Man love these sometimes unknown (atleast in the west) Russian dudes who are quietly doing near world record strength feats with less than 1000 followers or no socials at all
As Floyd Mayweather said on Usyk defeating Joshua that one guy was doing away from camera and one guy was doing on the camera. I didn't quote the exact statement.
Valentin Dikul is a fucking legend. Man was an OG circus gymnast, fell off of a trapeze because the rope broke. Got snapped to hell and back, broke backbone and got partially paralyzed by that. Then developed one of the best programms for back trauma recovery. The crux of that program is to get the core so strong it stabilizes the broken backbone and you can walk again, I am not shitting you. Through that he got so strong he returned to the circus as a "strength joggler". Think juggling cannon balls, kettlebells, his signature was holding a car on a platform on his back. That's why he does this cool motion after the lifts, it's from his circus days. The dude is in his seventies and he is still insanely strong. I think he still squats 300 or some ludicrous shit like that.
If you „break your back“ the broken bone is neither the problem nor is it unstable after it heals, paralysis happens bc the broken spine ruptures the nerves around it.
Literally using fake weights and an a weak aluminum bar lmao. Can see it's fake from a mile away. No 60 year old is lifting that heavy even with 10grams of test a week lmao
You forgot Alex Karelin this dude was the most feared man in any combat sport ever. Wrestler that picked up other heavyweights who laid flat on the ground and he would throw other 300lbs+ (130kg) people like stones and flip them like pancakes. people would cut weight just to get out of the division because of him.
Alexey Voyevoda has to rate as one of the most freakish athletes of all time, dude became one of the top arm-wrestlers ever and quit to do bobsleighing, is there any cross over there? Who gives a fuck because the dude won bronzes and silvers anyway, what an animal.
Don't forget the two golds at Sochi. And if you're gonna bring up doping, keep in mind it's Voyevoda you're talking about. That man is natural only in a sense that popping gear is his natural state of being. So either count 'em all or none at all.
@@Reriiru Oh I totally forgot about those, literally everyone in this video is on so much gear it would collectively kill a horse and I am nothing but in awe of their power.
@kaskipa not necessarily. I've cleared ppl way bigger and stronger than me, and it wasn't a contest of strength. It was who could climb better and get the best leverage in the setup
@kaskipa in what way is it not? How am I not proof of anything? There are plenty of examples of this in arm wrestling media. An average arm wrestler should be able to beat someone stronger and inexperienced, so isn't it technically the norm?
That Valentin Dikul video is something straight up out of an insane fever dream. Especially with the wide guy in the suit and tie casually and calmly observing a 460kg deadlift performed by a fat wizard. 144p too. Insane.
I love the respect Athletes are starting to give to arm-wrestlers. Prime Alexey Voevoda is one of my favourite athletes. After watching pulling John years ago I realised this man could reach heights in any sporting discipline.
@Joske Vermeulen Some of the most freakishly powerful people that have ever existed do armwrestling. Those same people can excel in many strenght based sports and go for a hardcore test of technique and strenght that is armwrestling against other freakishly powerful people
Valentin Dikul (featured in this video) broke his back in a circus accident as a teenager. Doctors said he'd never walk again. He did his own rehab and went on to do many amazing feats of strength with barbells and kettlebells. He juggled and snatched a 176lb kettlebell etc etc. My buddy (world champion) Valery Fedorenko has been to Dikul's gym/clinic in Moscow and said the weights are legit. Dikul works with clients with spine injuries to get them walking again. He keeps his own training and rehab he did a secret because no one else would do it anyway. There are documentaries on TH-cam of him and more info is in Pavel Tsatsouline's book, Power To The People Pro.
His story is entirely made up to sell his shitty ointment and promote his clinics of spine treatment that cripples people. This guy is a pure scammer. Fake story, fake weights, fake medicine.
Maxim Novoselov (1973) - Russian bandit from the city of chelyabinsk. he has a strong sports background, was a military instructor in nagorno-Karabakh. in russia he was convicted for killing people in a gangster shootout. while serving his sentence, he was a winner in underground fighting tournaments more than once. After his release he became a professional fighter, fought 23 fights in the professional ring (20 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses). He became European champion and triumphant of the World Cup in combat sambo. he was a military instructor in the Private Military Company. training with stoppers, which is shown in this video was filmed for the project “real rocking” in the Russian prison “IK-15” in the city of Kopeysk in 2014. The guards in camouflage and hat are guards. the prisoners in black suits are prisoners. Maxim Novoselov is also an inmate at the time this video was made. he shows sports training at sports events/training sessions in the prison. After his release he also took part in MMA fights, engaged in video blogging, showed how he keeps an African lion and a brown bear on his property, also takes martial arts and trains in fencing, throwing knives and axes, maces. he has three children. is currently serving his third prison sentence until 2027.
USSR: no junk food, no tv entertainment, no movies hall, no mall etc .has a nation wide chess and sports program Russia: produces athlete USA: surprised pikachu face
there was malls. cinemas and palaces of culture were even in cities with a population of 10k people. television has been around, but technologically lagging behind the West for 10-15 years
About 30 million people in USSR consistenly went to cinema. In Russia this is only 12 million consistency. USA had the same if you dont know. System like "ГТО" (Ready to Work and Defend) from USSR were used in USA too.
Andrey has a youtube channel also it doesnt get many views but he just works out with his friends doesnt even really edit the footage or anything if you are looking for raw lifting footage with no bs no product placement nothing its a good channel. also he even said "I dont even like taking off my shirt but for the video I will do it" kind of says a lot about his character for how gifted he is he is very humble he still works in a factory i believe
@@BADAB0O0O0O0O0M Don't make a fool of yourself. Had you taken the time to look into it, you would have seen him handing the weights to men in the audience, who could not even hold them up. Furthermore, the man runs a rehabilitation clinic, and has been visited by world class athletes, and has still been squatting ridiculous amounts of weight for his age. What is your evidence of fake weights, that you can't lift a third of it?
Do you do them weighted? In my opinion weighted calisthenics (primarily weighted pullups and dips) and heavy compound lifts (deadlift and squat variations) are the best program for general strength training. You gain immense pulling and pushing power and they work through actually functional ranges of motion. If you manage to get to a 2*bodyweight pull-up or dip you are probably among some of the strongest people on the planet relative to your body weight. You can also easily combine this style of training with more traditional gymnastics, and gymnasts are, in my opinion again, the strongest athletes relative to their bodyweight in regards to universal range of motion (as in they have serious strength in every direction). Gymnasts also tend to cross over well into other strength sports relative to their bodyweight because they already have insane levels of conditioning.
Valetin Dikul was a great Russian "Circus Strongman" in his younger years having recovered from serious back injury using a program of this own creation. That said it's well known that many of the feats of strength and weights lifted by Circus Strongmen have long been heavily embellished for the sake of spectacle. These lifts in particular which were done sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s when Dikul would have already been in his 50s have pretty confidently been debunked as fake weights (or at least weights significantly less than what is stated) there are just too many suspicious things about them. Not enough apparent bar bend or whip during the squat and deadlift especially for a Olympic bar, the way he bothers to walk out and back a "limit weight", no spotters, the fact that these lifts would at this time all have been ATWR or near ATWR despite Dikul being in his mid 50s, The goofy amount of shaking he does with the deadlift at lockout for no good reason, that's 1015 pounds with no straps, no way someone could shake the bar up and down like that for 5 seconds and continue to hold onto it with out grip failing...
Seems like he's an experienced performer who knows how to give a good "show"! Definitely looks like a thin (and extra flexible) bar. And the unusual looking green plates - has anyone ever seen that shade of green plate before? - are a bit suspicious. Even the use of bumper plates, to get more of the weight further out on the bar, is a bit of a trick.
Aleksandr Karelin, nuff said. But it does seem that the Russians are focused on performance not aesthetic,, guys like Fedor Emelianenko, all go no show, pretty damn cool.
There is an interview video of Karelin, in NovoSibirsk, telling the female reporter to go inside, because a bear was sighted in the area, while he stays outside, cooking on his barbeque.
My wife is Russian. Many of the Russian guys are actually very thin. However, not all. My brother in law is of Georgian descent (Caucus mountain area), but lives in Russia. He doesn’t go to the gym that I’m aware of, but he is very solid and stocky. He isn’t cut, but he is obviously very strong.
Hi Zack. On that blood pressure thing here, 15:30 , the body has various compensation mechanisms for blood loss such as vasoconstriction and pulling fluid from interstitial space into the vasculature. This is called compensated shock. Draining blood from the body won't reduce blood pressure until all the compensation mechanisms are exhausted. If that happens, you enter a state called decompensated shock. When that happens, your body loses the ability to raise blood pressure. If you keep losing blood at that point, then blood pressure will drop. This is less healthy than lowering blood pressure via losing weight etc, because decompensated patients will often die.
I only squat about 350/365 on my squat and can deadlift 335 at best right now but I'm Czech not Russian so I'm just built a little different. I'm getting stronger but nowhere at these guys level. My powerlifting total is 920 lbs across all three lifts. Respect to these Russian guys who can do amazing feats like this.
The first guy, Alex Voyevoda, is silver medallist at the 2006 Olympic Games in the bobsleigh fours, bronze medallist at the 2010 Olympic Games in the pairs, and World Champion in the pairs in 2011. Before moving to bobsleigh he was a three-time world champion and three-time winner of the World Cup among professionals in arm wrestling
@@albertastrofimovas I mean he was a circus performer, of course he's over embellishing it. If circus strongmen actually lifted realistic weights the size of those they are often depicted with, they would need to be virtually superhuman. There's always a catch with the circus, always a trick, which is the whole point of it haha. He was also an acrobat earlier in his life so he has some basis in legit strength training.
Man Ruskies are built different , we were in gym the other day and this skinny dude just dis 50 pullups per set , squated 90kgs , and benched around 80 i think . That body weight to strenth ratio is insane
I've studied medieval dagger fighting (Fiore dei Liberi) and last dude's techniques look legit: Get control over opponents knife arm while delivering finishing blow, what ever the weapon is being used you need to control opponent's weapon before commit to offence. Double hits are constant threat and with edged weapon that might mean that "winner" gets lethal wound while "loser" survives with mere flesh wound. Opponent's being novices this all looks clean and smooth, with more experienced opponent there would be much more both stabbing and cutting each other while trying to gain control. Looking much more messy. One thing is that at one move he let's go from opponent's knife arm and presumes that what ever he does ends up killing him. Which is error. He should keep controlling the knife until the opponent is down. Mainly he controls his opponent weapon, but on one instance he let's the knife arm go. Axe against which he defends is being used badly: wide strikes, bad footwork, poor recovery.
@@vittocrazi Good point. Choreographing isn't bad, infact it's absolutely necessary, but here it's presumed that once (presumed) assailant looses control of the knife/axe he has nothing in his toolbox. So basically being a person who has never practiced with knife/axe... Which is true for most people. Manuscripts which i've studied show usually one movement and then counter and counter-counter movements on both sides what could follow after the first move.
I actually think that Andrey Smaev's body composition is a very good example on keeping a healthy body, while still pusing the weights and achieving great lifts. Of course the guy is on PEDs, but him not being worried about getting more jacked than he already his, and also not worrying about having a six pack all of the time is going to keep this guy running for a lot of time. Even if you don't do drugs, aiming for a body like his - minus the super human feats of strength, obviously - is more than achievable, with some good numbers on the main lifts.
Maksim Novoselov was supposedly an instructor in the Russian Military, so I’d agree with you saying that he’s not just displaying a choreography with that knife. On a side note, he served 11 years for murder and 4 for drug trafficking. And that video is from his weapon fighting gym that he runs in JAIL 🤣
I mean it really depends on when he was the instructor, because Systema guys were apparently hired to train the Russian military at one point, and Systema is absolutely a bogus martial art (to the point it's basically worse than Aikido, which actually has some use if you are already skilled at grappling). Some of this does look a bit like Systema, but that might just be the unresisting demonstration partners. The Russian military now uses combat Sambo, which is very effective. That being said some of it looks legitish, like he clearly has some experience handling weapons, the only thing I would say is that he left the opponents hand completely free when he was doing knife defence/fighting which could easily get you stabbed several times if the guy was actually resisting. The first cut might make them drop the knife, but they might have also stabbed you by then, and you always control the weapon hand as a matter of principle. Also just generally none of those opponents were trying to resist anything he did, which is usually an indication of something not being very realistic. You don't actually need that much skill to kill someone with a knife if you are fast and have a good knowledge of anatomy though, even if they are armed, because any of those later cuts would make you bleed out pretty quickly. So I could definitely believe he killed someone, especially because Spetsnaz and Russian secret police forces like the KGB aren't trained to be MMA fighters (i.e. really good at one on one fighting) they are trained to ambush you or otherwise attack you while you can't fight back through various means. If someone walks up behind you with a knife or garotte and really wants you dead there isn't much you can do about it unless you identify them and act first, once they attack it's too late.
I feel you on weighted calisthenics. Weighted pullups are my main back movement and weighted dips are my go to for upper body from both a strength and strength endurance perspective. Best decision ive ever made
To my understanding, he’s (Dikul) closer to 70 years old. He’s very well known in the eastern bloc countries. A running joke was he was disqualified from his last competition, after an X-ray they found a crane in his body:)
Fake, sadly. The guy's a legend for a lot of reasons, but those lifts in particular are just not real. His real claim to fame is becoming a paraplegic from a nasty spine injury and making a full recovery from it with methods he invented himself
The thing is: due to it's high performance, regarding mass gain, low cost and easy availability, D-Bol is the name of the game in the eastern block, still to this day.
"Three times Russia champ" oh fuck yeah, that's what they remember Voyevoda for, the two times Olympic champion with another silver and bronze under his belt.
@@HIMCULES Zubkov was busted first and the medals were stripped then, but Voevoda was later personally banned for "anti-doping rule violation". Apparently they had a system for switching urine samples etc. It's kind of irrelevant anyway, since he has clearly been juicing for a decade prior, and should not compete in the Olympics.
Malanichev doing a walked out triple with 450kg is one of the 2 most impressive feats of raw squatting strength I've ever seen... Its almost as impressive as Vlad Alzhenov's 525kg raw out of a monolift.... 1,157lbs raw. If you gotta put a comma in the number.... It's definitely impressive
Alexy Vóeyvoda is also an Olympic Gold medalist in Bob Sledding... That guy that looked like he was from Pantera, is Travis Bagent Both are legends within Armwrestling. Travis Bagent is the greatest left handed super heavyweight ever. Did grampa just total 1470kg... That's insane, that's like 2579lb -2580lbs. Holy S**t
Yes, lowering blood pressure, by donating blood, is the thing. It works because steroids boost your blood red cells production, so blood viscosity goes up, making it harder for yor heart to pump. So getting rid of excess blood is a common practice.
Valentine Dikul was a cirkus trapeze performer. He had a accident and got paralyzed, then started rehab and strength training and did a 100 % comeback as a cirkus strong man. He is old now and owns 2 clinics where they help paralyzed people with rehab. My parents actually performed with him in the same show. Really strong guy but can't say exactly how much he was squating. My dad told me tat Valentin was squating 300 kg for reps regularly.
Yeah he was a lefty but he did beat Voyevoda at least once in a RH final, and has beaten other massive names RH including Dave Chaffee. World class with both arms 7-20 years ago.
Zack if you haven't watched the documentary Pulling John yet you have to. It follows two arm-wrestling up 'n comers training to take down John Brzenk and one of them is Alexey Voyevoda. Included are some of the Russianest moments ever recorded. Do yourself a favor and watch that movie.
Andrey Smaev only started taking orals like a year before that video. And apparently he can't afford them often so he only does them at very low dosages and not often. You should watch the entire source video, he's a super nice, genuine guy.
The one I watched claimed all he had done was a few dbol cycles because he couldn't afford or readily access anything else. He definitely wasn't the usual small guy that juiced his way up. Dude was clearly a beast and a specimen even when all natty.
"Pulling John" has great footage (it's where the ponytailed madlad footage came from) and is well worth a watch. John Breznik(sp) was an absolute titan of the sport. The knife drills looked reminiscent of systems like kali or escrima -- it's very fluid, and there's drills where you just go back and forth for minutes at a time to build up the flow. It's really interesting, but obviously needs a lot of investment to get good at. There's some great videos on youtube of masters in these systems who are in their OAP years and still kicking ass. My old instructor trained with a lot of these old dudes and learned a lot, but his general advice was always "look for trouble ahead of time, and run if you can". Anyway, that particular dude looks like he's not a man to be trifled with!
I would presume Dikul's lifts were heavy but not nearly as heavy as shown here. Maybe around half of what they show and they must have chosen a particularly thin wobbly bar to enhance the effect.
Hey man, from Ukraine here. I think the Old Man from 13.26 was actually exposed with using fake weights. He was some sort of circus performer and is quite strong (no arguing here), he also has his own clinic for helping people with spine injuries (god bless him) but people did a review on those weights and the way the plates & bar behave is fucking weird. Now in addition to all of that, most of the people here are not commercial gym guys. Lots of my friends & I were going to basement gyms with fucking awful air circulation & home made equipment. What we had was posters of Arnold and some old school guys that did power lifting in the USSR, they would actually train people. The smell was awful, we had some shitty cassette players, no fancy nutrition - I mean, guys would literally buy sacks of sugar, eat it with a spoon, and then have some tap water on top to get calories in. Gainers? No fuckin' way. Instead of using some kind of fancy equipment for deadlift (like hooks or these "hand-grip-belts), people would make them at home from some old leather belts or car towing cable :D fuckin' good old days of rusty equipment and sweaty ass old guys that benched 150-200kg on sugar, water, and some danabol :D
I love when Alexey slams that guys arm down and just walks away. I don’t even think the match was started officially. And hell yes Pantera is the shi***!!! Dimebag was my favorite guitar player.
The blood letting thing is real. if your hematocrit gets to high its the fastest way to lower it. might lower BP but your body will fill back to the same blood volume really quickly it will just have less red blood cells aka be thinner.
It can actually skyrocket your BP depending on your hormonal response. My BP after donating blood was 190/120 first two times I did it. Body recognizes lower blood volume circulation and tries to to put fight against it through hormonal response.
Man love these sometimes unknown (atleast in the west) Russian dudes who are quietly doing near world record strength feats with less than 1000 followers or no socials at all
I’ve seen a guy bench nearly 700lbs, barely any followers
Fakes don’t like real
Ive got a 63 year old guy at my gym that can bench almost 600lbs. There sre some fucking freaks out there
Can u some channel for me, then I follow them. Thanks
As Floyd Mayweather said on Usyk defeating Joshua that one guy was doing away from camera and one guy was doing on the camera.
I didn't quote the exact statement.
Valentin Dikul is a fucking legend. Man was an OG circus gymnast, fell off of a trapeze because the rope broke. Got snapped to hell and back, broke backbone and got partially paralyzed by that. Then developed one of the best programms for back trauma recovery. The crux of that program is to get the core so strong it stabilizes the broken backbone and you can walk again, I am not shitting you. Through that he got so strong he returned to the circus as a "strength joggler". Think juggling cannon balls, kettlebells, his signature was holding a car on a platform on his back. That's why he does this cool motion after the lifts, it's from his circus days. The dude is in his seventies and he is still insanely strong. I think he still squats 300 or some ludicrous shit like that.
If you „break your back“ the broken bone is neither the problem nor is it unstable after it heals, paralysis happens bc the broken spine ruptures the nerves around it.
He definitely doesn't get the respect he deserves.
300.. what exactly?
@@bababoey1433 kilos mate, he lives in the motherland
Literally using fake weights and an a weak aluminum bar lmao. Can see it's fake from a mile away. No 60 year old is lifting that heavy even with 10grams of test a week lmao
The first guy wasn’t praying to God to help him win. He was praying to God to protect his opponents wrists and elbows from fucking exploding
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🤣🤣 probably true man
Bro is Samson 😂
You forgot Alex Karelin this dude was the most feared man in any combat sport ever. Wrestler that picked up other heavyweights who laid flat on the ground and he would throw other 300lbs+ (130kg) people like stones and flip them like pancakes. people would cut weight just to get out of the division because of him.
hey I made an entire video dedicated to karellin! check it out.
I met him once, Dude is a beast
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Alexey Voyevoda has to rate as one of the most freakish athletes of all time, dude became one of the top arm-wrestlers ever and quit to do bobsleighing, is there any cross over there? Who gives a fuck because the dude won bronzes and silvers anyway, what an animal.
Don't forget the two golds at Sochi. And if you're gonna bring up doping, keep in mind it's Voyevoda you're talking about. That man is natural only in a sense that popping gear is his natural state of being. So either count 'em all or none at all.
@@Reriiru Oh I totally forgot about those, literally everyone in this video is on so much gear it would collectively kill a horse and I am nothing but in awe of their power.
@@MetaAtheist Except Valentin, he's just lifting fugazi. He's a circuis artist, not a strength athlete, people seem to forget about it sometimes.
Dude ever heard of Dennis cyplenkov he is the strongest arm wrestler in his prime and still has the strict bicep curl record
He was using steroids like all russian athletes do
People be like, "Armwrestling isn't about strength, it's all skill."
Voyevoda to the 3 dudes with straps trying to pin him, "Pull harder!"
Arm wrestling is mostly skill, but it isn't bad to get stronger
@@JaelonEsquash it's not, skill only comes when strenght between two people are close. Strenght is king
@kaskipa not necessarily. I've cleared ppl way bigger and stronger than me, and it wasn't a contest of strength. It was who could climb better and get the best leverage in the setup
@@JaelonEsquash Anecdotal evidence is not the norm. I'm happy for you but this is not proof of anything.
@kaskipa in what way is it not? How am I not proof of anything? There are plenty of examples of this in arm wrestling media. An average arm wrestler should be able to beat someone stronger and inexperienced, so isn't it technically the norm?
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That Valentin Dikul video is something straight up out of an insane fever dream. Especially with the wide guy in the suit and tie casually and calmly observing a 460kg deadlift performed by a fat wizard. 144p too. Insane.
FAT WIZARD AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHA
Because its fake weight
@@pavellima5755 sure buddy.
@@CosmicValkyrie sure buddy my ess. I've seen shiet ton of videos about dikul, on Russian language too. He used fake weights, check out the video.
@@pavellima5755 ok.
God I love Andrey Smaev. Literal inspiration to the calisthenics and streetlifting community
I don't know how you could be inspired by an alien...
@@egor.okhterov by strength
@@egor.okhterov stfu u dumbass, just the fact that u r russian doesnt make ur different opinion about Smaev unique
Not juicing that much. No money he said.
@@slovakia0195 yeah and I’m a bird
I love the respect Athletes are starting to give to arm-wrestlers. Prime Alexey Voevoda is one of my favourite athletes. After watching pulling John years ago I realised this man could reach heights in any sporting discipline.
I miss his jacked Dracula look with the long hair, haha.
@Joske Vermeulen Is that a serious question?
@Joske Vermeulen lol are you mad because you have a good bench press and a 16 year old junior beat you in armwrestling?
@Joske Vermeulen Some of the most freakishly powerful people that have ever existed do armwrestling. Those same people can excel in many strenght based sports and go for a hardcore test of technique and strenght that is armwrestling against other freakishly powerful people
I've never took arm wrestling seriously since everyone uses their body and lean with their body weight
Respect for Slavic people!
Спасибо
Благодарю!
Slavs are literally naturally strong lifters and strong drinkers 🍺
They are not slavic lol :D
@@DeusVult566 explain yourself
Valentin Dikul (featured in this video) broke his back in a circus accident as a teenager. Doctors said he'd never walk again. He did his own rehab and went on to do many amazing feats of strength with barbells and kettlebells. He juggled and snatched a 176lb kettlebell etc etc. My buddy (world champion) Valery Fedorenko has been to Dikul's gym/clinic in Moscow and said the weights are legit. Dikul works with clients with spine injuries to get them walking again. He keeps his own training and rehab he did a secret because no one else would do it anyway. There are documentaries on TH-cam of him and more info is in Pavel Tsatsouline's book, Power To The People Pro.
His story is entirely made up to sell his shitty ointment and promote his clinics of spine treatment that cripples people. This guy is a pure scammer. Fake story, fake weights, fake medicine.
Dude the back story on Valentine Dikul is crazy! Fell from the ceiling of a circus tent and broke his spine...before he did an 1170kg total!!! Insane
It wasn't actually 1000+ kg
16:14 He indeed murdered a human, he was sentenced for 14 years for that
Maxim Novoselov (1973) - Russian bandit from the city of chelyabinsk. he has a strong sports background, was a military instructor in nagorno-Karabakh. in russia he was convicted for killing people in a gangster shootout. while serving his sentence, he was a winner in underground fighting tournaments more than once.
After his release he became a professional fighter, fought 23 fights in the professional ring (20 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses). He became European champion and triumphant of the World Cup in combat sambo. he was a military instructor in the Private Military Company.
training with stoppers, which is shown in this video was filmed for the project “real rocking” in the Russian prison “IK-15” in the city of Kopeysk in 2014.
The guards in camouflage and hat are guards. the prisoners in black suits are prisoners. Maxim Novoselov is also an inmate at the time this video was made. he shows sports training at sports events/training sessions in the prison.
After his release he also took part in MMA fights, engaged in video blogging, showed how he keeps an African lion and a brown bear on his property, also takes martial arts and trains in fencing, throwing knives and axes, maces. he has three children.
is currently serving his third prison sentence until 2027.
He was also an drug-dealer and a rapist.
@@olle227what was he in prison for the second and third terms?
@@mehmeh1999, he was an drug-dealer and raped 18-yrs girl.
@@mehmeh1999 You don't wanna know.
USSR: no junk food, no tv entertainment, no movies hall, no mall etc .has a nation wide chess and sports program
Russia: produces athlete
USA: surprised pikachu face
there was malls. cinemas and palaces of culture were even in cities with a population of 10k people. television has been around, but technologically lagging behind the West for 10-15 years
About 30 million people in USSR consistenly went to cinema. In Russia this is only 12 million consistency. USA had the same if you dont know. System like "ГТО" (Ready to Work and Defend) from USSR were used in USA too.
Andrey has a youtube channel also it doesnt get many views but he just works out with his friends doesnt even really edit the footage or anything if you are looking for raw lifting footage with no bs no product placement nothing its a good channel. also he even said "I dont even like taking off my shirt but for the video I will do it" kind of says a lot about his character for how gifted he is he is very humble he still works in a factory i believe
Yea can tell because his body colour and his hand are different.
И сейчас работает
Alexey Voyevoda is legit one of the top armwrestlers ever... not just a intense guy in an empty ballroom...
11:33 "Dude this guy looks like a strength wizard" LMFAO
that guy is a former circus act, known to use fake weights.
@@BADAB0O0O0O0O0M Don't make a fool of yourself. Had you taken the time to look into it, you would have seen him handing the weights to men in the audience, who could not even hold them up. Furthermore, the man runs a rehabilitation clinic, and has been visited by world class athletes, and has still been squatting ridiculous amounts of weight for his age. What is your evidence of fake weights, that you can't lift a third of it?
he is strong but he did bullshiting alot also
Pullup is definitely the Holy grail of upper body development. My bread and butter since day 1 fast forward 11 years
@Nobody Yes sir The dip is to the upper body what the squat(High bar) is to the lower body. Develop horse shoe triceps with dips
Do you do them weighted? In my opinion weighted calisthenics (primarily weighted pullups and dips) and heavy compound lifts (deadlift and squat variations) are the best program for general strength training. You gain immense pulling and pushing power and they work through actually functional ranges of motion. If you manage to get to a 2*bodyweight pull-up or dip you are probably among some of the strongest people on the planet relative to your body weight.
You can also easily combine this style of training with more traditional gymnastics, and gymnasts are, in my opinion again, the strongest athletes relative to their bodyweight in regards to universal range of motion (as in they have serious strength in every direction). Gymnasts also tend to cross over well into other strength sports relative to their bodyweight because they already have insane levels of conditioning.
@@AveSicarius u could have just checked my channel to figure out what I do though.But yes I been doing all that my whole training life
@@Meckanimal
I don't usually check people's channels when I comment haha, usually people don't have uploads!
@@AveSicarius no worries. but what you wrote totally makes sens . ON POINT
Fedor & Karelin are just tip of the iceberg of Russian Monsters lol
Valetin Dikul was a great Russian "Circus Strongman" in his younger years having recovered from serious back injury using a program of this own creation.
That said it's well known that many of the feats of strength and weights lifted by Circus Strongmen have long been heavily embellished for the sake of spectacle.
These lifts in particular which were done sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s when Dikul would have already been in his 50s have pretty confidently been debunked as fake weights (or at least weights significantly less than what is stated) there are just too many suspicious things about them. Not enough apparent bar bend or whip during the squat and deadlift especially for a Olympic bar, the way he bothers to walk out and back a "limit weight", no spotters, the fact that these lifts would at this time all have been ATWR or near ATWR despite Dikul being in his mid 50s, The goofy amount of shaking he does with the deadlift at lockout for no good reason, that's 1015 pounds with no straps, no way someone could shake the bar up and down like that for 5 seconds and continue to hold onto it with out grip failing...
well Benedikt Magnússon hit 460kg raw like ease and let it down smoothly whilst smiling
Yep, it's the good old circus trick of using aluminum weights.
He also known in Russia for his spine rehabilitation center that he marketed to old people to scam them out of their money
Seems like he's an experienced performer who knows how to give a good "show"! Definitely looks like a thin (and extra flexible) bar. And the unusual looking green plates - has anyone ever seen that shade of green plate before? - are a bit suspicious. Even the use of bumper plates, to get more of the weight further out on the bar, is a bit of a trick.
Dikul is fake as shit, true story, sadly
Aleksandr Karelin, nuff said.
But it does seem that the Russians are focused on performance not aesthetic,, guys like Fedor Emelianenko, all go no show, pretty damn cool.
There is an interview video of Karelin, in NovoSibirsk, telling the female reporter to go inside, because a bear was sighted in the area, while he stays outside, cooking on his barbeque.
Would have loved to see Karelin in mma
@@JGD185 Karelin had a match with a lapanese, but there was not much to see, as he only wrestled the guy to the ground, no striking.
У Юрия Власова был иной взгляд на этот счёт. Сила и эстетика должны шагать обязательно вместе, рука об руку.
Потому что мы считаем, что нужно быть, а не казаться. В Америке это сложно понять.
I love the Spirit of these men‘s. Absolute role models
Russian dudes are really made differently 💪
He's being interviewed by Kirill Sarychev here, who is another monster
SARYCHEV: Until recently, the world record holder in Bench Press, and a world class powerlifter.
@@HIMCULES benched over 700 and pulled over 900. Might be the best push/pull specialist ever...
Друг, спасибо тебе за великолепное видео! С уважением из России!
My wife is Russian. Many of the Russian guys are actually very thin. However, not all. My brother in law is of Georgian descent (Caucus mountain area), but lives in Russia. He doesn’t go to the gym that I’m aware of, but he is very solid and stocky. He isn’t cut, but he is obviously very strong.
И к чему твои слова?
У народов кавказа генетически кости тонкие. Русские грубой силой превосходят другие народы, с этим ничего не поделаешь)
Hi Zack. On that blood pressure thing here, 15:30 , the body has various compensation mechanisms for blood loss such as vasoconstriction and pulling fluid from interstitial space into the vasculature. This is called compensated shock. Draining blood from the body won't reduce blood pressure until all the compensation mechanisms are exhausted. If that happens, you enter a state called decompensated shock. When that happens, your body loses the ability to raise blood pressure. If you keep losing blood at that point, then blood pressure will drop. This is less healthy than lowering blood pressure via losing weight etc, because decompensated patients will often die.
I only squat about 350/365 on my squat and can deadlift 335 at best right now but I'm Czech not Russian so I'm just built a little different. I'm getting stronger but nowhere at these guys level. My powerlifting total is 920 lbs across all three lifts. Respect to these Russian guys who can do amazing feats like this.
Dump
We are used to the pain of everyday life in Russia, so lifting heavy weights feels like a spa visit in comparison.
Rather, after visiting the gym there are sensations similar to those after a sauna.
😂😂😂
German soldiers testified after WW2 that they never knew if they hit a Russian because they never made a sound.
dumbest thing I ever heared
@@takeiteasy8847 I didn't say it German soldiers did.
@@johnhatchel9681 yeah sure mate. Sure they did.
@@johnhatchel9681 my grandfather was a german soldier. They all screamed. Germans and russians alike. War is hell.
@@takeiteasy8847 Look it up instead of flapping your lips.
The first guy, Alex Voyevoda, is silver medallist at the 2006 Olympic Games in the bobsleigh fours, bronze medallist at the 2010 Olympic Games in the pairs, and World Champion in the pairs in 2011. Before moving to bobsleigh he was a three-time world champion and three-time winner of the World Cup among professionals in arm wrestling
The arm wrestling clip has to be some of the most BADASS shit I’ve ever seen
Just looked up Valentin Dikul and turns out he's the most interesting man alive.
Also, used fake weights and it's been proved many times. So yeah.
@@albertastrofimovas
I mean he was a circus performer, of course he's over embellishing it. If circus strongmen actually lifted realistic weights the size of those they are often depicted with, they would need to be virtually superhuman. There's always a catch with the circus, always a trick, which is the whole point of it haha.
He was also an acrobat earlier in his life so he has some basis in legit strength training.
@@AveSicariusесть его гири и шары которые даже подготовленные ребята не могут поднять, а Дикуля в свои 80 поднимает и жонглирует.
Это человек, который был гимнастом, у которого был поломан позвоночник и он сам себя восстановил. Его фамилия-Дикуль!!
Man Ruskies are built different , we were in gym the other day and this skinny dude just dis 50 pullups per set , squated 90kgs , and benched around 80 i think . That body weight to strenth ratio is insane
I've studied medieval dagger fighting (Fiore dei Liberi) and last dude's techniques look legit: Get control over opponents knife arm while delivering finishing blow, what ever the weapon is being used you need to control opponent's weapon before commit to offence. Double hits are constant threat and with edged weapon that might mean that "winner" gets lethal wound while "loser" survives with mere flesh wound.
Opponent's being novices this all looks clean and smooth, with more experienced opponent there would be much more both stabbing and cutting each other while trying to gain control. Looking much more messy.
One thing is that at one move he let's go from opponent's knife arm and presumes that what ever he does ends up killing him. Which is error. He should keep controlling the knife until the opponent is down. Mainly he controls his opponent weapon, but on one instance he let's the knife arm go.
Axe against which he defends is being used badly: wide strikes, bad footwork, poor recovery.
it was still choreographed. Not that it is a bad thing, but with your comment it makes it seems like they were sparring.
@@vittocrazi Good point. Choreographing isn't bad, infact it's absolutely necessary, but here it's presumed that once (presumed) assailant looses control of the knife/axe he has nothing in his toolbox. So basically being a person who has never practiced with knife/axe... Which is true for most people.
Manuscripts which i've studied show usually one movement and then counter and counter-counter movements on both sides what could follow after the first move.
I actually think that Andrey Smaev's body composition is a very good example on keeping a healthy body, while still pusing the weights and achieving great lifts. Of course the guy is on PEDs, but him not being worried about getting more jacked than he already his, and also not worrying about having a six pack all of the time is going to keep this guy running for a lot of time. Even if you don't do drugs, aiming for a body like his - minus the super human feats of strength, obviously - is more than achievable, with some good numbers on the main lifts.
Agreed- let alone his physique is still plenty good for most people.
Looks huge and lean enough.
@MelloWattz some people are really strong. No one is that strong without peds.
@MelloWattz 600 pound bench = not natty.
@MelloWattz Yes, but to lift as much as him you do need PEDs.
guys even with all the peds you aint gonna lift half of what this guy lift.Hes built for this
Voyevoda not only arm wrestler, he is also Olympic medalist in bobsleigh.
Andrey doesn't look like a bodybuilder..he looks like how bodybuilders should look like
Maksim Novoselov was supposedly an instructor in the Russian Military, so I’d agree with you saying that he’s not just displaying a choreography with that knife.
On a side note, he served 11 years for murder and 4 for drug trafficking. And that video is from his weapon fighting gym that he runs in JAIL 🤣
@agapp11able damn that guys the real deal 😅
I mean it really depends on when he was the instructor, because Systema guys were apparently hired to train the Russian military at one point, and Systema is absolutely a bogus martial art (to the point it's basically worse than Aikido, which actually has some use if you are already skilled at grappling). Some of this does look a bit like Systema, but that might just be the unresisting demonstration partners. The Russian military now uses combat Sambo, which is very effective.
That being said some of it looks legitish, like he clearly has some experience handling weapons, the only thing I would say is that he left the opponents hand completely free when he was doing knife defence/fighting which could easily get you stabbed several times if the guy was actually resisting. The first cut might make them drop the knife, but they might have also stabbed you by then, and you always control the weapon hand as a matter of principle. Also just generally none of those opponents were trying to resist anything he did, which is usually an indication of something not being very realistic.
You don't actually need that much skill to kill someone with a knife if you are fast and have a good knowledge of anatomy though, even if they are armed, because any of those later cuts would make you bleed out pretty quickly. So I could definitely believe he killed someone, especially because Spetsnaz and Russian secret police forces like the KGB aren't trained to be MMA fighters (i.e. really good at one on one fighting) they are trained to ambush you or otherwise attack you while you can't fight back through various means. If someone walks up behind you with a knife or garotte and really wants you dead there isn't much you can do about it unless you identify them and act first, once they attack it's too late.
@@AveSicarius he fought in MMA couple times btw.
@@AveSicarius also he fought in legit freak fights like 1 vs 2 against smaller dudes (80 kg or so) absolutely crushing them
@@AveSicarius He also is trained in Sambo and has trained with the GOAT Fedor as well I believe. Maksim is legit one dude you do not fuck with.
Russian water is not very clean, my friend. It's more like it culls the weak, and only the strong survive, lol.
Ага😂😂😂, Россия - мировой лидер по запасам пресной воды.
Russian Genetics 🇷🇺💪💪💪
Russia lost bro 😉
Lost what? @@blitzkriegedvanhauten5261
@@blitzkriegedvanhauten5261In the Cold War?
@@user-um8ms1hs1i Soviet weapons LoL 😁
Russia lost all the gay boys, left all of them in USA
I am watching this from Austin Texas and can understand both languages, thanks man.
This has some of the craziest lifts I have ever seen and I love that I have not heard of any of them before this
more of these types of videos! i love it
I feel you on weighted calisthenics. Weighted pullups are my main back movement and weighted dips are my go to for upper body from both a strength and strength endurance perspective. Best decision ive ever made
Russian women too. I'm half Tuvan, it's in Russia near Mongolia. I'm 6ft 2in tall and 200lb in weight. I can deadlift 150kg and I just started lifting
John Haack squats with his knees way over his toes, insane quad strength
To my understanding, he’s (Dikul) closer to 70 years old. He’s very well known in the eastern bloc countries. A running joke was he was disqualified from his last competition, after an X-ray they found a crane in his body:)
Zack, the look on your face when the guy talked about draining blood to reduce his blood pressure was priceless 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Novoselov trains with weapons in prison. These are the "ruthless" conditions in Russian prisons😂
This man said Phil Anselmo 😂 It’s funny because pantera is what I imagine would be blasting in the background of these dungeon tournaments
Thanks for respect to our powerlifting legends
That old dude near the end is Insane, 450kg on squat without wraps wtf
Fake, sadly. The guy's a legend for a lot of reasons, but those lifts in particular are just not real. His real claim to fame is becoming a paraplegic from a nasty spine injury and making a full recovery from it with methods he invented himself
Он к сожалению мошенник и бизнесмен .
@@DrujbaNarodovне завидуй и не ври.
The thing is: due to it's high performance, regarding mass gain, low cost and easy availability, D-Bol is the name of the game in the eastern block, still to this day.
"Three times Russia champ" oh fuck yeah, that's what they remember Voyevoda for, the two times Olympic champion with another silver and bronze under his belt.
At the time of the video, he was still preparing to pull Brzenk, so it was one of his highest achievements- at the time.
He was stripped of the Olympic golds for "anti-doping violations".
@@trollwitchdoctor learn to read, it was his team mate not Voevoda.
@@HIMCULES Zubkov was busted first and the medals were stripped then, but Voevoda was later personally banned for "anti-doping rule violation". Apparently they had a system for switching urine samples etc.
It's kind of irrelevant anyway, since he has clearly been juicing for a decade prior, and should not compete in the Olympics.
@@trollwitchdoctor Fair enough
Pozdeev was known 5 to 10 years ago in the powerlifting world world as a deadlift specialist. Insane bodyweight to strength ratio.
What happened to Podzeev? Just disappeared from powerlifting.
Jfc the guy who squats 4x BW is a *deadlift specialist*?!?
Это характер , сила воли, традиции , генетика , упорство и душа👌💪🇷🇺👋🤝
Wrestling is huge part of Russia. Every man in Russia knows wrestling
борьбу с мевдедями и водку
Or some kind of fighting sport
Andre did a seminar or two at my old gym and it was incredible to watch him lift. Easily one of the largest people I've ever met in person
Сейчас Андрюха ещё больше и массивнее
My uncle was in USSr army, anyone training there had juice available at any time.
LMAO literally got an ad for some test booster supplement before the video even started
Malanichev doing a walked out triple with 450kg is one of the 2 most impressive feats of raw squatting strength I've ever seen... Its almost as impressive as Vlad Alzhenov's 525kg raw out of a monolift.... 1,157lbs raw. If you gotta put a comma in the number.... It's definitely impressive
Alexy Vóeyvoda is also an Olympic Gold medalist in Bob Sledding...
That guy that looked like he was from Pantera, is Travis Bagent
Both are legends within Armwrestling. Travis Bagent is the greatest left handed super heavyweight ever.
Did grampa just total 1470kg... That's insane, that's like 2579lb -2580lbs. Holy S**t
action mark in wrong place =) its actually Alexey Voeyvóda
Это все вода Байкальская, ящеры не поймут.
Valentin Dikul is even wearing the classic Russian military shirt under his singlet. Dude is insane.
Yes, lowering blood pressure, by donating blood, is the thing. It works because steroids boost your blood red cells production, so blood viscosity goes up, making it harder for yor heart to pump. So getting rid of excess blood is a common practice.
Got the eastern orthodox church in the background. Mad respect for that.
They embrace masculinity.
At 16:50 you got me remembering the old Bas Rutten bar fight guide videos. Good stuff. Good day to you sir.
Is nobody going to talk about the dude draining his blood to lower blood pressure?!? Is this a thing?
Legend has it the most chill person in the fitness industry is David Laid-back
Smaev says he just just takes anavar and winstrol, and is a freak of nature
12:57 “This can’t be real”
“Looks pretty real from that bounce”
And the sound it made
Valentine Dikul was a cirkus trapeze performer. He had a accident and got paralyzed, then started rehab and strength training and did a 100 % comeback as a cirkus strong man. He is old now and owns 2 clinics where they help paralyzed people with rehab. My parents actually performed with him in the same show. Really strong guy but can't say exactly how much he was squating. My dad told me tat Valentin was squating 300 kg for reps regularly.
"This dude HAS killed someone" lmao
3:51 That guy is Travis Bagent, who was at one point best in the world at the right hand if I recall correctly.
@@rochoddo5380 Ah, okay. I misremembered then. But I'm pretty sure he was considered the best on one of his arms at one point
Travis was left hand World champion. Solid on the right, but was, for a time, the best left handed armwrestler on the planet.
Yeah he was a lefty but he did beat Voyevoda at least once in a RH final, and has beaten other massive names RH including Dave Chaffee. World class with both arms 7-20 years ago.
He is probably the most consistently competitive arm wrestler with both hands
Выпил воды байкальской и погнал!
"He looks like a strength wizard"🤣
Zack if you haven't watched the documentary Pulling John yet you have to. It follows two arm-wrestling up 'n comers training to take down John Brzenk and one of them is Alexey Voyevoda. Included are some of the Russianest moments ever recorded. Do yourself a favor and watch that movie.
All the clips of him here are from that doc!
Yep
Andrey Smaev only started taking orals like a year before that video. And apparently he can't afford them often so he only does them at very low dosages and not often. You should watch the entire source video, he's a super nice, genuine guy.
The one I watched claimed all he had done was a few dbol cycles because he couldn't afford or readily access anything else. He definitely wasn't the usual small guy that juiced his way up. Dude was clearly a beast and a specimen even when all natty.
@@TheAsheybabe89 i think that's the one, he said tablets and for like a few weeks 😂
You are right about the last one.He was 2 times in prison, the first time when killed someone
“That guy” is Travis badgent. The baddest man on the planet left handed in arm wrestling. Right handed not so much but good
Watch the interview where KK is talking about draining his blood. He recites a pretty epic/scary/Russian poem 👌
as an orthodox, i really liked the orthodox divine liturgy you put behind you haha, god bless you. I will carry on in the video
So cool to see you feature armwrestling
At 13:28 this guy deadlifts over 1,000 pounds with no wraps!? His grip strength is as impressive as the weight on the bar!
LONG LIVE ARMWRESTLING!
"Pulling John" has great footage (it's where the ponytailed madlad footage came from) and is well worth a watch. John Breznik(sp) was an absolute titan of the sport.
The knife drills looked reminiscent of systems like kali or escrima -- it's very fluid, and there's drills where you just go back and forth for minutes at a time to build up the flow. It's really interesting, but obviously needs a lot of investment to get good at. There's some great videos on youtube of masters in these systems who are in their OAP years and still kicking ass. My old instructor trained with a lot of these old dudes and learned a lot, but his general advice was always "look for trouble ahead of time, and run if you can".
Anyway, that particular dude looks like he's not a man to be trifled with!
John Brzenk
This last guy is legit. It's actually very serious instructor
Your face at 2:11 is priceless and I had the same reaction
I would presume Dikul's lifts were heavy but not nearly as heavy as shown here. Maybe around half of what they show and they must have chosen a particularly thin wobbly bar to enhance the effect.
😂😂😂 да и вообще, это кино
Hey man, from Ukraine here. I think the Old Man from 13.26 was actually exposed with using fake weights. He was some sort of circus performer and is quite strong (no arguing here), he also has his own clinic for helping people with spine injuries (god bless him) but people did a review on those weights and the way the plates & bar behave is fucking weird.
Now in addition to all of that, most of the people here are not commercial gym guys. Lots of my friends & I were going to basement gyms with fucking awful air circulation & home made equipment. What we had was posters of Arnold and some old school guys that did power lifting in the USSR, they would actually train people. The smell was awful, we had some shitty cassette players, no fancy nutrition - I mean, guys would literally buy sacks of sugar, eat it with a spoon, and then have some tap water on top to get calories in. Gainers? No fuckin' way.
Instead of using some kind of fancy equipment for deadlift (like hooks or these "hand-grip-belts), people would make them at home from some old leather belts or car towing cable :D fuckin' good old days of rusty equipment and sweaty ass old guys that benched 150-200kg on sugar, water, and some danabol :D
I love when Alexey slams that guys arm down and just walks away. I don’t even think the match was started officially. And hell yes Pantera is the shi***!!! Dimebag was my favorite guitar player.
Its because of there diverse genetics in Russia they are strong and also in eastern Europe.
Steroidski.
The blood letting thing is real. if your hematocrit gets to high its the fastest way to lower it. might lower BP but your body will fill back to the same blood volume really quickly it will just have less red blood cells aka be thinner.
It can actually skyrocket your BP depending on your hormonal response. My BP after donating blood was 190/120 first two times I did it. Body recognizes lower blood volume circulation and tries to to put fight against it through hormonal response.
@@siemniak that’s super good to know. How long did it last?
@@silencerbear9347 one hour around than a little bit elaveted for the rest of a day. After that it was ok i mean next time I donated
All natural , Chernobyl.
Chernobyl is not Russia)
@SandroBotichelli And america isn’t europe but Europeans live there.
При чëм здесь Америка ваша?
Rather have Chernobyl genes than have hamburger genes.