Reply With QuoteBlimey. I suspect my skinny old arm would come out of its socket before I'd got it a couple of inches off the ground.
I sometimes wonder about they way weightlifters just drop those weights .. surely people must get hurt occasionally?
Blimey. I suspect my skinny old arm would come out of its socket before I'd got it a couple of inches off the ground.
I sometimes wonder about they way weightlifters just drop those weights .. surely people must get hurt occasionally?
Good god - that was explosive power
But, can he do it left-handed as well?
Obviously a lot of training, hard work and dedication (he was a world champion after all) but Klokov is one of those people who was also born with ‘freaky’ genetics to enable him to achieve some of the things he’s achieved.
Here is is doing a 200kg pause snatch. Incredible. (Skip to 5.30 to just see the snatch).
Ps. I love his use of the Olympic bar as a foam roller :-)
Last edited by Mr Tetley; 23rd March 2021 at 20:23.
That has just reminded me of my last trip to the gym ( a year ago, obviously.)
I was back-to-back on the lat-pulldown machine with an absolute beast of a guy. I was on (very average) 12x50kg reps, he waited for me to finish a couple of sets, loaded it up to the max weight, attached the narrow chain handle and smashed 8 reps with one hand. I gave up after that and went to the pub, it all seemed a bit pointless.
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