.
Getting Into Bodybuilding
Darius explains that he has always enjoyed weight training, however, he never envisaged what his true potential as a bodybuilder could be. He liked lifting weights, but is wasn’t until he followed the advice of the some experienced competitors and staff at Cheetah’s gym, near Brighton, that he realized he could build a body good enough to get onto a competition stage.
Naturally he enjoyed bodybuilding, and the stars inspired him to train hard and improve, but at first it he just did it for himself, never aspiring to become a competitor. His bodybuilding role models include Jay Cutler, Dexter Jackson and, of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he was always a fanatic reader of muscle magazines, to the point that he admits that most of his knowledge, until now, has been acquired through reading bodybuilding magazines. In fact, we could say that most of the stars featured in them have influenced Darius in one way or another.
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