Excuse me... i"m the current WSM... but I agree with you Lasha is a strong person! =) edited - after WSM I'm going to compete in Olympic Weight lifting ! BTW great video!
The actual strongest man in the world, as Zach alluded to, is more likely unloading trucks at a warehouse in Reykjavik or Murmansk and has no idea of his potential ability.
Sarychev did mention the guy who got him into powerlifting was significantly stronger than him at a lower bodyweight. Was benching 160kg for reps at under 100kg while he was still a novice.
No, that is stupid. You can't get elite athlete strong by lifting random stuff. You get it by training like an elite athlete for years upon years, building your life around your identity as an athlete. If you want to say that the person with the best genetic potential to become the strongest person alive is not into strength sports, then you're probably right, but that is a completely different thing and has absolutely no bearing on one's occupation. But such speculation is gratuitous in the extreme anyway.
That's what I think with elite athletes and sports. I believe that many people can excell at something due to coordination, strength, genetics and/or injury resistance. Now, not everybody in the whole world will practice the sport in which they are most likely to succed. And, on the other hand, there are cases where people are just good at sports and they might succed at any. For example, former NBA player Nate Robinson was very good at American Football and also as NBA player (in my opinion. They guy was 1,75m, won two dunk contests and made a name of himself in the best basketball league in the world). Also, you might heard the story of an athlete and how she or he started in a different sport. Then there is the motivation, discipline, will and perseveration to train, which not everybody might have, and finally, to be lucky to be in the best position to be the best you can ever be (access to the sport, popularity in the country, equipment, couches, personal situation, family support). It is hard to be a champion regardless of drug use (which I don't support)
An important advantage for weightlifters is that they usually start young under the guidance of experienced coaches and they are financially supported by their federations. Strongmen on the other hand usually start after the age of 20 it's very difficult for them to leave their day jobs to focus solely on their sport.
Yes but technique is a lot less important in strongman than in weightlifting, the training time is mostly beneficial for technique and not strength reasons
Big Z is often said to be the world's strongest man of all time - though there are many contenders. It all depends on how you measure strength. Olympic lifters can put the most weight overhead, but strongmen competitors and powerlifters can do other sorts of lifts much heavier than most Olympic lifters.
@Es Tim but usain bolt is the fastest ...someones potential somewhere else isnt the same ,all nfl players etc have all run sprints and non can match bolt ..same as strongman there isnt someone working on a farm somewhere whos stronger than Big Z its impossible ,he might have potential but its meaningless ...the strongest is someone who has insane genetics plus years of dedicated training
@@Gbonejohn1974 this is fact. People don’t understand how much faster bolt is than everyone else. But I think he just asked the question for the videos sake
The full potential of a man is on drugs to build strength & muscle, excite the nervous system, and kill pain. Don’t we wanna see the absolute max performance?
good. I hate it when people are like "atleast lasha is all natrual" as if anybody at that level of strength sports could afford not doing everything in their power to get strong...
Also, no one is close to Lasha in Weightlifting, He's basically improving the record every year, and the way he handles those weights, you can't help to wonder how much is in the tank, A LOT!!!!! 🇬🇪
Im pretty sure the video is about winning the worlds strongest man competition. And when he trained for that deadlift he wasn't even properly able to compete in strongman since he lost so much mobility and speed. There is so much more than raw strength that is needed in strongman. I would go as far to say that strongman is closer to olympic lifting than powerlifting.
@@Leksuttaja149 id say strongman resembles crossfit more than others. aside from body weight movements both tend to use odd implements, differing movements and odd gimmicks to make it interesting. So basically crossfit is a smaller persons strongman lol.
Nippel_Cripper thor is gonna pull 501 is he going to be king of strength then? Also eddie won one wsm what about big z or brian shaw who both won multiple also eddie never one an arnold so his case for beimg the best is very weak
If we define "strength" in more holistic terms, and not just as the sum of the strength of different body limbs, the same as we would define "health" not just as the congregate of the health of separate body organs, then I believe Olympic weightlifting is the most holistic - and spectacular - display of strength. Picking up a weight from the ground, not from a rack, and lifting it, not to your waist, not going down and up with it, not curling it, but lifting it over your head as far as your arms would extend, covering thus in a complete, harmonious, technical and gracious movement, the entire extension of your body and limbs, in a full range of motion, this is STRENGTH. That being said, Lasha is the strongest men in absolute terms, relative to his body weight, no, there have been others a lot stronger than Lasha.
Brute static strength Eddie Hall is the strongest. He was squatting 800 for reps easily in training, deadlifting 900 for reps easily in training, 600lbs bench for reps in training. Lasha would have a long way to go to match those lifts. Lasha is the strongest when it comes to explosive. But his accomplishments in explosive strength eclipse a 500kg equipped deadlift tbh. 220/265 is insane. He would do well in strongman but would need to put a lot of weight and muscle on to match the top guys.
He's the strongest person at lifting a perfectly calibrated Olympic barbell over his head. And that's a hell of a feat however he's never loaded a stone, pulled a truck, carried a 1100lb yoke, carried farmers 100ft, or deadlifted close to 1000lbs or dealt with the brutality and competition schedule of Strongman. He lifts in climate controlled settings in gyms. But it's not like Thor or Shaw could ever Olympic weightlift at a high level within the confines of the rules You also site Koklyaev who's a way more well rounded lifter than lasha ever has been and while he was successful he never won the ultimate title. So really this video is weightlifter masturbation.
You do realize lasha is like 25 while the strong men are 30+ juicing a fuck ton more. Clearance Kennedy deadlifts 700+ beltless for reps at half the body weight of lasha. Lasha's deadlift is way closer to 1k than most strongman that compete juice to the tooth
arianjel hernandez pure strength continues to climb as you age. There are guys in their 40s at the top level. The juice comment is irrelevant as multiple bans for drug use have proven. Your boys are still on. They just haven’t been caught. Lance Armstrong wasn’t caught either.
@@Dave-se4sb I am sure larry could but he moves more products by being a shredded lifter with amazing powerlifting totals. If he bulked and trained in strongman he would be competitive.
> Zack: "The Rippetoes of the world saying squatting/pulling strength directly correlates with the oly lifts are stupid and wrong" (rightly so) > Also Zack: Lasha's oly numbers are ungodly and therefore I shall speculate that his squatting and pulling numbers shall be equally devastating and ungodly :P Just a bit of fun before anyone is triggered.
the strength in "slow" heavy max lifts like deadlifts and squats will carry over to Olympic lifts if absolute perfect proficiency and high volume training of Olympic lifts is there. Ilya ilyin recently described his training when he trained "Bulgarian style" during his teenage years which led him to be a world champ at 17. Hitting 170sn 216cj at 85kg bw. Do you know what the training consisted of? squat, clean & jerk, snatches and deadlifts. The highly successful Chinese system of the past 20 years also prominently featured deadlifts, done at weights heavy enough that back starts to round. 1-3rep max efforts! We all know that weightlifters all squat all day, but the deadlifting is lesser known. Both Soviet and Chinese systems also use a wide array of accessory exercises. Some to improve technique but many are straight up bodybuilding exercises.
@@oliverallen5324 the amount of upward movement in O lifts is actually much less than what newcomers assume. The whole "being fast" thing is a more about being fast to get under rather than being fast in pulling the bar up. This is obviously much more true of the clean & jerk. Someone fast and flexible should be able to drop into a front squat to get under a 70% deadlift. The amount of upward movement in the "2nd pull" is tiny. A couple of inches and it's about the same for the jerk too. Anyone can move fast over a couple inches. A 2016 Eddie hall included.
@@lennyganado3975 450 raw in sleeves seems a bit high. Given his build Id say that with some specific training a 420+ dead would be a reasonable guess though.
You need a lot of mobility and agility in strongman too. The whole point of it is lifting and or carrying akward objects for as long as possible. I believe that olympic weightlifting and strongman really aren't that far a part especially since both are very old and there have been legends in the sports that have done both. The best example of this is Paul Anderson. I believe that If heavyweight weigtlifters would train strongman they would excel at it. And if strongmen would train olympic weightlifting they would excel at it too.
@@meginna8354 he would make an amazing strongman. He is insanely strong and allready has the built for it. If he trained a couple of years he would be competetive in worlds strongest man
@@Leksuttaja149 He is not insanely strong compared to strongmen, after a couple of years he might qualify top 10. Just because someone is a good olympic lifter or powerlifter does not mean that they excel at strongman, and a strongman would never excel at olympic lifting unless they started training it as kids.
I believe that Zydrunas is the king in every field of strength. Although Lasha has both records in weightlifting but it is difficult for him to do 230kg log press.
For the Koklayev comparison you also have to account for how much other strongmen have developed since his days. Some events like max deadlift have made _crazy_ leaps since then. What used to be asolid WR at his time is now the base level for elite competitions.
Anatoliy Pisarenko a famed Soviet lifter stated in an interview that everyone doped because it is impossible to train and recover from type of workloads they did.
Hello Zack, I watch your videos every time and some like 10 times all the way from Kenya (don't know if you know this country, ha ha ha) You do a great job and represent this sport we love 100% Keep it up!! Up like Lasha !!!
Relatively speaking he is. In particular weightlifting where he is no doubt the strongest and most technical. You know why Lasha wont go to WSM after weightlifting.....because right now hes building a legacy and when his career is done he'll be remembered as the greatest weightlifter of all time its just a matter time and hes still young. Champions like that dont finish an illustrious career then jump into another sport just to participate.
I think Zack is massively discounting the technique of strongman. He seems to treat strongman as a sport where "you just have to be strong and then you win" when in reality its so much more than that. Strongmen have to compete in a huge variety of events that change contest to contest, competitions span multiple days, and very rarely does someone sweep every event. Strongman competitions are a points battle that spans days, not just two lifts that are identical every time. The training has to be massively broad to execute a large amount of movements extremely well, Lasha is undoubtedly incredibly strong and could be a solid strongman but he has in no way proven himself to have the adaptability that strongmen have to have to compete at the highest level
It's pretty obvious that Hafthor Bjornsson is currently the strongest man alive. Barring the Olympic lifts or any other highly technical lift, I don't see Lasha even coming close to Hafthor
More impressive certainly possible. Harder? I'm not so sure. It depends what you mean by harder. Peaking (properly) for a powerlifting meet really takes a toll on your body, especially at higher levels.
Julia Williams Well I agree powerlifting is difficult but I think it’s way more impressive to see a nearly 600lb clean and jerk than to see a 1000lb squat or deadlift. Just my opinion though 🤷🏾♂️
@@djrobinson6602 that's not the part of your post I was responding to though lol. I even might agree with you there. My point is being a competitive powerlifter is extremely taxing on your body as well as extremely time consuming so I have a hard time believing olympic lifting is harder over all, although it is certainly more difficult technically. They are probably pretty similar in how "hard" they are at the highest level for very different reasons.
@@juliawilliams1355 That is completely incorrect. Look at the mobility that weightlifting requires. Do you honestly thing slowly picking up or squatting 1000lbs is more taxing than throwing up and catching 600lb on your shoulders? A lot of weightlifters train twice a day. I haven't heard of any powerlifters doing this. You talk about "peaking", don't you realise that weightlifters have to do the exact same thing for their contests?
@@fudruckers3916 You just defeated your own argument. First you said- " Do you honestly thing slowly picking up or squatting 1000lbs is more taxing than throwing up and catching 600lb on your shoulders?" Then you said- "A lot of weightlifters train twice a day. I haven't heard of any powerlifters doing this." .... Yes, powerlifting is taxing enough that you wouldn't train twice a day -_-
Love the love you're giving to the weightlifting community. Even with all the exposure due to CrossFit, it is still an underappreciated sport that anybody can be a part of, at least, in the USA.
You're factually wrong then, it's a technique feat, c&j and snatch are two out of a hundred thousand lifts and dn't come down to pure strength. Someguy out there can bent-press more than Lasha yet still be weaker, doesn't come down to strength, and in terms of strength Lasha is very weak compared to the strongest men.
@@meginna8354 whats next? anyone with 10 mins of coaching can throw 100kg over their head? Technique makes it possible for 57kg lifters to snatch 200kg?? This idea is almost baseless. If you can snatch 200kg, your probably pretty fucking strong, good technique or not.
Lasha certainly has top strongman pre-disposition ( height, weight, strength, power ... ) plus bonuses ( skill, mobility , speed ...) He is all legs though, so we'd need to see where his upper body strength is at. I have no doubt he could be up there contesting for the title with a few years though... Anoth specimen I would have love to see try strongman was a 400lbs Kirril Sarychev. ps : lol at the haters claiming he would " struggle to qualify for WSM " " struggle to win a regional show " when people with half his strength credentials and athlecism or " half" his size like Adam Bishop or Rob Kearney, or Grand Pa Marx Felix have qualified and ranked multiple times in WSM's top 10...
I'm glad Lasha is only 26 years old right now. After he peaks in weightlifting I'd imagine that he'd go far if he trains for powerlifting and/or strongman, most likely surpassing Mikhail Koklyaev's versatile achievements over the years. We'll see in 5-10 years, I hope.
The skill curve in weightlifting is wayyy more extreme than strongman. You can start strongman as a young adult and be great. If you want to be one of the best in the world in weightlifting, you need to have been training since a young kid.
Right, well, this is because of a few things, weightlifting is only two movements, while there can be five of possibly 30 or more events in strongman in any given competition. Strongman has also only really existed since the 80’s, and until around a decade ago the sport had ceased to puch itself. Weightlifting has been a very prominent sport for generations, given time, strongman could reach a similar plateau.
Strongman has so much different exercises if you've been training for general strength you will probably do well rather quickly when you carry over. I'm competing in amateur strongman competition and most of the time a lot of competitors have never or only once tried an event before a competition (especially things like truck pull and car deadlifts) yet they still manage to do great as there is huge carryover between general strength training in gym and strongman If you can be good at viking press while trying it for the first time I'm pretty sure you wouldn't even do decently at a weightlifting competition if you never snatched before. Unless of course you're the only one in your weight class like it happens sometimes lol
Three reasons I find hard to support the case of Lasha. 1) his C&J top is not the best in the world, everyone seems to have forgotten Leonid Taranenko 2) we all tend to focus on an outright power sport (weightlifting) when we should actually take speed out of the equation to measure muscle resistance instead and in this respect, taking into consideration the deadlift and standing press, look no further than Eddie Hall 3) if raw muscle resistance is what we are after, then shouldn't muscle weight be of great importance as well? If yes, then pound for pound, should be our method of comparison. I do not know who would top that comparison but I wouldn't be all too surprised if it happened to be female... However one name does pop up in my mind and it's none other than the Pocket Giant Naim Suleymanoglu
Cool vid, been watching strongman for 25 years love all aspects of strength. But I must say for how into bodybuilding I was in the early 2000s, I've grown to lose most of my respect for them after meeting them in person and seeing what the sport is really all about.
Worlds strongest in his own sport? Absolutely. Strongest man in the world? Absolutely not. To become worlds strongest man you have to be insanely strong all around not only in couple of movements. Look at Iron Biby for example. Super strong overhead presser, record holder, but he is nowhere near strongman podium....
You ignored one important thing between strongman and weight lifting athlete, that is years of weight lifting techniques training, these techniques really help in improving weights!!!
Thinking of lasha in strongman makes me think he'd be similar to Martins Licis. Very very technical and with excellent mobility, not the highest static strength on any one event but really takes advantage of his body and mobility to place high in almost all events.
I 100% agree dude - hopefully 2021 we will see Lasha’s 500 total. If he were to hit it what do you think he would make in each lift to achieve it? 230 sn + 270 cnj?? Keep up the awesome content bro, & stay safe 🙏🏼
If I know the 5% of lasha's personality he wouldn't like that. I think that unless you are the most motivated person you don't want to start a sport from scratch after testing yourself for decades
Lasha has supposedly not been tested once in 10 years, so I think your last point is debatable. There was no reason for him not to use as much drugs as he wanted to.
People saying "oh but have you heard of Eddie Hall or Thor" well I mean they are strong men and Lasha is a weight lifter, two different specific things people. And yes Lasha is the GOAT.
Strongman is a test of strength, endurance, athleticism, and power, Olympic lifting is a test of technique At least that's my opinion. I'm sure I won't convince any weightlifters of it but those are my thoughts As well Big Z who is considered to be the strongest ever did powerlifting and strongman and dominated in both easily
Try holding more than double your body weight overhead in the bottom of an ass to grass squat and tell me it’s all about technique. Positional strength is still strength.
@@patrickwithee7625 It is tho. The biggest limiting factor on overhead squat is mobility. The biggest limiting factor on back squat is core strength. One is about mobility one is about strength
Thor did one powerlifting comp, had one or two mislifts and posted the second largest total in history. Top strongmen could carry their skills over to other disciplines and dominate at will
Lasha has classical georgian gens. that's why he is such strong The region where he is come from (Sachkhere) was less prone to enemy conquests Real Georgian genes are white, beautiful strong people
And lasha doesnt pull nearly as much as top strongmen on strongman exercises. 2 different sportw makes no sense to compare. But strongmen are overall much more complete
So basically if Lasha did x, y and z, then MAYBE he could have been the best strongman competitor.....Ok. Same could be said of almost any elite level strength athlete competing in a different strength discipline.
Lol, Eddie Hall Lifted 216Kg from the floor to over his Head strick Only using muscle strenght. I don't think Lasha is anywhere Close to these strongman monsters.
@@yahyachafiq4112 And what does Lasha use, if not 'muscle strength' when he C&Js 264kg? His psychic abilities? It's not a question of who uses 'muscle strength', but simply that different motions use different muscles, and different force over time profiles. Eddie trains sustained peak muscular force production over periods of seconds. Lasha trains much greater muscular force production, but over fractions of a second. Of course the C&J involves momentum. But you generate that momentum by exerting a huge force on the barbell over a very brief time ... with your 'muscle strength'. It's a question of how you define strength. In terms of momentary peak force ... Lasha wins. In terms of force sustained over a couple of seconds Eddie wins.
I really hope he has a go in every strength sport. How mad would it be he could have an Olympic gold medal, a WSM and the all time powerlifting total ? Insane
What about Mark Henry tho? The guy competed in weightlifting, powerlifting and strongman all raw (and potentially natty given how vocal he is against PEDs)
I wish there was some kind of a futuristic device that allowed us to take a glimpse in a parallel universe to unveil this questions. An alternate reality in which Lasha did Strongman, Arnold performed in WWE, Hulk Hogan in bbing and Rippetoe was in Hollywood. Boy, wouldn't that be a total trip 😂
Koklyaev isnt a “master of sports”, he’s a “master of sports of international class”, there’s an important difference and you should know it if you’re gonna throw Russian terms around
Top Work: Bringing in Kolklayev as a Bridge between strongman and weightlifting : Bringing in the stress factor of testing Vs no testing ,, longer cycles and higher doses. Highlighting on the ease factor of Lasha lifts in training... ..bringing in Mart seim as a weightlifter with strongman traits.. This is the level of understanding that a sports leader should have ... and thumbs up to the incredible disclaimer ! 😀
Every post is thoughtful. Thank you. Please consider a piece on application of weightlifting to football - it seems that more and more major programs are including/inserting power snatch, Overhead squat and - wait for it - SQUAT CLEANS in their programs, to enhance power output and strength through range of motion of each athlete. Kasha’s power output, his ability to recruit stabilizers through his body with enormous weights, translates to other dynamic sports more than strength training. Princeton Football about to revamp its program around these principals!
@@ah7027 yes of course. but the point is talking about if was allowed to take the same stuff as strongman (i.e more/mainstream peds). Thing is he already is, and most likely it's more effective than what most strongman take (your everyday test, tren etc). I'm willing to bet he has a team of doctors giving him multiple peds that help his performance, as we know weightlifting is very corrupt when it comes to ped use.
I agree 100%. I have seen the powerlifters, strongmen, Highland games competitors, shot putters, basque lifters etc...there is no one that could lift the kind of weights that Lasha can move. None of these super equipped, short range squats.. Lasha squats as deep as possible for a man 6”6, 375 lbs and no supersuit. Puts more weight overhead than any human in the world right now. 220 kg snatch- no person has ever done this-especially with the ease he does it. Other sports are mostly equipped to the max. The shot putters might be as dynamic as the weightlifters but that would be the only ones close. Just 1 person’s opinion.
The heaviest weight from floor to overhead equals the strongest man in the world. If lifting that weight happens to require exceptional speed, agility, mobility, timing, strength and balance, then so be it.
@@aidanchambers6317 based on height alone lasha does not have the ability to over take thor. thor can deadlift 1000 lbs, lasha cannot. thor can squat 900, lasha cannot, etc.
nope, just good at olympic lifts, Eddie Hall can deadlift any weight quicker than him and toss any weight farther than he can. c&j and snatch are two out of a hundred thousand lifts and don't come down to pure strength. and in terms of strength Lasha is very weak compared to the strongest men.
I'm inclined to agree with Mr T' here... not least after seeing him squat the other day.... the man's a monster... hit's huge numbers with what seems like undue stress !!
Wouldnt even be close to Hathor ... Lasha has refined two functional moves to perfection. He obviously has a big engine behind them but he isn't even close to Hathor. Honestly, not even close. Hathor can squat 450kgs, bench in excess of 260kgs, and is approaching a 500kgs deadlift. Being the best Olympic lifter is a great achievement but honestly, he is not competing against a big gene pool. I would argue that everyone that gyms at some point tried these three lifts (S.B.D), so the potential candidates are huge. Both are great athletes, Hathor is by far the strongest man in the world at the moment.
You're very impressionable and gullible/naive/irrationally thinking then. just good at olympic lifts, C&J and Snatch are two movements out of a hundred thousand lifts and don't come down to pure strength, it comes down to his technique mastery. Eddie Hall can deadlift any weight quicker than him and toss any weight farther than he can. and in terms of strength Lasha is very weak compared to the strongest men.
Your reasons doesnt justify your argument. Lasha is strong just in 2 static movements and all the statics accessories sround them. Strongmen are strong in many movement (dinamic and static) and all the accessories around them. Lasha may have all the neccessary skills to be the best weightlifter and lacks the skills to be the best strongmen, the same that Hafthor has the skills to be the best strongmen but lacks the skills to be the bes bench presser. So your conclussions doesnt neccessary make sense. Finally one top bemchpresser can be a top squatter while another top benchpresser can be a bad squatter so the fact that Koklayev became good at strongman doesnt mean Lasha will acomplish the same or better.
Doesnt make sense at all... if he can press 270kg over his head he can benchpress it aswell... wich woud allready higher numbers then thor and shaw and very close to eddie. Also the warmup squats are acutally crazy heavy... not even elite powerlifter can bounce up 330kg just to warmup their knees. Larry did 395Kg and broke the worldrecord 2 weeks ago with that... by the look of those squats he can at least do 430kg and he doesnt even train for it.
Would be very interesting to see him go into Strongman, having a weight lifting background is advantageous for several lifts in Strongman and you can see it benefiting those who do not have the "pure strength" like Halfthor, Brian Shaw, Big Z etc.
you literally name dropped the guys with the biggest "pure strengh" ever to make your point lmao. pretty much no one as more raw strengh than these guys. People who benefit from technique are more people like Mateus Kieliskowsky or Martins Licis, but the 3 guys you talked about are no more than freaks of nature
Excuse me... i"m the current WSM... but I agree with you Lasha is a strong person! =)
edited - after WSM I'm going to compete in Olympic Weight lifting !
BTW great video!
Martins Licis was sittning her looking for a comment that said you are the current WSM, and here i find you
@@MrMrVicke haha thanks bud =)
Martins Licis thanks for being an inspiration, started doing strongman because of you, thank you :)
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Longer limbs help strongmen.
Next video- Why Zach Telander could be the strongest man.
The biggest disadvantage That thor suffer from😂
Long and lean ........plus 50 kg of weight become short and stocky
Wolfe Mooney I’d argue that longer limbs help everyone, but weight classes in strength sports tend to hurt tall athletes
Zack is the strongest natty
Next video - Why Johnny Sins could be the strongest man.
The worlds strongest man is your dad when you are six.
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Sorry but we all know Brad Castleberry is the strongest on this planet
We are talking about Humans Bro
No it's the '405 brigade homie' as he is so strong that he is not even allowed to participate in strong man .
Lmao@ Castleberry😂
Shirts off, pants down
while also being natural
zack: Weightlifting is not a strength sport
also zack: I believe LASHA is the STRONGEST man in the world.
Not strong but more power
Regarding the first statement, that doesn't mean he isn't or can't be strong[er].
Clickbait game strong.
Zack Telander hey, it got me so it works
KO KO He's the most powerful then, the most balanced man between strength and speed
Lasha’s gut to tee-shirt ratio is a sight to see, I tell ya. His clean is hits like butter.
What
The actual strongest man in the world, as Zach alluded to, is more likely unloading trucks at a warehouse in Reykjavik or Murmansk and has no idea of his potential ability.
Great
Sarychev did mention the guy who got him into powerlifting was significantly stronger than him at a lower bodyweight. Was benching 160kg for reps at under 100kg while he was still a novice.
No, that is stupid. You can't get elite athlete strong by lifting random stuff. You get it by training like an elite athlete for years upon years, building your life around your identity as an athlete.
If you want to say that the person with the best genetic potential to become the strongest person alive is not into strength sports, then you're probably right, but that is a completely different thing and has absolutely no bearing on one's occupation. But such speculation is gratuitous in the extreme anyway.
Erik Van der Zee Rhodesians never die, brother
That's what I think with elite athletes and sports. I believe that many people can excell at something due to coordination, strength, genetics and/or injury resistance. Now, not everybody in the whole world will practice the sport in which they are most likely to succed. And, on the other hand, there are cases where people are just good at sports and they might succed at any. For example, former NBA player Nate Robinson was very good at American Football and also as NBA player (in my opinion. They guy was 1,75m, won two dunk contests and made a name of himself in the best basketball league in the world). Also, you might heard the story of an athlete and how she or he started in a different sport. Then there is the motivation, discipline, will and perseveration to train, which not everybody might have, and finally, to be lucky to be in the best position to be the best you can ever be (access to the sport, popularity in the country, equipment, couches, personal situation, family support). It is hard to be a champion regardless of drug use (which I don't support)
An important advantage for weightlifters is that they usually start young under the guidance of experienced coaches and they are financially supported by their federations. Strongmen on the other hand usually start after the age of 20 it's very difficult for them to leave their day jobs to focus solely on their sport.
Yes but technique is a lot less important in strongman than in weightlifting, the training time is mostly beneficial for technique and not strength reasons
signs technique is not important for strongman? dellusional. have you ever watched any strongman events
@@axeman7509-tf2kf i would dissagree with that, strongman has so many events that all require perfect technique
not so much in the US. It's just as hard to be a weightlifter in countries that the sport doesn't get as much funding to support the athletes
V8ToYy nah
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Big Z is often said to be the world's strongest man of all time - though there are many contenders. It all depends on how you measure strength. Olympic lifters can put the most weight overhead, but strongmen competitors and powerlifters can do other sorts of lifts much heavier than most Olympic lifters.
Is the fastest man really running 100m? Yes. The rest ones I’m not sure. But yes, he does.
@Es Tim but usain bolt is the fastest ...someones potential somewhere else isnt the same ,all nfl players etc have all run sprints and non can match bolt ..same as strongman there isnt someone working on a farm somewhere whos stronger than Big Z its impossible ,he might have potential but its meaningless ...the strongest is someone who has insane genetics plus years of dedicated training
@@Gbonejohn1974 this is fact. People don’t understand how much faster bolt is than everyone else. But I think he just asked the question for the videos sake
Actually strongman has drug tests too, but for recreational drugs. So people on cocaine won't have their hearts exploding on live TV.
m kl yeah that’s what happened with Pudzianowski
m kl imagine being caught for cocaine in a drug test in strongman ..
All the drugs in the world , and you took the one that was illegal ..... *sigh*
The full potential of a man is on drugs to build strength & muscle, excite the nervous system, and kill pain. Don’t we wanna see the absolute max performance?
3:09 It's amazing to see Lasha just tapping those plates from either ends like a toy
Man I missed that the first viewing. Such a casual display of strength.
Can I just say I love ALL the videos. You and Clarence got me into weightlifting ‘properly’. Thanks!
You forgot his 320x3 that looked like an RPE 7
was looking for this comment.
Anyone have a link?
He did it ATG too 😱
5:20 no PED use there bro, just hard work and dedication
lol
he did use steroids and everyone knows the story about it but he is also incredibly hard working and talented man.
XD
I mean Mariusz Pudzianowski never said that he is not using and know he is a mma fighter, so i guess hard work is the part of the process
Lasha is on peds too, everyone is
I'm a simple man, I don't care about Drugs, all I want, is see some guys lift heavy things
good. I hate it when people are like "atleast lasha is all natrual" as if anybody at that level of strength sports could afford not doing everything in their power to get strong...
Also, no one is close to Lasha in Weightlifting, He's basically improving the record every year, and the way he handles those weights, you can't help to wonder how much is in the tank, A LOT!!!!! 🇬🇪
500 kg deadlift got me convinced that Eddie Hall is the king of strength
Im pretty sure the video is about winning the worlds strongest man competition. And when he trained for that deadlift he wasn't even properly able to compete in strongman since he lost so much mobility and speed. There is so much more than raw strength that is needed in strongman. I would go as far to say that strongman is closer to olympic lifting than powerlifting.
@@Leksuttaja149 id say strongman resembles crossfit more than others. aside from body weight movements both tend to use odd implements, differing movements and odd gimmicks to make it interesting. So basically crossfit is a smaller persons strongman lol.
@@ah7027 don't ever make that comparison again
Nippel_Cripper thor is gonna pull 501 is he going to be king of strength then?
Also eddie won one wsm what about big z or brian shaw who both won multiple also eddie never one an arnold so his case for beimg the best is very weak
@@philipmeisterl he's either pulling 510 or 520
Whole Georgia is for Lasha 🇬🇪 thanks for this video.
Maybe you also want to see Levan Saginashvili, just check him the strongeast armwrestler now
If we define "strength" in more holistic terms, and not just as the sum of the strength of different body limbs, the same as we would define "health" not just as the congregate of the health of separate body organs, then I believe Olympic weightlifting is the most holistic - and spectacular - display of strength. Picking up a weight from the ground, not from a rack, and lifting it, not to your waist, not going down and up with it, not curling it, but lifting it over your head as far as your arms would extend, covering thus in a complete, harmonious, technical and gracious movement, the entire extension of your body and limbs, in a full range of motion, this is STRENGTH. That being said, Lasha is the strongest men in absolute terms, relative to his body weight, no, there have been others a lot stronger than Lasha.
amazing words..
Brute static strength Eddie Hall is the strongest. He was squatting 800 for reps easily in training, deadlifting 900 for reps easily in training, 600lbs bench for reps in training. Lasha would have a long way to go to match those lifts.
Lasha is the strongest when it comes to explosive. But his accomplishments in explosive strength eclipse a 500kg equipped deadlift tbh. 220/265 is insane.
He would do well in strongman but would need to put a lot of weight and muscle on to match the top guys.
Not to mention the change in training style and focus. He would lose certain strengths as he worked upon others due to the total workload.
Big Z squatted 420 kg for 5 😐
Eddie Hall confesed that he used a high quantity of illegal substances like insuline and roids
Daniel Topete and lasha is on heavy dosages of crap too lol
@@danieltopete4230 every high level strongman is on (probably a high quantity of) roids
he is the strongest because he lifted the heaviest weight a record.
simple as that.
no doubt
U didn’t need to click bait I see the name Lasha I click
Lasha is strong in only 2 lifts but strongman are strong In the rest of the lifts
He's the strongest person at lifting a perfectly calibrated Olympic barbell over his head. And that's a hell of a feat however he's never loaded a stone, pulled a truck, carried a 1100lb yoke, carried farmers 100ft, or deadlifted close to 1000lbs or dealt with the brutality and competition schedule of Strongman. He lifts in climate controlled settings in gyms.
But it's not like Thor or Shaw could ever Olympic weightlift at a high level within the confines of the rules
You also site Koklyaev who's a way more well rounded lifter than lasha ever has been and while he was successful he never won the ultimate title.
So really this video is weightlifter masturbation.
You do realize lasha is like 25 while the strong men are 30+ juicing a fuck ton more. Clearance Kennedy deadlifts 700+ beltless for reps at half the body weight of lasha. Lasha's deadlift is way closer to 1k than most strongman that compete juice to the tooth
arianjel hernandez pure strength continues to climb as you age. There are guys in their 40s at the top level. The juice comment is irrelevant as multiple bans for drug use have proven. Your boys are still on. They just haven’t been caught. Lance Armstrong wasn’t caught either.
@@Xplora213 exactly. Lasha can be just as competitive if he trained to be a strongman starting now and start competing at 30
@@Southerneng larry wheels is also 25.. Can he compare to his pr numbers?
@@Dave-se4sb I am sure larry could but he moves more products by being a shredded lifter with amazing powerlifting totals. If he bulked and trained in strongman he would be competitive.
> Zack: "The Rippetoes of the world saying squatting/pulling strength directly correlates with the oly lifts are stupid and wrong" (rightly so)
> Also Zack: Lasha's oly numbers are ungodly and therefore I shall speculate that his squatting and pulling numbers shall be equally devastating and ungodly
:P Just a bit of fun before anyone is triggered.
the strength in "slow" heavy max lifts like deadlifts and squats will carry over to Olympic lifts if absolute perfect proficiency and high volume training of Olympic lifts is there.
Ilya ilyin recently described his training when he trained "Bulgarian style" during his teenage years which led him to be a world champ at 17. Hitting 170sn 216cj at 85kg bw. Do you know what the training consisted of?
squat, clean & jerk, snatches and deadlifts.
The highly successful Chinese system of the past 20 years also prominently featured deadlifts, done at weights heavy enough that back starts to round. 1-3rep max efforts!
We all know that weightlifters all squat all day, but the deadlifting is lesser known. Both Soviet and Chinese systems also use a wide array of accessory exercises. Some to improve technique but many are straight up bodybuilding exercises.
If you can't move it slow, you can't move it fast. Strengthmatters.
@@oliverallen5324 the amount of upward movement in O lifts is actually much less than what newcomers assume. The whole "being fast" thing is a more about being fast to get under rather than being fast in pulling the bar up. This is obviously much more true of the clean & jerk. Someone fast and flexible should be able to drop into a front squat to get under a 70% deadlift. The amount of upward movement in the "2nd pull" is tiny. A couple of inches and it's about the same for the jerk too. Anyone can move fast over a couple inches. A 2016 Eddie hall included.
dfpguitar Speed can be taught, if you just don’t have it, you just don’t have it. Genetically speaking.
@@dfpguitar the clean has almost no correlation with the deadlift, wtf are you even talking about????
The only thing I want to see is Lasha truly max out his squat. It's gotta be crazy
Bob of Astora im gonna say around 450kg would pretty much be a guarantee if that’s all he did
@@lennyganado3975 450 raw in sleeves seems a bit high.
Given his build Id say that with some specific training a 420+ dead would be a reasonable guess though.
Lasha would make an incredible strongman but he's best at weightlifting cause he's so fast and agile
he would make an ok strongman
You need a lot of mobility and agility in strongman too. The whole point of it is lifting and or carrying akward objects for as long as possible. I believe that olympic weightlifting and strongman really aren't that far a part especially since both are very old and there have been legends in the sports that have done both. The best example of this is Paul Anderson. I believe that If heavyweight weigtlifters would train strongman they would excel at it. And if strongmen would train olympic weightlifting they would excel at it too.
@@meginna8354 he would make an amazing strongman. He is insanely strong and allready has the built for it. If he trained a couple of years he would be competetive in worlds strongest man
@@Leksuttaja149 He is not insanely strong compared to strongmen, after a couple of years he might qualify top 10. Just because someone is a good olympic lifter or powerlifter does not mean that they excel at strongman, and a strongman would never excel at olympic lifting unless they started training it as kids.
@@Leksuttaja149 no way.
Damn, that´s a really well thought out opinion. Shame you're wrong though.
I believe that Zydrunas is the king in every field of strength. Although Lasha has both records in weightlifting but it is difficult for him to do 230kg log press.
100% and anyone who thinks otherwise is seriously in denial
@@getstrongby4038 why have you been replying with the exact same thing under several comments for the past week? Get a life 🤣😂
For the Koklayev comparison you also have to account for how much other strongmen have developed since his days. Some events like max deadlift have made _crazy_ leaps since then. What used to be asolid WR at his time is now the base level for elite competitions.
Anatoliy Pisarenko a famed Soviet lifter stated in an interview that everyone doped because it is impossible to train and recover from type of workloads they did.
Hello Zack, I watch your videos every time and some like 10 times all the way from Kenya (don't know if you know this country, ha ha ha) You do a great job and represent this sport we love 100% Keep it up!! Up like Lasha !!!
Relatively speaking he is. In particular weightlifting where he is no doubt the strongest and most technical.
You know why Lasha wont go to WSM after weightlifting.....because right now hes building a legacy and when his career is done he'll be remembered as the greatest weightlifter of all time its just a matter time and hes still young.
Champions like that dont finish an illustrious career then jump into another sport just to participate.
I'd say if it leaves the Olympics
And he has a break period in his 30s
He might
Lasha has the best trained body for performing the snatch and clean and jerk in history. The ultimate Speed strength specialist!
1:02 first time seeing someone pronounce kh correctly, good job
Lasha is the strongest in the world and he will make new records again and again.
He is kind monster.
God bless you LASHA.
I think Zack is massively discounting the technique of strongman. He seems to treat strongman as a sport where "you just have to be strong and then you win" when in reality its so much more than that. Strongmen have to compete in a huge variety of events that change contest to contest, competitions span multiple days, and very rarely does someone sweep every event. Strongman competitions are a points battle that spans days, not just two lifts that are identical every time. The training has to be massively broad to execute a large amount of movements extremely well, Lasha is undoubtedly incredibly strong and could be a solid strongman but he has in no way proven himself to have the adaptability that strongmen have to have to compete at the highest level
It's pretty obvious that Hafthor Bjornsson is currently the strongest man alive. Barring the Olympic lifts or any other highly technical lift, I don't see Lasha even coming close to Hafthor
Next up: why Hafthor Bjornsson could be the World’s best Weightlifter
He never could, trust me. It's not that simple. Don't argue with half knowledge.
@@sabasanodze2319 woooosh
Koklyaev holds the world record Supertotal: Lifetime best powerlifts + Olympic lifts.
I do powerlifting myself but I’d definitely say Olympic weightlifting is way harder and more impressive
More impressive certainly possible. Harder? I'm not so sure. It depends what you mean by harder. Peaking (properly) for a powerlifting meet really takes a toll on your body, especially at higher levels.
Julia Williams Well I agree powerlifting is difficult but I think it’s way more impressive to see a nearly 600lb clean and jerk than to see a 1000lb squat or deadlift. Just my opinion though 🤷🏾♂️
@@djrobinson6602 that's not the part of your post I was responding to though lol. I even might agree with you there. My point is being a competitive powerlifter is extremely taxing on your body as well as extremely time consuming so I have a hard time believing olympic lifting is harder over all, although it is certainly more difficult technically. They are probably pretty similar in how "hard" they are at the highest level for very different reasons.
@@juliawilliams1355 That is completely incorrect. Look at the mobility that weightlifting requires. Do you honestly thing slowly picking up or squatting 1000lbs is more taxing than throwing up and catching 600lb on your shoulders? A lot of weightlifters train twice a day. I haven't heard of any powerlifters doing this. You talk about "peaking", don't you realise that weightlifters have to do the exact same thing for their contests?
@@fudruckers3916 You just defeated your own argument.
First you said-
" Do you honestly thing slowly picking up or squatting 1000lbs is more taxing than throwing up and catching 600lb on your shoulders?"
Then you said-
"A lot of weightlifters train twice a day. I haven't heard of any powerlifters doing this."
....
Yes, powerlifting is taxing enough that you wouldn't train twice a day -_-
Love the love you're giving to the weightlifting community. Even with all the exposure due to CrossFit, it is still an underappreciated sport that anybody can be a part of, at least, in the USA.
Zack, you are right. To move WEIGHT weight over your head that no one else has ever done, like cmon bruh. I agree with you
You're factually wrong then, it's a technique feat, c&j and snatch are two out of a hundred thousand lifts and dn't come down to pure strength. Someguy out there can bent-press more than Lasha yet still be weaker, doesn't come down to strength, and in terms of strength Lasha is very weak compared to the strongest men.
@@meginna8354 whats next? anyone with 10 mins of coaching can throw 100kg over their head? Technique makes it possible for 57kg lifters to snatch 200kg?? This idea is almost baseless. If you can snatch 200kg, your probably pretty fucking strong, good technique or not.
@@alexb12272 nice strawman
Lasha certainly has top strongman pre-disposition ( height, weight, strength, power ... ) plus bonuses ( skill, mobility , speed ...)
He is all legs though, so we'd need to see where his upper body strength is at.
I have no doubt he could be up there contesting for the title with a few years though...
Anoth specimen I would have love to see try strongman was a 400lbs Kirril Sarychev.
ps : lol at the haters claiming he would " struggle to qualify for WSM " " struggle to win a regional show " when people with half his strength credentials and athlecism or " half" his size like Adam Bishop or Rob Kearney, or Grand Pa Marx Felix have qualified and ranked multiple times in WSM's top 10...
He had us in the thumbnail, not gonna lie
Lasha is my spirit animal
Well, you never know. Koklyaev certainly did do well in Strongman. I'd love to see Lasha give it a try.
I'm glad Lasha is only 26 years old right now. After he peaks in weightlifting I'd imagine that he'd go far if he trains for powerlifting and/or strongman, most likely surpassing Mikhail Koklyaev's versatile achievements over the years. We'll see in 5-10 years, I hope.
The skill curve in weightlifting is wayyy more extreme than strongman. You can start strongman as a young adult and be great. If you want to be one of the best in the world in weightlifting, you need to have been training since a young kid.
Right, well, this is because of a few things, weightlifting is only two movements, while there can be five of possibly 30 or more events in strongman in any given competition. Strongman has also only really existed since the 80’s, and until around a decade ago the sport had ceased to puch itself. Weightlifting has been a very prominent sport for generations, given time, strongman could reach a similar plateau.
That's true just like gymnastics also
Strongman has so much different exercises if you've been training for general strength you will probably do well rather quickly when you carry over. I'm competing in amateur strongman competition and most of the time a lot of competitors have never or only once tried an event before a competition (especially things like truck pull and car deadlifts) yet they still manage to do great as there is huge carryover between general strength training in gym and strongman
If you can be good at viking press while trying it for the first time I'm pretty sure you wouldn't even do decently at a weightlifting competition if you never snatched before. Unless of course you're the only one in your weight class like it happens sometimes lol
Three reasons I find hard to support the case of Lasha. 1) his C&J top is not the best in the world, everyone seems to have forgotten Leonid Taranenko
2) we all tend to focus on an outright power sport (weightlifting) when we should actually take speed out of the equation to measure muscle resistance instead and in this respect, taking into consideration the deadlift and standing press, look no further than Eddie Hall
3) if raw muscle resistance is what we are after, then shouldn't muscle weight be of great importance as well? If yes, then pound for pound, should be our method of comparison. I do not know who would top that comparison but I wouldn't be all too surprised if it happened to be female... However one name does pop up in my mind and it's none other than the Pocket Giant Naim Suleymanoglu
Cool vid, been watching strongman for 25 years love all aspects of strength. But I must say for how into bodybuilding I was in the early 2000s, I've grown to lose most of my respect for them after meeting them in person and seeing what the sport is really all about.
Worlds strongest in his own sport? Absolutely. Strongest man in the world? Absolutely not. To become worlds strongest man you have to be insanely strong all around not only in couple of movements. Look at Iron Biby for example. Super strong overhead presser, record holder, but he is nowhere near strongman podium....
You ignored one important thing between strongman and weight lifting athlete, that is years of weight lifting techniques training, these techniques really help in improving weights!!!
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Thinking of lasha in strongman makes me think he'd be similar to Martins Licis. Very very technical and with excellent mobility, not the highest static strength on any one event but really takes advantage of his body and mobility to place high in almost all events.
I believe licis foundation is oly lifting. I think Licis has gotten to big. I think lasha static strength would be better than Licis
I 100% agree dude - hopefully 2021 we will see Lasha’s 500 total. If he were to hit it what do you think he would make in each lift to achieve it? 230 sn + 270 cnj?? Keep up the awesome content bro, & stay safe 🙏🏼
I agree. Would love to see him in a strength sport when he's done weightlifting :)
If I know the 5% of lasha's personality he wouldn't like that. I think that unless you are the most motivated person you don't want to start a sport from scratch after testing yourself for decades
Lasha has supposedly not been tested once in 10 years, so I think your last point is debatable. There was no reason for him not to use as much drugs as he wanted to.
Supposedly?, explain
Szilárd Hompoth citation needed
People saying "oh but have you heard of Eddie Hall or Thor" well I mean they are strong men and Lasha is a weight lifter, two different specific things people.
And yes Lasha is the GOAT.
When I die I want the phrase "given the freedom of limitless drug use, he could have been the strongest man in the world" on my gravestone.
"osssssie rules football" lmao
He's still very young , he will win the contest one day
He isnt near brian shaw or hafthor lmao
But he also isn’t taking enough steroids to kill a small child
And they’re nowhere near lasha in weightlifting
awdw cd if they learned the technique, i bet they would beat lasha easily lol
@@pr0v1c97 weightlifting is literally a whole different animal to anything else. the way they deadlift and squat wont transfer to weightlifting
@@pr0v1c97 you have never attempted a snatch or C&J in your life.
Strongman is a test of strength, endurance, athleticism, and power,
Olympic lifting is a test of technique
At least that's my opinion. I'm sure I won't convince any weightlifters of it but those are my thoughts
As well Big Z who is considered to be the strongest ever did powerlifting and strongman and dominated in both easily
Try holding more than double your body weight overhead in the bottom of an ass to grass squat and tell me it’s all about technique. Positional strength is still strength.
@@patrickwithee7625 It is tho. The biggest limiting factor on overhead squat is mobility. The biggest limiting factor on back squat is core strength. One is about mobility one is about strength
Man is forgetting about 2017 Eddie hall
Great video Zack! Keep up the good work.
The same could be said the other way around. What if Eddie Hall and Thor would've trained to be weightlifters, surely they would have been world class
Thor did one powerlifting comp, had one or two mislifts and posted the second largest total in history. Top strongmen could carry their skills over to other disciplines and dominate at will
@@liamfergie One of my favorites is Shaw casually breaking the WR for rowing 100m on his first try
Liam Laddy then why don't they lol
@@mrunknown2341 because they want to compete in strongmen? Being able to be good at something doesn't mean someone should.
@@liamfergie Lol if you think any Strongman would come anywhere close to Lasha's 484 total.
Half a minute pass, and heard you called ⚽ , Football... Clicked the mini button and gave a straight like 👍
Ray Williams is even more tested than Lasha and is way stronger in squats
specificity... the whole basis of the video. if Lasha trained like Ray does..... use your imagination for the rest.
Lasha squats high bar ass to grass though
@@alexb12272 If, if, if, that's the thing. Maybe he'd be so much better. Maybe just a little. We don't know and we won't know.
@@alexb12272 What if Ray trained like Lasha? We already know Ray is strong enough. We don't know if Lasha is strong enough.
Lasha has classical georgian gens. that's why he is such strong
The region where he is come from (Sachkhere) was less prone to enemy conquests
Real Georgian genes are white, beautiful strong people
Like Stalin?
Imagine if big z was a weightlifter? Seriously
Lasha is a heart of Georgia !! Salute Zack ,May be one day you will come to Georgia
Will there be someone video called: " I believe that Thor is the best weightlifter of the world " ?
Thor does not have good enough shoulder mobility to snatch well.
Hey Zack Thanks for the video man
Nobody in strongman throws more 500lb overhead
And lasha doesnt pull nearly as much as top strongmen on strongman exercises. 2 different sportw makes no sense to compare. But strongmen are overall much more complete
In the amount of time you made your 100k subscribe video; til now, you’ve gained 2,000 subs. Excellent work.
So basically if Lasha did x, y and z, then MAYBE he could have been the best strongman competitor.....Ok. Same could be said of almost any elite level strength athlete competing in a different strength discipline.
Lol,
Eddie Hall Lifted 216Kg from the floor to over his Head strick Only using muscle strenght.
I don't think Lasha is anywhere Close to these strongman monsters.
YAHya chafiq "Strict muscle strength" Idk if bouncing the weight of your belly is that strict
@@yahyachafiq4112 And what does Lasha use, if not 'muscle strength' when he C&Js 264kg? His psychic abilities? It's not a question of who uses 'muscle strength', but simply that different motions use different muscles, and different force over time profiles. Eddie trains sustained peak muscular force production over periods of seconds. Lasha trains much greater muscular force production, but over fractions of a second. Of course the C&J involves momentum. But you generate that momentum by exerting a huge force on the barbell over a very brief time ... with your 'muscle strength'. It's a question of how you define strength. In terms of momentary peak force ... Lasha wins. In terms of force sustained over a couple of seconds Eddie wins.
I really hope he has a go in every strength sport. How mad would it be he could have an Olympic gold medal, a WSM and the all time powerlifting total ? Insane
Never guna happen.
Lasha might retire as a Strongman, that would be awesome to see.
he would struggle to win an amateur show..
there is no smooth spinning 28mm weightlifting barbell in any event lol
What about Mark Henry tho? The guy competed in weightlifting, powerlifting and strongman all raw (and potentially natty given how vocal he is against PEDs)
not a single shred of chance he was natural
I wish there was some kind of a futuristic device that allowed us to take a glimpse in a parallel universe to unveil this questions.
An alternate reality in which Lasha did Strongman, Arnold performed in WWE, Hulk Hogan in bbing and Rippetoe was in Hollywood.
Boy, wouldn't that be a total trip 😂
Awesome video Zack!
- Wants to have opinion on strength sports listened to.
- Doesn’t know Martins Licis is current WSM.
Lmao, was cringing for him when he made that mistake.
hutchmusician yeah he is but haftor is stronger
k3431D3 No, by definition he is not.
We know Usian Bolt is the fastest because he ran 28 mph which no human has ever done before
Very true
Koklyaev isnt a “master of sports”, he’s a “master of sports of international class”, there’s an important difference and you should know it if you’re gonna throw Russian terms around
Top Work: Bringing in Kolklayev as a Bridge between strongman and weightlifting : Bringing in the stress factor of testing Vs no testing ,, longer cycles and higher doses. Highlighting on the ease factor of Lasha lifts in training... ..bringing in Mart seim as a weightlifter with strongman traits.. This is the level of understanding that a sports leader should have ... and thumbs up to the incredible disclaimer ! 😀
@5:35 why you gota do my mans like that
Because he was disqualified in 2004 for roids.
Every post is thoughtful. Thank you. Please consider a piece on application of weightlifting to football - it seems that more and more major programs are including/inserting power snatch, Overhead squat and - wait for it - SQUAT CLEANS in their programs, to enhance power output and strength through range of motion of each athlete. Kasha’s power output, his ability to recruit stabilizers through his body with enormous weights, translates to other dynamic sports more than strength training. Princeton Football about to revamp its program around these principals!
point at the end makes no sense, drugs arent everything and if you are taking something more isnt better in most cases
actually in sports at this level drugs are a huge factor. Two athletes putting in the same effort the drugged one will see better results.
@@ah7027 yes of course. but the point is talking about if was allowed to take the same stuff as strongman (i.e more/mainstream peds). Thing is he already is, and most likely it's more effective than what most strongman take (your everyday test, tren etc). I'm willing to bet he has a team of doctors giving him multiple peds that help his performance, as we know weightlifting is very corrupt when it comes to ped use.
I agree 100%. I have seen the powerlifters, strongmen, Highland games competitors, shot putters, basque lifters etc...there is no one that could lift the kind of weights that Lasha can move. None of these super equipped, short range squats.. Lasha squats as deep as possible for a man 6”6, 375 lbs and no supersuit. Puts more weight overhead than any human in the world right now. 220 kg snatch- no person has ever done this-especially with the ease he does it. Other sports are mostly equipped to the max. The shot putters might be as dynamic as the weightlifters but that would be the only ones close. Just 1 person’s opinion.
Lasha, stop it!
220 snatch is more impressive than 500 deadlift, tbh
Lasha did 500 aswell (dont ask for the link, i dont have it, but its true
The heaviest weight from floor to overhead equals the strongest man in the world. If lifting that weight happens to require exceptional speed, agility, mobility, timing, strength and balance, then so be it.
luke g he has the potential to be,, thats the point of the video
@@aidanchambers6317 based on height alone lasha does not have the ability to over take thor. thor can deadlift 1000 lbs, lasha cannot. thor can squat 900, lasha cannot, etc.
nope, just good at olympic lifts, Eddie Hall can deadlift any weight quicker than him and toss any weight farther than he can. c&j and snatch are two out of a hundred thousand lifts and don't come down to pure strength. and in terms of strength Lasha is very weak compared to the strongest men.
I refuse to believe lasha takes any drugs, or ever took any peds. Lalalala (fingers in ears) lalalala
I'm inclined to agree with Mr T' here... not least after seeing him squat the other day.... the man's a monster... hit's huge numbers with what seems like undue stress !!
Wouldnt even be close to Hathor ... Lasha has refined two functional moves to perfection. He obviously has a big engine behind them but he isn't even close to Hathor. Honestly, not even close. Hathor can squat 450kgs, bench in excess of 260kgs, and is approaching a 500kgs deadlift.
Being the best Olympic lifter is a great achievement but honestly, he is not competing against a big gene pool. I would argue that everyone that gyms at some point tried these three lifts (S.B.D), so the potential candidates are huge.
Both are great athletes, Hathor is by far the strongest man in the world at the moment.
You're very impressionable and gullible/naive/irrationally thinking then. just good at olympic lifts, C&J and Snatch are two movements out of a hundred thousand lifts and don't come down to pure strength, it comes down to his technique mastery. Eddie Hall can deadlift any weight quicker than him and toss any weight farther than he can. and in terms of strength Lasha is very weak compared to the strongest men.
Your reasons doesnt justify your argument. Lasha is strong just in 2 static movements and all the statics accessories sround them. Strongmen are strong in many movement (dinamic and static) and all the accessories around them. Lasha may have all the neccessary skills to be the best weightlifter and lacks the skills to be the best strongmen, the same that Hafthor has the skills to be the best strongmen but lacks the skills to be the bes bench presser. So your conclussions doesnt neccessary make sense. Finally one top bemchpresser can be a top squatter while another top benchpresser can be a bad squatter so the fact that Koklayev became good at strongman doesnt mean Lasha will acomplish the same or better.
dynamic techniqe movements*
lasha is crazy strong, still nowhere near Thor, Eddie Hall and Brian Shaw
Doesnt make sense at all... if he can press 270kg over his head he can benchpress it aswell... wich woud allready higher numbers then thor and shaw and very close to eddie. Also the warmup squats are acutally crazy heavy... not even elite powerlifter can bounce up 330kg just to warmup their knees. Larry did 395Kg and broke the worldrecord 2 weeks ago with that... by the look of those squats he can at least do 430kg and he doesnt even train for it.
@@falkpilz369 Koklayev did c&j 250 and bench 230. So no Lasha can't bench 270.
does ur brain even function? or is it dead like xxx tentacion
@@mirkomarjanovic3234 But he can bench 250* logic
Would be very interesting to see him go into Strongman, having a weight lifting background is advantageous for several lifts in Strongman and you can see it benefiting those who do not have the "pure strength" like Halfthor, Brian Shaw, Big Z etc.
you literally name dropped the guys with the biggest "pure strengh" ever to make your point lmao. pretty much no one as more raw strengh than these guys. People who benefit from technique are more people like Mateus Kieliskowsky or Martins Licis, but the 3 guys you talked about are no more than freaks of nature