My friend Amy’s boyfriend loves bodybuilding and has even done one cycle before she almost killed him for it. He has always refused to eat fruits and veggies and lives off of meat (yeah yeah body builder stereotype) Amy is always after him to eat veggies but he said he didn’t need to. Today she laughingly tells me that he loves fruits and veggies now because he met Ronnie Coleman who told him it was very very important to get your fruits and veggies in. He wouldn’t listen to her but he’d listen to Ronnie…nice.
And the scary part was I knew who ronnie coleman was…thanks T-Nation.
That’s interesting. I was reading a pseudo-interview with Ronnie done after his 4th or 5th Olympia win, and the guy doing the interview said Ronnie didn’t eat a lot of veggies because he just couldn’t stand them, and so he just took extra vitamins to cover his bases nutritionally. This may have been untrue, however.
I’m sure Ronnie would still promote eating lots of fruits and vegetables, because it’s healthy, unlike professional bodybuilding. I’m glad it made Amy’s man eat more of 'em, though.