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This is so Russian.
It's very Russian, brother. The best thing that can happen for Russia is that more and more Americans come and see it. My shoulder dislocated and extended my arm and the bicep just snapped. More handsome.
But no one likes you. So it doesn't matter. All the women love me. The most loved man in the world. That's why I have so many babies.
No, no, no, no, you gotta do it. Yeah, you-- oh.
Easy.
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*outro music*
Hit low.
- Good to see you. - You get bigger every day, huh? - Nah. - Minus five kilo after safety score. - Oh, really? - Yeah. - What do you weigh now? - Like 146. - 146? - Yeah, it was 151 there.
I eat too much. Eat your own. What is your body weight? About 105. 105? 6? Yeah.
Wow. But I never lift heavy weights. I spent my whole life kickboxing, and now I do resistance training in like...
hundreds of reps with low weights. - Okay. - Today I'm gonna see what I can do. - Yeah, sure, great.
Looking forward to.
I would love a coffee.
I need as much power as I can get. So I'll just have a coffee, normal coffee, or coffee with milk, please.
Oh, you don't understand me? You don't speak English?
She understands. - Ah, you understand? But she's a little bit shy.
Shaggy.
This means something else in English. What does it mean? Yeah. Shag means f***ing. Oh, really? Yeah. In English. Really? Yeah. It's English. It's very funny. So you eat one of these, you have energy for something else, not the gym. Yeah, it's...
Viagra, you know what? Yeah, yeah, that's right, yeah. 20 milligrams. Make some babies.
- Bye.
I owe him a coffee. The internet, remember this. I owe him a coffee.
So how does this work then? You get people in here and you make them look weak, huh? Is that how it goes? No, no, no, no, no.
My main goal, Jess,
You know, I'm like a worker from the church. I don't know how to say it. Like a monk.
I need the people in my church. That's why
I promote the power lifting.
you
It's an important thing to promote.
Yeah. Too many weak people today. Too much weak people. Yeah. Too much weak people.
And they're...
They're weak in their minds. That's right. If you can't train your body, your mind's certainly gonna be weak.
Okay.
*Dramatic Music*
- So powerlifting is three exercises, isn't it? - Yeah, we will just do only one, the bench press. - Okay. - Then we try to do the biceps and maybe pull ups. - Okay, cool. Although I ripped my bicep, my biceps ripped. - Yeah. - But I'll try.
You have injuries or no?
Plenty. I was gonna say, you must have. - Many of them. - Something must hurt. Yes.
What is the what what is like if you do powerlifting or you do the sport at your level, what is the
Most common injury, what happens the most?
You know, probably the chest. Yeah, you hurt your pec or something? Yeah.
I'm injured, not badly, you know, the most...
Baddest shit what happened with me, it was my hamstring. Ah, really? Yeah, it's like 3 centimeters like... Wow. No meat, yeah. Okay, we can start with just the bar. Warm up. Just the bar? Warming up, yep. Cool. This is Russia in a nutshell. You come, you wake up in the morning, you get a morning coffee, you end up with a monster doing bench press at 8am.
This is how it goes.
I was a monster. So was I, sir, in a different way. What is your prime?
Oh, like I've always been around the same way. I've always been like...
between 19 and 93, I've always been this way.
I fought a lot better when I was younger.
I think when you get older you just, you just reactions slow down a little bit and that few
I learned recently that little half a second delay, it's too much.
When you're younger, you just see things a little bit quicker. That's the problem.
So, uh, I've still got enough, you know? If I get angry on the street or whatever.
And how old are you? 39. 39? Almost the same. Yeah? You? I'm 37. No, you're youngster, bro. What are you talking about? Okay. You're still young. 39 is the cutoff for old men. Nah. The age is only in our head. Yes. It's true.
We're still young enough to say that though.
See, we're still saying it when we're 45, 46. Okay, maybe we'll do the video after 10 years.
And we will repeat, we're still young.
You're warming up right now?
You don't go just us? Yeah, if you wanna I can bitch with you. Yeah, jump in. Come on, don't listen. He needs to do some work. He just wants to make the YouTube be a superstar now. He wants to be famous and just... Nah. We're gonna make him work. And we'll make him do something.
Work, work, work.
- Usually in my show I'm just only talk, talk, talk. Ask the questions. - Well this time, we're gonna make him work. This time we're gonna make him work. We're gonna put him through it.
I'm sure it'll be easy and he won't care but we're gonna try you know we're gonna try and make him suffer a little bit like 10?
the safety is above all, so I always use the "kollens" brand, the "kollens" KG. They perform two functions: stability, stability, stability, and the body also heat. We have two types of heavy weight: there is a white version, there is a more жестer. And now, there is a huge
And your basic sport is kickboxing, yeah? Yeah, we were kickboxers for very long time, we retired like 10 years ago.
Ten years ago. Yeah. So we just stay in shape now because it's important to stay in shape. So when you start?
- What age? When I was...
16 I think? 15, 16 and then
I was fighting, I had like 80 fights, I fought. - 80 fights? - Yeah, I fought for 10 or 15 years. - Wow. - Then you pick up injuries, etc. Then I retired because it took so much of my energy, so much of my time, you give up so much of your life. And I thought, if I put all of this energy and time into something else, maybe I can get rich. Maybe.
And I was right. So I pulled it off. Okay, so that's what happened.
You make right decision. Yeah, there's a lot of
A lot of people, they like...
They're like prisoners in their heads.
when they start doing sport and different like powerlifting or
Bay Leeds only in the sport. Sport, sport, sport.
But the world is huge.
That's right, yeah, you have too. I think, you know, when you're young and you have
less responsibilities and it's great to be locked in and dialed in 100% focused, but there does get a point where you have to decide if it's worth all of your energy anymore.
You know, we only get to live once and unfortunately we have lots of things to achieve. You know, you've got to have children, take care of your family, you want to be successful, you want to train your sport, you want to do everything.
Being dedicated is great, but there is a time, there is a day where you finally go, you know what?
I'm gonna do it a little bit more recreational and focus on something else. A ton of these?
Yeah, like 60 kilos.
How tall are you guys?
195. 195. About 190. 191. Something like this. You? Yeah. Yeah.
199. Yeah.
You grew too big. I don't know what baby formula they were giving him or something. His mother must have...
Gave him too much broccoli.
In my childhood, parents tell me you must...
Eat the carrot. That's right. Well, there you go. They worked.
We were here training with one of the strongest men in the world.
Of course, that's exactly the kind of thing we would end up doing, isn't it?
running into one of the strongest men in the world and then competition in Russia. So that's kind of how it goes.
We must warm it up properly.
Nobody wants injury. I'm full of injuries. Ripped my bicep off my arm. I have my full shoulder reconstructed. I have metal screws and everything in the shoulder. So he's like Iron Man.
Half robot. What they're doing in the airport. They're like beep beep beep boys. Yeah, but that's usually the guns and the bombs I carry. I'm just a little friend.
What is your favorite place in Russia?
Where you already being? Good question. Favorite place in Russia? Yeah, right here in the gym with you, bro. Oh, wow. Thank you. The best place in Russia. Thank you.
I love the architecture. Anyway, Red Spurs, St. Petersburg.
Any of the churches?
The Orthodox Christian churches here are beautiful. I've walked around this other church and seen my heart.
what these men built at least hundreds of years ago.
St. Petersburg, it's like one big museum. Yeah, it is. Feels very European, very beautiful.
- Unfortunately.
Unfortunately.
Yeah, they put vodka only after 12. In the morning now, brother. It's tradition.
*music*
Fight for it.
We just need warming up. All right.
Yeah, because you... we don't need to pump your chest and triceps.
Mark.
Yeah, we just need warming up and then try to... One more, one rib. Okay, so this weighs more than me.
We all right. Five, yeah?
you
Okay.
Three, it's enough.
Okay, that's four.
Who's the strongest guy you had in here who was not a weightlifter? Like what sport did they do?
Oh, the girl. She's a swimmer. Really? Yeah, she's a swimmer.
She got up back, guys.
Almost like mine. Wow.
Strong bro, yeah, wow.
Don't want her to be chasing you in the water.
Like a shark.
Never get away. Never get away.
From this moment we will do one rep. One rep.
And be careful with your shoulder. If you feel something in front of you, we will stop. I'm good. I know when to stop it. Okay. It's been four years since my surgery. I know when it starts to ache. Great.
No, no, no, you gotta do it.
I will skip it, I will do the weight more. He's gonna be doing like 300 kilos, let's do that. You're telling me that I must train with you guys. I don't want to show off. We have to make you work.
Still warming up.
Little bites off.
For such hands and handles.
Like work.
Let's keep going, it's all we can do, I guess. The bench press, it's the worst exercise for the guys like us, because we are tall. Yeah. And our arms are long. Yeah.
When you see the bench press world records, it's always a short, really muscular guy. The bar goes
yes 30 centimeters up and down with you it goes three meters yeah i'm the first guy who break this system
Yeah. My best is 335 kilo. 335 kilo. It was the world record.
It holds like six years.
335 kilo. 335, yeah.
WOW.
I mean I was busy working that day, that's why I couldn't, you know. I had something to do. It was 11 years ago. Wow. Crazy.
in 2015.
- Teen. - Yeah. - How old were you then when you did it? - Like 26. - So do you feel a difference in strength now, older 30s than you did in your 20s?
Because I don't feel a difference in strength, I just feel a difference in like injuries and recovery in this. Mmmmm.
You know what?
I can't tell that I'm...
I'm quitting my prime now.
Yeah. The guys like me, it's like we have a heavy lifters like
who were very heavy.
We discussed this. You know, like you must choose the sports or life.
Sorry.
All right, me first.
I'm really impressed.
Yeah? Yeah. How strong is this?
You know what strong is. Like...
You know how strong people are in the real world. Outside of your world, yeah. From kickboxing, it's a lot.
Yeah? Because yeah, the
A lot of... a lot of...
boxers guys come to me, they're
not really strong. - Yeah? - Yeah.
because they always think like,
If they will lift too much,
- Too slow. - Too slow, yeah. Slow.
That's why their work was like,
50 kilos like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what we do. That's what we do most of the time.
-
I'm starting to feel small now. I'm 90 kilos, he's 105, he's 5000 kilos. I'm starting to feel small, I'm like, okay. I don't know if I'm big enough for this.
Easy.
It's 50 kilo heavier than me. You've got to think the last five kilo for sure.
You can do like 145, but I recommend you stop.
Yeah, because
When the weight grows up, your technique will... - Get bad. - Yeah, and it's...
Maybe I'll try 150 and if I can't do 150 if I can't do 150 I'll quit oh
Let me try 150. - Okay.
- That's 5 or 10.
Stop me, sir.
We found a lot of people who have 150 players. If you want to pick up other players, I don't know who, Max Novoselov, but he has MMA, 190 players.
It's a surprise for Max.
you know,
- 150. - Show us how it's done. - You first. - Show us how it's done. - Okay. - For one, just boom boom. - Okay. - Show us how easy it is. - You could probably do it with one hand. - This is a bicep curl.
Well...
I got a video when I do 150.
Bicep curl? Yeah. When I was in the prime. It was not an hour. It was 146 reps.
So we're trying to do one, he just did five. Uh oh. It's my body weight. Yeah.
We can do the same with your body weight. Well, that's probably true.
Hey, brother, come on.
Yes.
Come on, T.
- Oh shit.
Animal.
Animal.
- Yeah.
All right. Last time I benched heavy was in Turkey like a year and a half ago. I don't bench heavy ever.
I think, and technique, I'm terrible at keeping it balanced. I think that's why I'm not as strong as I should be. I have a Smith machine. I know your fans are gonna call me gay. I have a Smith machine, Greg. I never go heavier than 100 kg.
- Fuck it. - Let me see.
So this is very new for me.
Yeah, let me struggle with it a little bit. Let me try and do it.
Come on, just check it.
Nah.
You had to touch it. 1:45. I'm telling you. 1:45. All right, let's try.
I'm not a little as a guy, and I'm a sportsman. Let's go! Let's go!
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I'm injured as fuck. Two brothers, always.
And on my
All my injuries were after I finished the career.
Here's why training is impossible.
because everyone, you, me, and every sportsman, who has some kind of career, when they're older, may have injuries. Bad shoulder, a burning nose,
Bad knee, bad hip
What?
the price you pay otherwise
is chronic illness.
liver disease, being fat, being obese, problems with your heart, problems with your lungs. Injuries are worth it.
- Yeah. - Yeah. - It's worth it. It's the price we have to pay.
Thank you.
That reason, yeah, it's like, it's a small price.
160, okay?
Rashid.
♪ ♪
God!
- Some, some, some, some, some, some. - Yeah. Almost. - Stop. - Almost. - Stop, stop, stop, stop. - So close. - Just check your arms. Check your arms.
- Yeah. - My grip was wrong? - Yes.
All right. And I saw it only after you-- All right. Was it two close together? Yeah. It's not-- sorry, not about the close.
He's doing it. On court.
*sigh*
That's why one arm goes up.
One arm goes down.
Thank you.
You know what it is also?
This shoulder cannot push the same as this one. Ah, OK.
I think, look, I did 150. Yeah. I'm an old kickboxer, rebuilt shoulder. 160, not today. I'm going to train and then I come back. I'm going to do 160 for three. OK?
- Well, that's me, though, for today. That's my max effort I'm gonna put in.
155, 100%. Let me try 145.
Easy, easy. I got it, I got it. Ah, no. No. Oh well. 140 was my maximum today. No. 145.
Yeah, because you lose too much power in your 150 kg attempt. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how it works. Yeah. Oh, my brother.
Maybe you better keep the opposite than me. But at least I can bench press a little bit more. - That's true. - That's something. - That's true. You're taller or bigger, you can bench press more weight.
more handsome, but no one likes you. So it doesn't matter. Everyone thinks you're an idiot.
October, I'll be back in Moscow. I do 163.
I promise I will try. Okay, okay.
Devon Laureate, a lot of guys, you know? And from the martial arts, like, or from the boxing, MMA, nobody can do what you do. Oh, thanks. That means a lot. Thank you. Yeah.
How did you rip your
Boxing. So my shoulder was already damaged, but I didn't fix my shoulder. I threw a left hook.
and my shoulder dislocated and extended my arm
and the bicep just snap. Oh. It's all the way out here.
So I had to have surgery to fix it, and one week later, I had surgery to rebuild mine.
Shoulder.
just maybe four or five years ago I had a good physiotherapist now I'm
Pretty recovered. I can do pull-ups and push-ups and everything again.
And your biceps?
Oh, yeah. I ripped it here. I threw a punch.
and I hit his elbow and it ripped my bicep, and I was on house arrest in Romania. So when I ripped it, I couldn't have surgery.
So I was just stuck with it. I stuck with it exactly the same. Yeah, I read it. We have the fighter, his name Big Papa. Yeah, yeah. He 220 kilo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big one, big guy and he do the same. Yeah. He punch.
And the guy, they're not professional.
Other guy, the dumpling. Maybe you see him. The dumpling. I think I know who. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was five between them. And the dumping...
Punch his arm, punch his biceps. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, happens.
So I could have had surgery maybe, but I was locked in my house and many years passed and it is what it is now. Be careful on biceps because I don't want to.
Bye.
Okay.
We need more to do it.
Yeah, this hurts my arm. Yeah.
Yeah, this hurts my arm too much.
Okay. Biceps are bad for me. Yeah, I'll miss biceps. Yeah.
He once did a hundred times. But I was in the prime, brother, you know, like...
Nothing impossible was for me.
I feel like men
are always in their prime as long as they're smart enough to shift what task they are doing.
OK, you're a prime sportsman. Then maybe you're a prime businessman. Then maybe you're a prime father.
then maybe you're a prime grandfather. They're telling me when you're 18 years old, and you're sitting around with 30 grandchildren,
telling them about how life was and giving them advice. This is not prime.
It is in a different way.
Some people, they switch their life to just one task only, and they say, "Ah, I'm past my prime."
You have to change what task you're trying to complete. For sure. That's why I think I was smart enough to quit when I was 28. Yeah.
Yeah. That's when I retired. My last fight was when I was 29, insane.
identify something.
It was a very big decision in my life.
Because after I quit, I have so many hate on me, like...
Two. It's enough. No, no, no. It's lower than this one. We should do 50 kilos on the bench press and see as many as we can do.
That's what we should do.
50 kilos, see how many we can do. - Yeah. - Go the way to the chest, all the way up.
you
We're here, just only one set.
and as many as you can. As many as you can, yeah. Okay, but which script? This script?
Alright, you first? No, you first. I'm rested. I was doing biceps.
Sure.
All right, ready?
One, two, three.
Way, I'm swinging.
22.
Yes.
*laughs*
I probably could have forced a few more out, but I started swinging back and forth, and it was getting awkward.
Who is the older brother or the younger brother? The more potential.
Yeah.
I think that Andrew did more.
One.
Three more, three more.
- You got that hat. - It's Blackjack, brother. - Well done, bro. - That was awesome. - You know, I feel sorry for that bar. Supporting you, bro.
Hold on. With your habit.
When they put our picture on Instagram, so many girls, like 95% of the girls say
Oh, no.
What a shame, Kirill. Brother, that was good fun.
Yeah, thank you, man, bro. Thank you guys for having us. Thank you, brothers. It's an honor to train with you.
People don't know this because I wasn't on camera, but first time I met you, I was drinking with you, which is also a very fun challenge. Yeah. Next time I come back to Russia, I'll be able to drink more and I'll be able to lift all day. It's been a pleasure. Thank you, brother.
Thank you very much. - Thank you guys. - Thanks for having us, bro. Thank you. - Very glad to see you here in Russia. It's a honor for us. - No, we're having a great time and I think
The best thing that can happen for Russia is that more and more Americans come and see it.
and experience it and realize that we have so much more in common
Then we have different this idea that we're different people and have different mentalities is such garbage and
You know, I actually think Russian people and American people have a lot in common.
So it's amazing to be here, it's a great place, everyone's been very nice to us and we got a workout in, so great day.
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Dance. The dance? Your dance. I promise you we make a video doing the dance. It's amusing.
What dance? Your dance! Oh, our dance! Our stupid dance! It's not as stupid as legendary! It has you! Are you ready for the... you know the very complicated steps to this extremely difficult dance? Do you know all the very complicated intricate movements to this dance? It's very very hard. I think it's harder than kick-pop sing. It's the most... you've got to get the technique correct.
*laughs*
- You know this song? - Yeah.
Thank you.
Okay, teach me guys.
We're gonna go first, watch me, watch me.
Ready?
One sec.
So it's--
Right?
Left.
That's it.
That's the whole dance. And then it's got a bop with it.
Just gotta enjoy it.
That's it. That's the dance. You gotta move your arms like this. Up, down, up, down. That's it.
Easy.
It's a good cardio workout.
This is so Russian.
It's very Russian, brother. The most Russian person of the dance you've ever done. You tell me put any song.
*thud*