Lodario Ramón

Lodario Ramón, born in 1954 in Fresnedelo in the province of Cáceres, is a Spanish weightlifter and powerlifting coach. He came to the gym after reading about weightlifting in a magazine, and after moving to Ponferrada a bodybuilder named Campillo encouraged him to try the sport. His first attempt was 65 kilograms, and after three months of training under a coach called Tito he was lifting 100 kilograms and became champion of Castilla and León. He later became a Spanish champion, took a coaching course and trained ten weightlifters over three years. He has been described as the best powerlifting coach in Spain, and he coached the Spanish national team at the Summer Paralympics of 2004, 2008 and 2012, including work with the lifter Loida Zabala Ollero.