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Ronnie Coleman Interviews with Apex Contest Prep
Q) What got you started in bodybuilding?
I got started in bodybuilding when the owner of Metroflex gym Brian Dobson offered me a free membership to the gym if I competed. I already had a background in powerlifting and football before I was offered this free membership so I had a pretty decent physique. It took about 4 attempts from Brian to get me to compete because the previous 3 times I had gone to the gym he kept telling me I needed to compete but I told him no because I had just hired on the Police Dept. and didn’t want to take any steroids and I didn’t want to diet. I was about 25 years old at the time and knew nothing about bodybuilding and had no interest in it until Brian offered me the free membership.
Q) I watched a video recently with Brian Dobson and he’s claiming when he first met you that you were eating biscuits & gravy with bacon for breakfast, a cheeseburger & fry’s for lunch, & a whole pizza for dinner. Is this true?
This is what I told Brian I ate when we first met because this is the type of food I ate while working for Domino’s Pizza, this is all I could afford at the time, I got the cheeseburgers from Wendy’s because we traded them Pizza. This is also the reason I told him I didn’t wanna bodybuild because I loved this kind of food.
Q) Where do you get your motivation from?
My motivation comes from weightlifting being a hobby of mine since I was about 13 years old, this is the first time I started working out. I started working out because as a kid people always asked me if I worked out. I was asked this on a daily basis. Every time someone asked me I always said no. And one day it hit me, I was tired of saying no and wondered what I would really look like if I actually trained. I finally decided to start working out so I could say yes I do and I wanted to see how muscular I could actually get.
Q) I’ve seen some photos of you during your early High School years and you could tell even back then you had great genetics, do you remember any of your best lifts from High School?
Yes of course I had great genetics in high school, in my junior year I can remember benching about 270, squatting about 450, and deadlifting about 460. I didn’t have the best form in the world and these lifts were done in powerlifting meets and I remember getting my ass kicked because I was in the 198 weight class and the guys were way stronger than me.
Q) If you had to pick just 3 exercises to do for the rest of your life, what would they be?
I get asked this question all the time and my answer is always, Squat, Deadlift and Bench press. These are the first 3 exercises I did when I joined the power lifting team at the age of 14 and I immediately fell in love with them. I mastered these 3 exercises and became very good at them as you can see in my videos today. I’ve done reps with 800lbs on deadlift, 800lbs on the squat, and 500lbs on the bench press.
Q) What is your diet like during the off season?
My diet during the off season is pretty much the same as precontest, the only difference is I eat bread and french fries on some days during the offseason, I also eat only 5 meals during the offseason whereas precontest I eat 6 meals a day. I also do hardly any cardio in the offseason, precontest I do cardio 6 days a week, twice a day for an hour each session.
Q) What is your supplementation like?
I take tons of supplements all year, I take Multi-vitamins, CQ-10, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Prostate Care, Coral Calcium, ZMA, Multi-minerals and Joint tablets(Glucosamine)
Q) Do you ever plan out or track your macros/calories during your contest prep, or would you say at this point you go purely off feel when dieting and measuring servings out?
I weighed measured and tracked everything that went in my mouth, I can tell you the exact protein and carb count of everything I ate, that’s all I kept up with but never counted calories.
Q) Favorite Bodybuilders?
Lee Haney and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Q) Favorite Quote?
If you always do what you always done, you will always get what you always got. Favorite Quote.
Q) Other than bodybuilding, what are your favorite hobbies?
My favorite hobbies besides bodybuilding is billiards.
Q) What changes would you like to see in the sport of Professional Bodybuilding if any?
I love bodybuilding basically the way that it is going today, more contests and more money, now we’re being recognized all over the world. Every country I go there are tons of people who know and love me. Bodybuilding the sport itself is on the rise and becoming a bigger more recognizable sport every day.
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PEPE ENRIQUEZ
January 28, 2012
QUIERO DARIA 10 ,,,,,,OMAS POR CONOCERTE…..