i was by this competition... live.. in this hall in athen, it was unbelivable to see reza, to see his record lift, i believe..i can hear my voice on this video. best wishes eisenkrieger
Hossein Rezazadeh (Persian: حسین رضازاده , born May 12, 1978 in Ardabil, Iran) is an Iranian weightlifter and the current world record holder in the sport.
rezazadeh is just amazing man. Clean and Jerk that kind of weight is just amazing. Ive seen few of the WORLD STRONGEST MAN competitors in training attempting clean and jerk but they can only manage to do 200lb less that rezazadeh. that is how difficult and amazing this difficult lift is. rezazdeh also amazing human being too, very nice guy
Powerlifters have an incorrect title. Power is how much work is done divided by how long it took to do it. These lifters have such incredible explosive power and their power generating capabilities are unparalleled
Such discussions are so utterly beside the point. Only if you truly feel the love and respect that comes with weightlifting in your heart can you truly grasp the essence of Olympic weightlifting. That is why Pyrros's Bronze Medal is an epic feat. Trust me, upon leaving his shoes out there, he will have wept. Not out of mourning, but out of gratitude for all that weightlifting gave him.
They use a hook grip. It locks the hands to the bar. That means; they first grip the bar with the thumb, then the remaining fingers grips both the thumb and the barbell
thats even more amazing cos he carries his own weight plus all that extra weight. remember its the same human frame and it does not matter if ur heavy or light , as long as u get the job done.
World's Strongest Man Competetions are not just tests of strength - they include endurance, agility, balance, and power. The sport that is most about raw strength is powerlifting.
While this may be their sport, you'll find that most of these guys are pretty fit all round. While they focus on the techniques which are part of their sport, it does give incredible benifits to other sports and to the body in general.
We have all had to carry heavy things in our hands and can appreciate the amount of strength and endurance that it would take to carry 350lbs in each hand for over 100ft. Same goes with odd object handling and loading events.
If you want to know they competed nude because in the original Olympic games there were several types of garments, derived from a basic tunic.The Olympic Games originally contained one event: the stadion (or "stade") race, a short sprint measuring between 180 and 240 metres.First they ran fully clothed that was difficult because of their tunics.Once a tunic fell of from a competitor and he won outrunning others significantly.From then on more and more competitors ran naked..
If any of the bodybuilders would try pulling what Reza Zadeh pulls here in the Athens Games better have some background with the exercises. A person would have to be crazy to lift with little experience. The Clean and Jerk is a more compound complex exercise compared to the exercises bodybuilders would commonly practice. That and among practicing training principles effectively, food, sleep, etc. Reza Zadeh is where he is because he takes the sport seriously. He doesn't fool around.
Strongman competitions focus mostly on strength endurance, as opposed to single-rep lifts that weightlifters and power lifters do. While there is obviously a correlation, I wouldn't expect many single-rep lifters to do well on strength events that last for 30seconds or more.
Some good points, defining strongest is always hard to do. These guys are obviously the strongest in the two lifts of clean and jerk and snatch, but powerlifters are the strongest in the bench, squat, and deadlift, and of course strongman competitors are the best in their own events.
@benjsy The suits you are talking about are powerlifting shirts, they arnt flexible, not flexible at all, theyre quite hard too, thats why all of them hold their arms in front of theirs chests, cuz the shirts r pushing their arms forward
Reza Zadeh-I'm pretty sure that he is not allowed (under Olympic regulations) to enter WSM. Correct me if I'm wrong. But IMO, the c&j is the most accurate measure of overall strenght. You use many more muscles (something like 60%) in the movements. So unless I see a WSM competitor move that kind of weight in C&J, I say he is the WSM. WSM also requires reps for most challenges, or endurance, whereas c&j is one rep, heaviest weight.1 rep should be test for strength, not reps.
@InFlamesAddictive Thats when you are using a bench press shirt.Normal singlets dont help anything.They are just used for better judging of the lift for the judges.
My definition of healthy would include the following; proper nutrition, cardiovascular exercise for at least 20 - 30 minutes per day, and taking all of your previous injuries into account. Weight lifting is purely a choice, but I make it mine because I both enjoy it and find it necessary to compensate for old injuries. That's my opinion though.
ba hameye ehterami ke bara nazare shoma ghaelam,fekr mikonam shoma dar eshtebahid,va shayad ba manbae na motabar dar tamas boodid,ya hadafe khasi darid donbal mikonid,dar har soorat momkene khalafe meile shoma bashe,reza zadeh bedoone tavajoh be aghayedesh,hameye Iraniha doost darand
A clean and jerk cannot possibly test all facets of strength, though in a single lift it comes the closest to it. It means squat as far as real world functional strength,(and I am not counting sports as real world) not everything you have to lift in real life is ergonomically designed to be easy to lift.
It takes more than one or two lifts to determin who is the world's strongest man. If there was a competition that included the squat, bench press, deadlift, clean and jerk, and weighted chinup, all done without support gear, we might be able to say who the strongest man is.
im all about the weight ratio. a 160 lb kid like myself doing a 500 lb deadlift. of course i cant do that. i can only manage 345. which is still an accomplishment none the less. but the little guys doing the big weight should get just as much recognition
anyone know a good place to by an Olympic bar with needle bearings? Most gyms don't have them. I'm pretty sure the cheap bars online don't have needle bearings. I don't want to have to pay 500 plus dollars for an Olympic bar.
@stealthbenny The superheavy class has no upper limit. These guys are essentially always in a gaining phase, eating ungodly amounts of food and training hours and hours each day. There is no body fat test, no penalty for having a "big gut". The ONLY thing that matters is how much weight you can put over your head.
I agree, but powerlifters and olympians do different types of lifts though, there are many powerlifters out there who can out squat, out deadlift, and out bench any olympic lifters, but there's no way that those powerlifters could clean and jerk or snatch what olympic lifters do. You are correct in saying that olympic lifters are more athletic, but powerlifters have an edge in the brute strength category (though Rez is a beast).
If I could ever lift that much weight off the ground sometime in my life...if even only an inch...id be extremely happy, I cant even imagine putting that much weight over your head.
@benjsy those suits wont help them lift the weight as much but will ensure theres no restriction in the movements for example the way most pants stop you squatting balls to floor
I think most of these guys are endomorph or meso-endomorph body types, so they probably won't show that much definition, but they are incredibly strong.
Weightlifter bodies comes in various forms and sizes. You cannot stereotype them as easily as that. The amount of work they do with exercises is far more than any other sport.
This is true. Bodybuilders spend a lot of timing lifting sub-maximal weights (6-12 reps) where there is generally more potential for hypertrophy and less for strength. Weightlifters and the like spend more time using maximal weights (1-5 reps) and are therefore as strong as they look. Charles Poliquin has commented on this, saying he can out-lift guys with better form that are 70-80 pounds heavier than him because he spends more time with maximal weights.
clean looks easy, looks like he had 290 in the clean, i think his jerk tehnique lets him down just margninally, but my god what increadible power, that pull and front squat was just easy!
@Bertziethegreat they are in the gym nearly everyday. Your body is able to adapt. If you teach your body that it only has to work hard once every 5-6 days, then your body will recover slowly. If you teach it that it has no choice but to recover fast and you feed it the proper nutrition so it can accomplish the task, then you will see how the body will adapt and be strong almost 100% of the time, the body will have true strength.
theoretically they have huge explosive power and that means he can sprint....probably 20 meters before he runs outta gas....the key is 'explosive' he will be quick fr a few seconds and then tired.
Fricken flawless form man...and damn thats explosive power. As for roids? Who the hell knows? Despite all the controls out there and testing, they keep finding people who slipped past. This guy just looks strong and has perfect form though. I say he worked up to it.
