It's really inspirational to see that kolecki and especially klokov didn't start off as huge big jacked guys, but started as skinny lanky long limbed guys, probably like a lot of us watching this
@@adam-qu6dh yes that is true, but you know some people are just naturally big and strong people already despite never even lifting. These guys were genuinely skinny kids, nobody would look at them and say "that guy can be one of the strongest men on earth"
Хотел бы я быть как он. Жаль вывихнул плечо дважды. Потратил 4 года на борьбу с этой травмой, хотел вернуться в тяжёлую атлетику. Увы, здоровье полностью не вернуть. Но я не сдаюсь, выступаю по становой тяге и подъему на бицепс, почти мастер спорта. Никогда не сдавайтесь, и берегите здоровье,
Slight correction: His best jerk from the racks is 262 kilos and he suffered a very serious shoulder injury after that, due to which his performance in 2006 went down. His best training clean and jerk is 242 kilos, the video is on RU-vid.
not really sad and mystery its more about him mastering the mind bending monotony of continuously grinding for decades. As he himself said none of this grinding is fun. He still does it for those moments of victory.
but he lost against Akkaev, if you want to know an amazing lifters, klokov isn't, there are too many lifters in this category better than him, nurodinov, martyrosian, djuraev, akkaev, aramnau, ilin, and there are two who were the best stefan botev and juri zakharevich, the last one, the goat 210 stach 252 in clean and jerk
I attended a Klokov seminar before the pandemic. He told us Akkaev was the most genetically gifted lifter he ever trained with. Had he not suffered that terrible shoulder injury, we would have seen even crazier battles between those two. Unfortunately time is undefeated against all lifters and athletes ;(
