?This Should?ve Been as Big as They?d Ever Get?: Ronnie Coleman?s Physique From Pre-Steroid Days Leaves Bodybuilding World Regretting

In the world of bodybuilding, having a sculpted body is almost always necessary. However, due to the trending sky-rocketed expectations, more often than not, bodybuilders go through extreme pressure, which enables them to start trending on the apparent shortcut to greatness. Although the body after PED is bound to be unearthly, some bodybuilding legends proved how magnificent their physique had been even before steroid usage.

Ronnie Coleman is certainly one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time. He has won the Mr. Olympia title not once or twice, but 8 times – the highest recorded number. Coleman, although known to have used steroids, his previous look still manages to shock his fans.

Ronnie Coleman’s Pre-drug physique

In their latest Instagram post, @thegoldendays shared a short clip of Ronnie Coleman three years before he won the first Mr. Olympia. The clip recorded one of the finest physique forms, which was still not in the grasp of any steroids. In the caption they wrote, “WAISTED???? @ronniecoleman8 1995 RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX,” remembering Coleman’s powerful exhibition even before he started taking any performance enhancing drugs.

For someone like, Coleman, it is not unimaginable to think that he had built his body quite magnificently. However the streak of wins he managed to pull with his aesthetically pleasing physique always going to shock the world.

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When fans perceived his look from 1995, they could not restrain to express their astonishment out loud. They came forward in numbers trying to compliment the bodybuilding star.

Ronnie Coleman fans are stunned after seeing his throwback photo

One of the fans said, “Back when he still had that beautiful shoulder to waist ratio. This should?ve been as big as they?d ever get in order to maintain some form of aesthetics and not look incredibly massive but unhealthy”. While another fan said, “Back when Ronnie actually looked good without the bloat”. Yet another one confirmed, “According to Ronnie and Flex Wheeler, he was natty here”. One of the fans even defended Coleman by saying, “I’m just gonna say this regarding the natty comments – in my opinion, nobody has competed on the Olympia stage and been truly natty.” Last, but not least, someone even said, “That was before Ronnie went Ultra SSJ??”

Bodybuilding as a sport shelters many entities who have depended on performance enhancing drugs. Yet at times, the industry also sprouted legends who physique was great to begin with. Do you think the increase in PED usage is because of peer pressure? Or does the societal expectation has something to do with it? Let us know in the comments below.

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