When you're 13, there was at LEAST 1 adult involved in her making the decision to take PEDs, whether she knew or agreed or not. That's not something she got from another 13 year old at school, it's not weed.
Not to mention, PEDs are expensive as fuck, unless she's some Russian politic princess, with a daddy that never checks her spending (all though this does happen sometimes), there is no way she was able to get PEDs by herself as a13 year old. This was one hundred percent brought to her by family or her coaching staff, and SHAME on them for introducing PEDs to a girl in just the early stages of puberty.
This reminds me of when I was 14 and saw a small woman at my gym putting up 245. I didn’t know she was number 2 in the world for something like the 112lb class in bench press. It psyched me out for a day or so - was good for helping me learn to manage my ego.
Going to the gym is a really humbling experience that not only leads to physical gains but mental gains as well. And no better time than as a 14-year-old.
@@moa3821 Diuretics are used for loosing body water and salt, diuretics will usually make you weaker. Good for bb prep or hit a weight limit. Not used for added strength. Diuretics = Not a steroid. But she was probably blasting some steroids anyway. TMYK
Five years ago she was quite popular in russia, she was even a youth representative in the russian communist party. So she probably moved from sports to politics.
Giving children PDs is child abuse, only a matter of time when we hear of a death of a young adult. Good to see she is still enjoying her sport and hopefully is healthy.
I'll never consider these legitimate lifts when you're arching harder than St. Louis. This shit not only looks ridiculous but it's a stain on the sport as a whole.
@@flutegadget6713 yeah to some extent, the person basically goes underneath the table and the only way to pin them is either to break their arm or pin their whole body weight. Its completely legal and some people defend it because of that just like extreme arching in PL, but many people believe its one of the main reason the sport hasnt gone mainstream, cuz to an outsider it just looks ridiculous and makes a joke of what arm wrestling is supposed to be. Look up "Michael Todd armwrestling" if you want to see a great example of it at the top level
this is so sad and it'a all for fame this girl don't even know what she want's from life her brains not even fully developed especially her body and parents already give her anabolics
@@crimsonhawk4912 Blame Biden? First of all its PRESIDENT Biden so show some respect. Secondly, Biden has done alot for the minority communites and lgbt so if I were you Id shut your mouth.
"Compete with yourself, try to be the best that you can be! " and "Train harder than the last time!" Thx Greg, this should be written on every wall in the gym.
It doesn't matter if the press was half an inch, 2 inches or 10 inches. All that matters is the efficiency of delivery and if it follows the suited rule. At least thats what my girlfriend says
@@coupa10 this really upsets people who do it the correct way. Then you have some 14 year old girl with a 1 inch clearance bench what advanced lifters do. Bull.
It does matter my guy. If you know anything about lifting weights. A full range of motion puts more tension on your muscles. No matter what other people that can’t lift say otherwise. Full range of motion is much much more harder than doing a half or 1/3 of a rep.
Selfish adults did that to her. In the end her health and opportunities have been jeopardized just so the adults can profit and take advantage in the short term. This is what is sick about society. I hope she continues to progress for her own goals and passion for the sport.
Look at her. She really ejoyed the fame and being special. There is an option, very possible one, she knew and wanted that. Just saying. She must have felt like to be on the top of the wrold with all that cheering, meeting famous people and stuff. With no PEDs she would have been probably just average.
If you want to see an impressive bench, look up Jen Thompson. 48 years old, 67.5 kg weight class putting up 320 lb. It's a beautiful bench. Her arch isn't reaching the heavens either. Not matters in the rules, it's just less impressive when you move the bar 2 inches. The rules of powerlifting are a little different in each federation. For USAPL, a drug-tested federation, for a bench press to count you need to have you butt and head touching the bench, feet flat on the ground, and listen to the commands which includes the press command that is given once the bar stops movement on your chest so you are not using momentum to move that bar.
Maybe this is just me but that whole "insanely arched back and legs back so you're barely moving the bar a few inches" has never counted for me. I guess it's "technically" correct but looks ridiculous. Her only proper bench was the 203pounds at a later age. I just hit 335pounds as a 1 rep max with appropriate form and am damn proud of that after 10 years of hard training at 185 pounds. If I was doing this "arch" I'd be at an easy 400+, it barely moves.
Exactly my bench would be 400 plus if i did an arch like that. I never agreed with the arch i will give her a pass she was a girl and a kid but still not really pro bench worthy. But i knew PEDs was involved (Females lack the amount of testetosterone Men have)
But can you arch and bench like that? no.. i thought so. its a skill. you can say its stupid all you want but thats the whole fucking point dude to bench with arching back in comps to get high numbers. come on
I was tempted many times to take steroids. I had a lot of friends eclipse me because of them. After doing a research project on the dangers of Anabolic steroids in high school, I made a decision to never touch them. I am 47 now and am in pretty good shape, still lifting and still look about the same I did back then. I am so happy I never took them as all my friends who did are all out of shape now.
Maybe it's because your friend didnt.maintain their bodies and stopped going to the gym. I'm sure they were getting all the hot chicks back then as if like they had ferraris and lamborghinis and you missed out all the fun. LoL
It’s funny how all the dudes in my highschool that did them for abs now in their 30s are overweight and balding. One guy I know who was scrawnier than me back in the day took them then tried to say his back of pimples was from an allergy. 🙃
Congrats for her, I hope I can reach that strength and beyond. Edit: I know she is on that sauce but my desire to become strong to lift that amount of weight is still the same.
@@ZYZZ_WHEY yeah, forgot to edit it. But still, my wish to become as strong is still the same. Gonna edit so people don't reply with "oh she's on peds" repetitively.
i had low expectations going into this so i wasn't surprised if u want to count that posture, assistance, and going down two to three inches as actually benching that weight sure also sad to see that she was enhanced at that age
I’m fairly certain if you employ the same technique she does you’ll be closer to her weight. If she benches the way most people do, utilizing actual raw strength and muscle execution, and without that ridiculous arch, she would be closer to what you’re benching now.
With help? If you need help that's above your max. But the number doesn't matter, and doing maxes is dumb, too easy to get hurt. If you want it to be a bigger number just convert pounds to micrograms.
I remember when I first started and benched 90 (I also weighed about 87 lbs). one year later gained 5 inches to height (I'm 13 and 5'8 about 115 bw) and a 140 bench. you'll get there
Keep seeing more and more teenage ladies being on the spotlight for that. Am I impressed? No, because her back isn't slightly arched as usual but very strange way. Not sure why it "counts" as a press. I'm willing to bet if she kept it straight, she wouldn't be able to bench that much.
Please check and cover young powerlifter Benjamin MacIntyre. Numbers he is putting up at 16 years old is insane and he also claiming to be natural. If that's the case then how it is possible to be so damn strong at that age. Also it would give him more recognition 💪
Also Greg, maybe you can do a video on Mal O'Brien and how she changed her body from when she was 14 in 2018 to how she looks now in 2022 at 18 years old...
She is in the Ukraine helping in the Donbass against Ukraine forces. Helping the people there and interview them how they think and experiences the Ukraine attacks and the Russian help in that area. She has a very active Instagram.
@@Chungdol yeah but she's full of shit. I really advise you not to take anything from what she says for granted. A big portion of my family lived in the Donetsk region, they lost their homes bc of Russia (twice now), they saw like people from Russia beaten up shit from anyone who was too patriotic to Ukraine. But she keeps telling stories that Ukrainians the ones who are bad here. Dude I mean she literally cooperates with communist party and saying everything the Russian government wants her to say, and now knowing her history with PEDs I'm not even surprised.
PEDs aside, that strength is a hell of insane. The sheer strength she has is phenomenal. How many 13-year-olds can do this ON PEDS? Credits to her strength and genetics. I still don't approve of PED use at such a young age.
Thank you, Coach Greg, you are a really nice person who always tries to persuade people not to do stupid thing, but just let it go because that's their choice, for example, someone would like to make themselves or their children famous or make more money or get more women in an exchange of shortening life (maybe die before 50 years or even 40 years old). What I really like to do is like what you said, do our best to go beyond ourselves. Everything comes with cost.
You idiot they’re Russians pumped full of steroids and all sorts of drugs. Also the form is all wrong, she’s using straps, no range of motion and people around her incase she fails the lift.
@@ilikesteak2666 bro it was a little girl. I dont think you understand how weak a females upper body is comapred to men. Theres a reasom why females can leg press and squat decently good compared tl men and deadlift. But their bench presss always sucks roided or not. She did something crazy rwgardless of roids.
@@ilikesteak2666 steroids don't give you superhuman strength buddy. She's hella strong for a probably 130 pound girl and bench pressing more than 1.5 times her own weight
Personally I don't think you can call it a good bench press unless you touch your chest with your back flat on the bench. I took PD's in my late 20's. A few years after I quit PD's I had my best PR on bench. Proper training goes a long ways.
@@lolcow6668 right now I’m plateauing at 95, I’m recovering from covid rn so it’s been difficult to build my strength back up. Also keep in mind I’m at around 130 so I’m kinda weak for my size I definitely could be lifting heavier if I weighed more
I'm 6'5", 41 years old and she can bench more than me. My 1RM is 95kg/210 lbs! Though I do 4x5 working sets of 80kg/176lb. My bench has been plateaued for like 8 months. Chest is growing though! I wonder because I've lost 10kg/22lbs of fat it's affected my bench.
@@clintongwanyama7188 I take Creatine, Whey, Citrulline Malate and D-Aspartic Acid. Energy is good in the gym. All my other lifts have gone up, including tricep exercises such as cable push downs which I do 55kg/110lb for 4x10. But my bench is really stuck and I dunno how to break through it. Technique is good I think, driving from feet, medium grip.
Getting endorsed by Dana Linn Bailey is like basically all but announcing to the world that you're on PED's. Hoping this girl doesn't start claiming she's a "lifetime natty" as well.
You could absolutely hit 215. It’s easy. Whatever weight you can bench press for sets of 10 reps, add 5 lbs to it, and do reps with that until you are strong enough to hit sets of ten. Repeat that process as much as you want to, eventually you’ll try 215, even 225, and get at least one rep. Hell I used to struggle with 170 lbs, but slowly over time, I progressed to 205 for reps, and even double repping 225. This is all very attainable. Maybe we didn’t have the genetics to do it at 14, but building muscle is just simple physics. Everyone can do it.
@@airlesscanvas2887 Bro if you just add 5 lbs to the bar whenever you’re able to hit sets of ten reps, you’ll eventually be bench pressing 225 and beyond. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. It will take time, so don’t be in a hurry. Be methodical, gradually add weight.
Kids cannot consent to taking ANY drug! It is literally against the law. Your parents are responsible for all medical decisions until you are 18 and they should be held accountable for giving such altering drugs. It’s absolutely unacceptable to give children these kind of drugs.
LOL I bench press the same weight but I go 2 times deeper then her when I do the reps. I'll never understand those half reps where you skip the hardest part, which is when you touch your chest with the bar FLAT ON THE BENCH not doing a fucking bridge
Also worth mentioning that these roids will wreck havoc on your heart over time, could explain why so many bodybuilders die far younger than they should. They should just train natural, it's far healthier and body looks better too natural
Its one thing to push and promote and help raise awareness for female powerlifters but that bench press with an arch as curved as hers isn't a legitimate bench press. A minor raised arch sure, but to that extent no. Can't keep ignoring these things.
Haha, I wanna see her try this arch in incline bench press. I dont care what people say, this is not a legit lift, it just isnt and everybody knows it. The rules are flawed and these competitions, it's almost embarrassing for the sport.
I hate the powerlifting arch on women. Men don't usually do that. No I'm not jelly. My best was 475lbs at 6'4" with a tiny arch. There really needs to be a range of motion rule. If you lift super heavy and you move the bar 1 inch I don't care what you lift.
Hi Greg recently brought your cook book. Was just wondering where is the best place to work out what your Macros/calories you require a day for my aged/height/weight.?
@@bigsip2962 where would you find what calories you need. How do you work it out? What would it be based on? Height/weight/age and what your trying to achieve? Thanks
@@aqua6410 track calories for a week with an app, and track your weight with a scale. You’ll get an idea of whether you’re eating in a surplus or deficit and by how much and you can adjust calories accordingly.
Yea idc what you say that’s not a bench press that arch literally cuts out half the rep please tell her lay flat and we’ll see what happens and before you talk shit I just signed a scholarship to play football D1 my bench max 410 4 reps 278 weight
a couple years ago, i would've been on the side of "oh she arched her back. cheating!" BUT, when i started competitive powerlifting, that first lift absolutely counts. as long as the bar hit her chest, paused, and butt didnt leave the bench, its a good lift. i applaud that girl. good job!!!
Well, you are correct. However the bench press is a major exercise. A major exercise that a lot of people just plain suck at. Therefore they naturally will come up with every excuse in the book. Her ROM isn't all that bad considering her arch. I"ve seen a WHOLE lot shorter ROM's before.
I completely agree that this is a legit bench. There’s nothing now where that says the whole back needs to be on the bench and her upper back is on the bench. And whoever says it’s cheating is probably just jealous that they are getting out benched by a 13 year old girl!! Boom 💥💥 mic drop
It’s impressive. But we all are lying to ourselves if we can’t admit it would be much more impressive if she actually laid flat with full range of motion. Damn good half rep though! Strong for a 13 year old girl… edit : and she cheats!. You keep saying people are mad because she’s stronger and benches more, she didn’t do one full rep. I would love to know what I could bench with that range of motion. Much more comfortable saying that knowing she cheats
Coach Greg people are always going to try to get ahead, as long as adults are using steroids, kids are going to use steroids. Anything the best athletes or fitness influencers are doing kids are going to do it too, period.
Common guys! let's be critical. She was just a young girl, she doesnt deserve all the hate u are giving her on the comments. The only real cheat it's not the arch or the gear, is that she is russian
Those lifts wouldn't count at competitions I've been too. You have to touch your chest and hold until you are told to lift and your heels must touch the floor with your head, butt and shoulders on the bench at all times. You usually need 12 weeks to wash most drugs out, I'll lose a bit of peak power during that time especially as I would have to cut weight, I can keep most of my strength for quite a while because I know exactly what to use and how much. I've never used an injectable or a PCT, I waited until my mid 30's before taking anything as I didn't want to risk health issues while I was young.
When people do the back bend like that I jut do not take it seriously. I understand that this is allowed in contests, but in my opinion unless your back is flat on the bench your not doing a flat bench press. She is still stronger than lots her age so Hoorah.
