Ronnie Coleman Biography
Birth date: May 13, 1964
Birth place: Monroe, Louisiana
Married: Christine Achkar Coleman
Children: Jamilleah and Valencia Daniel
Height: 5'11"
Weight: (Contest) 305lbs, (Off season) 330 lbs
Ronnie Coleman is certainly a non-standard professional bodybuilder with not only an outstanding natural physique but also an incredible record of wins. His beginnings however are standard.
Ronnie Coleman was born “Ronald Dean Coleman” on May 13, 1964 in Bastrop Louisiana. Ronnie Coleman attended school in Louisiana, graduated with a degree in accounting (though a man who looks less like an accountant is hard to imagine). Ronnie Coleman played football for the college football team (the Grambling Tigers) and after graduation and started a career as a police officer.
Ronnie Coleman began to be interested in bodybuilding through his friendship with the owner of a gym where he worked out. Good physical condition is necessary for law enforcement personnel but Ronnie Coleman soon discovered he enjoyed competitive bodybuilding. Fortunately, for the sport of bodybuilding, Opportunity, hard work, talent along with great genes resulted in 8 times Mr. Olympia titleholder, Ronnie Coleman.
It was not as simple as that since there was a long stretch between graduation from college and his first competitive IFBB win was in 1990. There were plenty of workouts, training, and learning to fine-tune his diet and body between his first spark of interest and the real beginning of his competitive bodybuilding career.
Ronnie Coleman stands 5’11” tall and his competition weight is around 285 while his off-season weight varies to around 315. Even offseason a competitive bodybuilder cannot afford to become too out of shape or too heavy since it all has to be toned, trimmed and refined during training.
Ronnie Coleman’s history of wins is impressive from that first win in 1990 netted him the Mr. Texas title, and first in heavyweight as well as overall. Another competition in 1990 at the NPC Nationals brought only a 3rd in Heavyweight ranking. Afterwards Ronnie Coleman began to refine his workout and presentation taking a brief hiatus from competition in 1992 and working his way up until his first of eight consecutive Mr. Olympia title wins in 1998. There was a tremendous improvement since Ronnie Coleman placed 9th in the Mr. Olympia competition the year before.
Ronnie Coleman holds the record of 26 lifetimes IFBB wins and shares the distinction of eight Mr. Olympia wins with only one other athlete.
Ronnie Coleman steroids? Nope, Ronnie Coleman has not failed a single drug test in bodybuilding. It's something he has to deal with, every day, as a part of the bodybuilding community.
Ronnie Coleman’s approach to both his diet for training and his workout routine is ordered and logical based upon first “what he has been taught” then modified to work for “what really works”. Good muscle genetics alone cannot account for an athlete like Ronnie Coleman’s successes. His routines are adjusted to keep him in shape, increase his density and definition and that iron will keeps it all on track. This is truly the biography of a winner.