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Before I wrote "Muscle Training Impossible Triangle"
At the time of this article, there was a name that was repeatedly haunting my mind, he practiced 6 times a week, the intensity was extremely high, always impacting large weights, and the training capacity was also amazing, and even had the impulse to overturn the theory of "high frequency/ high intensity / high capacity impossible triangle", but fortunately, the isolated case was not proved, and he was the only one from beginning to end.
That's right, he's Ronnie Kuhlman.
Pictured: Ronnie at his peak
Although I am not cold to "bodybuilding", because "bodybuilding" is not a sport in the strict sense of the word, it is not for faster and stronger (bodybuilders are exactly his weakest moments when competing), there is no uniform standard of punishment, divorced from the public aesthetic, almost semi-publicly allowing and encouraging drug abuse, and because it is illegal to hold steroids in the United States, few players are willing to openly admit their medication, which also makes many fitness enthusiasts regard them as "liars", Even Ronnie will claim in the interview that he never uses drugs, but this does not affect my respect and love for Ronnie, because he is really too "hardcore".
Pictured: Ronnie talks about his training in an interview after retiring from playing
This is not a persona pretending to be fan-like and commercial, he is really "hardcore".
You must have heard the slogan: Yebati, LeviBebe! （yeah buddy，light weight baby）。
It comes from the "grandfather" Ronnie Kuhlman, Ronnie's persistence and hard work, as a spiritual nitrogen pump, has inspired generations of fitness trainers.
Pictured: Ronnie squat training, the famous "765 pound barbell I squatted 4 times, and then I have been regretting, did not squat for the 5th time, although I used 800 pounds to squat 2 times later, but still can not make up for this regret" Is the source.
Pictured: Ronnie squat training
But his "hardcore" is not only reflected in the way he trains, but also in:
Even after retiring with the eight-time Olympiad champion in history, Ronnie continued to train intensively, and with his achievements and influence, he could completely lie down and eat the old money, such as learning Schwarzenegger to take the political route (Ronnie himself was born in the police), and he could also concentrate on running his own supplement brand.
But unlike most bodybuilders who retired, Ronnie continued to train, and despite reduced drug use and muscle shrinkage, the intensity of training did not decrease much.
Pictured: High-intensity training that continues after retirement
What does this mean?
Bodybuilding may be the business of many players, their means of livelihood, but here in Ronnie it is not.
That's what he's loved all his life.
But long-term heavyweight training has caused a lot of damage to his body, and continuing to train with high intensity after retiring from the army has also caused Ronnie's recent condition to not be too good, or rather, terrible, after all, he is 55 years old.
Pictured: Ronnie lying in a hospital bed, "I have to get used to getting smaller."
Before this year, Ronnie had 7 surgeries:
December 2007 - L4-L5 discectomy
July 2011 - L3-L4 disc surgery
December 2011 - Fusion of neck c4-c5-c6
July 2014 - Placement of 2 screws in the left hip joint
August 2014 - 4 screws are placed in the right hip joint
July 2015 - Fusion surgery of L3-L4 discs
Pictured: Crutches are required to walk after surgery
18 years and constantly adjust the screws, because always broken, although Ronnie denied that the last two surgeries had nothing to do with high-intensity training, in June the screw broke only because he turned over in bed, but Ronnie did not rest after the operation, but went to the gym to train is an indisputable fact, 10 days before the last surgery, he was still practicing his legs.
Just two months ago, Ronnie fell at home, hit the 3rd and 4th sections of the cervical spine, and had to have surgery again.
Pictured: Ronnie's recent ins
Almost all the prize money earned by the grandfather's previous champions was spent in the hospital.
Competition has always been cruel, and its goal has never been "healthier, healthier and longer-lived", but it is difficult not to be respectful of being cruel to yourself.
This is the New Year of 19 years, I want to send to your readers the spiritual nitrogen pump, it is impossible for everyone to become Ronnie, we are amateur fitness, there is no need to take training as life like him, but,
That doesn't stop us from toasting the tough guy and wishing him a speedy recovery.
Today's Soup:
A toast to your love of fitness, a cup to this respectable tough guy.
Happy New Year!