‘Kids taking it and committing suicide’: Ronnie Coleman reveals why DEA was against steroid use in bodybuilding

Bodybuilding legend and eight-time Mr. Olympia winner Ronnie Coleman was a visitor on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and mentioned a variety of matters associated to the world {of professional} bodybuilding. Coleman narrated why he joined bodybuilding, his food plan, and peak health whereas additionally revealing information about steroid use within the early a part of his storied profession.

56-year-old Coleman revealed that he started using steroids on the age of 30 as he was “tired of getting his a*s kicked [at competition].” He stated that all the things was authorized in these occasions and using steroids noticed Coleman improve his rating after which successful the precise competitions. He stated that steroids helped him stage the enjoying discipline.

Coleman stated that he would get prescriptions from medical doctors on using steroids and drug enforcement officers have been proven the prescriptions once they approached the athletes.

“I wasn’t taking tons of stuff. I probably wasn’t taking any more than what those baseball players were taking.”

 

Studies have proven that using steroids results in greater possibilities of untimely dying in males and even suggesting that individuals utilizing anabolic steroids have a larger threat of committing suicide. Coleman defined that each time when a few of the children went off steroids, they might get depressed.

“They had kids out there taking it and committing suicide,” Coleman stated when requested why DEA have been going after physique builders.

Coleman additionally revealed his food plan and physique fats ratio on the podcast, which was one thing that shocked Rogan and a lot of the viewers.

“What a lot of people don’t understand is you see me big up there, but it took a long time for me to get there I didn’t get there overnight. I put on … between five and 10 pounds (2-4.5kg) of muscle a year, and that came from all that heavy lifting (and) a lot of eating, a lot of eating.”

“It wasn’t a lot to me but if someone normal tried to eat it, it would probably be a lot. So I’d eat a pound (450g) of chicken, grilled breast with half a cup of rice.”

“I had about six meals a day.”

“It’s kind of hard to eat like that so I would have to wake up in the middle of the night to eat and go back to sleep. You kind of get used to it. When you eat like that, you get hungry every three hours. Every two or three hours you’re hungry because I’m not eating a lot of fat. It’s lean, I’m not eating a lot of carbs so it’s a little bit of food at a time.”