"I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy"
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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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Coleman, Ronnie. (2026, January 15). I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-attained-my-mass-basically-by-training-hard-172928/
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"I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-attained-my-mass-basically-by-training-hard-172928/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.





