At one point in the vid, he's got 50 plates (45#) on the custom leg press machine - that's 2250#, not to mention the weight of the machine. He's one strong mofo, but it's not "all natural power" as he says. He's genetically gifted, but it's not all natural, at all.
as this fellow stated, ronnie does 8-12 reps for the most part, if its a regular exercise he fails out his last set, going for 8, but may only get 6, never less. for the heavier movements, squats and deads, he will go down below the 6 rep range. remember if u cant do it 8 times you must start questioning your form!
Ronnie is obviously tremendously strong but I saw his CoR DVD and found his form on most of his exercises to be somewhat lacking - short, choppy reps, not at all what he describes in his M&F articles
Not too sure about that! When I squat with 400lbs for 6 reps, EVERY single rep is perfect otherwise I break my back.
I could pick up a barbel and curl it 6 times perfectly 6 times, or cheat curl it 12 times, or curl it perfectly 6 times and the cheat it another 3 times...
But yeah, I do notice that Ronnie does not often do perfect reps, but the reps are exactly the same each time...
Increasing the weight beyond my capacity to do 8 reps is no indicator that my form becomes suspect. The bulk of my workouts are 5 reps or fewer with no indication that form is faulty (other than that I'm doing fewer than 8 reps, I guess).