Notice the technique back then. These guys pulled the bar straight up; there was no thigh brush. Also, the squat snatch had not yet been perfected - there were still plenty of splitters around. Today's lifters have much smoother technique. Paul Anderson astounded the Russians with his super strength. "A wonder of nature" they called him. He was better known in Russia than in the US. Olympic lifting never came close to gaining the popularity it did in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and now in China.
Tommy Kono had pretty excellent technique for the time. I imagine today's technique would look like the "no contact" cleans/snatches Norik Vardanian and Simon Martirosyan do in training. If the rules were the same today as then, of course.
brett linthicum Mate they were doing the best they could with the knowledge they had back then. People will probably look at today’s weightlifting in 60 years time and say the same thing about us that we had bad technique. We do the best with the knowledge of today and by no means is today’s technique “crazy”
Rules have changed. at that time the barbell could not touch the body at any point in the lift. it is not the the technique was not perfected, it is that the rules commanded a different technique. and of course there was the press, a separate lift then cancelled.
@@T12J7 they had to get rid of it cause it was way to easy to cheat look at the last clean and press competition the guys are using knee drive and crazy cheating
@@thorwannabe6810 If you mean this particular video, I don't see any cheating or knee drive. I really think they should have kept this upper body strength movement in since now it's all about leg and torso strength. I think they got rid of it because people started to lean backwards when pressing which didn't look right and also so that the people could lift heavier weights, which makes the sport more interesting for some. I personally would have appreciated this upper body feat of strength in weightlifting.
@@T12J7 no in this vid its mostly strict and extremely impressive but look up alexeev doing a 230 kg press that was counted as strict by the refs. Alexeev bent his knees so much and the refs didn't catch it that's why they removed it it's so easy to cheat. There's a variation of powerlifting called strengthlifting that replaces bench press with Ohp if you like ohp
Paul Anderson was the ROCK STAR of 1950's Lifting. The Russians referred to him as the 8th Wonder of the 🌎; and rightly so. Very quick for a man of such girth/weight. Recall that he had a foot race in Venice Beach against 132pd, Acclaimed Olympic Lifter Ike Berger. Reports stated was very close. Probably 30-40 yards. Power came from those MASSIVE THIGHS. Influenced many a lifter, similar to the effect ARNOLD had on Bodybuilding and that Bruce Lee had on the Martial Art World, which eventually branched into MMA.
@@Horus-Lupercal yeah I don't why people say paul can do all these things even when he himself never had the strength to prove it. How I see it Paul anderson is that strong one dude in the gym who says he can squat 1200 lbs even you only seen him do under 700 lbs.
@@signs80 all am trying to say is that the weights he put up in competition doesn't add up to the weights he claims to do. Examples he claimed that he could do a 484 lbs clean and jerk but he also claimed that he do a clean and press of 484 lbs. That doesn't make sense. His best snatch is 335 lbs but in the gym he can do 400+ lbs when no one is looking. The world record squat in 1957 was under 700 lbs in wraps but of course paul can do do 1200 lbs raw just because he said so. He was strong but isn't physically big enough to do almost everything he claim he could do. My question is that if your going claim if you can lift some weight don't claim that you can do +100 lbs more than the world reocrd on every lift, that what gives it away. I think i said enough.
I don't think so. He'd be marginally better, but you give to much credit to "optimal training" . This fucking guy squatted 800 and walked them back and forth on his back for hours (not in one go ofc). You don't need optimal when your output is THAT savagely above anything anyone else is capable of.
@@pandax5359 Because focusing on yourself can only take you so far. The best athletic achievements in history happened because of direct competition with someone else. Comparing yourself to someone else gives you enough motivation and power to do so much more than you'd ever think was possible. "Being better than you were yesterday" is limiting.
-- Железная гвардия Боба Хоффмана !!!!! -- Американцы, тогда были первые в тяжёлой атлетике!!!!! --- Когда СССР запустил первый в мире спутник, Боб Хоффман ( президент федерации тяжёлой атлетики США ) сказал : -- Пускай у Русских есть спутник, у нас есть Пауль Андерсон !!!!!! --- Человек подъёмный кран !!!!!!! ---- Юрий Петрович Власов --- свернул всю эту гвардию американцев!!!!!! ---- И наша тяжело - атлетическая школа стала первой в мире !!!!!! -- Низкий поклон нашим штангистам того времени !!!!! --- И Паулю Андерсону - низкий поклон -- великое имя в мировой тяжёлой атлетике !!!!! --- Некоторые его силовые достижения, по моему стоят до сих пор не зыблемые !!!!! -- В частности, он оторвал плечами от стоек порядка 2890 кг ( точный вес не помню) --- По моему , это до сих пор ни кому не под силу !!!!! --- И это было время без химии, и искусственных восстановителей силы !!!!!
yes he was !!! would love to see him participate in todays world strongest man contest . His style of strength training would fit right in with todays monsters . STAY STRONG {ER} !!!
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1:44 - Tommy Kono. Interesting how they loaded the bar back then, often with only 2 20 Kg plates. So that appears to be a tad more than 130 Kg. Dropping a bar loaded like that would do maximum damage to the platform.
Stupid for anyone to criticize Paul and accuse him of being on steroids. If he was on them he would have set records that even today couldn't be touched. Besides, why didn't the Soviet lifters cheat because he made all of them look like weaklings? He beat the best Russian by 70 pounds in the press. 70 pounds. Paul was a great man. An immortal athlete.
YUUUUP my dad would always ask a strong man "" how much do you PRESS'' back at the YMCA in GREENPOINT BROOKLYN in the 1940s &50s. I believe John Davis also lifted there .
Watching the lifters back then do their best is one thing; watching Paul Anderson stride up the bar and press it overhead without breaking a sweat is another. Tremendously gifted is all. Yes, he trained very hard on simple equipment and a LOT of food, but for anyone who thinks he used steroids, think again. For one thing, while steroids go back to roughly 1931, they were in limited supply, were used in research, and were very weak. They were also toxic to the liver and very bad for the prostate. I'm sure Anderson had heard of them. This vid was taken in 1955, and yes, the Russians were using--probably as early as the Helsinki Olympic Games in 1952--but Anderson, I most sincerely doubt he'd gotten his hands on them. Dianabol wasn't invented in the US until 1958. Some people are rare in terms of physical strength or speed or shape. Anderson was one of those rare people.
I remember Paul Anderson as a kid. Strong as an Ox Country farm boy. He was in the Genesis Book of World Records for like back pressing 6,000 lbs. Natural brute strength! Must of pissed the Soviet Communists something awful in the days when they were the USSR.
@@Horus-Lupercal Dude don't believe anything i say. Your smart, try googling it!! Not making it up. The guy was an OX of a man. Don't quote me but i believe it was 6,270 pounds in the back lift. It's in the Guinness book of World records. This was years back but it is factual.
@@ukikukkamaa929 im over 6 foot bitch boy, but the worlds strongest men are much bigger. Paul was like 365, thor and Brian are well over 400 and 6 foot 8
Say what you will but Anderson had as much raw strength as anyone at any time--he PRESSED 408 here--no heave, no knee kick no 'roids, cheater suits etc. He first came into the weightlifting world in 1952 with a world record FULL squat. Nice to start your career at the top. If he would have had real competition and stayed with the organized sport, who knows what he would have done.
@nordhorny he would get under a table, bent over, and with his hands on his knees push with his legs to lift the table and the weight on the table off the ground. I saw him do the lift at my grade school around 1969. He lifted as many people as could fit on the table.
На видео упражнение - жим. Поэтому без толчка. Но и жим по сути не чисто выполнялся. Допускался небольшой толчок за счёт выпрямления ног в стартовой фазе. Так что это и не жим, а больше жвунг жимовой. После 1972 жим отменили. И техника выполнения особенно рывка как и результаты улучшились. Плюс намного меньше стало травм поясницы.
After a investigation Anderson was always able to do more weight after he ate the guy that worked out beforehand 🤣😅 truly an amazing human being with a great sense of humor ❤️
Ужасно топорная техника. На видео упражнение - жим. Сейчас современные атлеты выполняют рывок и толчок филигранно, без "тяги бицепсом" с кривыми руками. И плюс дожим запрещён. А раньше было просто неприятно смотреть- грязное выполнение было нормой.
@@AdamantS Рывок и толчок техника а жим силовое .Естественно выгибались итд.Чтобы включить дополнительные мышцы.Поэтому видимо и запретили.Чтобы спины сберечь🙂
@@user-wj5gf6bc5f была информация, что жим отменили из-за частых травм поясницы. Плюс 2 динамических движения зрелищнее, чем 3 и по времени меньше соревнования тянутся.
да, рывок/толчок современных штангистов куда техничнее, чем тогда. Но было в их жиме что то брутальное, чисто силовое, из за чего это интересно смотреть
Действительно. В "жимовые времена" подъем на груди и особенно рывок бицепсом тянули преимущественно, а не спиной - ногами. Поэтому и техника уродливая была.
@@Shadow-minion He was for sure on massive PED. It was released in the 1930's and obtained by multiple countries around 1950. And it is no coincidence his kidneys failed at the age of 61. Thats what PED do.
Sorry for anderson bad technic...... he had all for clean and jerk 230.....(more 500 lbs)...... but he pull only with arms..... withouth coordination... very very sad.... he was stronger than other future W.L .
From Jan Todd's article on the 1955 lifting in Moscow: "Anderson's second attempt in the press on the big stage at Gorky Park was with 182.5 kilos, which weighed exactly 402.41 pounds. This dramatic still photo is taken from the Russian newsreel footage of the lifting that evening and it shows how high he got with this attempt at the big weight before it stalled out. The bar appears in the film to have gotten too far forward. He then called for the same weight for his third attempt and managed to press it out. " One thing to note is that Anderson does NOT execute the press on brute strength alone, as some have said. That is precisely why he misses the lift on his second attempt and needs a third attempt during which he manages to find the groove, or, in other words, his technique is better. Anderson was clearly the strongest squatter in the world at the time (perhaps ever, period), and his back lift was beyond belief (Doug Hepburn agreed with this statement), but Hepburn was a stronger presser. He could press 400 cold, in street clothes, any time of day or night, and pressed 400 for reps regularly, his best being 6 reps. And Doug was the best non-pharmaceutical curler of all time. He knew and liked Paul Anderson, and they even enjoyed a workout together, each pressing 400 and bench pressing 500 on the day. Check out an article on both of these great strongmen of the 1950s at romanviking.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/strength-giants-of-the-1950s/ .
The clean and press was the 3rd Olympic weightlifting lift before they stopped having the lift because it caused a lot of back injuries. I wish it had sound. It looks like around 350 kilos or 770 lbs that Paul Anderson did. He pressed a dumbbell weighing 385 with 1 hand
Levi Rohring he has the backlift of 6,270lbs still unbroken A 1,200lb squat (RAW) He has a one arm sided press which is basically today’s strong man “dumbbell” at 380lbs that’s really about it
Almost. 1954 was reported to be the first year of steroid use in soviet athletes. Testosterone was first synthesized in the mid 30s but was administered to treat ailments such as depression up until then.
@@acss4310 Obviously English isn't your first language so do yourself a favor and find an English speaker and have them read my post for you so they can explain it in your language.
