Pro Athletes that are BUILT DIFFERENT

[@nickhosier1769]

I was coached by a former England rugby player in college and I saw him power clean 300lbs for 3 sets of 5 with no hook grip and tennis shoes. Craziest lift I’ve seen in person. He had also been retired about 5-6 years

[@rozzerlund]

Which rugby player?

[@keelanmusic2807]

Who? Sheridan?

[@subhodipbanerjee6699]

Those Rugby players are really strong.

[@mattnew33]

Oh obviously say the name then

[@toomuch9762]

Which player?

[@lukecox358]

Nick Chubb also ran 10.69 in the 100m in high school and clocked 21.95 mph in an NFL game. He’s an insane athlete.

[@roderickclerk5904]

This is why I don’t consider body builders athletes and power lifters only marginal athletes. To me an athlete has to be able to move with speed and have coordination

[@EVO6-]

@@roderickclerk5904 that literally ignores the definition of atheltics and what an athlete is. So someone isn't an athlete if they're not an exceptionally well rounded athlete? 10k runners aren't athletes because they can't bench 3 plates? 'This is why I don't consider biologists to be scientists, to me scientists have to be able to conduct advanced chemistry and publish reserarch on physics'. That's what you sound like

[@roderickclerk5904]

@@EVO6- to me athletics is about auto locomotion or basically moving your body and the major athletic sports apply this to skills and techniques. Athletics encompasses the basic forms of physical fitness but at a much higher level. Most bodybuilders, especially ones blasting steroids can’t jog a quarter mile without passing out. They may look great but they can often be subpar in basic physical fitness parameters like mobility, ROM, endurance, etc. A long distance runner can probably still bench some weight though it probably won’t be a lot, but that is more than made up in his ability to MOVE. The sports I consider true power-athletic sports are football, basketball, baseball, hockey, mma/boxing, soccer, tennis, track, Olympic weightlifting, etc. To me, the non power-athletic sports are long distance running, cycling, etc. These sports are not about quickly accelerating power but they are still very athletic. To me bodybuilding is a semi-athletic sport, and depending on the bodybuilder, a non-athletic sport just like powerlifting.

[@mariorodriguez219]

@@EVO6- lmao

[@EVO6-]

@@roderickclerk5904 static strength is an aspect of athleticism, regardless of your made-up personal definition of 'athleticism' that has no place being used by anyone else. Also to call bodybuilding semi athletic but powerlifting 'non-athletic' when it's the latter whom are actually tested on their physical performance is comical. You'll call tennis players and MMA fighters athletes but not powerlifters, tell me which one would have a better carry over to MMA with no notice with just their physical attributes, when pitted against each other? The one with developed tendons, muscle contraction, posterior chain strength and grip, or the one with a mean underhand swing and nothing to offer once any kind of grappling is initiated? Strength is athleticism, being a specialised athlete does not make one less of or not an athlete.

[@RomanKondrachov]

These athletes are crazy strong indeed. The most insane thing I've seen in person, was a 50 year old football coach i was working for, bench press 500lb for like 3-5 reps. No arch, no spotter, self unrack, on a very sketchy bench, in a warehouse, using old rusty York plates. I asked him if he wanted a spot. He said "no".

[@hey12358y]

The Power of The Boomer.

[@willthomas5953]

I knew somebody at 180lb bodyweight could bench 500 for 1.same as u said no arch No liftoff or spot and touched his chest and pressed with no momentum. But yeah 50 years old benching 500 for 2-3 reps is nutty

[@RomanKondrachov]

@@willthomas5953 that's absolutely fkd! There are indeed some real monsters of strength out there! Happy New Year's, BTW :)

[@isaacalzate8262]

How much did he weight?And thank you?

[@RomanKondrachov]

@@isaacalzate8262 He was a big dude, I would say about 250lb

[@grandebolascrew]

The thing that made Saquan Barkley’s lift impressive wasn’t that he was just in college he was a 19 year old freshman at the time

[@raymondsmith2040]

His legs are ridiculously strong almost on the level of that cyclist. And he's fast on top of that. Too bad he's injury prone though.

[@joys8634]

@@raymondsmith2040 lol he is stronger than cyclist. They are only good at cycling

[@calamorta]

@@joys8634 I can't believe those thicc as trees legs aren't strong/"just good for cycling"

[@jakester5272]

@@joys8634 i think he’s just talking size my guy

[@MrRobVision]

Ms Frizzle is pretty impressive to me. No arch, no hooked legs, no spotter, just Raw strength.

[@finestjellybeansrawlol9486]

There's no USADA on the Magic School Bus 😤

[@MrRobVision]

@@finestjellybeansrawlol9486 😂🤣

[@Blobbyo25]

Basically close-grip too! And she looks like she's benching the bar. Julius Maddox better watch out, she might hit 800lbs before him

[@juliawilliams1355]

I am convinced the character was based on Jen Thompson

[@antoineb9371]

By far the most impressive one on here

[@bentleyfaulkner2131]

From a former D1 football player surprisingly enough we actually did use hook grip for cleans. Most of my coaches where USAW certified. For the entire first 4-5 months on campus you won’t do a clean with more than 95 pounds, form is really drilled in from day one.

[@TheRealGute0]

That’s almost an anomaly. We have throwers at my D1 college who really don’t catch on snatches or cleans. They’re stupid strong and explosive, so they could catch those weights. Coach just had them not do it.

[@athelos4449]

Hello! High school thrower here, now enthusiast, but Crouser broke the World Record with a staggering throw of 23.37, over the previous WR of 23.12 by also American shot putter Randy Barnes. Crouser broke the WR 3 or 4 times in his series. But absolute monster. He's 6'8, 320 lb. But I love the videos Zack, keep it up!

[@lilyen777]

Another crazy show of strength from a shot putter is darlen Romani bench 300 kg x 2

[@Apicalgrowth]

Crouser is nuts. He was throwing disc like 200 odd feet and putting 75 in high school

[@YungJuve]

Joe Kovacs, the Tokyo silver medalist, did squats at 320kg x 10 and 870 lbs x 4. A Serbian thrower Asmir Kolasinac did a hang snatch with 170 kg. Shotputter Damian Kusiak did 130kg x 4 close grip muscle snatch. Throwers / shot putters are some of the strongest athletes in the world.

[@evansboxing5762]

Nick Chubb was a state level track athlete in high school in both sprints and shot put. Crazy strength and speed combo

[@jackinblack19]

I can’t believe these weren’t here. The two craziest for me are Larry Allen benching 700 flat with no leg drive, and Tristan wirfs hang cleaning what looks to be 435 (197kg) for 4 reps

[@connorleahy2792]

Those Iowa OL lifting vids are always legendary. i remember Scherff had a similar video if I'm not mistaken

[@ZachHabs]

it was actually 450lbs/204kgs. absolutely ridiculous

[@keithlilly6242]

Wasn’t Larry Allen’s spotter touching the bar? Dude is insane strong but that does hurt the actual lift.

[@sage6336]

Not 700lb

[@signs80]

@@keithlilly6242 He did, but the size of the spotter and the way he looked touching the bar, no way was he taking more than 50 lbs off that lift. 600+ is still insane

[@lolwutno]

I've heard something about James Harrison training at Westside from time to time. I'm pretty sure I heard Louie talking about it, not sure if it's him training with his methods or him training at the facility. He's a beast in the gym though, and I feel like that was a big part of his longevity in the sport.

[@Waffleman241]

2019 Doha world championship is when Tom walsh threw 22.90 in the first round then kovacs threw 22.91 last throw and crouser threw 22.90 last throw

[@nick-ky7ql]

crazy shit

[@throwsbear4334]

The meet was 2019 World champs for shot put. They were the highest percent of the world record of any track competition ever. Shattered the previous championship record by 2.5 feet. Ryan broke the 31 year old world record this year at the Olympic trials

[@JL-pj6kk]

My defense coordinator in HS played in the nfl for a few years. Dude to an injury unrelated to football he went blind in one eye. He hadn’t lifted weights in 20 years. He was challenged by one of the guys on the team and he benched 225 for 20 with no warmup. The fallowing year, another player challenge him to a 40 yard dash. He lost by a step, about a 4.7 second sprint. This man was in his 50’s, 6’4” 320lbs.

[@kaich369]

Seeing ppl lift with grace is the best

[@bbqseitan7106]

Most boxers are all about form and practice, very little training outside of the core movements like rope and bag work. I was and am a pretty big guy for the Mexican style, which is very up close, quick and jumpy, my trainer said that the Mexican style when done correctly is a leg game, not footwork but leg work. You throw and stiffen your arms and 80% of the power is from legs and hips, deadlifts and squats are essential for a Mexican style boxer

[@jahimuddin2306]

A lot people do not know just how much of the power comes from your legs in boxing.

[@jacksfacts20]

I feel like that’s true for any boxing style, all power comes from the legs and hips with your arms just being a vessel of the energy that you whip out of it.

[@timhoheisel8939]

The positive and generous way you talk about these guys is such breath of fresh air in a negativity dominated social media world.

[@LucasDimoveo]

I love the amount of respect that you give to other sports! Can we get a video on parkour / tricking athletes?

[@metalrocks999]

Do one of these just for grapplers/juijitsu guys please. Love your channel and Brazilian Fight factory. 🦍🔥

[@chrisgeorge84]

Funny story. Jared Rome was lifting in my gym once and had a little crowd developing but we were all behind him the way the platform was set up and he power cleaned 170 pretty easy. When he turned around to look at the small gathering of peasants behind him he said subtly to himself “when it’s as light as a toy….you play with it”. Still waiting to use that line. Someday maybe.

[@chrisgeorge84]

Jesus Christ that nick Chubb lift is insane. Look, at some point we just gotta let it out. Black people(on average) are just more athletically gifted. Simple as that.

[@BrandonLoewen]

I love this video because so often we see videos of people hating on athlete lifts cause the form is subpar. I find those lifts almost more impressive, imagine what they’d be lifting with improved technique

[@rickymellick9917]

Tall dude in the back of the Saquuon lift on the far right is my good buddy and ex teammate, he transferred to play right tackle for us his senior year, I've asked him about the lift multiple times and can confirm there was no hook grip used...

[@petermozuraitis5219]

If I saw the request post I would've asked you to look any of GSP's oly lifts

[@okipo3443]

That guy is really built different,best mma fighter in my oppinion

[@JuggoJuggo]

You missed James Harrison doing like 675lbs hip thrusts for reps, that was awesome.

[@lb4941]

Bbws

[@JuggoJuggo]

@@lb4941 I'm up to 405 for 3 good reps, I fear no BBW. James is a god among men.

[@lb4941]

@@JuggoJuggo doing gods work

[@MoreBuffMoreMuff]

I was looking for this comment as I thought this immediately after the James Harrison break down.

[@znalniaskas]

Craziest I've seen is Mountainbiker Daniel Federspiel squatting 205kg at barely 70kg bodyweight. The guy's an endurance athlete who needs to to explosive, but that blew my mind.

[@RunsFarRidesFar]

The power of the bicycle.

[@Craze_Lifter]

@@RunsFarRidesFar the power of song - hime hime

[@jujutrini8412]

That is crazy!

[@tadget0566]

Watched Sir Chris Hoy track cyclist squat 200kg for reps while he was being interviewed. Jonathan Edwards was a small guy triple jumper but could power clean 140kg 😳

[@jkgoet01]

the Ms. Frizzle segment had be rolling 🤣 I love these video reviews, their hilarious and I get a little bump in testosterone all in one sitting.

[@prozach493]

For Harrison, the bands are supposed to replicate those woobly hurricane bar shts that power lifters use. Stability thingy sht that I wouldnt use lol.

[@909.3]

You should look at shohei ono weight training he’s absolutely crazy strong for his weight he can clean and jerk 120kg snatch 90kg and squat 180kg. At a weight of around 73kg he’s basically the best judoka in the world right now in his weight class which is 73kg.

[@mc_fripon1108]

💯

[@cjmorgani3642]

I think joe kovacs 320kg x10 squat in knee sleeves is the most impressive. That being said I’m never surprised when throwers move huge weight.

[@dunkelwalde695]

"This is a guy who is just gripping and ripping" - haha, great way to put it.

[@jedwardsoner]

Did you get any requests for Johannes Vetter’s (incredible German Javelin thrower) 160kg Pull Overs? IMO, these are the most ridiculous lifts I’ve seen online.

[@nikz9735]

That or thorkilsen… dude had like a 200kg bench and ran a 21 200 as a javelin thrower

[@BaldOmniMan]

>Larsen Press *Freakie D enters the chat* *Zack tries to quickly put 50 lbs on his squat*

[@freakied0550]

Me, with 7 year old son who watched Magic School Bus regularly, knowing Frizzle's bench there was a fraud anyway due to her turning down gravity and never even performing a rep.

[@keysersoze5920]

Also, Scott Frost, current Nebraska head football coach.

[@averydepauw7935]

Gotta go look at terron Beckham, odel Beckham jr. cousin. He’s a rugby player with insane lifts.

[@sethcarl6018]

I like this guy. Very relaxed and has good things to say. Keep it up man

[@bigmoneymiller7174]

I play football at the FCS level (D1-AA) & we all use/know about the hook grip. Our team does heavily utilize Olympic training tho, I don’t know how much Penn state does.

[@krb0123]

Lmfao the miss frizzle bit 🤣 just earned yourself another sub my man. Great vid

[@msliceoflife]

Ms Frizzle actually lifted 220 kg ... in space hence the planets on her jumpsuit. Thus, she actually didnt really lift 220 kg at all. HATE TO BREAK IT YOU GUYS!

[@0okcin605]

lol

[@alexanderwatson9983]

This is awesome - I LOVE your respect for Athletes. Keeps me coming back 🤜🏼🤛🏼

[@alisandhu9339]

Joe Kovacs the world 🌎 champion shot putter squatted 705 lbs for 10 reps easy. That blows my mind, btw full ass down squats 💥🔥💥

[@Rico24337]

Yeah I love seeing him

[@onemanswrld405]

Forsteman is insane, his upper body isn't even small, his legs are just THAT jacked

[@awildstrongmonappears6770]

In all of my Facebook groups pertaining to strength sports people are asking what our 2022 goals are; mine is now to have a dump truck ass

[@travelingmusician3135]

Should have watched Daniel Ståhl deadlift 350kg for reps, or his 200kg hang power clean

[@kenyiarein46]

Our old football head coach who at the time 8 years ago was probably in his 60s squatting 225lbs with perfect technique we would see it everyday during football in the summer mornings it was crazy

[@ThePadi94]

Also you forgot the 1000+lbs sled pull from Harrison!

[@huntermyers1896]

So glad you brought up throwers in this, its an under appreciated community, respect

[@joys8634]

Because most of us never did it.

[@meetch4]

I'm so happy that there is Zach Telander to remind us of this...

[@n1cocraft988]

The track and field athletes coming in strong. Hopefully i can also get up to a 135 140ish clean by the end of next season. Just sadly dont have that much time to do weights cause i'm a decathlete

[@keysersoze5920]

Bar none, Joe Laurinaitis, a.k.a. “Animal” from “The Road Warriors,” a.k.a. “The Legion of Doom” world pro wrestling tag team champions on the 1990s. Saw him do 3X8 with 475lbs on an incline bench press. He was later doing 6X3 shrugs with 45s all the way to the end of each barbell sleeve. Told me he was 6’3” & 325lbs. Nice man, too.

[@chonzen1764]

Freak of nature. His son had a cup of coffee in the NFL too.

[@Mr_Fairdale]

@@chonzen1764 cup of coffee? Dude played for like 6 years

[@MoreBuffMoreMuff]

@@chonzen1764 James put up big numbers for quite a few years. One of the best MLB's for a short time.

[@sscswimmer1]

Not quite on the same level but Caeleb Dressel/florent manaudou I believe have both power cleaned 140. Dressel from high blocks and manaudou from the floor, if I'm remembering right. Awesome lifts to see from swimmers and I think swimmers will continue to get stronger as time goes on.

[@NChamp-hv1cw]

Dressels vertical jump is similar if not better than most NBA basketball players. His vertical force production/power is immense.

[@wss33]

More of these please!

[@chriswilson5441]

Great to watch these at my lunch break at work

[@evilflowx]

at some commercial gyms the red plates are actually 45 lbs, and all other colored plates are shifted down one segment from their KG equivalent. i call it false advertising. so it could be that ms frizzle was benching "only" 405. lol

[@jonmathieu7006]

Another good one would’ve been 17 year old braelon Allen from Wisconsin. He cleans 400+ and squats 600+

[@micktrickmp]

In the UK Olympic record holder in triple jump Jonathan Edwards as some mad stats in athletics plus bwt ratio mad cleans

[@LordZiober]

That was cool. I didnt expect you catch my response.

[@pjknows_]

Love this video should definitely do another one

[@Jakal1391]

Awesome video. So fun to watch these guys toss weights around.

[@joshuaroughan3350]

Well as a 6 foot 3 lifter I've got no excuses now after watching this, love seeing tall dudes squat heavy, I'm bias but it's just cool they magnitude of movement is just so much!!!!

[@TM-cb2te]

Zack this is your best video ever.

[@beefcakesensei]

You gotta love some good ol'fashion grippin and rippin stremfff

[@09ssports]

“Dump truck asses” lol!! Good stuff.

[@rhlvora]

that bicyclist was really something else

[@jrodtopo]

10:35 pretty sure that’s at cedartown high school (his high school, he still trains there some I think in the summer). I went to high school there back on the day. We had a crappier gym then, but they did have us do a lot of power cleans.

[@skater15153]

"How do you find pants?!" -> Life goals right there in the gym

[@Latvian1984]

Saying that Daniel Stahl legs look skinny. Majority of NBA players left the chat lol

[@DaveTrains1]

Any thrower lifting ever is just insane

[@throwsbear4334]

There is a video of Mike Stulce a shot putter in the 90s cleaning 230 power clean

[@matsbartram7642]

i like kjeld nuis, he back squats like 160 ish in a peak cycle for reps, he also hold the world record for being the fastest man on speedskates (ice). also harry lavreysen Squats insane weights, he's also a track cyclist.

[@ianstratton1629]

Should look up some Olympic male gymnasts. I don’t know if they would fit your category, because they don’t really have videos of doing conventional lifts aside from weighted pull-ups/dips, but most of the rings specialist like Liu Yang, Yuri Vangelder and others regularly and easily press double body weight.

[@zzz-jj6zh]

This makes me miss doing cleans in the gym.

[@JivecattheMagnificent]

The Ms Frizzle meme omg. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@FlippersTF2]

I can’t even wrap my head around these football players power cleaning that much

[@nuttm3gg]

Only comment on the Steeler doing all the banded stuff is this. Pushing a human isn't linear like lifting a bar. A lot of nfl players do crazy stabilization stuff. I know that some teams will only use sand bags during training when the season starts.

[@tomcarrette6759]

Jesse 'tha monstar' Williams 272kg bench and 306kg squat in College. Indigenous Australian from Thursday Island, Queensland. Won 2 x National championships with Alabama and a Superbowl with the Seahawks. Also beat cancer in that time. Aussie beast

[@casparbosch5615]

Shohei Ono is another great example, olympic judoka.

[@gummixx6885]

Man I would love it if they added a clean and jerk at the Arnold strongman classic, at the last moment without telling anyone about it. I bet my left nut that the athletic mateusz kieliszkowski would demolish the competition.

[@ethanjamison4471]

“This guy is probably more comfortable back squatting than walking” Oh man, I lost it 🤣🤣

[@hyperdunkzhd22]

This was a fun video! Happy new year!

[@CCHanma]

Loving these vids !

[@dogdude259]

So I'm relatively new to training people I actually just got my degree but something I've kind of learned is that the banded overhead press banded bench press Etc is really good for Rehab work on stabilisation muscles when you can't go as heavy I prefer a bamboo bar over what they're doing but to each their own

[@traviscassidy4717]

Zach have you ever tried to bench or press overhead with the suspended bands or a bamboo bar? It’s insanely difficult and really dials in tendons and makes it necessary to squeeze the hell out of the bar, which for bench and slow lifts radiates up your arm.

[@KRH2725]

Roy van den Berg, Dutch track cyclist, 200kg front squat and 250kg back squat at ~90kg bw

[@freakied0550]

Frizzle's bench is phony. It was the gravity episode, she had gravity turned down, and she never even did a rep, just unracked then reracked.

[@steventran347]

This video really puts Shi Zhiyong's 190 kg power clean in perspective

[@wilhelmw3455]

True and he’s in the 73kg class.

[@anthonymorabito32]

gotta look at the photos of nick chubb running track in hs. absolute freak

[@gj7392]

Have a look at Werner Günthör and Ulf Timmerman, Udo Beyer Aleksandr Baryshnikov. They put all these guys in the shade.

[@benfraser5226]

braelon allen power cleaning and hang cleaning 405 in high school (starting RB for wisconsin at 17)

[@sampyle9445]

best lifting channel

[@viktorskold9593]

I wish the clip of Gennadiy ”GGG” Golovkin flipping over a kettlebell was included

[@chrisbarnes3005]

You need to check out Jacko Gill. He’s got some lifting montages on KZbin. He’s by far the strongest/freakiest lifter I’ve seen and he’s a shot putter.

[@felipecastro6705]

The competition you are talking about is track and field world champs in 2019 where covacks threw 22.91 there was no world record there but it was the most insane meet of all time

[@kennethcarow442]

Also the first lift was done in some regular trainers, no weightlifting shoes. Any normal person would just snap in 3 different places under that weight

[@adamjones7891]

Very happy nick chubb made it here. Bonkers lift

[@sylezmakefightz9727]

New here I love this channel I’m all about power and lifts body chemistry sports science passion education bro you have it all!!!

[@LLANTALOBOTOMIK]

"Lightweight guy doing calisthenics" 😂😂

[@amarjeetyadav8302]

They show us everyone suffer differently and get different capabilities means also built differently

[@andyhenson198]

You should do Larry Allen’s 700lbs bench press

[@the_real_ch3]

The craziest James Harrison is actually on a missed lift. He misses a bench at 545lbs, does an easy roll down to his hips. Sits up and shakes his head with 545lbs SITTING ON HIS LAP AND DOES A LITTLE GLUTE BRIDGE TO ***THROW*** THE BAR OFF OF HIM