Find me a person who did basic lifts, trained several times a week and then any changes in his training schedule made significant difference in his progress (physique wise).
Good luck with that.
Now, powerlifting/weightlifting, that's a different story.
Oh and Layne's "squat" is what he does before powerlifting meets. He (hopefully) does not do that year round.
That's 250kg (555lbs) high bar, narrow stance... about 20kg lighter than Norton.
Norton is so fucking overhyped.
Here Igor Lukanin dances with Layne Norton's squat record.
Oh and Igor Lukanin is olympic weightlifter, he undergoes much stricter testing than Norton. So if Norton is natural, this guy is supernatural.