Ah, remember the good ol’ days? Back in ‘94, when a carton of eggs was 90¢, gas cost only $1.00/gallon, Nancy Kerrigan was attacked by Tonya Harding, old men could deadlift 485 lbs, and Ronnie Coleman still had hair?
I love how even back before YouTube made it famous, “LIGHT WEIGHT!" was still Ronnie’s catch phrase. But what I love even more is Old Man Roy’s Shake-It-Off move. I might just start shouting that at the gym.
"Shake it off Roy! Shake it off Roooy!
I’ve already adopted the swimmer arm shake before big lifts, now all I need is a black man shouting “shake it off Tony!" before my big lifts to make it legit.
I miss young Ronnie. The dude looked good. He looks almost… plausible. Like, if I kept lifting for another 4 years - and was black - I could maybe, just maybe, look like that. Of course, this was before he shaved his head and turned into the 8x Mr. Olympia MONSTER we have come to know and love.
And looooong before he retired, and became the broad side of a barn:
Is it still human? We can’t be sure…
Man. Now in size Triple Wide!
Look at Ronnie in 10th Grade for Arnold’s sake! Barely more than a child and he already has arms that would make most grown men jealous.
It would have sucked lining up against Young Ronnie in Pop Warner. I would have probably just rolled over and played dead.
-Tony “Light Weight!" Muscoli
