Kind of distasteful to be like "Hey we edited our best content to be behind a paywall, but don't worry guys we got you! Just pay us money and you can watch the whole thing." It's one thing if you only upload certain content behind the paywall, but to compromise your free content and thereby give a fuck you to your long-time subscribers...again distasteful.
What us mortals fail to understand, is that Kyriakos let his muscles get covered by fat so that we could still gaze upon him and his beyond-mortal levels of pure might in awe. His true hidden physique is so godly that merely setting our fragile human eyes on it would be enough for us to spontaneously combust.
@@joshuaconklin8378He was an olympic lifter back in the day as I understand it, but got a ton of injuries that basically limits his possible range of motion and movements. What we are graciously given to behold is his ways of circumventing these injuries to train anyway.
How is he both a joke and stronger than 99.9% of ppl? Dude is weird, but he's an absolute unit. Imagine picking a fight with him inside an elevator, he'd split your wig.
@@666specter666 He also has flexibility enough that he can kick your body clean as well and i don't really know how well can he transfer his weight through his kicks but if he can even transfer enough force and add a few of his pounds then i say your ribs doesnt stand a chance. He can punch as well like bruhh i think he'd hit the soul with those punches. He can wrestle too, 1 can you even move once he's on top of you and 2 if you can even move once he gets his hands on you. Raw strength alone? Dude's fast for his size as well. So i'm at a loss coz everything about him doesn't make sense if you're the average joe so i imagine the result of the fight if someone is dumb enough to even try won't make sense either like him punching you in the shoulder dislocating it instantly something like that.
The pull-ups are genuinely crazy impressive. Moving 400 pounds like that is insane! As a pull ups guy myself it’s awe-inspiring. I challenge anyone to try and do a single weighted pull up with the equivalent weight
I've seen FAR worse pull ups in countless crossfit videos from guys that are a quarter of this dude's weight. Imagine if Mike got his hands on him and got him lifting properly...dude would be unstoppable.
I have his screaming as a ring tone to my phone. The guy is a legend. 49 years old, multiple injuries and he still lifts insane weights. Huge respect for the mighty Bloatloard.
Όλοι ασχολούνται με τον Κυριάκο, ο Κυριάκος δεν ασχολείται με κανέναν απο όλους αυτους τους καναπεδάτους επιστήμονες με το εξυπναδίστικο χιούμορ τους που δείχνουν σε βίντεο για τον Κυριάκο περισσότερο την μούρη τους παρα τον Κυριάκο. Ο Κυριάκος κάνει το κέφι του με τα βάρη του για το κέφι του και όχι για τους κανόνες των καναπεδάτων και τους γράφει στα αρχαία του!
The greeks did not invent democracy ._. There were democractic systems used by clans, tribes and countries before Greece even existed. In Africa. In Europe's North. In Australia. etc.
My favorite thing about Grizzly is that every single person that comments on his stuff just seems to be there to meme and have a good time. I've never seen anything negative, or seen people fighting in comments on his videos. That's such a rare thing these days in strength sports/bodybuilding.
DUDE! YES! The whole community in Grizzly's comment sections are the funniest & most rad people on earth. I will never forget the first one I stumbled upon, and crying-laughing for five minutes. Now all that is long-buried in my vernacular lolz.
Can we get a Dr. Mike and Grizzly workout collab??? Dr. Mike: "Okay, first is hack squats. We're going to control the eccentric, do full ROM, and pause at the bottom." Kyriakos Grizzly: *"ARRRRRRGUHHH GRAWRRRRRR AHHHHHHH"* *throws hack machine at the wall*
18:13 *the moment i spit at my screen laughing,* that transition from "that is a sexual profile right there" to a literal ASS SHOT. and dr mikes first face when he saw that. 😂😂😂😂 good lord HAHAAA
Basically no one in a Globo gym can even do a walkout with 500lbs. If you can shrug 500lbs you're one of the strongest guys there and that includes the tall, big guys.
say what you want. I'm not a small man, but I surely cannot lift the half weight he carries. I'm about 82 kg, and I can do about 15-20 pull-ups. but the fact that he can make even one pull up with his weight is unbelievable
@@mr.doctorcaptain1124ehh not idiotic he was a world record power lifter, he probably would feel depressed if he could only lift lightweight because of his injuries so he wants to do as much weight as he can in a safe way for his injuries
Imagine somebody fails a +700lbs squat attempt, freaking Kyriakos could catch the bar with his forearms like nothing. That +900 lbs zerch grip is a feat of strength on itself.
Apparently, Kyriakos Grizzly has had a lot of injuries and is now limited to short ROM. Brian Shaw tried to do the partial Zercher shrugs with less weight than Kyriakos Grizzly uses and found them very challenging. Kyriakos Grizzly is very strong!
5:42 - 5:48 is legit meme. I am downloading and cutting it. I don't even care. Then you can just add something you're talking about in the ''you're looking at it'' and voila.. you have entertainment for ages.
it is just water. neptun himself blessed him with excess water in his veins and muscles. and he has just thick skin, kinda like hippo or elephant, but thicker...
He is the best at odd lifts in the modern age for sure. Brian Shaw has a video of him trying these exercises and not even he gets the numbers on the heavy hitters like the greek god
Unironically I think Grizzly has given us the data on just how powerful you can get from bloatmaxxing. To be his size with a decent amount of muscle underneath makes you capable of some insane things, but it's gonna be more unconventional lifts where it shines the most
I'm 225 and can do pull ups full range of motion with a pause at top and a hang at the bottom for 4 reps then I have to rest arms for a few seconds to do more reps. Can get 14 reps done in under 5 minutes though last night it took me 7 minutes because exhausted. @@fritzyberger
jokes aside he was a serious weightlifter (hence the freaky mobility) and trains in the way he does largely due to injury, he has torn the tendons in both knees and that squat is actually his max depth.
I think he posted an old photo of him doing a crazy Olympic lift full ROM when he was in his 30s or so. It's no wonder how he can throw up over his head 2+ plates. Even just holding on to some of that weight he displays is an unbelievable strength feat.
M'LORD's training is beyond mortal comprehension, he's training muscles that don't even exist in this plane, his fat tissues are actually what we consider as "muscles"
It's funny because I think Kyriakos isn't even on roids while Dr.Mike is blasting test and HGH. Kyriakos on roids would turn him into Super Bloat Sayan way above power levels of 9000.
The first time anyone sees Kyriakos, they're baffled by the weird lifts he does, with the weirdest being the famous zercher shrugs. I admit, I chuckled to myself the first time. Then I wondered what the actual weight was and started counting all those 25kg plates, and HOLY SHIT!
@@LarsRyeJeppesenthere are videos of some of the strongest people on earth including brian shaw trying to recreate his lifts and not being able to do it. his strength is absolutely insane, even though hes spherical and kind of a joke. you can look it up if you want, shouldnt be hard to find
You laugh until you do and then you laugh after you do. First in condescension and then in humility. I legit wonder how painful it would be to simply hold the weight, obviously not being able to hold that amount for weight.
@@LarsRyeJeppesen such a weird comment. most professional lifters would probably faint just from attempting to hold the weights he uses for zercher shrugs. you can always try these lifts to get an idea about how difficult they are, so it would make no sense to do weird lifts just to brag.
Eddie Hall, Brian Shaw, Bugenhagen and oddly Jujimufu are literally the (only?) ones who truly understand the Grizzly's approach to "strength". As an aging, severely injured bouncer in a rough Kavala nightclub, his goal is to be able to rip a human being's head off if needed. He trains to be comfortable being uncomfortable (toughness) and exchanges kicks and blows with professional kickboxers and stays unfazed, and then asks 600 pound benchers to try and push him around. Strength is usually context dependent, but the Grizzly's strength is "without context". Now get the fact that his tricep tendon is torn (as his bicep and quad) he does'nt have money for the full set of surgeries so he can now only move in certain ways. Also too bad people CHOOSE not to react to his 180 kilo seated overhead barbell PIN press from clavicle height lol. the YT "lifting" community is overrun with short incels dictating strength and aesthetics to other short incels. Comedy
I remember American gymrat youtubers giving Arm wrestlers shit for their weird training methods several years back before Larry Wheels made their training mainstream. I think everyone likes to view something through their own personal "lens".
I wonder why his tricep, bicep and quad is torn. Maybe because he started doing dumb shit like this? You can get the toughness and shit doing conventional and more beneficial lifts than this shit whilst also being safer
@@scotthogan1386 Basically he was on the Greek national olympic lifting team and had to quit due to torn quads. His bicep injury is directly due to his heavy cheat curls (imo). His tricep tear is from the aforementioned seated 180kg or 400 pound shoulder press from clavicle (which is a very high risk movement especially with that kind of ridiculous weight). His high pulls, pull-ups and sled pushes/pulls are stupidly heavy but dont seem to bother him. He needs to keep training and maintain his "real world" strength due to his profession. His "zercher shrugs" seem to be a way for him to build intra abdominal pressure under strain (similar to Dan John's philosophy from back in the day), risk potential not sure. Using IAP and the stretch reflex are the foundation of athletic strength.
I am going to be honest I have no idea what you just said but if youtube fitness community is hating on this dude then wtf?! Also I dont know why but I feel like Kyriakos Grizzly would have a great sense of humor.
Mike is just jealous because grizzly is what he could have been if he had kept dirty bulking and horsecocking big weights around instead of becoming a bodybuilder and caring about glute striations and counting calories. Just kidding, love the videos!
Went hiking in the greek mountains in northern Greece once. The monks in the monastery told me about the many bear howls they hear during the waking of the day between dusk and dawn rolling down from the mountain tops followed by minutes of total ear deafening silence by all the wildlife, truly gruesome. One night i woke up early and heard the exact sounds you hear at 6:45, turns out it wasn't a bear, but this effin legend. The monks called an entire region after his howls now known as Agios Kyriakos.
You guys should do a collab with armwrestler Devon Larratt. He has some *interesting* ideas about training and is both intentionally and unintentionally hilarious.
15:18 The point of those jumps is to show how mobile he is for a man that size. Try yourself hold dumbbell/bars with a total weight 200kg (your body weight + dumbbell weight) and jump like him; you will see that its not that easy.
Your videos have inspired me to start working out whenever I'm not doing something else with my body. Doing squats while watching this video rn. Thanks Dr. Mike
I seriously haven laughed so hard in months. That joke about going to Walmart and asking a 400 pound man how many pull ups can he do was just too funny.
I like the dude: He has had quite some injuries but just does his own thing because he likes to train. People that have goals like looking ripped or being strong usually quit early once they hit their peak. People that enjoy training can do it forever.
Movement is medicine. Even with the injuries it's better than sitting around doing nothing, imagine how unhealthy he'd be if he was a couch potato instead.
@@UnrealTech9403 He's immensely overweight so he is unhealthy, plus he is most certainly on gear, his heart is certainly in bad shape not to mention his joints, spine, etc.
@@lecobra418 if you exercise enough, you basically only gain subcutaneous fat (the layer directly under the skin). Visceral fat (distributed around your abdominal organs) is what causes most health problems. I’d bet this guy has very little visceral fat. Still very hard on your joints/bones/spine, but otherwise you can actually be this big and still be quite healthy.
Hey Dr. Mike, one of your 3.5 female viewers here (and fellow Russian-speaking Ashkenazi). This was one of your funniest videos yet. My husband and I were cracking up the whole time. Thank you for the much-needed laughs. (S/N: In case anyone was wondering, Kyriakos's arm tattoos are in Russian. One says "Grizzly" and the other says "uvazheniye", meaning "respect" or "esteem".)
I bet when you and your husband were watching this video and laughing together, you were laughing because you can't stop imagining how good that absolute god of a man would destroy you, and your husband was laughing to hide his jealousy and feelings of inferiority in front of your face.
i'm one of the 3.5 also. i was cracking up on this one. the AAAAAUUUUUGHGHHHhaaaaAAA!!! and that slow clap near the end from one of the other dudes in his gym.
I had never seen a human, who liked like he could actually transform into a bear at any moment, until I saw Kyriakos. If I was a videogame designer I would definitely want to out either Grizzly himself or a character that paid a homage to him in the game.
People who know Kyriakos Grizzly more closely than the others never laugh at him. Many of his exercises may look funny and probably ineffective but he is literally forced to limit his range of motions because of the huge amount of traumas and injuries that he received throughout many years. Also it's just impossible to not admit that he is very flexible, athletic and insnely strong. He lifts the weights that so many people are never be able to move and making it look easy.
Maturing in the gym is realising Grizzly is a legit lifter that does insane numbers in unorthodox shit he enjoys. I doubt anyone can touch the numbers on some of his lifts
@@slinger7529stupid?for what? Yk people train for different reasons Im a body builder,I do shit that makes my muscles bigger and I get strength meantime This guy doesnt go for muscles,he just does what he wants with weight that neither you or I will touch in any kind of lift.
I believe I heard somewhere that he has a rotator cuff injury, and designs his lifts accordingly, and that's why they look weird. Fucking impressive either way.
Mike commits years patiently studying and explaining to us all the secrets of exercise science and his own wisdom, and it's his Bloatlord video that gets 71k view in 4 hrs
i am truly grateful that grizzly has bestowed us with his inexplicably divine presence. it is something that cannot be explained by something as simple as words- even the most elegantly spoken words would not come close to what grizzly gave us in this video
The only thing left for Greece - to be remembered - nowadays is yogurt, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Kyriakos Grizzly. Other than that nobody cares about Greece anymore, they don't even know Greece, except for the 3 greek "things" I mentioned obviously.
this is a copy paste but i decided to comment that. He has a tricep tendon torn off the bone and can't do pressing exercises anymore. So he has to do things like zercher front raises to train shoulders. Regular front raises have way higher leverage and you can't go heavy enough to train your torso muscles maximally so he uses these more often. He is using an Olympic weightlifting bar that has lots of whip so it flops everywhere when you move it with heavy weight on it and messes up your tempo. He eventually realized it was easier to just get the maximal level of bar whip started and go with that tempo instead of trying to resist it. Does it make the lift easier? Yeah. But he counters that by using more weight than he would use on a stiffer powerlifting type of bar. It looks dumb but he's found it's the best way to train them with the type of bar he has at his gym. Gotta keep in mind it's still 370kg too. Regardless of form and bar whip that's crazy. He also does do zercher shrugs, range if motion is low in what we usually see but he mostly uploads his heaviest sets, his ones leading up to that have greater range of motion. He just keeps adding weight as he can throughout the workout until he can barely do what he finds to be an acceptable approximation of the lift he's training. Given that he trains almost exclusively pulls it's really not the worst or unsafest method for strength training.
I dunno about his joints and it might not be the most effective technique for building muscle, but with all the explosive movements in his training it looks like he's training for fights. I feel like he could probably no diff 99% of bodybuilders out there in a fight.
Can't express how much it amuses me that every time Mike references Blade he references Blade: Trinity. Something so small that makes me laugh every time
