Why are you watching it if you think its all crap? What's the point of swinging a stick and hitting a ball or a puck? We do what we love because we love to do it. Period. I've lifted in the same flight as Kirk at a World Championships. Still my greatest day ever.
7th time and still keep going, to watch this over and over again. Captain Kirk..... Hard to find guys like him today.... haven't seen anyone with this insanity and intensity....
PhysiqueAsthetiQa I agree. He is an awesome lifter. Idk if I respect his attitude towards people in the gym though. If people were using the squat rack he said himself he'd yell at them to get off or throw a plate at him. At the end of the day, this guy is a legend in powerlifting but def not in the humble personality department lol
Drakes Cakes True... I think he’d get kicked out of a standard/commercial gym if he ever pulled that stuff nowadays. My Cousin was a Powerlifter back in the early 90’s; nothing big, a few local meets... The stories of what took place at power gyms in the early 90s are are insane. Drugs, guns & everything in between. Point is, I’m sure that behavior was perfectly acceptable in his gym.
battling the demons using his body as his temple. I love this guy, thank you nicks power and strength for letting me know whats up, and thank you to the legends providing this
For all the Kirk fans, here is some long lost home video that we just posted of him. At first glance his thickness at the time (1994) is almost shocking. Check it out here th-cam.com/video/isdbuAwXjLs/w-d-xo.html
why is it that in every powerlifting or weightlifting video there are people arguing about how good fighters powerlifters would be or how they would get beat to death in a match against boxers or mma fighters?? i mean.. really? who the fuck cares? these are different sports, the athletes of each discipline train for diferent goals and have different talents, so why compare them? what's the point of this absurd generalisation? go compare a sprinter with a basketball player next..
The idea that anyone who trains in MMA or boxing can take down a heavyweight elite powerlifter is just ludicrous. Could a woman who takes boxing classes every day beat up a 250 pound man (one who plays sports and thus has some athletic ability)? Probably not, no matter how good of a fighter she is, the man's strength and size gives him too much of an advantage. It's the same situation here - even if you're the best fighter in your boxing gym, your MMA studio, even if you've won a tournament... the brute strength level is just too much. They will be able to toss you around like it's nothing. It's only once you reach elite, professional, world class levels of fighting skill that your fighting ability can overcome the strength of someone who can squat 1000 lbs. And even then, I don't count the powerlifter out automatically. The lifter will most probably lose in a cage, but Kirk in his prime against a UFC champ out on the open pavement in a fight to the death? If he manages to grab the fighter and slam his head into the ground it's lights out, permanently. This isn't a Bruce Lee kung fu movie. Strength does matter. It just hurts people's pride too much to see something as definitive as a number in powerlifting that they know they can never attain, whereas they can make all kinds of subjective claims about their mystical fighting prowess.
First off, I have no idea where this thought came from. Strength is a huge portion of capability, everything starts with strength, but you have to point a gun to hit a target which is a skill. If raw power were everything, a bull would kill every matador.
I'm old and fat now but I've dabbled in both kickboxing and lifting, strength definitely helps but there is also a point of diminishing returns. Also in terms of knockout a lot of that is more about timing and accuracy than sheer power. As the old saying goes "it's the punch you don't see coming that hurts the most." But I agree that a UFC level fighter is probably too quick and too skilled for a champion powerlifter. A guy on youtube that took a few boxing or jiu jitsu lessons … not so much.
I know your talking about fanboys, but in Donnie thompsons defense he squats pretty deep most of the time, and sometimes during his most extreme squats that hes trying for the first time etc, he will squat a little bit different, but hes handling weight no ones handled and its new to him too
There are weight classes in every single fighting sport for a reason. Fighting up 10 weight classes against someone with visible abs and a 1003X2 squat is not realistic for even world class mma fighters below 200lbs
@@LinusE no it doesn't. I'd go as far as to say extreme levels of powerlifting will make a fighter less able. I can outlift my cousin's total with 300ish pounds, a professional cage fighter that weighs in around the same as me (180-190lbs at 5.7 each) yet he can easily slap my shit in sparring because he has been fighting for nearly 18 years. We got his squat up to 200 - 210 kg and he got way too stiff to do headkicks. In fighting power and endurance is superior to strength. You really think a super heavyweight equiped lifter could take on someone like Miocic, Ngannu or Overeem? When was the last time a powerlifter took a sledgehammer to the head ?
@@CeroAshura If you’ve looked at Westside and Conjugate you’ll see that clearly fighting sports can take advantage of explosive strength in correlation with sports specific training. Being stiff isn’t necessarily a downside from squatting high weights, I have no idea how much sports specific training the person did on the side, how much stretching and how much isolated exercises etc
@@CeroAshura also, if you’re a extreme level of powerlifter you’re a powerlifter. It’s very difficult to be elite level powerlifter AND a high level of any other sport at the same time. Especially since powerlifting and boxing takes advantage of one thing: explosive power and dynamic strength. Static strength helps PL, not boxing. High levels of cardio helps boxing endurance, muscular endurance helps powerlifting not necessarily boxing
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Why are you watching it if you think its all crap? What's the point of swinging a stick and hitting a ball or a puck? We do what we love because we love to do it. Period. I've lifted in the same flight as Kirk at a World Championships. Still my greatest day ever.
I have probably listened to this about 10-12 times. No kidding. I just fucking love Capt Kirk's intensity and mentality.
7th time and still keep going, to watch this over and over again. Captain Kirk..... Hard to find guys like him today.... haven't seen anyone with this insanity and intensity....
PhysiqueAsthetiQa I agree. He is an awesome lifter. Idk if I respect his attitude towards people in the gym though. If people were using the squat rack he said himself he'd yell at them to get off or throw a plate at him. At the end of the day, this guy is a legend in powerlifting but def not in the humble personality department lol
Drakes Cakes
True... I think he’d get kicked out of a standard/commercial gym if he ever pulled that stuff nowadays. My Cousin was a Powerlifter back in the early 90’s; nothing big, a few local meets... The stories of what took place at power gyms in the early 90s are are insane. Drugs, guns & everything in between. Point is, I’m sure that behavior was perfectly acceptable in his gym.
Take away the STEROIDS and watch as the FAKE STEROID "strength" VANISHES away!
ROIDERS are FAKES!!
Stay natural buddy!
My takeaway : "It's just ballast!". Repeating this in my head before the heavy work. It helps big. 👍
It's like the famous Ronnie Coleman "Light weight, baby!" mantra. It's a good way to trick your brain and CNS into firing hard each time.
One of the most inspiring videos I have seen regarding strength training, must have watched it about 10 times now!
battling the demons using his body as his temple. I love this guy, thank you nicks power and strength for letting me know whats up, and thank you to the legends providing this
Awesome. I'll never forget this guy on the cover of PLUSA. What an animal, great lecture!!
This talk was the real deal
Such a great human.
Absolute LEGEND
It's a crime and tragedy that this video doesn't have millions of views.
legend...inspirational
...Im gonna do single leg extensions..."
"...dude, no, go home. Eat a steak."
Lmao
i will take some red lentils,steak is unethical and causes heart disease
@@SUPERSTROKE333 Amen to that brother.
A legend.. Best squater
Sickening motivation
20:44
Story of my new gym. Headphones are magical things.
I love kirks belly
Every minute you rub it is 10 pounds to your squat
I wish I could say "135 is lifted like 935"
well, yeah. but you have to understand these guys are freaks. that's what they can do.
For all the Kirk fans, here is some long lost home video that we just posted of him. At first glance his thickness at the time (1994) is almost shocking. Check it out here th-cam.com/video/isdbuAwXjLs/w-d-xo.html
42:00 classic american power lifting programming summed up. and it works.
10:46 needs to be a viral vid itself 😆👊🏼
7:30 to 8:20 great stuff and applies to so many things
Respect to kirk, the guy is a legend. Just had to get that fighting comment off my chest.
why is it that in every powerlifting or weightlifting video there are people arguing about how good fighters powerlifters would be or how they would get beat to death in a match against boxers or mma fighters?? i mean.. really? who the fuck cares? these are different sports, the athletes of each discipline train for diferent goals and have different talents, so why compare them? what's the point of this absurd generalisation? go compare a sprinter with a basketball player next..
I love this comment!!!!
hey guys. fyi. when he used to go to the gym and saw people on his desired machine he would threaten them till they left
Not entirely true. People know when he would squat, and if someone was in the rack when he wanted it, he would tell them 5 minutes wrap it up.
There's a video of him squatting 350kg for a set of 5 wearing just a belt floating around.
this dude is intense....
One of them.
Well said
Worlds best squatter ever! Raw and equipment.
The idea that anyone who trains in MMA or boxing can take down a heavyweight elite powerlifter is just ludicrous. Could a woman who takes boxing classes every day beat up a 250 pound man (one who plays sports and thus has some athletic ability)? Probably not, no matter how good of a fighter she is, the man's strength and size gives him too much of an advantage.
It's the same situation here - even if you're the best fighter in your boxing gym, your MMA studio, even if you've won a tournament... the brute strength level is just too much. They will be able to toss you around like it's nothing. It's only once you reach elite, professional, world class levels of fighting skill that your fighting ability can overcome the strength of someone who can squat 1000 lbs. And even then, I don't count the powerlifter out automatically. The lifter will most probably lose in a cage, but Kirk in his prime against a UFC champ out on the open pavement in a fight to the death? If he manages to grab the fighter and slam his head into the ground it's lights out, permanently.
This isn't a Bruce Lee kung fu movie. Strength does matter. It just hurts people's pride too much to see something as definitive as a number in powerlifting that they know they can never attain, whereas they can make all kinds of subjective claims about their mystical fighting prowess.
First off, I have no idea where this thought came from.
Strength is a huge portion of capability, everything starts with strength, but you have to point a gun to hit a target which is a skill. If raw power were everything, a bull would kill every matador.
John Amore Do matadors ever fight bulls?
Nick Duke damn I love how you put that
John Amore
If a matador was to face a bull with no weapons the bull would kill him every time sooo....
I'm old and fat now but I've dabbled in both kickboxing and lifting, strength definitely helps but there is also a point of diminishing returns. Also in terms of knockout a lot of that is more about timing and accuracy than sheer power. As the old saying goes "it's the punch you don't see coming that hurts the most." But I agree that a UFC level fighter is probably too quick and too skilled for a champion powerlifter. A guy on youtube that took a few boxing or jiu jitsu lessons … not so much.
I like his strategy! All about belief in yourself.
It's wonderful how he's maintained himself.
randy stevens lol
34:12 Kirk is telling it like it is, take note Donnie Tomphson fanboys.
I know your talking about fanboys, but in Donnie thompsons defense he squats pretty deep most of the time, and sometimes during his most extreme squats that hes trying for the first time etc, he will squat a little bit different, but hes handling weight no ones handled and its new to him too
Eye word?
i would imagine a soccer mom who thinks powerlifting is bad for your knees...
10:06
otay....keep lifting those barbells up and down....party on, awesome
25:20
There are weight classes in every single fighting sport for a reason. Fighting up 10 weight classes against someone with visible abs and a 1003X2 squat is not realistic for even world class mma fighters below 200lbs
Yeah, but you see he never really competed raw, he obviously has some mechanic intricacies in his legs, beeing able to "come up" with those numbers :)
just shut up
This guy doesn't sound good
Is he still alive
He's great & he is still alive
You're whats wrong with the world.
So lifting weights makes you an unbelievable fighter?
No need to train or anything?
HulkSmash315 it gives high explosive power, something fighters need. Lifting huge weights gives you powerful punches and kicks.
@@LinusE no it doesn't. I'd go as far as to say extreme levels of powerlifting will make a fighter less able.
I can outlift my cousin's total with 300ish pounds, a professional cage fighter that weighs in around the same as me (180-190lbs at 5.7 each) yet he can easily slap my shit in sparring because he has been fighting for nearly 18 years. We got his squat up to 200 - 210 kg and he got way too stiff to do headkicks.
In fighting power and endurance is superior to strength. You really think a super heavyweight equiped lifter could take on someone like Miocic, Ngannu or Overeem? When was the last time a powerlifter took a sledgehammer to the head ?
@@CeroAshura If you’ve looked at Westside and Conjugate you’ll see that clearly fighting sports can take advantage of explosive strength in correlation with sports specific training. Being stiff isn’t necessarily a downside from squatting high weights, I have no idea how much sports specific training the person did on the side, how much stretching and how much isolated exercises etc
@@CeroAshura also, if you’re a extreme level of powerlifter you’re a powerlifter. It’s very difficult to be elite level powerlifter AND a high level of any other sport at the same time. Especially since powerlifting and boxing takes advantage of one thing: explosive power and dynamic strength. Static strength helps PL, not boxing. High levels of cardio helps boxing endurance, muscular endurance helps powerlifting not necessarily boxing
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