As a former competitive bodybuilder and power lifter, I can't help but love these videos. He has tons of them.
JANITOR vs THE BIGGEST GUYS IN THE GYM. They Didn’t Expect THAT
OK Mike,Ill bite..
The look on those other lifter's faces certainly look genuine, but how is what Im seeing possible?
John
Excellent question, John.
This guy is a world class powerlifter! A small man but pound for pound has elite strength!
He hides his physique with the outfit that would otherwise bust him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Shmondenko_(weightlifter)
Vladimir Shmondenko, known as Anatoly, is a Ukrainian powerlifter notable for his gym prank videos. Anatoly pretends to be a janitor before lifting and moving barbell equipment (either single- or double-handed) in front of other gym attendees.[3] For the video pranks, Anatoly uses a custom mop and bucket,[4] each weighing 32 kilograms (71 lb).
Anatoly built his first gym from old tractor parts,[5] car wheels, and bricks.[6]
During 2017 and 2018 Shmondenko twice won the Teenager category of the Kyiv Cup weightlifting competition. In 2018 he took third place at the Teenager 18‒19 category of the GPA World Championships.
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metmike: I find his videos's to be hilarious and the weights and reactions of the bodybuilder's are 100% legit and sincere.
Anotoly in real life has a very deep voice, so his high, meek sounding voice is another fake part of his disguise.
Anatoly, the Ukrainian powerlifter famous as the “world’s strongest cleaner”, does not look like a typical monster lifter. So what does he actually eat?
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Maybe a big reason I enjoy this so much is that at 170 lbs I bench pressed 345 lbs and could lift
This sounds crazy but when I had too much to drink, which was too often 5 decades ago (I did dumb things), for a prank I would lift 1 end of small cars that were parked along the curb over the curb. I never stuck around for the reaction of the owners who must have thought they made the worst park job ever.
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AI OverviewAdrenaline?
How about alcohol
Thankfully, I learned to use my brain more to contribute to only positive things and quit drinking a long time ago
We all know at least one scrawny guy with more strength than people who are way bigger and more muscular. How can that happen? We have your answer here.
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/size-vs-strength/
At first, this may seem confusing. After all, muscles produce the contractile force to move weight, so the guy with more muscle should be able to move more weight, right? How can a guy who only weighs 163lbs deadlift 684lbs, when there are plenty of much larger men who would be thrilled to just crack the 500 or 600lb barrier?
Or how can a 17-year-old kid who weighs 170lbs squat 562lbs for an easy set of 3, even though most lifters who weigh a lot more would kill to hit those lifts?
In the case of the curl, their strength increased 2-fold, and in the case of the squat, their strength increased roughly 4-fold while their muscle mass only increased by 50%. In other words, they gained 4-8x more strength than muscle.
The gain in muscle mass certainly played a role, but it can’t come anywhere close to explaining all of the increase in strength, or even most of it.
In this article, I want to dig into two initially confusing observations and one general question:
Let’s start from the most basic level – individual muscle fibers – and work up from there. Strap in and buckle up, folks. This is going to be a pretty dense read.
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/isometric-training/
Resistance training is commonly performed dynamically using a full range of motion. Isometric training has long been thought to be inferior to dynamic training for increasing muscle strength and size. This article explores why the current evidence doesn’t support those claims, what the evidence actually says about isometric training, and how to implement isometrics into your own training routine. So buckle up, it’s going to be a long one.