Kirk Karwoski - "From Cadet to Captain" | Starting Strength 

Why are you watching it if you think its all crap? What's the point of swinging a stick and hitting a ball or a puck? We do what we love because we love to do it. Period. I've lifted in the same flight as Kirk at a World Championships. Still my greatest day ever.

I have probably listened to this about 10-12 times. No kidding. I just fucking love Capt Kirk's intensity and mentality.

My takeaway : "It's just ballast!". Repeating this in my head before the heavy work. It helps big. 👍

7th time and still keep going, to watch this over and over again. Captain Kirk..... Hard to find guys like him today.... haven't seen anyone with this insanity and intensity....

battling the demons using his body as his temple. I love this guy, thank you nicks power and strength for letting me know whats up, and thank you to the legends providing this

...Im gonna do single leg extensions..." "...dude, no, go home. Eat a steak." Lmao

One of the most inspiring videos I have seen regarding strength training, must have watched it about 10 times now!

Such a great human.

Awesome. I'll never forget this guy on the cover of PLUSA. What an animal, great lecture!!

Absolute LEGEND

This talk was the real deal

20:44 Story of my new gym. Headphones are magical things.

A legend.. Best squater

why is it that in every powerlifting or weightlifting video there are people arguing about how good fighters powerlifters would be or how they would get beat to death in a match against boxers or mma fighters?? i mean.. really? who the fuck cares? these are different sports, the athletes of each discipline train for diferent goals and have different talents, so why compare them? what's the point of this absurd generalisation? go compare a sprinter with a basketball player next..

legend...inspirational

42:00 classic american power lifting programming summed up. and it works.

I love kirks belly

Sickening motivation

It's a crime and tragedy that this video doesn't have millions of views.

7:30 to 8:20 great stuff and applies to so many things

For all the Kirk fans, here is some long lost home video that we just posted of him. At first glance his thickness at the time (1994) is almost shocking. Check it out here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-isdbuAwXjLs.html

10:46 needs to be a viral vid itself 😆👊🏼

One of them.

I wish I could say "135 is lifted like 935"

Well said

this dude is intense....

hey guys. fyi. when he used to go to the gym and saw people on his desired machine he would threaten them till they left

Worlds best squatter ever! Raw and equipment.

Respect to kirk, the guy is a legend. Just had to get that fighting comment off my chest.

I like his strategy! All about belief in yourself.

The idea that anyone who trains in MMA or boxing can take down a heavyweight elite powerlifter is just ludicrous. Could a woman who takes boxing classes every day beat up a 250 pound man (one who plays sports and thus has some athletic ability)? Probably not, no matter how good of a fighter she is, the man's strength and size gives him too much of an advantage. It's the same situation here - even if you're the best fighter in your boxing gym, your MMA studio, even if you've won a tournament... the brute strength level is just too much. They will be able to toss you around like it's nothing. It's only once you reach elite, professional, world class levels of fighting skill that your fighting ability can overcome the strength of someone who can squat 1000 lbs. And even then, I don't count the powerlifter out automatically. The lifter will most probably lose in a cage, but Kirk in his prime against a UFC champ out on the open pavement in a fight to the death? If he manages to grab the fighter and slam his head into the ground it's lights out, permanently. This isn't a Bruce Lee kung fu movie. Strength does matter. It just hurts people's pride too much to see something as definitive as a number in powerlifting that they know they can never attain, whereas they can make all kinds of subjective claims about their mystical fighting prowess.

There's a video of him squatting 350kg for a set of 5 wearing just a belt floating around.

It's wonderful how he's maintained himself.

Eye word?

23:56

34:12 Kirk is telling it like it is, take note Donnie Tomphson fanboys.

otay....keep lifting those barbells up and down....party on, awesome

10:06

i would imagine a soccer mom who thinks powerlifting is bad for your knees...

Yeah, but you see he never really competed raw, he obviously has some mechanic intricacies in his legs, beeing able to "come up" with those numbers :)

There are weight classes in every single fighting sport for a reason. Fighting up 10 weight classes against someone with visible abs and a 1003X2 squat is not realistic for even world class mma fighters below 200lbs

This guy doesn't sound good Is he still alive

You're whats wrong with the world. So lifting weights makes you an unbelievable fighter? No need to train or anything?

25:20