Ronnie Coleman is still working hard despite the odds.

Sometimes it’s hard to get motivated to go to the gym. For some, it’s hard to get up and be motivated for anything. It can truly be hard work to get up out of bed in the morning and choose to be better than you were yesterday. That takes work. It takes a willingness to push yourself and make no excuses. It can be rough for some and simple task for others. But whether you’re down in the dumps or if you’re on top of the world, you should be looking to do something today, tomorrow, for the rest of the week.

Motivation isn’t always going to be readily available, but that doesn’t mean you have an excuse to be lazy. For eight time Olympia champion and all time bodybuilding great Ronnie Coleman, a man who has experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, motivation is a constant presence in his life. Despite the adversity he’s been facing recently, Ronnie Coleman still chooses to push himself, head into the gym and try his best to build back even a small fraction of what he has lost.

The injuries and surgeries that Ronnie Coleman has been through still hasn’t stopped him from doing what he loves. Rather than use his predicaments as excuses to do nothing, Ronnie Coleman has instead utilized them as a spark, the wind in his sails to push him towards a goal of returning to some semblance of normalcy.

If you were feeling down on yourself or less than motivated to go after your dreams and goals this week, then watch this below clip of a man who has experienced greatness who has the passion and willingness to continue to push himself despite the mountainous odds against him.

 

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Back in 1994 I was sitting in my room in Frankfurt, Germany. We were doing a European tour at the time and of course I wasn’t doing that good at the time. @officialflexwheeler had just won the Arnold Classic and was Winning every show and the tour and he wasn’t even dieting. He was eating cheeseburgers and subway sandwiches and here I was eating grilled chicken, grilled fish and just dieting my ass off. So while sitting there in my room I decided I was gonna do what I did in college. If someone was smarter than me then I would always have study sessions with them and learn from them. So I went and knocked on Flex’s door and asked if I could have a talk with him. I kinda got straight to the point and asked Flex exactly what he was taking to look so good and win all these shows. I first told him what vitamins I was taking and at the time I was truly only taking vitamins. Well Flex told me he was taking totally different vitamins than what I was taking. So I took his advice, found books to read on what he was taking. Found out how to take what he was taking, found where to get what he was taking and got the stuff he was taking. After taking what he told me to take I won my very first pro show the next year the 1995 Montreal Pro show. So until this day I’m forever grateful to Flex for his advice and he will always be my best friend in the whole world because he truly changed my life for the better. A lot of people don’t know that he was also the reason I won my very 1st Olympia. That’s a story for another day.

A post shared by Ronnie Coleman (@ronniecoleman8) on Sep 9, 2018 at 12:32am PDT

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