What happened to Ronnie Coleman legs?

Ronnie Coleman is arguably the biggest and strongest bodybuilding athletes that history has ever witnessed. If not the best for a section of people, he is surely among the Top Three that have ever pursued bodybuilding.

One of the only two bodybuilders to have won the coveted Mr. Olympia title on as many as eight occasions, Coleman and his physique were unmatched between 1998-2005.

An accountant by qualification, Coleman never really converted his qualification into an occupation. On the contrary, Coleman ran after a couple of other professions before eventually making a historic career out of bodybuilding.

Although Coleman regrets not doing more to further strengthen his legacy, there is no hiding to the fact that the 58-year old has done and achieved enough for the world to remember him throughout the existence of mankind.

What happened to Ronnie Coleman legs?

Strength turning into weakness over the course of time is a general phenomenon across other non-related professions as well. However, in Coleman’s case, the same happened literally resulting in him walking with an assistance or even traveling on a wheelchair frequently of late.

It was as a serious consequence of super-intense workout sessions for years that Coleman suffered a herniated disc even before winning his first Mr. Olympia title. Needless to say, Coleman didn’t stop at that only to deteriorate his condition in spite of a risk of getting paralyzed due to the recurrence of such an injury – something which was likely to happen in his case.

“I just kept working out,” Coleman said on The Joe Rogan Experience once. “There was a loud crunching sound. I lost a little strength. I heard it, but the athlete in you is like, ‘Let’s go on.’”

It was in the same conversation that Coleman explained how herniated discs are bound to cause more damage with time. It is Coleman’s relentless pursuit and love for what he does which doesn’t allow him to stop training even with limited mobility and after over a dozen of threatening injuries and their ramifications.

“When you do something that you truly love and enjoy doing, that’s what you look forward to doing all the time regardless of how you feel,” Coleman added.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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