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People seem to kinda shit on the weights saying it's fake or untrue but the real strength of this man that he managed to come back from a Injury that destroys lives and leaves people bed bound.
Honestly no believes no one unless you are on the juice. People believe and worship juicers. No One would say nothing to this guy face nor another power People or strong men People call fake.
Even if all the powerlifting stuff is fake this man is a legend ! Overcoming such a difficult injury and getting back to doing crazy stuff isn’t for anyone.
the injury is most likely made up ( or it wasn't as severe). this man even lied about his age!!!! He would tell people that he was 10 years older than he was))))
@@CoolGobyFish go back to your coach :) he has built the tension machine for himself. and that machine was intended to animate his legs by using his arms. and he used to move his legs 1000+ times a day until his nervous system has rebuilt itself by making bypasses. this is when he re-obained control of his lower limbs. I wanna see you doing 100kg of a deadlift. be a hero here....
@@CoolGobyFish so it happens I come from the same place and time. I do not know him personally but I know ppl in the 1st circle. I had the same injury. And his methodics helped me to recover. Go, break your spine and do any better, ye schmack :)
He was a legend of strongman but that one video doing record powerlifting is obviously a goof. I don't think people realize how difficult those juggling feats were.
@George Kids now are so arrogant they think they are experts at things that they know nothing about. Kid said you get stronger from losing weight and ripped means strong abs. Most powerlifters at hard core gyms I train in such as Mount Vernon Barbell Club have the same large apple stomach that I do. Kids believe in the keto diet essentially the same as the diet of bodybuilders during their rip down phase of training. Carbs are the only thing the human body can convert to glycogen the primary energy source for energy for muscle power in the sport of powerlifting. Only the powerlifters including myself have to modify technique or the stack itself on abdominal machines to make it hard enough to achieve 8-25 rep sets to fatigue or failure. The Valsalva maneuvers uses core strength to lift the weight on the deadlift.
He is one guy I think about when I get hurt in all ways. YES HE IS A STRONG MAN INSIDE AND OUT. He overcame all that was through at him. He's one of my go to for my inter power. THANK YOU
Bar bend it was not fake weight and bench he was lying on sucked that is true. Also, he bounced the weight. Raw contest rules (no bench shirt) require a two to three second pause on the top another such pause on the chest. lift on cue given by a referee and a pause at the top before re-racking on all 3 attempts on the bench press.
@@jasoncuculo7035 Y'all didn't see the guy standing there in a suit? Could be that he was just that strong. It's funny how whenever someone does what someone else deems impossible or unbelievable they are accused of bs.
Dikul is an incredible human being. From humble beginnings, overcoming a terrible injury, his circus performances, then setting up his rehabilitation clinics. You can't fake a lot of what he accomplished.
I used to believe it - but after seeing this, especially the guy “struggling” to lift the plate I’m not buying it. Circus strongmen were the first to use fake weights anyhow. Bummer, but I have to say the man was exceptionally strong and tenacious regardless!
@@jasoncuculo7035 The weights on the inside, closest to Valentin were probably real, but painted to match the circus weights. A standard Olympic barbell will handle 1,000lbs. before it snaps, but will start to bend slightly at 315+. After 405lbs. the bend is very noticeable, especially on a movement like squat. At 992lbs. that bar would be bending 7 - 9" on each side, it would be a *huge* bend and not just a small whip.
@@CaliforniaCarpenter7 This another issue, we do not know the type of bar he is using, I have seen powerlifters much larger that I shrug 985 pounds for 35 reps in front of me on a bar at least 30 years old that did not snap. they are rated at 1000 but usually hold more. The bend looks greater than the one I got when I squatted 520 for two reps in 2015 or on my 555 deadlift much more recently. 585 dead lifters in the gym do not get as much either, but bars themselves vary, he might be using a more flexible bar.
Since he built the training machine by himself that helped him to recover from his injury. He started building his own special training machines designed to work on some special group of muscle that gives a very considerable additional strength in heavy lifting. This is what I have read in one of the bodybuilders journal from his interview.
@@squatcurldeadlift7346 I don't know. I've just read an article about him. From a bodybuilders journal. Now if you do a bodybuilding. You might realise that working on different type of machines, rather than just lifting dumbbells and bars. Helps significantly increase your strength.
Olympic bars flex more than bars used in powerlifting, Commercial bars also have significant flex, I examined his 990 plus pound squat. The bar bend if fake has at least 600 pounds on in based on the level of bar bend, still impressive. Competition 55 kilos plates at local USAPL contests are small, flat compact, iron and painted red. These resemble some version of bumper plates designed to hit the floor from a height, but which are thicker and lighter than standard or powerlifting kilos plates.
@@stephentemple5617 absolutely not this guy is the real deal he is just too strong for us to believe look at his pyramid act & you will understand why he is so strong his core strength is out of this world.
that infamous circus performance with the 40kg 88lb balls has to be fake, no way he can just throw that up so effortlessly with just his shoulders and upper back, catching it is another thing to, if something that heavy is dropped onto your back, its going to mess up something..
This guy was indeed very strong. Back in highschool we witnessed Paul Anderson lift the football team on a table on his back. He then one arm pressed 225 for 3 reps . He was in his late 40s
Just look at the extreme faces of the orphans, That`s where the law of the land is: "To eat or to get eaten alive." I overcame extreme cruelty of other children myself but this here is something else. Him having overcome these horrors and many more certainly made him aprreicative of what he became anyway. He started where most would have been gone 10 times. In any case an incredibly strong man, inside and out.
Don't forget, it not to many horror stories in the USA, but here being positive doesn't make money nor friends. Jesus could come here and heal people get chased away or killed or robbed or be called a fake. No one could put ( positive) on stage.
Wow that is INSANE! He did all 3 lifts without even having a spotter! That squat was the craziest thing as he literally walked the weight over in front of the squat stands and then did an absolutely staggering lift and then just walked it back round to the stands! He surely had to consider that in the amount he was lifting. If he'd don't this lift in a cage he wouldn't have had to go for a walk with half a ton on his shoulders. Plus he was around 50 years old! Impressive guy!
petty easy to do if the weights are plastic))) come on. there is a full video where TV journalist load these weights on the bar by pickeing them up with one hand!!!! Those are 50 kg weight!!!! Not pounds, but kilograms!!!
@@sonysoyboysaremadeoftears.7404 Olympic bars are designed to flex)))) That's why they aren't used in powerlifting. If that weight was real, his arms would have been ripped off and his spine would have snapped due to his horrific technique and shaking. It's just basic physics. Also, lifting that much weight without spotters is pure suicide !!!!
@@CoolGobyFish yeah there's definitely no picking up a 50kg weight with one hand! Especially if you're not that tall or strong like me. I used to hate when people left the huge 50kgs on the Leg Press at my old gym. It used to take me ages getting them bloody things off especially when our gym never bolted ANY of the machines to the ground! One time I wasn't thinking and pulled 2 off the same side........the whole machine still loaded with numerous other 50kg then crashed sideways away from me! Luckily no one got hurt!
All such stories and memories are most interesting and all - if not entirely true - have more than a basis in fact. These guys were very, very strong. I was born and live in New Zealand and am now eighty years old. When I was a very small boy some working men from Onehunga (an Auckland City suburb) claimed that their suburb had the strongest man in New Zealand. Some working men from Otahuhu (a different Auckland suburb) said - no - their man Bill Halliday was New Zealand's strongest man. A strength contest was organised and the man who could carry the most fertilizer sacks across the Onehunga bridge (somewhere between 200 yards/meters and 300 yards/meters in length) in a single load would be deemed the strongest. These were the old fashioned fertilizer sacks that weighed 170 lbs each. The Onehunga chap went first and carried a bag under each arm locked against his sides and a further bag in each hand gripped by one of the sacks ears. Total weight approximately 680 lb. He successfully crossed the bridge. Bill Halliday went next but gripped a fifth sack in his teeth and also made it across the bridge (total weight approximately 850 lb) - whereupon the Onehunga chap shook Bill's hand and conceded defeat. Many will now write in and say how it was impossible - especially for non weight training guys etc etc. But do remember folks, these guys came from an era where a carrier or a truck driver had to load and empty his truck by hand with a shovel - or carry a fertiliser sack on their back from truck to dock one at a time until their truck was empty etc etc. They trained all right - every day all day - but their training was hard, physical work. That's why some of those old timers really were strong and also exceedingly tough.
Exactly, modern snowflakes do not get it. You can get exceptionally strong and big naturally, even more so with genetics on your side. And you are completely right, this is an era where most so-called men sit on their ar*e most the day, they did not stop moving and lifting just in their general life. Natural testosterone levels would have been way higher than the now medical ranges too.
I gave this same reply to someone who doubted Reg Park was natty. There's always gotta be someone who's number one, someone who outshines all others. It happens in other sports, so why not in weightlifting? Australia, where I live, is mad about cricket. We had a guy named Donald Bradman who was the greatest batsman of all time. His batting average was 99 runs per 100 balls faced!!! The best anyone else could manage for the next 50 YEARS was only around 50 runs per 100 balls faced. Take into account that these days cricket players earn money sufficient to live on as professional cricketers, whereas in Bradman's day, beginning before the time of the great depression, a cricketer had to have sufficient means to keep himself fed. My own grandfather, Arthur Thomas, migrated to Australia with Grandma and my mother in 1929. He found it hard to get a job, but when he did get one, the next thing he knew he'd been selected to play for Australia as wicket keeper. He'd been the wicket keeper and opening batsman for Wales, where he was originally from. He just couldn't afford to leave the job he'd busted his hump to get. Back to Bradman . . Imagine the reflexes and the eye to brain to hand coordination he must have had to be twice as good as, not only the second best batsman in the world in his own career's time period, but the current best batsmen in the world for decades after he'd retired! The coaching standards have also been far more developed since the 1926 to 1948 years he was active. Of course there was the entire 1939 to 1945 of WW2 when no cricket was played internationally that would end most other cricketers' careers, but Bradman came back and played test cricket till 1948. His official batting average was a brain busting 99.94 runs per 100 balls faced and it still stands like a rock to this day! And how did he train to get so good . . . brace yourselves, readers . . He simply hit a tennis ball against the wall of the barn on his family's farm. When it came rocketing back he'd hit it again, and so on and so on. Real low tech stuff, kinda like Rocky chasing chickens to build up his body speed. Don was so far above the level of mortal men that he had to have been a freak of nature. I'm suggesting that Valentin Dikul is cut from similar cloth. It couldn't happen in the Iron Game, you say? Think again. Remember big old Karl Norberg, the big Swede? He'd never touched a weight, apart from the story I'll soon relate, or been to a gym his entire working life, but the heavy physical workload of being a longshoreman made him plenty big and strong! After he retired, he thought he'd like to keep in shape and so he took up weight training. At age 74 . . that's right, not a misprint . . At age 74, Big Karl bench pressed 209 kilos!! That's 460 pounds!! Before he'd retired he was invited up on stage by John Grimek himself in response to the crowd at one of his weightlifting demonstrations calling out that their friend could lift as much as Grimek could. Having no weightlifting experience whatsoever, Norberg CURLED 280 pounds, then pressed it easily overhead without altering his grip on the bar! What's the strict curl record these days? Not 280 pounds that's for damn sure! Consider this:- Valentin Dikul was 20 years younger than big Karl when he did the lifts on the videos.
Thank you for your interesting comment. Just a couple of points in regard to Karl Norberg. He was 47 years old when he stepped on stage to curl and overhead press the barbell with Grimek and the technique he used was described as "palms-up barbell swing curl" which is a cheat curl, not a strict curl. The weight he peaked at was 270lbs. Norberg began lifting weights regularly in his mid 40's. He didn't retire until he was 65. Karl was certainly incredibly strong and his feats of strength are worthy of a video.
@@StrengthUniverse . .yeah OK. I just found an obscure site that was dedicated to the olden day greats that verifies what you replied to me. That site also has great information about Paul Anderson, Bruce Randall, Chuck Ahrens and Doug Hepburn. I had been relying on my long term memory from around 40 years ago when I read about Norberg in Iron Man magazine, the only time I'd actually seen any information about him. My apologies to your readers for my mis-remembering a few statistics. I used to have an eidetic memory back in the 1960s, before it got bashed out of me. I still rely on it a bit too much, rather than use Wikipedia.. . And once I get going with a head of steam, there's no stopping me. LOL
@@arthurblackhistoric LOL, no worries, happens to us all. I’m pleased that you bought up Some of these incredible strongmen of the past. I will definitely be making video on some of these greats. I’m releasing a video on The Giant Angus MacAskill tomorrow
Ever thought of analysing Big Van Vader's strength? Obviously not a powerlifter, but a very strong individual functionally. I imagine he'd be very comparable to Kane. Not just in big monster form gimic. But having incredible upper body strength, and ok lower body strength (for his weight class of course). These guys are still very strong athletes.
Vader has claimed that he did close to 1000 lbs squat in his prime. Also in that interview he said that he was doing 600 lbs bench press in his prime. In another video with hannibal tv he said that his best ever bench press was of 580 lbs. In another article I read about him he claimed to have bench pressed 640 lbs for reps . He was not consistent in his claims. Realistically I think his best ever was 580 lbs in bench press about which he told in his latest interview with Hannibal tv before his death. Also his claim of doing close to 1000 lbs squat seems to be again exaggerated as no way back in 80s when he was in his prime was doing anywhere close to those numbers in squat without serious powerlifting training. He was not a powerlifter and the world record in squat with squat suit was just over 1000 lbs. He has also claimed to have done behind the neck press of 375 lbs for 14 reps.
@@abhinavkumar547 Sounds like a need for some investigation! I loved listening to him and Steve Austin talk about the old days, war stories, and war wounds. Vader was from the Japanese ring, where they get very physical. Not to mention the monsters that were known those days. I was really inspired when he was given 3 years left to live, so he turned his life around and got back into shape. He still died but what a transformation. He was a tank and glutton for punishment.
Thank you. For some reason, powerlifting trolls have been mad about his Guinness record for years, viciously negging Dikul videos. May be because he's never been into powerlifting. Just a very strong Soviet man. And they -- just trolls.
He's obviously very strong. Whatever his actual, realistic numbers would have been, still would have been impressive. But I guess being a circus lifter, you gotta exaggerate it a bit (or a lot lol)
Do a video on the "Mighty Atom" Joe Greenstein. This was the real old strong man who could bend horseshoes and snap 6 inch nails with his hands. He also did crazy stuff with his hair pulling trains and biting through iron nails.
Tbh the weights look real, like the bar bends and shakes nothing looks easy or fake Idk if all the weights are as heavy as claimed but they are all certainly very heavy
Big Angus was a very big man - but there are doubts about him. Many of the photos are not actually him. The most popular photo of him with a sword is actually a Polish guy who was 6 foot 6. Not 7 foot 9 as Angus was. His skeleton verifys his height and "possible" build. As a youth lifting a 2,800 lb anchor - very dubious. Also, 2 x 300 lb Barrel,s one under each arm..Nah...
Impossible to know how strong he really was, but with his frame, given modern training, he probably could have outdistanced anyone. The dimensions of the man are astounding.
I remember the iorn sheik wrestler would handle these giant bowling pins Don't know what they weighed But nobody else could handle them like he did no matter how big He could be really strong I've met people that were super strong and not very big
The Meels. Indian Clubs or Persian clubs. They are different ways to exercise. You can find them in limited gyms or buy your own online. There are some crazy weights being "manhandled" also by some users of them.
5:11 I'm not 100% sure about this. Could he have had the fingertips of his left hand under the plate, then shifted to get a better grip halfway up? Also the fact that he was play-acting getting the disc on the bar doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't 50kg. He might be a journalist but most guys who visit a gym once in a while should be able to get 50kg to chest level. Positioning it accurately from there is another matter!
Look up Angus Macaskill. This was one of the strongest man to walk the planet. 7'9" at 500+ pounds and in shape,, no prego gut! Carried 350lb barrels under both arms. Lifted and walked with a 700lb boat anchor. Stories of giants, this was one!
I cant wait for you to do a video on Brad Castleberry in ten years time and all these fawning simping commenters to tell us all how awesome Brad is. So many people seem to forget that even natural strength, will not beat natural strength, excellent diet, amazing healthcare, and a shit ton of PEDs. Any of these old guys you've been showing recently on a "was he the strongest" videos can be easily answered, no, no they werent or ever were. The current crop of strongmen are the strongest we have ever seen, and in the future we will progress to even stronger men and women through natural strength, excellent diet, amazing healthcare and a shit ton of PEDs
Dikul is massively Strong - BUT he's also a SHOWMAN, an ENTERTAINER! I think those weights used on the Powerlifts were not as heavy as they were stated to be That stone boulder was also not as heavy as they stated. This is all part of the 'Legend of Valentin Dikul' - you don't know what's true or not, but it's still impressive and entertaining.
The bar bends way way too much to say it is all fake. This man is probably not a charlatan. I would love to have this man as a coach in lifting or recovering from severe injury.
There is definitely a chunk of weight on the bar but the action of the bar doesn't look correct; see how much the bar flex/whips when he racks the 260kg bench press. I have never seen a bar "whip" so much even with much heavier weights
Agreed with those that claim his life story to be very inspiring, but for a 5 ft 8 in person the bar in each lift looks & performs suspiciously on the thin side. In one of his videos where he has his friends load the bar they are acting terribly to make the 50 kg plates look 'real' heavy LOL. Thanks Strength Universe, love your content, I'd forgotten about Valentin & didn't know his back story at all definitely worth a mention!
he was one of strongest in Deadlift...and Squat Decent in Bench..... (at 50/56..LIKE MARK FELIX AGE.).. no 70 in these time...... now at >70 he stay stronger than lot of young men
Ouch I think there is a massive gap between being worlds strongest man and worlds biggest charlatan. Would he out lift Tom Stoltman, of course not. But would Tom match his juggling, again no. Strength is strength. Great video.
@@CoolGobyFish You are the one who is a clown. Have you achieved remotely anything close to what he has? Listen to Valeri Fedorenko from AKC on Dikul. He is not a clown like you.
@@jasoncuculo7035 if this was real, that much weight would have ripped his arms off and broken his back as soon as he started shaking))) watch youtube videos where real strongmen lift similar weight. they have like 10 people spotting them. the guy is a well known scammer. there are some videos where he shows and talks about his training. it very obvious he is completely clueless. he is s circus clown, nothing more. Most people question his story about back injury as well.
I like the style of his lifting, that's all matter. In the 80's and 90's there was 3 world's strongest men in every corner. They were all fake but some of them did excellent and original performances, like him. The titels was only for to hire spectators for the show. Would you buy a ticket, if the poster says: "a pretty strong guy lift heavy balls". No. I think it was okay that time.
There is ONE only One- Michael Mangan Toronto Canada- from 2016-2019 218BWT 1240 Sqt (breaks parallel ),1000 Bench,1000 DL at age 51-55 Pound per Pound Strongest Drug Free lifting in History that 5x BWT SUPER ELITE Status and he trained several Powerlifters and Strongmen who set records themselves!!! Oakville YMCA he was at Mon Wed Fri Sat or at his PhoenixGym he is retired few know him but those who do who trained with him knew!!!!
I don't know where you got those numbers from but his best listed on Openpowerlifting was set in 2004 in single ply equipped lifting: Squat 628lbs, Bench: 452 and Deadlift: 551. The numbers you have stated would all be WR's by a mile
Those weights in those lifts were verified by the Guiness records people from my understanding. I have a friend at the age of 19 could bench 385x3 reps and he never lifted a weight in his life and is still the strongest human I have met at age 46
I practiced weightlifting in 1986 in Bucharest, Romania and I know the Russian plates, I also had them at the gym, including the thick green ones of 50 kg. There's nothing wrong with that. The left hand fingers of the spotter are not initially visible under the disc due to its inclination. There is nothing wrong with the 160 kg clean and overhead press Atlas stone. Envy characterizes human nature.
I'n certainly not envious, I merely like the truth. rewatch the video, his left hand was not obscured. You may well have used the same type of plates but that doesn't mean the ones in the video were not fake. While this one example isn't proof that Dikul was a charlatan the Strength Co-efficient (DOTs score ) and fake atlas stone certainly are.
body builders lie to seem better but the governments would never completely defraud the people with all sorts of lies, would they? If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
If he was just a circus performer, yes, it would be OK. but he is pretending to be a record holder and a medical expert (despite never finishing high schoo). He has a chain of shady clinics, gives lectures, promotes strange creams. If this was in US, he would have been arrested for impersonating a chiropractor
@@CoolGobyFish in US.... 🤣 US that invented fake health care. US that have actual official institution FDA that is pumping people with poison for a profit. US that has legal religious preachers who are healing by touch..... 🤣
If what you can see after 5:56 was legit then he was genetically unlike 99.99999% of humans. But the girls and bikes weighed MUCH less than 160 kg, probably around 125 kg (which is still STUNNING at such age etc.).
i saw him on TV back in the mid-1970s, I think it was, on the World Circus Championships. I was amazed that a surprisingly normal looking man could be so strong!
At the time (1999) the squat (wraps) and deadlift (raw) would have been the all time records, this at the age of 51 and using only ace bandages to wrap the knees not the much stronger wraps they use today... Couple this with his bizarre antics while handling these weights: 1. walking the squat backward into the rack rather than just drooping it like weightlifters do, 2. shrugging the deadlift so the weight bobbles up and down at the ends of what appears to be a very thin and whippy bar (possibly a weightlifting bar or even women's 15 kg weightlifting bar?) There's no way any person without wrist straps could pull 1014 lb and then proceed to shake it up and down at lockout without it coming out of their hands, but everything else about these lifts is just coated in fishy behavior.
I agree we should be positive but we also need to be realistic and given Dikul's age, bodyweight and the fact he made an excuse not to perform these lifts in competition I think it's highly unlikely that he achieved the 3 lifts claimed
@Golden CHADTRENBULL I think they are both impressive; although I would say that a squat at that level takes huge balls especially considering that Vlad did this lift after a total knee replacement due to an terrible injury he suffered while doing an equipped squat at West Side Barbell many years earlier
We do have limitations, but people tend to underestimate what is actually possible. But it's not like someone could ever deadlift a ton, that humanely impossible.
The fact that he survived such a fall and lift extremely heavy weights makes him extraordinary really, it's a shame the weights we're not actually weighed before and after he did his lifts, especially that atlas stone.
Based on 6:04, he was a strong dude. How do you fake a living humans weight? Maybe really baggy clothes (and get anorexic people)? A 105 lbs girl weighs 105 lbs. That whole set up is likely 300 lbs (210 lbs girls, 55 lbs bicycles, 35 lbs bar and apparatus) .
Ah look - it was a show and sure the purported weights were, to be put mildy, bull$hite. I loved the bumper plates also, which gives more flex on the bar which he seemed to exacerabte the bounce to "show" the weights as real. You still see this today where legit strongmen, will load bumpers and lighter weights to the collar and competition plates at the outside to get an easier lift due to flex of the bar. That being siad, what he did at the time was really impressive!
Is that video clip actually of his fall? I was searching high & low to simply verify the injury after seeing how many skeptics there are after his issues with powerlifting discrepancies.
3:30 No handstraps? That instantly makes him stronger than today's world deadlift record holders, who use hand straps because they cannot hold the weight otherwise.
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Crazy 992kg and no spotters🙈! 💯
Who f'n cares I am certain too be the ultimate lol
People seem to kinda shit on the weights saying it's fake or untrue but the real strength of this man that he managed to come back from a Injury that destroys lives and leaves people bed bound.
He is from circus, the whole story most likely made up
Yeah buddy
Honestly no believes no one unless you are on the juice. People believe and worship juicers.
No One would say nothing to this guy face nor another power People or strong men People call fake.
@@gwillis9797 finally someone with some real world common sense thank you for your comment.
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You are welcomed. People should give people a break.
Even if all the powerlifting stuff is fake this man is a legend ! Overcoming such a difficult injury and getting back to doing crazy stuff isn’t for anyone.
the injury is most likely made up ( or it wasn't as severe). this man even lied about his age!!!! He would tell people that he was 10 years older than he was))))
@@CoolGobyFish go back to your coach :) he has built the tension machine for himself. and that machine was intended to animate his legs by using his arms. and he used to move his legs 1000+ times a day until his nervous system has rebuilt itself by making bypasses. this is when he re-obained control of his lower limbs. I wanna see you doing 100kg of a deadlift. be a hero here....
@@CoolGobyFish so it happens I come from the same place and time. I do not know him personally but I know ppl in the 1st circle. I had the same injury. And his methodics helped me to recover. Go, break your spine and do any better, ye schmack :)
He was a legend of strongman but that one video doing record powerlifting is obviously a goof. I don't think people realize how difficult those juggling feats were.
@George Kids now are so arrogant they think they are experts at things that they know nothing about. Kid said you get stronger from losing weight and ripped means strong abs. Most powerlifters at hard core gyms I train in such as Mount Vernon Barbell Club have the same large apple stomach that I do. Kids believe in the keto diet essentially the same as the diet of bodybuilders during their rip down phase of training. Carbs are the only thing the human body can convert to glycogen the primary energy source for energy for muscle power in the sport of powerlifting. Only the powerlifters including myself have to modify technique or the stack itself on abdominal machines to make it hard enough to achieve 8-25 rep sets to fatigue or failure. The Valsalva maneuvers uses core strength to lift the weight on the deadlift.
He is one guy I think about when I get hurt in all ways. YES HE IS A STRONG MAN INSIDE AND OUT. He overcame all that was through at him. He's one of my go to for my inter power. THANK YOU
Total legend for sure
That bench press was very impressive...... considering it was done on a weights bench bought from Argos.
Literally made me laugh there
Bar bend it was not fake weight and bench he was lying on sucked that is true. Also, he bounced the weight. Raw contest rules (no bench shirt) require a two to three second pause on the top another such pause on the chest. lift on cue given by a referee and a pause at the top before re-racking on all 3 attempts on the bench press.
@@jasoncuculo7035 Y'all didn't see the guy standing there in a suit? Could be that he was just that strong. It's funny how whenever someone does what someone else deems impossible or unbelievable they are accused of bs.
@@MrAnderson5157 It could be, we are just analyzing the data, some sat he had a history of bs or that he was ten years younger.
There's no chance these lifts are real
Absolute bollocks
Dikul is an incredible human being. From humble beginnings, overcoming a terrible injury, his circus performances, then setting up his rehabilitation clinics. You can't fake a lot of what he accomplished.
I used to believe it - but after seeing this, especially the guy “struggling” to lift the plate I’m not buying it. Circus strongmen were the first to use fake weights anyhow. Bummer, but I have to say the man was exceptionally strong and tenacious regardless!
Explain the bar bend?
@@jasoncuculo7035 The weights on the inside, closest to Valentin were probably real, but painted to match the circus weights. A standard Olympic barbell will handle 1,000lbs. before it snaps, but will start to bend slightly at 315+. After 405lbs. the bend is very noticeable, especially on a movement like squat. At 992lbs. that bar would be bending 7 - 9" on each side, it would be a *huge* bend and not just a small whip.
@@CaliforniaCarpenter7 This another issue, we do not know the type of bar he is using, I have seen powerlifters much larger that I shrug 985 pounds for 35 reps in front of me on a bar at least 30 years old that did not snap. they are rated at 1000 but usually hold more. The bend looks greater than the one I got when I squatted 520 for two reps in 2015 or on my 555 deadlift much more recently. 585 dead lifters in the gym do not get as much either, but bars themselves vary, he might be using a more flexible bar.
@@CaliforniaCarpenter7 However on the flip side competition bars the real hard-core bars that go for 349 dollars each are very much stiffer.
A real showman and interesting character. he looked like a throw back to the old time strong men who were entertainers.
Since he built the training machine by himself that helped him to recover from his injury. He started building his own special training machines designed to work on some special group of muscle that gives a very considerable additional strength in heavy lifting.
This is what I have read in one of the bodybuilders journal from his interview.
Curious to know what this "special group of muscle" is, sounds like bs
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I don't know. I've just read an article about him. From a bodybuilders journal.
Now if you do a bodybuilding. You might realise that working on different type of machines, rather than just lifting dumbbells and bars. Helps significantly increase your strength.
If his machines really built such incredible strength, Dikul'd be a billionaire marketing them.
@@lazur1 he was going quiet well, selling his health and strength programs there in home town.
wow..
Circus performers often use fake weights, but still demonstrate skill and strength
Every one of is lifts with weights and Persona are all fake to is core i hope that no one is taking this guy seriously
Olympic bars flex more than bars used in powerlifting, Commercial bars also have significant flex, I examined his 990 plus pound squat. The bar bend if fake has at least 600 pounds on in based on the level of bar bend, still impressive. Competition 55 kilos plates at local USAPL contests are small, flat compact, iron and painted red. These resemble some version of bumper plates designed to hit the floor from a height, but which are thicker and lighter than standard or powerlifting kilos plates.
@@stephentemple5617 absolutely not this guy is the real deal he is just too strong for us to believe look at his pyramid act & you will understand why he is so strong his core strength is out of this world.
@@jasoncuculo7035 LOL, are you actually trying to say that bar is an Olympic bar? People like you are the reason circus side shows exist.
that infamous circus performance with the 40kg 88lb balls has to be fake, no way he can just throw that up so effortlessly with just his shoulders and upper back, catching it is another thing to, if something that heavy is dropped onto your back, its going to mess up something..
Most serious powerlifters in Russia don't believe these numbers. I am personally super skeptical. It's important to remember he is a circus lifter.
Agreed
No one with any intelligence would believe it.
Snobbish aren’t you
Total bs about Russian lifters! Watch Koklyaev's and Klokov's videos with Dikul. Are they not enough "serious" for yOU?
Bar bend. They are possibly 15-pound bumper plates, but not hollow empty fake plates. Still not 112 pound (55 kilos plates either).
This guy was indeed very strong. Back in highschool we witnessed Paul Anderson lift the football team on a table on his back. He then one arm pressed 225 for 3 reps . He was in his late 40s
Oh, my my my. You shed some light on some matters. Questionable feats, to say the least. I'm going to to go down a rabbit hole on this. 👍
I remember watching a documentary about him years ago, remarkable man, great vid
The way he played with that deadlift says a lot
He had already proved his strength by overcoming his terrible injury as a teenager.
Just look at the extreme faces of the orphans, That`s where the law of the land is: "To eat or to get eaten alive." I overcame extreme cruelty of other children myself but this here is something else. Him having overcome these horrors and many more certainly made him aprreicative of what he became anyway. He started where most would have been gone 10 times. In any case an incredibly strong man, inside and out.
Don't forget, it not to many horror stories in the USA, but here being positive doesn't make money nor friends. Jesus could come here and heal people get chased away or killed or robbed or be called a fake. No one could put ( positive) on stage.
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Wow that is INSANE! He did all 3 lifts without even having a spotter! That squat was the craziest thing as he literally walked the weight over in front of the squat stands and then did an absolutely staggering lift and then just walked it back round to the stands! He surely had to consider that in the amount he was lifting. If he'd don't this lift in a cage he wouldn't have had to go for a walk with half a ton on his shoulders. Plus he was around 50 years old! Impressive guy!
petty easy to do if the weights are plastic))) come on. there is a full video where TV journalist load these weights on the bar by pickeing them up with one hand!!!! Those are 50 kg weight!!!! Not pounds, but kilograms!!!
@@CoolGobyFish Did you not see the bar flexing? a 45lb olympic barbell only flexes like that under serious load which is what that is you dolt.
@@sonysoyboysaremadeoftears.7404 Olympic bars are designed to flex)))) That's why they aren't used in powerlifting. If that weight was real, his arms would have been ripped off and his spine would have snapped due to his horrific technique and shaking. It's just basic physics. Also, lifting that much weight without spotters is pure suicide !!!!
@@CoolGobyFish yeah there's definitely no picking up a 50kg weight with one hand! Especially if you're not that tall or strong like me. I used to hate when people left the huge 50kgs on the Leg Press at my old gym. It used to take me ages getting them bloody things off especially when our gym never bolted ANY of the machines to the ground! One time I wasn't thinking and pulled 2 off the same side........the whole machine still loaded with numerous other 50kg then crashed sideways away from me! Luckily no one got hurt!
@@davekennedy6315 Kennedy is a second name of Honor. Thank you, sir!
I like liked your early videos back then with music and commentary I don’t mind it but I do like your music from back then
All such stories and memories are most interesting and all - if not entirely true - have more than a basis in fact. These guys were very, very strong. I was born and live in New Zealand and am now eighty years old. When I was a very small boy some working men from Onehunga (an Auckland City suburb) claimed that their suburb had the strongest man in New Zealand. Some working men from Otahuhu (a different Auckland suburb) said - no - their man Bill Halliday was New Zealand's strongest man. A strength contest was organised and the man who could carry the most fertilizer sacks across the Onehunga bridge (somewhere between 200 yards/meters and 300 yards/meters in length) in a single load would be deemed the strongest. These were the old fashioned fertilizer sacks that weighed 170 lbs each. The Onehunga chap went first and carried a bag under each arm locked against his sides and a further bag in each hand gripped by one of the sacks ears. Total weight approximately 680 lb. He successfully crossed the bridge. Bill Halliday went next but gripped a fifth sack in his teeth and also made it across the bridge (total weight approximately 850 lb) - whereupon the Onehunga chap shook Bill's hand and conceded defeat. Many will now write in and say how it was impossible - especially for non weight training guys etc etc. But do remember folks, these guys came from an era where a carrier or a truck driver had to load and empty his truck by hand with a shovel - or carry a fertiliser sack on their back from truck to dock one at a time until their truck was empty etc etc. They trained all right - every day all day - but their training was hard, physical work. That's why some of those old timers really were strong and also exceedingly tough.
Exactly, modern snowflakes do not get it. You can get exceptionally strong and big naturally, even more so with genetics on your side. And you are completely right, this is an era where most so-called men sit on their ar*e most the day, they did not stop moving and lifting just in their general life. Natural testosterone levels would have been way higher than the now medical ranges too.
I gave this same reply to someone who doubted Reg Park was natty. There's always gotta be someone who's number one, someone who outshines all others. It happens in other sports, so why not in weightlifting?
Australia, where I live, is mad about cricket. We had a guy named Donald Bradman who was the greatest batsman of all time. His batting average was 99 runs per 100 balls faced!!! The best anyone else could manage for the next 50 YEARS was only around 50 runs per 100 balls faced. Take into account that these days cricket players earn money sufficient to live on as professional cricketers, whereas in Bradman's day, beginning before the time of the great depression, a cricketer had to have sufficient means to keep himself fed.
My own grandfather, Arthur Thomas, migrated to Australia with Grandma and my mother in 1929. He found it hard to get a job, but when he did get one, the next thing he knew he'd been selected to play for Australia as wicket keeper. He'd been the wicket keeper and opening batsman for Wales, where he was originally from. He just couldn't afford to leave the job he'd busted his hump to get.
Back to Bradman . . Imagine the reflexes and the eye to brain to hand coordination he must have had to be twice as good as, not only the second best batsman in the world in his own career's time period, but the current best batsmen in the world for decades after he'd retired! The coaching standards have also been far more developed since the 1926 to 1948 years he was active. Of course there was the entire 1939 to 1945 of WW2 when no cricket was played internationally that would end most other cricketers' careers, but Bradman came back and played test cricket till 1948. His official batting average was a brain busting 99.94 runs per 100 balls faced and it still stands like a rock to this day! And how did he train to get so good . . . brace yourselves, readers . . He simply hit a tennis ball against the wall of the barn on his family's farm. When it came rocketing back he'd hit it again, and so on and so on. Real low tech stuff, kinda like Rocky chasing chickens to build up his body speed.
Don was so far above the level of mortal men that he had to have been a freak of nature. I'm suggesting that Valentin Dikul is cut from similar cloth.
It couldn't happen in the Iron Game, you say? Think again. Remember big old Karl Norberg, the big Swede? He'd never touched a weight, apart from the story I'll soon relate, or been to a gym his entire working life, but the heavy physical workload of being a longshoreman made him plenty big and strong! After he retired, he thought he'd like to keep in shape and so he took up weight training. At age 74 . . that's right, not a misprint . . At age 74, Big Karl bench pressed 209 kilos!! That's 460 pounds!! Before he'd retired he was invited up on stage by John Grimek himself in response to the crowd at one of his weightlifting demonstrations calling out that their friend could lift as much as Grimek could. Having no weightlifting experience whatsoever, Norberg CURLED 280 pounds, then pressed it easily overhead without altering his grip on the bar! What's the strict curl record these days? Not 280 pounds that's for damn sure!
Consider this:- Valentin Dikul was 20 years younger than big Karl when he did the lifts on the videos.
Thank you for your interesting comment. Just a couple of points in regard to Karl Norberg. He was 47 years old when he stepped on stage to curl and overhead press the barbell with Grimek and the technique he used was described as "palms-up barbell swing curl" which is a cheat curl, not a strict curl. The weight he peaked at was 270lbs. Norberg began lifting weights regularly in his mid 40's. He didn't retire until he was 65. Karl was certainly incredibly strong and his feats of strength are worthy of a video.
@@StrengthUniverse . .yeah OK. I just found an obscure site that was dedicated to the olden day greats that verifies what you replied to me.
That site also has great information about Paul Anderson, Bruce Randall, Chuck Ahrens and Doug Hepburn.
I had been relying on my long term memory from around 40 years ago when I read about Norberg in Iron Man magazine, the only time I'd actually seen any information about him. My apologies to your readers for my mis-remembering a few statistics. I used to have an eidetic memory back in the 1960s, before it got bashed out of me. I still rely on it a bit too much, rather than use Wikipedia.. . And once I get going with a head of steam, there's no stopping me. LOL
@@arthurblackhistoric LOL, no worries, happens to us all. I’m pleased that you bought up Some of these incredible strongmen of the past. I will definitely be making video on some of these greats. I’m releasing a video on The Giant Angus MacAskill tomorrow
In basketball, there was Wilt Chamberlain. Imagine Shaq and Kobe in one player!
Ever thought of analysing Big Van Vader's strength? Obviously not a powerlifter, but a very strong individual functionally. I imagine he'd be very comparable to Kane. Not just in big monster form gimic. But having incredible upper body strength, and ok lower body strength (for his weight class of course). These guys are still very strong athletes.
Vader has claimed that he did close to 1000 lbs squat in his prime. Also in that interview he said that he was doing 600 lbs bench press in his prime. In another video with hannibal tv he said that his best ever bench press was of 580 lbs.
In another article I read about him he claimed to have bench pressed 640 lbs for reps . He was not consistent in his claims. Realistically I think his best ever was 580 lbs in bench press about which he told in his latest interview with Hannibal tv before his death. Also his claim of doing close to 1000 lbs squat seems to be again exaggerated as no way back in 80s when he was in his prime was doing anywhere close to those numbers in squat without serious powerlifting training. He was not a powerlifter and the world record in squat with squat suit was just over 1000 lbs.
He has also claimed to have done behind the neck press of 375 lbs for 14 reps.
Big van video vs goldberg was a dream match
@@abhinavkumar547 Sounds like a need for some investigation!
I loved listening to him and Steve Austin talk about the old days, war stories, and war wounds. Vader was from the Japanese ring, where they get very physical. Not to mention the monsters that were known those days.
I was really inspired when he was given 3 years left to live, so he turned his life around and got back into shape. He still died but what a transformation. He was a tank and glutton for punishment.
Never heard of this dude. But by the feature and video footage he proves to be super strong man.
Thank you. For some reason, powerlifting trolls have been mad about his Guinness record for years, viciously negging Dikul videos. May be because he's never been into powerlifting. Just a very strong Soviet man. And they -- just trolls.
The lifts look legitimate too me.
The way the bar moves and plates sound like that can not be faked.
really?
He's obviously very strong. Whatever his actual, realistic numbers would have been, still would have been impressive. But I guess being a circus lifter, you gotta exaggerate it a bit (or a lot lol)
Greens are LITHUANIAN 50kgs (110lbs) BUMPERS FOR HANDISPORT/BENCH /TRAINING..AND NATIONAL COMPETITION....
I saw him in Moscow in the early 90s, and he did some really fun feats of strength.
Know is the believe friend.....
Dudes a legend
Can we get a video on Louis Cyr? Thanks.
eventually
This guy looks like a real Natty. And if so one of the world's strongest men !💪👍
always possible, he did put on shows on a weekly basis, this would be like competing weekly all year long
Do a video on the "Mighty Atom" Joe Greenstein. This was the real old strong man who could bend horseshoes and snap 6 inch nails with his hands. He also did crazy stuff with his hair pulling trains and biting through iron nails.
I can bend horseshoes
i couldnt imagine doing those lifts without spotters. insane
Even if the lifts were fake or exaggerated, hes a physically imposing beast nontheless
Wow supernatural strength no steroids.
Tbh the weights look real, like the bar bends and shakes nothing looks easy or fake
Idk if all the weights are as heavy as claimed but they are all certainly very heavy
You have to do a video of Mitch Hooper now
he already did one, if you didnt watch it, you really should, its the reason i know about him
Hey Kappa, I made a detailed video about Mitchell last year: th-cam.com/video/dMs2ujXxwj4/w-d-xo.html
I remember that guy back in the time.when i read sputnik ,the Reader's Digest from Russia
Ppl allways think things are impossible just cause they can't do it
Do a video on Giant Mcaskill! Thanks!
Great suggestion!
Big Angus was a very big man - but there are doubts about him. Many of the photos are not actually him. The most popular photo of him with a sword is actually a Polish guy who was 6 foot 6. Not 7 foot 9 as Angus was. His skeleton verifys his height and "possible" build. As a youth lifting a 2,800 lb anchor - very dubious. Also, 2 x 300 lb Barrel,s one under each arm..Nah...
Impossible to know how strong he really was, but with his frame, given modern training, he probably could have outdistanced anyone. The dimensions of the man are astounding.
I remember the iorn sheik wrestler would handle these giant bowling pins
Don't know what they weighed
But nobody else could handle them like he did no matter how big
He could be really strong
I've met people that were super strong and not very big
The Meels.
Indian Clubs or Persian clubs.
They are different ways to exercise. You can find them in limited gyms or buy your own online.
There are some crazy weights being "manhandled" also by some users of them.
I thought the strongest man ever to walk the planet was Angus macaskill.
Is that Brad’s uncle or possibly his Dad. Maybe this is where Brad got his inspiration from 🤔🤣🤣 thanks for another great video.
No its yo mama
5:11 I'm not 100% sure about this. Could he have had the fingertips of his left hand under the plate, then shifted to get a better grip halfway up?
Also the fact that he was play-acting getting the disc on the bar doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't 50kg. He might be a journalist but most guys who visit a gym once in a while should be able to get 50kg to chest level. Positioning it accurately from there is another matter!
His prime physique looks like the famous farnesian Hercules statue...idk but imo thats how strongmen are supposed to look...
What about Paul Anderson
Wow what a Super Hero!!!!!!
He is natural
Look up Angus Macaskill.
This was one of the strongest man to walk the planet.
7'9" at 500+ pounds and in shape,, no prego gut!
Carried 350lb barrels under both arms.
Lifted and walked with a 700lb boat anchor.
Stories of giants, this was one!
Hi, If you look through my Channel you will see I released a video about Angus a few weeks ago
I think its a case of trying to recapture his golden days.
I cant wait for you to do a video on Brad Castleberry in ten years time and all these fawning simping commenters to tell us all how awesome Brad is. So many people seem to forget that even natural strength, will not beat natural strength, excellent diet, amazing healthcare, and a shit ton of PEDs. Any of these old guys you've been showing recently on a "was he the strongest" videos can be easily answered, no, no they werent or ever were. The current crop of strongmen are the strongest we have ever seen, and in the future we will progress to even stronger men and women through natural strength, excellent diet, amazing healthcare and a shit ton of PEDs
Dikul is massively Strong - BUT he's also a SHOWMAN, an ENTERTAINER!
I think those weights used on the Powerlifts were not as heavy as they were stated to be
That stone boulder was also not as heavy as they stated.
This is all part of the 'Legend of Valentin Dikul' - you don't know what's true or not, but it's still impressive and entertaining.
Similar to the Mighty Atom. Very strong and impressive but probably exaggerated slightly.
The bar bends way way too much to say it is all fake. This man is probably not a charlatan. I would love to have this man as a coach in lifting or recovering from severe injury.
There is definitely a chunk of weight on the bar but the action of the bar doesn't look correct; see how much the bar flex/whips when he racks the 260kg bench press. I have never seen a bar "whip" so much even with much heavier weights
Agreed with those that claim his life story to be very inspiring, but for a 5 ft 8 in person the bar in each lift looks & performs suspiciously on the thin side. In one of his videos where he has his friends load the bar they are acting terribly to make the 50 kg plates look 'real' heavy LOL. Thanks Strength Universe, love your content, I'd forgotten about Valentin & didn't know his back story at all definitely worth a mention!
@@martinh5402 Cheers Martin.
It's all fake. Get real! 🤦
he was one of strongest in Deadlift...and Squat Decent in Bench..... (at 50/56..LIKE MARK FELIX AGE.).. no 70 in these time...... now at >70 he stay stronger than lot of young men
I saw Dikul perform in the Moscow circus in the early 80s.
There is a video on TH-cam of him training in a commercial gym squatting 200kg at 70 years of age.
Ouch I think there is a massive gap between being worlds strongest man and worlds biggest charlatan. Would he out lift Tom Stoltman, of course not. But would Tom match his juggling, again no. Strength is strength. Great video.
That squat at that age is truly an amazing feat.....
proud to be a lithuanian
I would have to say the biggest red flag to me is that he did those lifts with no visible spotters. It was like, either lift it or die trying.
He had a career as a circus strongman doing risky lifts. No spotters there, too.
@@videos4kapil key word here is "circus" ))))) the guy is a clown nothing more. he even lied about his age for a while (making himself older)
@@CoolGobyFish You are the one who is a clown. Have you achieved remotely anything close to what he has? Listen to Valeri Fedorenko from AKC on Dikul. He is not a clown like you.
If nom catastrophic failure than he can drop it of ff his back been there and seen many others do so as well.
@@jasoncuculo7035 if this was real, that much weight would have ripped his arms off and broken his back as soon as he started shaking))) watch youtube videos where real strongmen lift similar weight. they have like 10 people spotting them. the guy is a well known scammer. there are some videos where he shows and talks about his training. it very obvious he is completely clueless. he is s circus clown, nothing more. Most people question his story about back injury as well.
I like the style of his lifting, that's all matter. In the 80's and 90's there was 3 world's strongest men in every corner. They were all fake but some of them did excellent and original performances, like him. The titels was only for to hire spectators for the show. Would you buy a ticket, if the poster says: "a pretty strong guy lift heavy balls". No. I think it was okay that time.
02:05 That's a real squat!!! Not the shitty half squats I've been seeing lately.
Hello, could you make a video from such interesting athletes as Dmitry Khaladzhi/Дмитрий Халаджи and Kevin Fast?
Thanks for the suggestion, I will see what I can do
Great video great information
Thanks buddy
o cara fez supino sem suporte de ajuda, o cara fez agachamento com 450kg sem suporte de ajuda ta louco!!
Here is a strange one for to look up, Ross Edgly v Matt Fraser
Both strong guys but not strictly weight lifters
Paul Anderson, had no peers!
He makes look Brad Castleberry look legit! 😂
And that is hard to do!
I'm putting my life on the line to bet that Brad is much stronger than this guy in his prime, not just at 51 years old.
There is ONE only One- Michael Mangan Toronto Canada- from 2016-2019 218BWT 1240 Sqt (breaks parallel ),1000 Bench,1000 DL at age 51-55 Pound per Pound Strongest Drug Free lifting in History that 5x BWT SUPER ELITE Status and he trained several Powerlifters and Strongmen who set records themselves!!! Oakville YMCA he was at Mon Wed Fri Sat or at his PhoenixGym he is retired few know him but those who do who trained with him knew!!!!
I don't know where you got those numbers from but his best listed on Openpowerlifting was set in 2004 in single ply equipped lifting: Squat 628lbs, Bench: 452 and Deadlift: 551. The numbers you have stated would all be WR's by a mile
Those weights in those lifts were verified by the Guiness records people from my understanding. I have a friend at the age of 19 could bench 385x3 reps and he never lifted a weight in his life and is still the strongest human I have met at age 46
No they were not verified by Guinness. Infact his "Record" was never recorded or published by Guinness
wow as old as he was and that strong crazy wow
I practiced weightlifting in 1986 in Bucharest, Romania and I know the Russian plates, I also had them at the gym, including the thick green ones of 50 kg. There's nothing wrong with that. The left hand fingers of the spotter are not initially visible under the disc due to its inclination. There is nothing wrong with the 160 kg clean and overhead press Atlas stone. Envy characterizes human nature.
I'n certainly not envious, I merely like the truth. rewatch the video, his left hand was not obscured. You may well have used the same type of plates but that doesn't mean the ones in the video were not fake. While this one example isn't proof that Dikul was a charlatan the Strength Co-efficient (DOTs score ) and fake atlas stone certainly are.
According to current experts Paul Anderson never lifted his recorded lifts either. Experts are not always accurate.
Don't know if you've seen it but here is my video on Mr Anderson: th-cam.com/video/3uNRhLIZQ_w/w-d-xo.html
Please do a video of Angus Macaskill
body builders lie to seem better but the governments would never completely defraud the people with all sorts of lies, would they? If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
There are no bodybuilders in this video
bottom line is that we talk about him and he knows nothing about any of us.
believe it or not. MAN WAS A LEGEND
If he was just a circus performer, yes, it would be OK. but he is pretending to be a record holder and a medical expert (despite never finishing high schoo). He has a chain of shady clinics, gives lectures, promotes strange creams. If this was in US, he would have been arrested for impersonating a chiropractor
@@CoolGobyFish in US.... 🤣
US that invented fake health care.
US that have actual official institution FDA that is pumping people with poison for a profit.
US that has legal religious preachers who are healing by touch..... 🤣
@@nopenope250 well, you should check out countries WITHOUT FDA-like organizations))))
If what you can see after 5:56 was legit then he was genetically unlike 99.99999% of humans. But the girls and bikes weighed MUCH less than 160 kg, probably around 125 kg (which is still STUNNING at such age etc.).
Based on the bar bend, I'd say his squat weight is likely closer to 600 lbs, but that's still EXTREMELY impressive.
it's an olympic bar used for snatching. that's why it bends like that. I doubt there is more than 350-400 pounds there ( most likely even less)
Wow wonderful bravo
Thank you very much
Doing a 450 kg squat at home is one thing. Doing a 450 kg squat in an official meeting with weights that are controlled is another thing.
Can you make video of tom haviland unknown strongman. In the net he is quiet popular.
I will be, I have been following Tom for over a year.
Well if it's an official Guinness world record then they would have sent their own official to check everything is up to qualifying standards.
i saw him on TV back in the mid-1970s, I think it was, on the World Circus Championships. I was amazed that a surprisingly normal looking man could be so strong!
At the time (1999) the squat (wraps) and deadlift (raw) would have been the all time records, this at the age of 51 and using only ace bandages to wrap the knees not the much stronger wraps they use today... Couple this with his bizarre antics while handling these weights: 1. walking the squat backward into the rack rather than just drooping it like weightlifters do, 2. shrugging the deadlift so the weight bobbles up and down at the ends of what appears to be a very thin and whippy bar (possibly a weightlifting bar or even women's 15 kg weightlifting bar?) There's no way any person without wrist straps could pull 1014 lb and then proceed to shake it up and down at lockout without it coming out of their hands, but everything else about these lifts is just coated in fishy behavior.
One thing I'm going to say: After Eddie Hall's 500KG deadlift, NEVER say something is impossible to be achieved. We humans have no limitations.
Except for all of our obvious limitations
I agree we should be positive but we also need to be realistic and given Dikul's age, bodyweight and the fact he made an excuse not to perform these lifts in competition I think it's highly unlikely that he achieved the 3 lifts claimed
@Golden CHADTRENBULL I think they are both impressive; although I would say that a squat at that level takes huge balls especially considering that Vlad did this lift after a total knee replacement due to an terrible injury he suffered while doing an equipped squat at West Side Barbell many years earlier
Humans are limited by definitions
We do have limitations, but people tend to underestimate what is actually possible. But it's not like someone could ever deadlift a ton, that humanely impossible.
just strong, lets leave it there.
I saw videos of him squatting 500 pounds for reps and it looked legit, but these huge weights are fke in my opinion, they don't move right.
Valentin's options;
1 - living in poverty
2 - exaggerate prowesses of strength and not live in poverty
The fact that he survived such a fall and lift extremely heavy weights makes him extraordinary really, it's a shame the weights we're not actually weighed before and after he did his lifts, especially that atlas stone.
he was a strong dude, it is regrettable that in older age he has decided to engage in sketches pretending to depict reality
Based on 6:04, he was a strong dude. How do you fake a living humans weight? Maybe really baggy clothes (and get anorexic people)? A 105 lbs girl weighs 105 lbs. That whole set up is likely 300 lbs (210 lbs girls, 55 lbs bicycles, 35 lbs bar and apparatus) .
Very impressive lifts, this man is a legend. But Louis Cyr is still the king.
In those years the Bars were not meant for power lifters ( the Bench look at the bar wobble, If he had todays bar 600 lbs bench
That's not really correct, Powerlifting has been a sport since the early 1900s and has been competed in as the same sport it is today since 1964
Similar to the guy who bends steel fry pans and 1" rebar...he doesn't look that strong but humans are way more amazing than people know..
jamais vie incroyable performance.
Ah look - it was a show and sure the purported weights were, to be put mildy, bull$hite. I loved the bumper plates also, which gives more flex on the bar which he seemed to exacerabte the bounce to "show" the weights as real. You still see this today where legit strongmen, will load bumpers and lighter weights to the collar and competition plates at the outside to get an easier lift due to flex of the bar. That being siad, what he did at the time was really impressive!
Is that video clip actually of his fall? I was searching high & low to simply verify the injury after seeing how many skeptics there are after his issues with powerlifting discrepancies.
No mate, their is no video of the actual fall and very little information about Dikul that hasn't come from himself
His real numbers would be more like:
Bench 180kg
Squat 300kg
Deadlift 320kg
3:30 No handstraps? That instantly makes him stronger than today's world deadlift record holders, who use hand straps because they cannot hold the weight otherwise.
Gotta love smoke and mirror strongmen.