Ronnie Coleman Quotes

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

I started messing around in my teen years but didn't really begin training properly until the age of 21. I did a lot of reading prior to that - Mike Mentzer, Arthur Jones and all other notable bodybuilding authors - and just came up with a routine that worked for me.

I tend to focus on core work most of all in the gym.

I never stopped training, I never stopped working out.

I am an athlete, and I focus more on the issues that concern me: training, perform, eat, sleep.

All the hard work starts in the gym.

I train every single day.

I work hard in training to be ready.

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o'clock, and I'll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I'll go train.

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.

I lift weights four times a week, usually run five days a week.

We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety.

I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.

My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.

I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.

I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world.

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

I appreciate my time in the gym.

I try to do something every day. I lift weights at least three to four days per week, and I'll intersperse that with cardio. For example, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I'll run and do heavy lifting, and on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I'll spend two hours lifting weights, as well as something like swimming.

Even when I was on vacation after the Olympia, I was looking for gym to train in. Not only was it 24 hours a day, it was 365 days a year. That may have been a little too extreme, but that is what got me there from that little backstreet gym in England to becoming Mr. Olympia.

I just come to training, work hard, go home, prepare for the game, then play.

I sometimes train extra till four or five o'clock at the gym if I feel that I have to do something extra.

I'm very disciplined in the approach I take for my training.