The Shocking & Mysterious Ending of Bodybuilder Rich Piana
‘The clock is ticking. Are you becoming the person you want to be?’ — Greg Plitt, fitness model
Richard Eugene Piana is quite popular with Rich Piana, a famous American bodybuilder, YouTuber, and Businessman. He was born on November 26 1970, and he had won many awards in his career. After getting success in his bodybuilding career, he launched his nutrition business named Rich Piana: 5% Nutrition.
This is popular nutrition in America, which many people take. In one of his interviews, he admitted that he has been taking anabolic steroids, synthetic human growth hormone, and insulin since he was 18.
Richard Eugene Piana was a very famous personality because of his amazing look and extroverted body. He had some great achievements in his life and had lived his life like a very famous personality.
After some popularity, he also started his YouTube channel in which he told everything about his earlier life, and he gives motivational speeches, guest appearances, and tells about their product. The name of his product has a thought that only 5% of the people are very dedicated to achieving their goals whatever it takes.
How were steroids harmful to him?
Richard was living his life with heavy steroids, which can be harmful at any time. Suddenly in 2017, he fell down and before death, he was in a coma for two weeks. From the reports, we learned that the weight of the liver and heart gets double to its average, which may be because of excess steroids, and after two weeks, he died.
It was a very tough moment for all the fans of Richard because he was the inspiration to many people. His hard work was always appreciated, and many people have started following their routines.
His YouTube videos are quite amazing, and we have seen millions of views where he is motivating all the people to stick to their goal whether it is tough or not.
How did he get so passionate about bodybuilding?
Richard was born in California, where he got this passion for bodybuilding when he was just six years old. He has seen that his mother is training for the bodybuilding contest. He decided to join this field, but he waits till he comes to the right age.
When he was just Eleven years old, he started lifting weights and got a good body in 4 years. Then at the age of fifteen, he started participating in bodybuilding contests.
He was living with his father until he came to 18. He won many awards, of which one was the ‘NPC Mr Teen California’.
He was fully dedicated to bodybuilding and gaining more muscle mass from that age, and he decided to go with the steroids cycle. Then he got too many changes in his body quickly and started his journey very well by influencing many other people.
How did his career start?
After winning NPC Mr Teen California at 18, he won many awards in bodybuilding competitions. He got some great awards and also came to the magazines with his inspirational stories.
He also appeared in TV shows as a heavy, bulky bodybuilder where he was too appreciated because of his hard work.
Popular YouTube videos
Richard has too many YouTube videos on his channel, but some were in highlights. In 2014, he came to the people and convinced them that he was taking anabolic steroids for the past 25 years and said that anabolic steroids have no side effects and are not harmful.
He also said that I was aware of the damages that may be made to my body, but I have taken a chance.
There are some basic damages done like hair fall, gynecomastia, and liver toxicity. He said that I am aware of all these damages, but still, I have taken a chance to build my body.
In 2016, he came again with this YouTube video where he was backed up to his previous comment. He strictly said that ‘bodybuilding should be done naturally, don’t use steroids, as it will be very harmful to your body and it will be very tough to continue your life with the disease.
These drugs will only harm your body, and you will be very bad in this situation at that time, he was going with a serious disease and was hurting too much to his body.
He said, ‘we are professional bodybuilders, and we cannot win at our level without using these drugs. I want to blow the stage, and that’s why I choose this way.
People were surprised with his video and understood that he is going with some big disease, that’s why he uploaded this video. He also talked about the total steroid he was taking daily. It was very costly, but due to some reasons, he was getting all that for free.
At the last stage of his life, he quit the bodybuilding competitions and decided to be a YouTuber where he teaches our youth to go with natural nutrients to build a career in bodybuilding. He has started selling his product Rich Piana: 5% Nutrition.
He provides all the details of the routine that a user should follow to start their career in this field.
He was fully against steroids because he had experienced the situation, and he doesn’t want any other person to go with it. He has more than 1 million followers on Instagram and too many subscribers on YouTube, where he got millions of views on a video.
In a very short period, he got too many followers because people liked him and his dedication, but he was the opposite and wanted other people to go in the same direction. He believed all the people that bodybuilding can also be done with a natural ingredients diet. Let us know about his Personal Life.
Personal Life
Richard had a very controversial life, if we talk about his marriage. He marries twice, but before he marries, he has a close relationship with a popular fitness model Chanel Jansen. Their relationship did not worked well so later, he married Iceland bodybuilder Sara Heimisdottir in 2015. But in 2016, they separated, and he accused her of having taken unfair advantage of his popularity. He said that she got a US green card and had stolen money from him.
After the separation, he again comes to Jansen and marries her. Jansen was always available for him at the time of his death, and she said that Richard has opiate addiction at some time.
Death Cause
Everything was going right in Richard and Hansen’s life, as they are living a happy life. They were appearing on YouTube and sharing their experiences with the users, and users are also taking a lot of interest in their personal lives. Suddenly on August 7, 2017, Richard collapsed and fell to the floor when Jansen was doing his haircut in Florida.
His head falls to the floor, Jansen calls 911 immediately. They were providing her instructions to provide CPR till our team reached your place. She started following their instructions.
When the hospital emergency came to their home, they started their treatment, and they found out that Richard’s heart was not beating properly.
The reason was the steroids; the overdose of steroids had completely damaged his brain. Due to that damage, his brain was unable to get oxygen, and that’s why there was no proper heartbeat coming.
The reports came to know that Richard had taken too much overdose of drugs like cocaine, heroin, and some more, which had completely damaged his brain. Jansen had denied that Richard doesn’t take these supplements.
He just takes a high dose of caffeine as a pre-workout plan. But later, there were 20 bottles of testosterone in his home. Jansen also said that he was facing some issues like shortness of breath and nausea from past some days, then the team told her that these are the symptoms of cardiac arrest.
After being admitted to the hospital, he was drugged for two weeks in a coma, but he died on August 25 at 46. From the reports, it was believed that the size of his liver and heart gets double the average size of a male adult. Jansen said that Richard knows all these things that the size of his organs is increasing, but he was unaware that these steroids will take him to cardiac arrest.
After so many reports and autopsy, it was finalized that there was no recent injury made to Richard in the past, and steroids are the only reason for his cardiac arrest death.
This was a tough time for Jansen because she lost her partner and the whole world was very sad because some of them have lost their inspirational model whom they follow.
Conclusion
At the end of Richard’s life, he had strictly warned all the people not to go with steroids for bodybuilding, and the natural way is best.
