Jeremy Buendia is mending fences to start off his 2025 bodybuilding season. On January 1, 2025, Buendia apologized to his former coach Hany Rambod for their strained coach-client relationship and underlined that he was ‘filled with rage’ during that period of his career.
From 2014-2017, Jeremy Buendia set the standard in the IFBB Pro League Men’s Physique category, having laid claim to four Olympia titles. The highest highs are often accompanied by the lowest of lows, which was the case for Buendia. He and Rambod stopped working together years ago, making this collaboration cathartic and long overdue.
Jeremy Buendia Shares Regrets About Coaching Relationship W/ Hany Rambod: “I’m Sorry for That”
Throughout his career, Buendia often relied on Rambod’s assistance, even late at night, and apologized to his former coach for taking time away from his wife and children to provide emotional support.
“Cameron was born three months before you signed me. The next six years I required so much of your attention, and so much of your energy.
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I remember calling you at midnight pissed off or crying or upset, you’d have to talk me off a ledge when you have your wife and your son in the living room waiting for you to get off the phone with me. I’m sorry for that.”
Buendia admits it took until he had a family to realize how much time he took away from Rambod and those around him.
“It’s [this meet] happening when it needed to happen. Honestly, if it happened [us talking again] two years ago, it wouldn’t be the right time for me either. For me to understand what I put you through I had to have family of my own to really understand that.”
He was genuinely happy to see Rambod finally step away from coaching athletes in bodybuilding.
“Seeing that you were retiring from coaching when you made that post, I was genuinely happy for you because I know how much it has weighed on you over the years,” said Buendia. “I know how important your family was to you and I’m happy that you have been able to finally get to a point in your career now where you are able to take the time for yourself and for your family. They deserve it. You deserve it.”
Buendia shared that his use of alcohol and ‘party drugs’ only complicated matters while being coached by Rambod.
“I saw red before I even got into bodybuilding, that’s the thing. It’s hard for me to blame the steroids on it but I’m sure it didn’t help, that’s for sure. I know there was one time where I ran some tren and you were like ‘You got to get off that now.’ Man, I handled my last prep a lot better. Anyone can attest to that who was around me.”
“I wasn’t like drinking during the week and stuff. I’d party on the weekends. I wasn’t an alcoholic or anything like that. I’d drink on the weekends and party. I was doing party drugs and stuff like that too. I’d get that super high high from being messed up and the following days you just crash. Your endorphins, your dopamine levels are just crashed.”
As Buendia states, ‘I was so filled with rage all the time,’ it became increasingly challenging for him to stay level-headed earlier in his career.
“The anger, I hated a lot of people for so many years. I lived with so much hate in my heart that it’s impossible to keep my head above water because I was so filled with rage all the time.”
Although Rambod has retired from coaching, Buendia still has ambitious plans before stepping away from bodybuilding. Initially, he was targeting a debut at the 2025 Arnold Classic but backpedaled on the idea after he realized his physique would not be ready in time.
Buendia continues to grow as a person and a Pro bodybuilder, forever grateful for Rambod’s assistance. Even though they no longer work together, it seems they are both in a better place years later.
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