"I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy"
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Coleman’s line isn’t trying to be poetic; it’s trying to be undeniable. “Attained my mass” sounds almost clinical, like he’s reporting a result rather than bragging about a gift. That phrasing matters in bodybuilding, a sport forever shadowed by suspicion and shortcuts. He’s staking a claim on authorship: this body was built, not bestowed.
The bluntness is the point. “Basically” is a small word that does a lot of work, suggesting the explanation is simple even if the process was brutal. It’s a rhetorical shrug that doubles as a flex: you can complicate it with supplements, genetics, and politics, but the core story is effort. Then he doubles down with “very, very heavy,” a phrase that sounds like gym-floor talk because it is. Coleman’s cultural power came from how he collapsed myth into repetition: heavy, harder, again. No mysticism, just plates.
The subtext is also a warning. “Training hard and very, very heavy” signals an ideology of extremity: not merely disciplined, but willing to live at the edge of what the body tolerates. In the late-’90s and 2000s “mass monster” era he helped define, size became the currency, and his testimony reads like a recipe and a justification for that aesthetic. It’s aspirational and slightly reckless, the kind of sentence that can motivate a lifter - and quietly normalize a standard most bodies can’t survive chasing.
The bluntness is the point. “Basically” is a small word that does a lot of work, suggesting the explanation is simple even if the process was brutal. It’s a rhetorical shrug that doubles as a flex: you can complicate it with supplements, genetics, and politics, but the core story is effort. Then he doubles down with “very, very heavy,” a phrase that sounds like gym-floor talk because it is. Coleman’s cultural power came from how he collapsed myth into repetition: heavy, harder, again. No mysticism, just plates.
The subtext is also a warning. “Training hard and very, very heavy” signals an ideology of extremity: not merely disciplined, but willing to live at the edge of what the body tolerates. In the late-’90s and 2000s “mass monster” era he helped define, size became the currency, and his testimony reads like a recipe and a justification for that aesthetic. It’s aspirational and slightly reckless, the kind of sentence that can motivate a lifter - and quietly normalize a standard most bodies can’t survive chasing.
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