Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1489 - Ronnie Coleman
Uploaded: 2020-06-10T19:00:12.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1489 - Ronnie Coleman' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-06-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1489 - Ronnie Coleman' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-06-10. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1489 - Ronnie Coleman

one mr coleman what's going on great to meet you brother it's a real honor i
mean you are uh when
i was like really into bodybuilding and reading the magazines and i always said
that you looked
like a dude who they invented in a marvel comic book to kill the hulk like that's
what you looked
like when you were in your prime man i mean yeah i felt like i probably could
too back in those days
i mean god damn you were freakishly huge it was crazy to see it was like you
know i remember
paying attention to bodybuilding from the beginning like the franco colombo and
schwarzenegger days
to what you guys had become you know when you were in your probably just redefined
everything everything
was just so extreme yeah i was we're pretty pretty uh tough back in those days
everything was hard you
know the guys i was competing against were real good and you know i just came
out of nowhere you know
because i i got in bodybuilding real late you know where i'm from we didn't
have it and i didn't find out
about it until i graduated college went out to uh texas and started working for
the police department
how old were you at the time i was about 24. so that's when you started bodybuilding
that's when
i started but i've been working out you know since i was 12 13. for sports yeah
we know i had i was
on the powerlifting team oh okay i did power lifting uh in high school so i was
on the powerlifting team
and you know i got one from louisiana real small town most of the a lot of the
guys are kind of big
like me kind of strong like me you know a lot of people don't understand but
strength is something
like a natural net a natural gift you know you can work on it and get better at
it but you also have
to be gifted a little bit have to have a nice base yeah you have to have a nice
base and you have to
have a little talent yeah you know like this guy uh i think i can't remember
his name but he deadlifted
eleven hundred pounds oh that uh the game of thrones guy yeah yeah the mountain
that's a gift you know
that's talent yeah yeah he's gifted everybody can't do that you know i i did
800 you know for a couple
reps but uh i don't think i can do 1100. that's a lot of weight that's a lot of
weight he's an enormous
human being though that guy yeah that's a viking right there you you get to
have you have to have a
lot of weight to be able to pull a lot of weight like that too yeah so you in
your career you were
known for lifting large amounts of weight too yeah yeah yeah like i was saying
you know i started power
lifting when i was in high school you know i had like that the gift of strength
you know i was pretty
strong in high school you know my all throughout my college days and uh you
know it was just something
that i i think i was kind of born with a little bit you know because uh you don't
just start lifting
heavy weights like that all of a sudden you know you have to have a like i said
you have to have some
kind of natural talent for it well there's some crazy photos of you during the
mr olympia days when
you were a police officer is that you look at that yeah that's that's me in the
ninth grade on the left
and that's me winning what happened to your arm on the left you got a cast on
yeah i broke somebody up
uh playing football and uh i think i fell on my wrist or something and and
cracked it or something
and that's me winning the uh mr universe turning pro in the middle and that's
me winning the 99 mr
olympia for right there wow damn you were big yeah i was kind of big a little
bit there a little bit
well you know i got a lot bigger than that that was my second olympia i only
weighed about 255 there
what's the biggest you ever got i was 295 my seventh one
so i put on a little bit more weight as i got on up there but is it one of
those things where you
just kind of have to keep up with everybody else and everybody just keeps
getting bigger and bigger
no it was that thing with me i was trying to distance myself from everybody
else so i kept
getting bigger and bigger so nobody would catch up with me and what a lot of
people don't understand
is you see me big up there like that but you know it took a long time for me to
get there you know that
didn't happen overnight i put on about five pounds of muscle between five and
ten pounds of muscle a year
and that came from all that you know that heavy lifting a lot of eating a lot
of eating what was
that what was a standard meal for you i mean it it wasn't a lot to me you know
but if if somebody
you know normally try to eat it would probably be a lot so i eat probably like
uh a pound of chicken
uh grilled breast you know with uh half a cup of rice that was a normal meal
yeah that was normal and how
many of those would you have a day i had about six meals a day you know it's
kind of hard to eat
like that you know so i would have to wake up in the middle of the night to eat
and go back to sleep
really yeah was that annoying no no i would think that'd be annoying you're
tired and sleeping and
got to wake up to eat no you kind of get used to it when you eat like that you
you're hungry every
three hours oh really yeah every two or three hours you're hungry because i'm
not i'm not eating a lot of
fat you know right it's lean you know i'm not eating a lot of carbs so it's
just it's it's a little
a little bit of food at a time for me it was and you would get down to how much
what percent body fat
i was point three three point three three what does that mean is that less than
three percent that's
less than half a percent less oh point three three like what point three three
how does a human get
that low uh i i i gotta i gotta attribute it to my genetics but was it also
like a a trickle down
system like off season say if you like how many weeks would you it would it
take for you to get
ready for mr olympia 10 to 12 10 to 12. so at 12 weeks out how much body fat do
you think you were
carrying around then uh about three percent so three was a high that's the
highest yeah jesus
would you get tired i'm 300 i'm 330 pounds at that though oh my god would you
get tired all the time
with that no no no i'm uh i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm real good and fat wow that's
good and fat three
percent body fat is good and fat that's hilarious yeah jamie see if you can
pull up a picture of him
winning the seventh mr olympia title when he was at his heaviest i want to see
what that looks like
i was pretty big at that one yeah you were big man i remember looking at the
magazines and like shaking
my head today i would say oh that's photoshopped yeah they didn't have photoshop
back then no they didn't
have it back there but then you know i i was a little bit too big for that one
they had me to come
down a little bit for the next one oh really so i came down to like 275. so
when you said they
coaches your who some of the judges and the judges yeah the judges were telling
you you're too big
yeah that's when you know you up that's when you're getting crazy when the
judges at mr olympia
yeah are telling you a guy who's won it multiple years in a row seven years in
a row yeah they're
telling you you're getting too big yeah getting too big ronnie take it down a
notch yeah because
you know the guy next to me is only like 250 you know so but why were they
saying what you still
looked amazing like why were they saying you were too big uh because i was it
it really was too big
yeah for the standards back then you know you know how do they define that
though it's really just
taste right like it's they look at it and they decide subjective yeah in a way
it's kind of
subjective in a way is that uh what year was uh the seventh one i think it was
oh five was it oh five
ryan uh no that's the eighth one oh four number seven yeah there we go
yeah that's it right there wow yeah god you were huge
that does look like a guy who comes out of a lab to kill the hulk you know like
some evil genius like the
hulk is working for the avengers yeah yeah so they they how do they make that
conversation with you
when they say ronnie you're too big well just talking to my nutritionist you
know i have a nutritionist
did all my diets and all that kind of stuff for me so they probably just you
know told him real nicely
yeah bring it down a notch i remember there's a photo of you when you're still
on the police force
and you were also i don't know if you're mr olympian when you're on the police
force yeah three times yeah
and then you eventually left the force yeah you were so big you're sitting
there with the uniform on i'm
like there is no way that's a regular uniform no it's not no it's not a you did
you wear those shorts
that can't be real did you did you arrest people with those shorts on no i made
those shorts myself
but we did wear shorts though we did have shorts yeah please support i think
you see that picture
right there i got on shorts and in the briefing room but they're not showing my
legs right there
right there yeah right there yeah i have on shorts if you if that that's that
picture is actually
bigger than that but you just can't see did that inspire other guys you worked
with to start
lifting too yeah yeah pretty much yeah we had we had a gym at the station oh
really we had about four
or five stations every station has a gym we have a training center with a huge
gym really yeah i started
working out there when i first hired on i worked out me and the chief and some
other guys we all worked
out together there for a while and this is in the beginning before you were
gigantic yeah before i got
real real big you know you know i had to start small of course everybody's a
baby at one point yeah yeah
so i was about i was 215 when i first started now when you first started did
you have this idea
that one day that was this a dream no no no no i i did it because the guy gave
me a free membership to
the gym i i never had a dream i i just wanted a free membership because i was
poor back then and i
couldn't you know afford to pay for gym membership because i just hired on
there and coming from domino's
pizza where you know i had to eat pizza every day to survive survive because i
didn't make that much money
by the time i got a police department i was still struggling and uh trying to
get back on my feet
and i couldn't afford membership still you know and this is when you were 24
yeah i was 24.
so you were just a big guy yeah i was regular big i've been big and muscular my
whole entire life
but regular big not like mr olympia big well uh i would say put a picture up
there uh that i
somebody took not too long ago because when i when i first got into the sport
of bodybuilding
uh i was doing security at a mr olympia event and most of the people out in the
audience thought
that i should be on stage back then i didn't think so you know what they
thought that i had 22 23
inch arms back then i had that that was 22 22 20 21 22 inch arms in college how
big were they when
you were at your biggest 24 24 that's the biggest they got that's like a waist
yeah some girl yeah but like like a like a runner yeah like zach bitter i bet
zach better got a 24 inch
waist actually my waist was like 29 when i first started wow yeah i remember
holyfield when he was
the heavyweight champion of the world he had a 28 inch waist yeah yeah that's
crazy yeah that's a v right
there yeah exactly yeah crazy so you start so you do this security for the mr olympia
event
91 yeah did that get like the bug in your head did you start thinking no no no
no no i never started
thinking that what happened how did it happen i won the first one in uh 98. so
how do you enter it what
what makes you want to enter something like that well like i said that the guy
said if you compete
i give you a free membership to the gym okay so i was just competing for a free
membership to the gym
because i worked full-time police department i had that job had like a couple
of security jobs on the
side so i didn't really you know need money from body but i had you know
benefits and everything so yo