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Before selfie sticks and mood lighting, the gym was a place to put one hundred percent into any lift without caring about likes or subscribers. Fortunately, the cameras still rolled however, as Ronnie Coleman recently shared one of the most retro clips you\u2019ll see for a while, repping 495 pounds with an incredible display on the front squat.<\/p>\n
The year was 2000, and Coleman was shooting his legendary training DVD, The Unbelievable.<\/a><\/em> In the DVD itself, we see the big man headed to the gym in his Dodge Viper, donning bright yellow tights and a \u201cShut Up and Squat\u201d T-shirt \u2014 just to make his intentions abundantly clear. The gym in question was the Metroflex Gym in Arlington, TX, where Coleman crushed a herculean workout including hack squats and barbell weighted lunges, but this particular front squat clip keeps going viral, because it has everything that a vintage training video should have to make it a classic. Grunting? Check! Questionable wardrobe? Check? Proof that old-school bodybuilding is not for the faint of heart<\/a>? Check!<\/p>\n As Coleman reached for the Barbell, we meet Metroflex gym owner<\/a>, Brian Dobson, who is wearing a camouflage stringer and a pair of high cut denim shorts.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s no man who trains harder, anywhere,\u201d said Dobson on the DVD itself. Time would prove that he wasn\u2019t wrong.<\/p>\n After warming up, Coleman can be seen gripping the bar and getting to work. \u201cI have the light weight on it now,\u201d jokes The King, with five 45 pounds plates on either side of the bar. After some encouraging \u201cYeah!\u201d motivation from Dobson, Coleman cranks out ten solid reps before re-racking the bar. And, since a standard Olympic barbell weighs 45 pounds, this places the total load at 495 pounds.<\/p>\n Despite how surreal the clip appears in 2026, front squats are still a staple for those who wish to build bigger quads, glutes, hips, and hamstrings<\/a>.\u00a0 But when it comes to bodybuilder\u2019s who lift heavy, Coleman was often in a league of his own. In the \u201cUnbelievable\u201d DVD, Coleman deadlifted 800 pounds for two reps<\/a>, and later upped his front squat weight to 585 pounds for 4 reps.<\/p>\n \u201cNext generation will say it\u2019s AI,\u201d wrote one amazed Instagram viewer. \u201cGoosebumps,\u201d wrote another. \u201cThose denim shorts are legendary,\u201d concluded the comments.<\/p>\n To follow Ronnie Coleman on Instagram, click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nRonnie Coleman\u2019s Viral 495-Pound Front Squat Still Shocks Lifters<\/h2>\n