Well, Joe, it isn't worth my time to debate issues with you. For example, this business of using extremely heavy weights. Ronnie was squatting over 800 pounds for a couple of reps. Ditto for deadlifts.
He was demonstrating his strength using that much weight. Had he used 500 pounds for many sets of perhaps 10 to 15 reps he would have still triggered hypertrophy and perhaps saved his body from
crippling injuries. Heck, even 500 pounds is extreme.
yes I’d agree with that Vince you don’t have too lift a massive amount of weight too make improvements doing more volume with (for someone as strong as Coleman was) with 500lb squats and 500lb deadlifts in volume would of more than likely still given him sufficient gains and saved his joints, tendons, discs etc.
The thing is in Coleman’s case (specifically) he had a long history of strength training being a former powerlifter etc long before he became a pro bodybuilder...it’s how the mentality is developed...go hard or...go home.
And it’s that mentality that carried him though his whole bodybuilding career making him a 8 Time Champion, there has NEVER been such an extraordinary extreme example of pushing the human physique too the heights he once achieved and he pushed those boundaries (like Yates before him) too new levels bye sheer brutal force.
Unfortunately that very same mentality has now long after his career has passed...also is responsible for the crippling deliberation and very painful reality he has too deal with day in day out nowadays.
