Champion Bodybuilder Ronnie Coleman Talks Steroid Use with Joe Rogan

the Joe Rogan experience what kind of steroids were dudes doing back then Oh I mean basic you know you got you know your tests your D ball your just basic stuff you know and back then you know because the DAA come in and and you know what was trying to find out what we're all doing they made us do it legally so you know you have to go to the doctor and get all these prescriptions and you would give prescriptions for steroids yeah what kind of steroids would they give you a prescription for like any kind of test you need it they would get growth hormone they give prescription code once the DEA came in they was like what are y'all doing what are y'all taking what do you think like the DEA shouldn't you be out there catching people selling meth yeah are you going after bodybuilders who are also cops that seems because they had kids out there without were taking it and committing suicide see I didn't know what that was when I was a kid they were committing suicide because they were getting depressed from the steriliser coming off of it yeah so they trying to figure out you know we we gotta get y'all off this stuff and so that's when you got a doctor that was willing to prescribe everything mm-hm so this was this while you were doing mr. Olympia yeah so all that stuff was aboveboard was all legal yeah yeah everything was legal by thing what is not the case now uh you know what that was just in the heat was on you know mm-hmm I don't know I don't think they got he don't know he don't sound like that now so the DEA would come to you and you just say hey here's my prescriptions yeah there we go all right yeah mm-hmm one time you didn't if you didn't have scripts and they took your stuff really yeah so they find whatever you had yeah take it from you yeah hmm yeah how do they know where it was you told him [Laughter] yeah yeah search your house and I'll get a search warrant but I got this I'd imagine you would have to take something to be as big as you were when you were right here oh yeah sure it's not really possible to be not without it no you can't get that be in nothing gotta have to it's genetics yes look at the baseball players that have taken stuff and look at us yeah you know they they can't get that big and they not gifted for well they didn't try either right they weren't trying to get that big they couldn't get that big as they wanted you really mmm so it's a small percentage of the population that would get that bit yeah exactly you know and probably like warm percent that could get as big as I got hmm and I was the only guy nobody duplicated that sense think and in you and be in that condition right and be healthy right I don't have any health problem beside the you know the back injuries the injuries yeah my might live in my kidneys and my heart that's all good did you while you were doing things did you get frequent blood tests and every every three to four months when the doctor would go over and make sure everything is fine things always everything's always good that seems to be the big misconception about steroids is that people think steroid people thank you taking like tons of stuff I wasn't taking tons of stuff I probably wasn't taking no more than what those baseball players were taking mm-hmm just working out more yes been working out and lifting more and gifted genetically for it Dorian Yates said basically the same thing yeah it wasn't it wasn't he was taking a lot people think I was taking massive amounts of stuff if I didn't taking massive amounts of stuff I wouldn't I don't think I still be here I don't think I'd be as healthy as I am now right you know besides my back surgeon neck surgeries I'm all good my living my kidneys and heart and everything still holding up real good now when you would get off for that three-month period would you cycle off of every down cold turkey cold turkey really cold turkey I didn't take anything on nothing and what did you feel like over those three normal really know it bothered me a bit so you just you got just great genetics man craziest ever yeah I mean obviously there's no way you could take oh you know cold turkey I stopped everything one day I'll be taking you know much stuff next day nothing and your body would just feel normal body felt normal didn't bother me a bit that's so crazy didn't get depressed or nothing you know yeah felt normal that's just you know yeah I still was strong Wow I can still you know it's quite you know I can squat you know seven eight hundred naturally Wow mm-hmm so you basically cap a lot of your games yep my mouse do 300 I'm still 300 pounds you know without taking the holy stuff and so then after three months and you would slowly ramp back up slowly ramp back up yeah and all this under doctor's supervision all this on the doctor supervision and all the while I'm getting my blood work done every three to four months so a lot of guys after they're done competing then they have to get on the testosterone replacement therapy because the endocrine systems kind of mess back did you have to do that as well yeah yeah yeah it seems like that's just a part of the sport yeah yeah yeah it's interesting though because like for the longest time these guys were doing these ads and magazines and they were attributing everything to some supplement that they were selling or some creatine or something it's not gonna get you 330 pounds with 3% body fat do that is that something that you were allowed to talk about why you were competing uh yeah I mean didn't come up yeah yeah yeah talk about it I didn't have no reason the hot air people seems like people when you got that big yes but it seemed like there was an era where bodybuilding kind of tried to pretend that they weren't taking them yeah yeah because you know people committing suicide and he is taking all this stuff and yeah and doing it the wrong way you know not having it prescribed and all this kind of stuff also the more is bad bad stuff right yeah but there were some guys that would just say well the way to win is to take away more than everybody else yeah I'm see what your body could tolerate yeah the more you take the better you gonna be I knew a guy like that yeah and you want a heart attack exact least call him garden hoses this is arms look like garden hoses for veins yeah these giant veins all over his arms Dean make sense but he was just on everything ya know that he didn't make it to 30 yeah he died before he was 30 some people yeah they do it the wrong way yeah I didn't start taking anything that was 30 well yeah remember I was I was uh drug-free for a long time and what did everything naturally for a long long time because I like saying gifted right yeah what inspired you what made you decide when you were 30 that you had to do something I got tired of getting my ass kicked in competitions yeah the whole place was like 30 or something you know hmm yeah after a while you know are you competitive you other guys got a competitive advantage on you mm-hmm so this makes the things equal does this somethin somebody suggest it to you yeah yeah so people in the gym like hey Ronnie know one of the competitors suggested that to me yeah by the name of flex wheeler okay best friend in the world that guy was [ __ ] huge huge you need taught me everything I know did he really yeah mm-hmm he also got me the best nutritionist ever that's how I won my first Olympia so is that how most guys find out about steroids from other guys who are competing if you were smart that's the way you would do somebody that's know yeah yeah what they're doing and somebody that successful at it not something dumb trainer right that think they know right you know you know flex it warned you know major contest and I was the real experience body girl at the time you know I'm new still new to the sport right I didn't get into it till I was about 24 you know yeah I think he started probably like 16 17 somewhere in there I never did that because we didn't have it well I was wrong how much of a night and day difference was it once you started taking stuff um as far as the condition 9 day 9 day and your ability to work to put in work no no okay wait engine of your body yeah only things and was conditioning what do you mean my strength didn't go up that much [Applause]

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Published: Wed Jun 10 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/JeepMunkee]

Thanks for sharing! I wish bodybuilders were much more honest on what gear they took. You can tell how uncomfortable Ronnie is talking about it.

[u/sodumb4real]

Def doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

[u/xXCsd113Xx]

You forgot to include in the title that he destroyed his natural endocrine system and required trt

[u/whiskydiq]

I've know a few national level (CAN) that can do this and not fall apart. Meanwhile the rest of us just fall apart....

[u/SonOfJoshua]

Read of many people on here who get off TRT after 2-3 years and feel totally fine without PCT. It isn't unheard of.

[u/BobTheSnailly]

In this same interview he also said that he was 0.33% (this isn't a typo) bodyfat at his peak and 3% off season.

Doctor Greg will surely love this.

[u/TheVillainF1]

May be the GOAT but he's also full of shit in these interviews.

[u/RivaledAnarchy]

Love Ronnie, but you have to question some of the things he says sometimes.

[u/zajak9]

My levels always bounce back without pct within a month its not unusual