I Tried Ronnie Coleman's 6,000 Calorie Bulking Diet

Here is a brief summary of the transcript: The transcript describes a man attempting to follow Ronnie Coleman's extreme bodybuilding diet for a day. Ronnie Coleman was an 8-time Mr. Olympia bodybuilding champion known for his massive size and strength. Key points: - The diet consists of 600g of protein and 6000 calories per day, with meals like 16 egg whites, grits with cheese, and pounds of chicken breast. - The man struggles to consume the large quantities of food at each meal, finding it very challenging both physically and mentally. - He does a chest workout at an old school gym with weights used by the bodybuilding legends. The workout consists of heavy bench pressing and other chest exercises. - After the workout he has to quickly eat meal 3 of chicken and potatoes in his car before going home. - For dinner he eats steak, chicken, fries and potato, struggling through the meat. - At the end he still has to drink a thick protein shake with 4 scoops of powder to reach the protein goal. - He remarks on Coleman's incredible discipline to eat this way every day. The diet is very plain and repetitive but allowed Coleman to build massive size needed to win the Olympias.

I wait. Yeah, buddy. Not bulky. Today I'm going to be trying eight time Mister Olympia. Ronnie Coleman's bulking diet and training. Every sport has a debate about its goat. In bodybuilding, Arnold's legacy may be unparalleled, but the accolades, strength and physique of Ronnie Coleman are truly legendary. Let's see if I can survive his 600 grams of protein and 6000 calorie daily diet. It's no surprise Ronnie Coleman's nickname is the king, because he eats equivalent to a royal feast every frickin day. So meal one. Pretty standard. Egg whites, grits, and coffee, two whole cups. A pretty intimidating amount of egg whites. That's gonna take a while to cook. Wow. He must not really like egg whites because he uses cheese seasoning, and the amount that he puts on the eggs, it's like torrential downpour. It's quite concerning. Watch, I'm just gonna do. I don't even think we're halfway right now. I'm not even kidding you. Like, he must really hate egg whites. All right, next up, we got our grits. Jeez, look at this. Maybe the trick is he's actually just tired of egg whites and he wants a whole egg. It's just a way to manipulate your mind. Bodybuilders are pretty crazy. He adds two singles to his grits, and I'm pretty sure the guy's from the south. That's like making sushi with rice cakes. Like, this just does not seem authentic in any way. He must like cheese or just the idea of cheese. Cause everything's just cheese product right now at this point. And now the kicker, we add the egg whites to the grits. Cause I think what it is, at a certain point, you eat so much food, you gotta find a way to kind of make it seem like it's lessen. That's what I aspire to eventually get to, you know? That's pretty sick. Damn, that does not look pretty. Holy shit. I think I'm gonna need a Thanksgiving kind of power nap after this meal, but, wow. That's all I can say right now. Like, this thing, this could, like, feed a full kindergarten class. And honestly, like, this is probably as heavy as some people's deadlift attempts. Freaking dense. If you guys ever watch the footage of Ronnie Coleman eating, he always looks like he hates his existence, but the amount of food that he's eating every single day, it catches up to you. And I feel like at a certain point today, I'm gonna get there very soon. I'll probably relate to that. Okay, here we go. I feel like my spoon might get lost. Whoa, the cheese is really coming through. Well, I mean, the illusion of cheese is really coming through. Wow. Actually not bad. It looks not great, obviously, but, like, taste wise, like, it's pretty standard. Fun fact, Ronnie Coleman was actually a police officer, and he only ended up quitting during his fifth or 6th Olympia. Imagine him pulling up to arrest you. How many of you guys would just cuff yourself? I would honestly just cuff myself if he pulled up on me. It's already me versus the food. It's starting to look like. It's like Homer Simpson roadkill. The cheese is getting to me right now. Maybe he doesn't even like it either. You know what I mean? Like, maybe that's why he looks like when he eats these like this, he's like, well, about 10% a meal, one is digested, and I'm not sure it ever will be. So I can totally see why he makes those faces. Now. What makes a bodybuilder great is obviously, genetics, work ethic, and telling your stomach that no actually means yes. Ronnie Coleman's always been known to be able to push the food, never missed a meal. And when you're in the pro levels, at the Olympia level, that makes all the difference from being a champion to a loser. So we got 16oz. This is like 20 to 16oz of chicken breast. We got big piece of cornbread. We got one and a half cups of beans here. And they didn't have rice, so obviously championship mentality. I brought my own one and a half cups of brown rice. So we're gonna add that to the side here. This is the things you gotta do if you wanna get big, right? Ronnie likes to add barbecue sauce to his chicken breast. It's phenomenal. I can already tell chicken breast is gonna be on the naughty list by day's end. 100% beans, pre workout. It's pretty. It's kind of a death wish. Gonna be turning the gym into a toxic wasteland. Oh, my God. And cornbread, it's always welcome, even if it's stacked with ten pounds of food, you know? Wow. Definitely a lot more fun than meal number one. So we'll see how far I can get through here. Gym next. And hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, we'll be okay. Only halfway into meal number two, my digestive system is already at war, as I've already surpassed my daily protein intake on a normal day. And the fact that we need to go on train after this is starting to get seriously concerning. Okay, we're trekking along here. I've done one piece of meat. We have the second one waiting for me. And from past experience, the second one always takes the longest to finish off. We have the beans done halfway through this. This is a lot more dense than I expected. Rice, it's coming along. People think not eating is hard. Try always eating. It sucks. We're at an insanely sick old school gym. There's a bunch of, like, legends up on the wall. They got the heavy, like, grungy weights that you always see Ronnie Coleman lift in those crazy videos. You know, you gotta wonder, when he shows up at the gym, does he, like, does he come in through the loading dock? Cause the man was huge during the off season. His peak weight, 330 pounds. And he really was the body building holy Trinity. He had size, he had strength, and he had shreds. So we're gonna do the chest workout today, starting with bench press. He always said, everyone wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to bench press five sets of twelve. Either I slow down the trip or I speed up. The visa may not wanna leave ya. I swear. The old tool weights. The iron just feels double the weight. Ronnie Coleman, he was putting up excellent deadlift numbers on his bench. Like, I think his best ever was 500 pounds for five reps. Then there's videos of him, like, repping 405. Like it's a skipping rope. It's a joke. So five set to twelve. A lot of volume. I'm probably gonna start pretty light. So the first two sets are pretty easy. But in the last three sets, very, very hard. So maybe 225. Oh, every rep, every set, I'm just looking up, and all I see is just ky green looking down at me while I do my work. Not the first time. Next up, we got three by twelve incline bench. So one thing about Ronnie Coleman, he was the strongest bodybuilder of all time. Cause he wasn't afraid to get under the crazy heavy weight. Cause he said you should never be afraid of the weight. So not only did he live by the gym, but he was prepared to die by the gym too. And I mean, if you wanna get that size, you just gotta leave it all on the line. I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side. Staying alive was no job. Oh, my chest is so pumped right now, I can't even like, damn, pick my nose. Woo. I swear that guy on the wall up there is low key. Probably actually him. I gotta start doing the Ronnie Coleman, like, screaming, like, yeah, buddy. Oh, sorry. We got flat press. Next three sets of twelve. This dude has ungodly pressing stamina. Like, I'm already feeling like I've, like, torn my peck off the bone. So his pr of all times, 200 for twelve. And this gym, they don't even have that. They don't even go up to 200. They go up to 150. And look at the size of these. Who's 150s? He goes, 200. Not even fair. I think in honor of Ronnie right now, I'm gonna try to go for a pr. We'll see what happens. Oh, my God. These are one hundred fifteen s. I swear these ones are actually, like, 145s than any other gym. So when Ronnie said 200 pounds, probably 225. Oh, my God. Oh, baby. Whoo. Honestly, that felt like a pr. Happy with that. It's really hard not to be inspired training here. You got, like, Arnold up there, you got Frank Zane, you got signed Ronnie picture. It's a bunch of freaking legends here. Which is absolutely sick. Time to give a little mercy on our pecs right now. We're gonna be doing lateral raises. You can never get enough lateral raises. I was actually kind of surprised that he had them in here, but that's kind of what you want, that v taper, right? Especially when you're a bodybuilder. And you gotta wonder, did he drive alone in the squad car? Was he too wide for a partner? Took up both seats. I think so. So we got four sets of twelve. Pump is crazy right now. Oh, my God. Moving on to triceps now. And whenever you do these videos, like the old school guys, it makes you realize how much bullshit is in the fitness industry right now, right? Like, everything that we've done today is the basics. He's eating chicken, he's eating egg whites, baked potato. We're doing compound movements. There's nothing fancy, because if there wasn't anything fancy, there would be no fancy programs for sale. There'd be none of these things that you have to buy and people take on all your money. It's very simple, guys, to get in shape, just lift heavy ass weight, compound in good form. That's really all you need. So this kind of stuff puts into perspective, like, how much of the wrong way the fitness industry is going, because simple is always best. There's a pic of Ronnie, like, pressing. Not even all the plates are in frame. But I think I count. I think I count 28. And to think he had beans. Pre workout. This is the point of the workout where your crush will probably walk in for the first time. Baby weights right now. Chest tries done. A lot of times when people do close grip bench. They literally go, like, literal close grip, like this. It's way too hard on your wrists and your joints. So I just recommend having your hands right before it starts to get smooth. So see how it's rough right here? Just right there. Just like that. Just, like, around shoulder width. Perfect. Trying to stay clean. Workout done. I brought meal three with me in the car and some tupperware, because my house is 20 minutes away. And God forbid I waited till I got home, because it would just be a waste of a workout. It's a little bit simpler of a meal, I will say that. So we got ourselves 16oz of chicken, and the first time, I'm actually happy to hear medium sized. So we got medium sized baked potato. Quite nice. I swear, bro is like a human kirby, the way he's able to suck all this stuff down. Like, I I'm suffering the amount of chicken that this guy goes through. Like, I feel like if he was still competing, chick fil a would be forced to stay open on Sundays. Oh, my God. There's so much chicken in my system. I feel like if somebody kissed me, they probably get salmonella. This is so much meat, man. Protein farts tonight. Gonna be thunderous. Tropical storm brewing down there. Do you have to wonder what his methodology was behind all this protein? Because I feel like he knows he didn't need all of it, but he still wanted it. Could have some carbs, Ronnie, some cereal, something. Make it fun, man. Overall, simple, effective meal, and bland enough that I can pretend it never happened. I'm trying really hard to enjoy this right now, but I can't. My stomach is in worse shape than the korean DMZ. But we're on meal four. We're towards the tail end. We got steak here. I think Ronnie heard me when I told him to kind of spice things up a bit, because the pink lemonade's a nice, cute little touch. I think the strategy behind this for Ronnie is it's gonna simply just help him get the rest of the meat down. So we got ourselves surf and sky, sort of a little bit of filet mignon, 5oz of chicken breast. 5oz of chicken breast. Just seems like I'm only micro dosing at this point, the amount of chicken I've had today. And, of course, we've got some fries and baked potato. I just gotta start with the. Obviously gonna start with the steak here. Mmm. Why come this been meal one? If this was meal one, I actually could enjoy this more. The freaking filet mignon wouldn't taste like a melted hockey puck. Oh, my God. Every meal is so hard to digest that I still feel like the other meat is making its way down my throat while the currant meat is making its way down my throat. He didn't specify the kind of fries he likes. I just assume McDonald's. Nothing has me loving it more than McDonald's fries. The taste just reminds me of childhood. Who knew food could just trigger a sexual awakening, you know? And I don't really understand why there's fries and baked potato. The baked potato at this point is like just holding the camera on this threesome, you know, because all I'm thinking about is those french fries. Two meats in one time. This is more a chore than anything I usually love to eat. When I stop eating, I think about. But eating the next meal now, it's just like, I can't wait for the day to be done. Go to bed, ma'am. What? Why does that sound like an apple? I'm sweating. Every time I eat, I get hot. And honestly, after the workout, even just holding my arms out, my chest is just blasted too. It's a monumental moment right now. The last bite of chicken for the day. There's no reason to clap for you. Clap for yourself. You would think that we're done with protein for the day, but we are not. We still need 100 more grams of protein before the buzzer for the end of the day. So we have four scoops of protein that we need to consume right now. And I feel like I kind of want to put. Put a sleeping pill in there so I have any chance at peace tonight, because my stomach is rumbling and making noises that I've never heard it make before. One. I wonder why. Four scoops. He must have just liked it really thick. I think that's what must be two. Have you heard of his anthem gum, Ronnie? And a bulk ice cream? Four at this point, this is gonna be pudding. All right. There it is. Doesn't look all that intimidating. Whoa, that. Whoa. That's very potent. Am I about to nurse this thing? Like you've never seen someone nurse something before? Cause I don't really want it, but I can't go to bed without my protein. I don't want my muscles to melt off. That was a day in the life of Ronnie Coleman. Bulking, training to win eight Mister Olympias. The guy is a legend for a reason. Doing this every single day without complaining, putting in the work. Even when he had a full time job, he only quit during his 6th Olympia because he pretty much had to. He was so busy. So hats off to the guy. He's just a champion. So if you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to drop it. A like, subscribe to the channel if you're new, and I'll see you guys in the next one.