As Ronnie Coleman comes to his senses after his monstrous operation, the best jock of the zeroes
He was called the "bodybuilding king", but today he's in a wheelchair. Ronnie Coleman, an eight-time Mr. Olympia, has undergone another back surgery, but has already taken up dumbbells in a hospital bed. How a person whose posters were hung in all fitness clubs in Russia fights against injuries - says "Soviet Sport".
Bolt
"Six days after the general back surgery, I'm going back to the gym," wrote Ronnie Coleman in his installation in February 2018. The bodybuilder also posted a photo there. He is lying on a hospital bed in his pajamas and, having clenched his teeth, tries to squeeze two tiny dumbbells of 5 kilograms each.
8 times Mr. Olympia, Coleman went to the operating table in February. This was the next and most important of the almost 10 surgeries Coleman had undergone in the last ten years. He had to remove the metal pins that supported his spine from his lower spine.
Two of them were installed in 2015. However, it soon became clear that the two bolts were not enough: the athlete's spine was completely worn out and could not withstand the stress. Then, in 2016, the "design" was reinforced with four additional pins. The implantation operation lasted more than 11 hours. Coleman later wrote that he had never experienced such pain: "I wanted to climb the wall, shoot myself, stab morphine - anything to let it go.
Career
Ronnie Coleman ended his professional career in 2007. He achieved the impossible in bodybuilding: Coleman became Mr. Olympia 8 times. Along with the result of Lee Heini, a bodybuilder from the eighties, it was an unbeatable record. No one but these two had been able to hold on to the first place for so many years. And even Schwarzenegger received an "Olympic" statuette "only" seven times
In 2007, Coleman had already passed. That year he was only the fourth at Olympia. There were rumors of his health problems, and soon the bodybuilder confirmed them. Due to intensive training, he had problems with his spine and hip joints. It was hard for the athlete to walk, bend over, and he was in pain. Coleman spent his entire life practicing uncompromisingly. He'd sit down and do the bench pulls with weights of 400 kg and above at the level of elite powerlifters. The biggest mistake he made in his life was his weakness, when one day he sat down with 370 kg on his shoulders only twice at a training session, although he thought he could sit down all four of them: "It's haunting me. I close my eyes, and here I am again in that room. And I'm trying to get my time back, saying to myself, "Stop! Don't put the barbell on the stands - two more times. Two repetitions!
At Coleman's suggestion, we left the world of strength training with a lightweight lightweight lightweight. That's what Ronnie himself said about his monstrous barbell in video clips when he was starting or finishing his approach: "It's light weight, baby. Coleman didn't doubt that he wasn't feeling well because of the hard workout. But the doctors had a different opinion. Diseases of his bone system are hereditary in nature, the training only made them worse. That was the diagnosis.
Titan
Coleman underwent two severe hip replacement surgeries at the end of zero. The affected bone joints were replaced with artificial ones. The world was swept around by the 8-fold "Mr. Olympia", who moves in a wheelchair and then again with the help of doctors and hand supports learns to walk.
Surprisingly, even during this period, Ronnie did not stop training in the gym. He was brought there in a wheelchair, doing biceps, shoulders, back and chest exercises - sitting or lying down. He had to exclude foot exercises from his program, but as soon as the artificial joints began to take root, he returned them to the program again. Coleman began to sit down in Smith's simulator and make leg presses.
In between surgeries, he reported on his condition via the Internet: "The biceps were "rolled back", yes. But give me time, I will raise them again", "Time to add some legs, don't you think? - and so on in the same spirit.
The operation Coleman underwent in February 2018 - the most difficult and painful - may be his last. At least, that's how the athlete thinks. A few days after the photo with two small dumbbells, he posted a video in the installation. In it, the 8-fold "Mr. Olympia" moves around with the help of special gurneys used by the elderly. He walks with great difficulty, but looks directly and decisively into the camera. "One day, guys, remember this! - I'm going to go back to what I used to be, hard work and hard work.
Coleman is tense with his biceps - which today is not much different from a normal person's biceps. "It's still light weight, baby!