The Best Strength Athlete You’ve Never Heard of

[@zacktelander]

subscribe or i'll switch to aesthetic bro content

[@The_Argent_Inferno]

So you are threatening to change nothing at all? You sly aesthetic dog you

[@E-flexer]

Post that arm workout already

[@LBNMKRS]

ZShred 🤣

[@fuckkofff13786]

Subscribed 👍👍👍

[@cjmarsh321]

YOU WON'T

[@freakied0550]

Having lived a large portion of my life before youtube existed, it still blows my mind just what's available at our fingertips at any given moment.

[@UnbiasedTruth..]

What would be the best way to get stronger , how should i go about programming ect.

[@brettb5089]

Same thing with p**n. Used to try to steal dad’s magazines or watch the late night skinamax movies. Then when the internet first came out it would take 10 mins to download a 30 second clip. You kids today have no idea how good you have it lol.

[@brettb5089]

@@thorbengoeman9729 I strongly disagree my friend.

[@koolkeithsdad]

@@brettb5089 skinamax! 🤣🤣💪🏼💪🏼

[@berternie6181]

Your fingers are covered in taco sauce right now no doubt

[@huangweightlifting]

Piękna sprawa, Zack robi filmik o naszych gigantach 💪🇵🇱💪

[@ThePafko90]

Aż musiałem to obejrzęć 😎😎😎

[@huangweightlifting]

@@ThePafko90 powiem tak, ciężko się oprzeć 😁

[@superspeederbooster]

POLSKA GUROM!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aidenseppi3606]

loving the new style of content. A good mix of your old training vlogs and strength sports news.

[@haku1082]

"sz" is pronounced like "sh", "ł" is pronounced sort of like "w" in say "weather", "c" is pronounced like "tz" in say "tzatziki" (not exactly but close enough) so with English spelling it would be sort of like Shymon Kowetzki. Rest of the letters you got right

[@janprochazka6330]

Im czech and i approve this message.

[@Paroex]

Is the Shy-part pronounced as in "I am too shy to say hello"?

[@haku1082]

@@Paroexno, the "y" is pronounced the same as "y" in "Flynn" or the first "i" in "Brittain"

[@heysmilebomb]

yes !! I’m glad you pointed out Kolecki! it’s so fun to watch him and other lifters come to MMA and display how important the strength training side of MMA is and how beneficial it can be! Would love for you to make an MMA specific lifting program video someday 🙏

[@RunnerBoi]

As someone who actively searches for old clips of people running, lifting, jumping, etc., I always find it fascinating stumbling upon an iconic feat of athleticism that has like a couple hundred views on KZbin. It's hella refreshing that people that have access to such old clips are willing to share it with the rest of the world to hopefully stumble upon one day. It's like you're digging up a time capsule at times lol.

[@bernardlevaar]

Thank U Zac for this upload. Im from Poland, Szymon is our proud and sport hero.

[@robertwhitney7355]

Love how the look on your face is 100% genuine when discussing the natural strength increase from 2004-2008. I can’t believe how much stronger he got naturally either! What a blessing for the natty world!

[@DredFulProductions]

Ngl Zack I came here for the training footage! Rest day is soon over and I will be heading to the gym first thing in the morning. Let's get it lads and lasses!

[@izzygarcialionibabaloipici6293]

i lifted yesterday, think i'll probably lift today too. Fight you all soon ;*

[@tatache5971]

Went to take my two first olympic weightlifting lessons monday and yesterday. You're one of the guys that definitely motivated me Zack!

[@iambanana272]

The MMA commentary straight up KILLED ME 🤣🤣🤣 Great Video !

[@huangweightlifting]

You're a big fan of Kołecki you spoke about him few times before, no wonder he's a beast.

[@nuperer]

I'm a simple man. I see Video of Zack - i like :)

[@DredFulProductions]

I see you're a man of culture as well

[@RATM77777]

Holy shit! Zack made a video about my suggestion!

[@zacktelander]

we’re you the one with the community post comment?! if so then yes this was your idea.

[@RATM77777]

That was me. I didn’t think too many people knew about Kolecki’s MMA career and definitely should know. You’re the man Zack!

[@TStizzle19]

New content format is impeccable btw. Really appreciating the "throwback" to including gym "vlog" type content,

[@Rostislav0104]

Dude is a beast, 185 cm height ( 6’1) btw, unfortunately after peaking at 17-18 years old, never was able to hit those numbers again mainly due back injuries (couple surgeries as well) that were chasing him entire wl career, but still dominated European championships thru the 2000s

[@sakaue]

he said his coaches pushed him way too hard which was why he got injured

[@BO2Letsplay]

@@sakaue Typical Polish coaches

[@ronnieplumper6047]

Dobri-Tren, Zack you have nailed the content mix. May the algo gods bless you

[@MastersOfTheWinds]

You know what? I've been a member of the Not-Subscribed-Club for the longest time now. My YT algorithm is being well fed - much like yours is probably Zack. Have watched like 80% of your last ~30 videos but moving the mouse to that red button was never within my caloric allowance for the day, sorry bout that! This video finally made me click it. Really well done.

[@okej7749]

Love your frequent content and training sessions addition lately. Your pronouncation of Szymon Kołecki is pretty much on point. :)

[@PeteRubish]

The best unknown strength athlete is John Haack. He's going to be big one day, mark my words.

[@markymarkeaton]

John haack is insane, love watching his training videos. Makes lifting heavy ass weight look so effortless

[@JulianUrsano]

WSM in my opinion

[@sakaue]

wait, he isn't big? i never looked at his followers but i cant imagine him being some niche internet micro celebrity

[@user-sc9ud8wh3t]

John Haack is unknown? Everybody in strength sports knows about him

[@stevenhewes1990]

​@@sakaue I think he competes in the 100kg weight class. So when he bulks into the 125kg weight class then he will be huge.

[@WaT3rb0y619]

This channel is KING!

[@arpussupra]

If you guys like Kolecki, you HAVE to watch the Kolecki video from AllThingsGym "Early Years up to 2000"

[@norburymike]

That "BOP" during Kaki's power jerk was timed perfectly. Had me laughing more than it probably should've

[@bartoszszymaszek825]

I'm polsih and it's pronounced kołecki (ko'w'etzki, ko'u'etzki).

[@MellonVegan]

Also would be pronounced Shi-mon, right?

[@random0272]

Didn't expect to see so many fellow Poles watching Zack as well. Pozdro

[@przemekmajewski1]

Nice vid, I've heard of Szymon, coz I am Polish too :) You can pronounce him as Cow-e-tzki

[@atsekjoker]

great content! great channel ! greatings from germany

[@killakori]

How sore are your traps the next morning after training sessions? Mine are always screaming from cleans

[@zacktelander]

so sore 😩

[@willrobbo1905]

Loving the mixed videos with training!

[@davidprendergast7697]

That video was a meandering masterpiece. Very enjoyable

[@robertwaldie7152]

You were born to just narrate things for us 9-5'ers. Love your content man, keep it up. I grew up with all the Crouser's, it was fun to see you shoutout Ryan!

[@spartysmile5243]

I'm 74 now and when I am asked by young people about the Olympic lifting sport I point them to the Siodme Poty series. Watch it over and over.

[@mattheat1]

The training vlog followed by rando strong boi content is a pretty great video format

[@akaharri_dnb]

Your videos are awesome

[@martymcfly8982]

Like the fight commentary

[@miskee11]

man you are sickeningly strong!

[@frommovetotraining6609]

Pozdrowienia z Polski😀💪🇵🇱🏋️‍♀️

[@o-neil]

Damn that'd crazy, I literally was reading about him in the greatest weightlifters of all time book just last night. ARE YOU WATCHING ME ZACK????

[@idzik2007]

Watching your vids inspired me for squats ass to the grass, being a beast is in our polish blood

[@maciejkmicinski4089]

Just Schymon

[@pannonianfit1582]

Atg uploaded great video of Simon training lifts from childhood to world elite levels really awesome to see technique progression

[@williamshine1346]

In the September 1999 Milo magazine there is a interview with Kolecki after winning the 99 junior worlds in which he stated his best c+j in training was 230 while his best front squat was only 235.

[@1vootman]

Throughly love you videos man

[@justsomeawesomeperson6396]

I find it funny that the dynamic start in the snatch came up… I always struggled a lot with my snatch. But yesterday, for some reason i started my snatch with a dynamic start without realizing it. Suddenly it felt really easy. I guess it might be because I watched one of your lifting videos just before going to the gym. If that’s the case, i just want to thank you. It’s like something just clicked in my mind and I finally got it.

[@Miiiiiiighty]

Thank you for mentionning Szymon Kolecki, an absolute prodigy that often get passed by/ignored... Definitely one of weightlitfing unsung heroes

[@chrism45]

You're kinda disappointed at him. He's an olympic medalist and beat Khaki at 17. Guy's a legend, he's already won life.

[@sdottierney]

I've heard of kolecki because I watched your tall lifters videos

[@LordZiober]

Szymon = Simon. First thing that comes to my mind is to pronounce "Sz" like in the beggining of "sharp". Cant explain how polish pronouncenation of y sounds. Google translate did a good job if u type Szymon/Simon in polish/english translator. Your videos recently are gold! :)

[@cliffordtindall4529]

You guys are soooo strong!

[@9erMatthew]

Kolecki has been my hero since I started lifting 10 years ago. I got curious about the 232kg record that Ilyin broke in London. Discovered Kolecki's insane career in sports and have been hooked ever since. His style of lifting has always struck me as so efficient and unique. I love seeing the way he does the jerk too.

[@dispencil]

SHI-MON (like "moan" without the "a" idk how to write it) KO-WETS-KI

[@net-work-error]

Ironmind also makes great equipment! Been in the game forever but doesn't have the name recognition Rogue has.

[@KJBtheMosFett]

16:50ish, wow.... I'm impressed you actualy know what tf you''re talking about. That uchi with the overhook definently my favorite counter in the universe

[@alexandreboucher4041]

What a gemm 🔥🙏

[@Kiercho]

where do you get your green screen backgrounds mate? especially the lord of the rings one.

[@michalcienki]

Kołecki was a total beast, but he spent most of his professional career on surgeries and recovering from either back or knee injuries, mostly due to bad coaching at some point as he claims. You should check his story about getting a silver in Sydney 2000 - he could easily get the gold, but due to an argument with coach which caused him to be nervous he missed his heaviest lift which was few kgs lower from he was lifting during trainings. Fun fact, Kołecki and Asanidze are great friends till this day, which he mentioned during commenting 2022 EWC.

[@kevindarcy3210]

He sprained his ankle on his second clean, couldn’t take his third attempt.

[@AnthonyGarcia-sy3yk]

I wacht this footage a while ago , they also squat on that video and freaking Georgie leg strength was epic ,really pleasing squat to wacht..

[@eli-vu3vb]

Couldn’t agree more with the KZbin stuff. Never owner a netflix account or whatever for regular watching, youtube is the only thing I have been watching since 2012 and there’s literally everything on here

[@TStizzle19]

Holy shit I had heard of this dude because I'm an MMA fan lol I didn't even realize he was such a great lifter

[@TheGudeGym]

As a shot put and discus thrower myself I feel the same way about KZbin, a large portion of my KZbin channel and what I post online is stuff I found in random videos KZbin that were poorly labeled and I bring them to a larger audience. I try to show all the old throwers who built my sport and pay tribute to them. I couldn’t do that without KZbin because back in the day it was 8mm films and vhs tapes you could buy from track and field magazine or someplace like that and even then it was hard to find. Or it was a world record filmed by one guy that no one ever saw and just happened to upload to KZbin decades later without realizing how great the footage is.

[@Fake--Natty]

7:50 he's doing his fives

[@elmito5815]

The best strength athlete is Mark Henry • Current All-time drug-tested raw (unequipped) Powerlifting Total World Record holder at 2,336.9 lb (1,060.0 kg) • Olympic Weightlifter with total 400 kg (180 kg /200 kg), American champion. • Arnold Strongman Classic - Winner 2002.

[@aaronh.4050]

you got a new subscriber after the mark bell power cast. been following on insta for a long time never knew you KZbind

[@zachthorn9471]

130kg for 5 hang power cleans was epic!

[@hamm0155]

KZbin über alles! Btw Rogan would presumably not have ordered the tapes from “some random website” but rather from a paper catalog or through a store with connections. You gotta turn the clock back a bit farther!

[@lev8541]

Is there any way you could do an analysis of his jerk? What makes it work so well with such a narrow grip? He’s so lanky for such a narrow grip, is it just that his upper body is so strong that he benefits from using arms earlier? I’m 6’5 myself and find a wider grip awful, but maybe I just suck.

[@w8lifter747]

Jim Schmitz sports palace. We watched every major competition in the gym and the iron mind videos

[@kamilunai605]

ok, widze tu duzo ludzi z pl, to pytanie. polecacie jakiegos trenera w warszawie? ;)

[@grymek737]

@Zack Telander, Kakhi was Georgian, competed and won gold in Barcelona 92 for the Unified Nations(ex CCCP), competed for Georgia for some time and then changed to Greece, winning gold again in Atlanta 96 and Sidney 2000..didnt total at Athens 2004. You got it wrong regarding Szymon doing more weight at the 2008 Olympics, he snatched 179 and jerked 224,in Sidney as a 18 year old he snatched 182.5kg , jerked 222.5,injuring his ankle with 227,which took him out of competition, he was routinely doing 230 in training. Kakhi was also injured at the time. Georgi, Kakhi and Szymon had the same Georgian coach at some time, Ivan Grikurovi, who recently passed away.

[@olyliftingprogress8132]

Yo zack I see u like metal music so are u into meshuggah?

[@zacktelander]

duh

[@olyliftingprogress8132]

@@zacktelander 🤩

[@tylerkarlberg3473]

"Wow! You are stronger than you look!"...best feeling ever for the girrafe-o-morph

[@Fanaro]

When things become a big part of our lives, they probably go into the unconscious and we take them for granted. I guess KZbin is at that point already.

[@ConnoisseurOfExistence]

Nice. What about Dadash Dadashbaily's 195 kg snatch / 230 kg c&j at 19? Or now we have Karlos Nasar with his ridiculous lifts at 17...

[@ru1n3dsa1nt2]

Wallwork is T I R I N G

[@scottessery100]

10:50 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@StachuThe]

You don’t use this letter from our Polish alphabet, so you won’t be able to say it correctly without breaking your tounge, but I think that your pronauciation as non-native speaker is spot on Zack!

[@Veritas1992]

If only KZbin wasn’t so politicized in their subjective enforcement of “community guidelines.” They are losing a huge number of channels and subscribers for systematically banning guntubers.

[@richardleewz]

9:41 Ah yes, the mandatory Akkaev AK-47 clips 😂

[@nickcustodi592]

Top 3 most aesthetic split jerks in my extremely humble opinion. Very impressive athlete all around

[@tofuscramblegames5165]

I’m not a weightlifter. But I’m here… and I can’t look away…

[@grymek737]

@Zack Telander , look at Georgi competing, also has the same dynamic start as Kahki,no wonder as they had the same coach.

[@patch14s1]

Is that final fantasy at the end?!

[@scottessery100]

10:17 it’s not cheating if everyone is doing it

[@RigorMortisItrium]

"Shimon Kowetzki" seems to be the closest you can get to a proper pronunciation. I'll bet you wont have issues with pronuncing his first and last name when it's written like that.

[@alexandergeorgesquire220]

Petition to get Zack on JRE!!

[@GumowyJoe]

Ppl being into weightlifting surely know Kolecki. If he wasnt notoriously injured then we'd have 240 kg jerk in 94 kg class.

[@GearsOfCake]

4:46 Just not the Olympics...

[@TDace25]

Same here. KZbin all the way. A Red membership is well worth it

[@DOMDZ90911]

17:41 a wild Marc Goddard appears!

[@utututu4404]

Zack, 1st thing is that Szymon has totaled 177,5/235 in 94 as 18 y.o. He never ever reach that level due the injures of back. In Bejing he did 179/224kg so its quite less than his peak. 2st thing is that 2004 doping case was won by Kolecki. Wada threeshold for nandrolone was very small, and today with limit 2 nanograms/ml he would pass the test. And later they said that nandrolone was produced by his body not from injecting deca. He was suspended for methadienone at very Young age, but all that 2004 stuff was bullshit.

[@swankytuna4293]

Should check out boxing world champ Artur Beterbiev for his intense work outs.

[@onemanswrld405]

Throwing in a clip of Rogan... I'm hoping that's actually a hint to something in the future...

[@james31666]

any chance you get to put the AK47 clip in, it makes it in. God bless

[@playfair9920]

Just let us take everything.

[@kluska135]

Polska Gurrom!

[@09thespecialone]

The late Marvin Eder. Probably the last "Ironman" of the past century (in weight lifting, were called ironmen, exceptional athletes who excelled in these 3 disciplines: Bodybuilding, Weightlifting and Powerlifting). He was arguably the strongest man in the world after Doug Hepburn and Paul Anderson whose bodyweight exceeds well over 300 pounds. Pound for pound; at a bodyweight just under 200 pounds, Marvin Eder is probably the strongest man in human history.

[@nickphilip7118]

Who is that buff dude at 2:12?

[@ignacywasilewski4222]

Shimon Kowecky