Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman on the Tonight Show - old

[Rudee]

Ok, this is old news, a couple days at least, but did anybody happen to catch 3 time Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman on the Tonight Show the other day. The guy is a friggen monster. Unbelievable development on the dude. *cough* Steroids *cough* (see pic)

Ronnie Coleman


Time to back to the gym

 

[Valhalla1]

*cough* visibly shrunken genitalia *cough*

 

[Valhalla1]

good lord, that dudes thighs are bigger around than my waist

 

[Rudee]

Well, when you're 260lbs of muscle with 30" thighs, it's inevitable that your genitalia is going to look small in proportion to your body. You'd need a set of cherries the size of tennis balls to look in proportion with the rest of your body at that size.

 

[chess9]

Rudee:

Actually, steroids do shrink the testicles.

But the guy is phenomenal. I saw him in Atlanta. A real Beast of Burden.

I'm not lifting heavy these days. Doin' the cardio thing, mostly running, but, hey, being beefy is fun. I've been up to about 230 lbs at 6'1", which would make me look like a pencil-knecked geek next to Ronnie, who is what, 5'10"?

 

[Zucchini]

Yea that guy was incredible, like from a comic book Too bad he couldn't speak clearly, ruins the action hero image quick.

 

[Stallion]

Paul Dillet is huge also as is Dorian Yates, but my Fav is still the Austrian Oak.

Ron Coleman is a cop somewhere in Texas (if I remember correctly) and that would be one dude who you wouldn't talk back to if he pulled you over.

 

[StageLeft]

Only thing worse than the anger of a texas cop is the anger of a texas cop on the juice! He is a big lad.

 

[AndrewR]

I really don't think those guys take steroids. There's too much testing in that competitive set for them to get away with it. When you start lifting, supplementing, and eating at 5am and don't finish until 8pm, you will end up like that if you have the right genes.

They had a story in Muscle & Fitness about a cop who was sitting in his car one night when a criminal came up to him and shot him in the shoulder. Since he was a bodybuilder, he had a significant amount of muscle which the doctor said prevented the bullet from reaching his heart. Had he not been so large, he would have been killed. How's that for motivation to work out?

There was another similar story about a guy who was creamed in a motorcycle accident -- same attribute saved his life. More to rip off on the pavement. :Q :disgust:

 

[StageLeft]

Flex wheeler got in a big accident and his muscle saved him.

andrewR

I disagree! You think arnold used to be big? Put him next to today's guys and he looked like a shrimp. He was what, like a pathetic 240 lbs and over 6 feet tall? Bah! Sure science and supplements are better today but many bodybuilders now admit to taking roids and chemicals. Many are doing it because they have to to remain competitive and many are getting seriously sick or dying.

THese things are not tested very thouroughly because honestly when we go to a Mr. Olympia we want to see big guys; we don't want to see disqualifications. I've just read far too many little stories by bodybuilders who have gone over the various drug regimens they were on. Its not surprising so many get sick.

Add to this the fact that half of them have gaps in their teeth (growth hormone) and other problems like ripped pecs (more suceptible when on certain drugs - not just because you are lifting more weight).

 

[Antisocial Virge]

really don't think those guys take steroids


HAHAHA Even Arnold took steroids. They ALL take steroids. Pick up a natural bodybuilding magazine sometime and see how big they are without steroids.

The thing I hate about the Olympia is its run by the Weiders...the person who wins is signed to a huge contract by the Weiders and they win for like 5 years in a row till they retire. The last time Dorion won he had torn triceps and looked bad. I think he could have walked on 40 pounds overweight and still won even though others looked much better.

Only thing they test really hard for now is Diuretics.

 

[billandopus]

C'mon ... they all do steroids plain and simple.

You cannot compare the IFBB with the Olympics or even the NFL and such.

Heck, the premise is more than laughable. What, when you go to a show and you see some 6 feet 290lb androgen freak you tap the guy next to you and say "That guy definitely ain't on 'roids!"

The bottom line is this:

The IFBB takes a hands off approach with drugs. A blind eye approach. The bodybuilders make the sport and the sport wouldn't be there without the public wanting to see freaky huge men shredded to within an inch of their lives. Wayne DeMilla - one of the head honchos of the IFBB - even admitted on camera about the tenous relationship between the sport of bodybuilding and drug use.

That's why you have three areas of fitness sports. Bodybuilding men and women. Natural bodybuilding men and women. Fitness competitions for women.

If you can show me a pro BB'er clean ... i'll show you my cdrw that burns an 80min cdr in less than 30secs.

 

[KidViciou$]

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my jaw DROPPED when i saw that pic. i dont knwo though, for some reason, i still think Nassir al Sonbate is one of the best

 

[billandopus]

BTW, anyone notice the gyno on Ronnie? You would think that with the endorsements that he gets not to mention the 100k first prize three years in a row at the Mr O he would do something about it. Like get surgery like everyone else.

For people not in the know:

gyno = gynocomastia aka "bitch tits"

 

[AndrewR]

Well, I stand corrected.

What's interesting is that if what you say is true, then the Olympic bodybuilding competition should be interesting since Weider played an extremely prominent role in procuring recognition by ICOG for bodybuilding. When you compare the gold medal bodybuilder with the top ranks of the pros, it should be fairly apparent where the drugs are.

Interesting.


<< Sure science and supplements are better today but many bodybuilders now admit to taking roids and chemicals. >>


Science and supplements are FAR better today than they were even 15 years ago. Think about the average gym 20 years ago and compare it to the very specialized equipment that exists in abundance today. When you also factor in the advances in nutrition science and sports medicine (for recovery from injuries and fatigue), there is considerable basis to assume that not all the gains since Arnold's peak are the cause of steroids.

You can also see differences in the people themselves. The records for all sorts of sporting events are being consistently broken, which is not attributable to drugs but to superior training methods, superior diet and supplementation, and superior genetics (ie., the people with the right genes are going into the right sports).

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Ronnie Coleman was a cop for the Arlington, Texas police department. Don't know if he still is or not but I sure as hell wouldn't f with this guy

And I don't see how you people immediately see a guy with huge muscles and say &quot;STEROIDS!&quot; Jealousy maybe? Not all big guys use steroids. I seriously doubt those of you who say that know the commitment it takes to become the athlete that those guys are. Like AndrewR said, there have been advances in science and drugs (legal) that allow the athletes to build muscle faster (creatine, andro) but you can't immediately say &quot;he's using steroids because his pinkie is bigger than my arm&quot;.

 

[KidViciou$]

raging is right, i dont know why at least ONE person says steroids when they see a big bodybuilder.

billnopus, whats wrong with his chest?

 

[ratkil]

You can get big without taking steriods, but you will not get as big as those guys are. Your body can only support so much muscle mass naturally, if you want to go beyond that, you have to use some sort of additive. That is what &quot;addicts&quot; them to the 'roids, they stop and the mass starts dropping off no matter how hard they work out, so they start them again and stay on them.

 

[ratkil]

Edit: felt so strongly I had to mention it twice......

 

[TuffGuy]

pretty much everybody juices in one form or another. regardless of how much you eat, you need to hormones to build muscle. and when you combine a proper diet with the right &quot;supplements&quot;, you blow up. expecially now, with androstendione paving the way for gray area supplements. and there's a lot of derivatives available. along with a lot of supplements to flush the drugs out of your system before testing.

 

[Mister T]

Alexander Karelin would eat Coleman for lunch

 

[Rudee]

Actually, the widespread use of Human Growth Hormone(HGH) among today's competitive bodybuilders is what is starting to turn me off of bodybuilding completely.

I can live with a bodybuilder abusing steroids, but when a bodybuilder also abuses HGH the results are downright ugly. The telltale sign of HGH abuse is the bloated belly that is becoming more common amongst todays competitive bodybuilders. They look more like a bunch of pregnant gorillas than bodybuilders.

In case you weren't aware, Human Growth Hormone (HGH) not only makes your muscles grow, but it makes your bones and organs grow as well. It's most famous for that bloated &quot;pregnant&quot; look.