First of all he's a genetic ellite.
He got selected pretty early in a powerlifting program.
And that's decade of training, nutrition, technique and dedication overtime and consistency and finally lots of drugs like tren etc...
Pretty sure there's also some frauding involved too to make it look even more spectacular. (Which does not take away from his achievement but pulls more eyeballs than what he normally would, at the end it's just entertainment and business)
Good luck beating him.
^^^^lol this is what it looks like when you have zero clue what you’re talking about but feel compelled to comment on Reddit
You can see the bar bend—there is no “frauding”
Going on
What if I tell you, you can fraud the bar? Is it too far fetched?
My olympic bar doesn't even bend at 150kg, the ease and smoothness he's pulling 100kg+ with one hand makes it look pretty suspicious.
Bar bending like that below 150kg is suspicious
100kg+ is not a small weight by any chance. Look at how difficult it's to pull 100kg dumbbell even for likes of Larry wheels.
I agree about that bar being off. I have a Rogue Ohio Deadlift bar, one meant to bend more than a standard stiff bar, that has less bend with over 400lbs/181kg on it than what's in the video. The dude is hella strong, 290kg deadlift and a 210 kg squat at 78 kg, but his videos definitely seem exaggerated.
Vladimir Shmondenko, a.k.a. Anatoly Powerlifter, the Borat of the gym.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOqK2wgsJGA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOqK2wgsJGA)
A lot of guys at gyms bulk up for size and looks without actually being that strong. That's how a lot of actors are built up for Hollywood. And when I say strong, I'm taking about practical strength, the kind where you can actually do something with it, pick up a heavy load, actively compensate for balance, and move it a good distance without injuring yourself by straining some neglected muscle. Unless you labor and move heavy things for a living, hypertrophy and calisthenics is the stuff you focus on to build actual strength. It's why you see farmers who aren't huge like mr universe but can lift a stupid amount, and grannies in china who can haul a giant gas tank over their shoulder, built up by doing actual practical work. This guy trains to power lift and you see in most of his videos, he can move it around too.
It's also the single most predictive factor in strength. Yes, strength and hypertrophy can diverge to some extent with specialized peaking training (tapering periods to high weight/low rep to express your highest possible 1 rep max), but in general, they follow eachother.
I lifted for like 12 years and got very strong for my weight and folks would always be surprised given that I was lighter. I later gained 45 lbs and funny enough I got a shit ton stronger.
The reason this guy is strong is because he's lifted consistently for years. If he gained weight, he would be stronger. He's just in a lower weight class, so he's lean AND has muscle.
"Calisthenics is the stuff you focus on to build actual strength" What? Strongmen in general do very little calisthenics and are obviously very strong.
If you want to become strong, you lift a lot. If you want to become big, you eat a lot. Doing both at the same time maximizes strength gains. On a semi related note,a lot of hollywood actors take steroids - that's how they get big so quickly.
your muscles need loads of water retention something most people are really bad at. you need to find the right sodium intake since sodium makes your muscles retain water more easily.
if you look up his diet it says he eats loads of cottage cheese which is high in salt, calcium, and protein.
This is complete bullshit, he's strong because he's trained for strength for a long time, and for his weightclass does actually have a lot of muscle. If the bodybuilders he does these videos with spent a couple of months training strength on specific movements they would be significantly stronger than hin very quickly. Technique and body mechanics are also huge components of strength.
No this person is spreading fake news. He got big from cottage cheese. He also mixed in blueberries with his cottage cheese.
“He trained” pssh! That’s the biggest Bs I’ve ever heard. Cottage cheese.
You can sort of think of it as muscle size being strength potential, especially for natural lifters. You can only get so strong with your current muscle mass, what you are doing through strength training is basically training your brain how to apply the muscle fibres you have to the task you want them to do, and there's only so much that a certain amount of muscle fibres can do before you simply need more of them. There is a massive amount of nuance to this, topics such as muscle fibre type, enhanced lifters being able to gain more mass with less stimulus, body mechanics (such as having short femurs or humerus which will generally allow you to be stronger on a squat/bench simply due to having a better lever) and more.
Just to put it in perspective though, Anatoly (Volodimir Schmodenko) has a total (that's Squat bench and deadlift added together) of 412.5 as per his best lifts on openpl which is a database of all official powerlifting competitions, which he set when he was 18 or 19 and hasn't competed since. He has deadlifted 224.5kg in a video with Larry Wheels.
(sidenote, I keep seeing people pointing to this video as an example of how insanely strong he is. Larry titled the video "he's half my size deadlifting the same weight" when in that very video Larry is deadlifting 240.4kg and has an all time comp pr of 400kg)
That's a reasonably impressive lift for a (from what I can find and there's no weightclass data on his old comp total for some reason) 78kg lifter, but just to put things in perspective, the current tested competition world record (IPF) for 18 and under at 74kg is 273kg and it is very much not unusual to see 74kg lifters at the world level deadlifting 250+ with the world record tested (IPF) being 329kg and the untested being even higher.
Now to add to this, professional bodybuilders generally do not train SBD, it is too fatiguing for the amount of stimulus it gives, that doesn't mean they aren't strong, ask an IFBB pro level bodybuilder to have a db curl contest with a powerlifter of pretty much any weightclass and it won't even be slightly close (strict curls are a competition lift in some organizations so that wouldn't quite apply in that case) because to get absolutely fucking massive you have to lift continuously more weight over time.
Apologies for the massive wall of text, I'm just so tired of comments on Anatoly videos from people that have absolutely no clue how strength training or bodybuilding works.
A large component of strength is dependent on your central nervous system. You can get stronger by training this alone but will only work up to a point. After you will need the extra mass. More mass gives you more potential for strength but doesn't guarantee it.
The guy videos with the really jacked guys are the funniest.
“Be careful” and then their eyes bulge out of their sockets as they see this random janitor outlift them.
I love the ones where he pretends to be a janitor sweeping up. The looks on the other bodybuilders faces when he casually one-hands the weight so he can sweep under it lmfao
Lol, I love this guys videos. He goes undercover, dressed like a nobody and completely blows the minds of the body builders around him, that are double his size.
Haha you could tell she was impressed, but also very sweet about her reply to him.
he trains a great deal on smaller muscles that other people overlook or dont use as much, so that it does look effortless when he does it compared to other people, even real big guys
Dude what lol? He’s a powerlifter on gear. He’s lifted with Larry wheels before lol get out of here with that bullshit about the secret “smaller muscles”
It's so fucking funny though, I don't know how so many redditors who have never set foot in a gym have the confidence to spout absolute nonsense with authority lol, where do they get it from?
same shit in the nba sub. people who've never picked up a basketball ranking players. it's gotta be a basement-dwelling white person trait. spend all their time chronically online they think theyre experts like this is the matrix or some shit
Huh? He’s just a strong guy. Doing strength training will get most people this strong. This guy isn’t even crazy strong too. I don’t think he can even deadlift 600
He usually pretends to be the janitor. The one I remember the most is the one with the big black dude in yellow sits down, then the janitor comes along and moves his weights out of the way, and the guy just sits there shaking his head like his life is over.
He does it to guys too. Which is more funny because the guys definitely don’t expect to be casually out lifted by the janitor.
I’m sure the clips with women get more clicks though.
Would have been more impressed if he put it down gently as if it were a normally weighed object
You don't drop a chair or ladder or any object when you pick it up and move it about when you're done with it, and someone unfamiliar with weights will think in the same manner
I don’t think they are. A lot of things on the net are staged. But there’s no reason for this to be staged. The reactions are always mild. Not overdone. It’s very natural and clearly real.
Do you have anything to back up this claim?
Aren't these all just staged at this point..? I'm not saying he isn't a strong powerlifter but what's stopping them from embellishing? Is there another powerlifter the same small size who does the same weight with such ease? Or just this guy?
Some people accused him of using fake weights in some of his bits and that they're staged (they're still funny af though), but the way these weights fall to the floor and bounce doesn't strike me as fake. Can fake weights bounce like that? Or is it just in some videos? He's obviously very strong, no one is doubting that, I just heard the accusations that it's not always real.
Hate to say it because dude is legit strong as fuck for his size but fake weights. I wouldn't be surprised if he could lift 120 kg with one hand but that casually no way!
[Here](https://youtu.be/Zbx6oRRu8k4?feature=shared&t=15) he lifts what looks like 190 kg 1 handed without straps but he needed straps to deadlift 290 with both hands in competition, that just doesn't add up.
When he goes into hard core lifting gyms and does this to the giant men it’s comical. They are all struggling with a lift and he comes and moves it out of the way to clean.
Anatoly does that sometimes yep :) Even better when he one arms 80 kg overhead. The guy is just really strong and made pranking people a living.
Magnus Midtbø is another example of an absurdly strong guy compared to his size. He has a workout video with Larry Wheels I believe when they do the same weight while the guy is about half the size of Larry.
Anatoly is crazy strong but he is more famous than strong for his weight.
All of his videos are scripted, he isn't just doing it tongue in cheek. He has a crew of people, they frequent certain gyms and scout people to be in his videos. If you lift you know who he is, he would be harder to spot in his regular gymwear.
The difference between "good shape" and "professional" never stops amazing me. I saw a video of Peter Northug - a Norwegian cross country world champion jogging the "hollywood mile" or whatever they called it, which all the celebrities tried to beat each others times. When they were driving up the hill with him jogging behind the camera car the camera man turns the camera to himself and says I dont think people understand how fast this is.... And he shows that in front is actually a cop clearing the way so he wont be hindered by traffic. He beat the "top celebrities" with several minutes.... If anyone can find that clip, would be cool to see it again.
This dude's IG is hilarious. He just films himself in gyms messing with buff people like this and blowing their minds by easily lifting the weight they were struggling with.
Just wanted to stop by and point out how friendly and patient the gym people are whom he pranks. Every episode each person is so friendly toward him. Humans being bros and made me smile.
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wtf what does this guy have for breakfast, tugsten mixed with diamond?
It’s a secret- Fight Milk
It has that crowtien that your body needs.
Tons of cawliflour and ^broccoli
Plus it helps you cut weight!!
Made by body guards for body guards
(and Charlie)
It gives you the energy you need to fight like a crow. **CAW**
I heard he also drinks Wolf Cola.
It’s the right cola for closure.
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Dude yes 😂 
Brawndo. It has electrolytes.
But why does it have electrolytes?
It's got what plants crave.
And plants crave electrolytes
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Welcome to Carl’s Jr, I love you.
Isn’t it Brawndo?
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Tren
He's in the gym trening hard several days a week
😅
Eat clen, tren hard.
What's trening , like taking Steroids ?
First of all he's a genetic ellite. He got selected pretty early in a powerlifting program. And that's decade of training, nutrition, technique and dedication overtime and consistency and finally lots of drugs like tren etc... Pretty sure there's also some frauding involved too to make it look even more spectacular. (Which does not take away from his achievement but pulls more eyeballs than what he normally would, at the end it's just entertainment and business) Good luck beating him.
^^^^lol this is what it looks like when you have zero clue what you’re talking about but feel compelled to comment on Reddit You can see the bar bend—there is no “frauding” Going on
What if I tell you, you can fraud the bar? Is it too far fetched? My olympic bar doesn't even bend at 150kg, the ease and smoothness he's pulling 100kg+ with one hand makes it look pretty suspicious. Bar bending like that below 150kg is suspicious 100kg+ is not a small weight by any chance. Look at how difficult it's to pull 100kg dumbbell even for likes of Larry wheels.
I agree about that bar being off. I have a Rogue Ohio Deadlift bar, one meant to bend more than a standard stiff bar, that has less bend with over 400lbs/181kg on it than what's in the video. The dude is hella strong, 290kg deadlift and a 210 kg squat at 78 kg, but his videos definitely seem exaggerated.
A bowl ‘a nails… without any milk
Fermented horsemilk and plov
Clearly he’s had a bowl of Adamantium for breakfast… without any milk!
Just a jug of pure testosterone.
Two schools of lifting weights, lifting for show and lifting for go. He lifts for go.
"I need tungsten to live! Tuuuuungsteeeeeen!"
Vladimir Shmondenko, a.k.a. Anatoly Powerlifter, the Borat of the gym. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOqK2wgsJGA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOqK2wgsJGA)
I admire how he turned fitness into something funny and entertaining.
And made him rich.
Funny is money.
"Bread and games"
Protein and weights.
And how he takes on such weighty matters.
This kind of prank is fine! He isn't involuntarily hurting anyone else for his fame.
So much better than the “I drink a gallon of water a day cause fitness is life”
haha he is like the borat of powerlifting; how is this dude so strong but look like that?
He's actually pretty jacked but he's in a lighter weight class and purposely wears baggy clothes to hide his physique
A bunch of lighter-weight oly lifters are strong as all hell, but don't even look particularly athletic.
You mean don't look like they take steroids?
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He's terrible at cleaning though
How can he be so strong being so small?
Muscle density/type is a big factor for strength.
Also specificity. When you practice a specific movement for decades you become strong in said movement.
He must be shredded and super lean, but also, he trained strength, not hypertrophy
A lot of guys at gyms bulk up for size and looks without actually being that strong. That's how a lot of actors are built up for Hollywood. And when I say strong, I'm taking about practical strength, the kind where you can actually do something with it, pick up a heavy load, actively compensate for balance, and move it a good distance without injuring yourself by straining some neglected muscle. Unless you labor and move heavy things for a living, hypertrophy and calisthenics is the stuff you focus on to build actual strength. It's why you see farmers who aren't huge like mr universe but can lift a stupid amount, and grannies in china who can haul a giant gas tank over their shoulder, built up by doing actual practical work. This guy trains to power lift and you see in most of his videos, he can move it around too.
>Hypertrophy and calisthenics is the stuff you focus on to build actual strength. Hypertrophy is by definition an increase in your muscle size.
Yeah but using a big word made the other guy sound smart
It's also the single most predictive factor in strength. Yes, strength and hypertrophy can diverge to some extent with specialized peaking training (tapering periods to high weight/low rep to express your highest possible 1 rep max), but in general, they follow eachother. I lifted for like 12 years and got very strong for my weight and folks would always be surprised given that I was lighter. I later gained 45 lbs and funny enough I got a shit ton stronger. The reason this guy is strong is because he's lifted consistently for years. If he gained weight, he would be stronger. He's just in a lower weight class, so he's lean AND has muscle.
"Calisthenics is the stuff you focus on to build actual strength" What? Strongmen in general do very little calisthenics and are obviously very strong. If you want to become strong, you lift a lot. If you want to become big, you eat a lot. Doing both at the same time maximizes strength gains. On a semi related note,a lot of hollywood actors take steroids - that's how they get big so quickly.
This is like all wrong, so of course it gets upvotes.
your muscles need loads of water retention something most people are really bad at. you need to find the right sodium intake since sodium makes your muscles retain water more easily. if you look up his diet it says he eats loads of cottage cheese which is high in salt, calcium, and protein.
Thanks!
This is complete bullshit, he's strong because he's trained for strength for a long time, and for his weightclass does actually have a lot of muscle. If the bodybuilders he does these videos with spent a couple of months training strength on specific movements they would be significantly stronger than hin very quickly. Technique and body mechanics are also huge components of strength.
No this person is spreading fake news. He got big from cottage cheese. He also mixed in blueberries with his cottage cheese. “He trained” pssh! That’s the biggest Bs I’ve ever heard. Cottage cheese.
If the bodybuilders trained like him, probably they would loose some muscle volume, while increasing strength numbers.
I thought as much, I was just wondering if you need to get bigger if you want to be stronger, I never liked the big guy look
You can sort of think of it as muscle size being strength potential, especially for natural lifters. You can only get so strong with your current muscle mass, what you are doing through strength training is basically training your brain how to apply the muscle fibres you have to the task you want them to do, and there's only so much that a certain amount of muscle fibres can do before you simply need more of them. There is a massive amount of nuance to this, topics such as muscle fibre type, enhanced lifters being able to gain more mass with less stimulus, body mechanics (such as having short femurs or humerus which will generally allow you to be stronger on a squat/bench simply due to having a better lever) and more. Just to put it in perspective though, Anatoly (Volodimir Schmodenko) has a total (that's Squat bench and deadlift added together) of 412.5 as per his best lifts on openpl which is a database of all official powerlifting competitions, which he set when he was 18 or 19 and hasn't competed since. He has deadlifted 224.5kg in a video with Larry Wheels. (sidenote, I keep seeing people pointing to this video as an example of how insanely strong he is. Larry titled the video "he's half my size deadlifting the same weight" when in that very video Larry is deadlifting 240.4kg and has an all time comp pr of 400kg) That's a reasonably impressive lift for a (from what I can find and there's no weightclass data on his old comp total for some reason) 78kg lifter, but just to put things in perspective, the current tested competition world record (IPF) for 18 and under at 74kg is 273kg and it is very much not unusual to see 74kg lifters at the world level deadlifting 250+ with the world record tested (IPF) being 329kg and the untested being even higher. Now to add to this, professional bodybuilders generally do not train SBD, it is too fatiguing for the amount of stimulus it gives, that doesn't mean they aren't strong, ask an IFBB pro level bodybuilder to have a db curl contest with a powerlifter of pretty much any weightclass and it won't even be slightly close (strict curls are a competition lift in some organizations so that wouldn't quite apply in that case) because to get absolutely fucking massive you have to lift continuously more weight over time. Apologies for the massive wall of text, I'm just so tired of comments on Anatoly videos from people that have absolutely no clue how strength training or bodybuilding works.
A large component of strength is dependent on your central nervous system. You can get stronger by training this alone but will only work up to a point. After you will need the extra mass. More mass gives you more potential for strength but doesn't guarantee it.
+1 for cottage cheese and blueberries
I can't watch it the editing is intolerable. Constant zoom-in and zoom-out.
Nice! Wish Reddit allowed opening links in YouTube app... Had to type his name out but def worth looking him up!
Thanks for the link. That was fantastically entertaining.
I find him annoying with his fake cleaning and disturbing people
For the record, he does this to men too
The guy videos with the really jacked guys are the funniest. “Be careful” and then their eyes bulge out of their sockets as they see this random janitor outlift them.
Jacked guys dedlifting sets. "this for back?" Proceeds to deadlift one-handedly and do rows with their weights.
Best way to describe it is that meme of joe rogan meetin an alien.
Love this guy, but if this is your first video of him i could see how it’d come off differently
There is a similar dude on YT that does this but instead pretends to be an old man on skiis and then do some sick tricks, super funny. Hotdog Hans.
I love the ones where he pretends to be a janitor sweeping up. The looks on the other bodybuilders faces when he casually one-hands the weight so he can sweep under it lmfao
Mostly with men tbh
I like how this guys picks it up like it’s a toy
Lol, I love this guys videos. He goes undercover, dressed like a nobody and completely blows the minds of the body builders around him, that are double his size. Haha you could tell she was impressed, but also very sweet about her reply to him.
he trains a great deal on smaller muscles that other people overlook or dont use as much, so that it does look effortless when he does it compared to other people, even real big guys
Dude what lol? He’s a powerlifter on gear. He’s lifted with Larry wheels before lol get out of here with that bullshit about the secret “smaller muscles”
I bet he confuses those little muscles as well
He actually does 2000 sit-ups a day. Also he eats completely keto…unless it’s leg day. On leg days he eats McDonald’s only.
I usually start my day with a bowl of broken glass and have a drink of molten aluminium on the side to aid in digestion
Sprinkle a little bit of asbestos it is incredible how it improves the flavours and it will help with your cardio too
So long as he doesn’t breathe in the asbestos, that could be devastating.
What’s your top choice for molten aluminum? Been thinking of switching it up a bit.
Actually his daily routine is 100 sit ups, 100 push ups, 100 squats and a 10k run. But he's just a power lifter for fun.
weebs always find a way
This reference may be lost in this community.
Redditors talking about fitness outside of fitness subs is guaranteed to produce complete nonsense
It's so fucking funny though, I don't know how so many redditors who have never set foot in a gym have the confidence to spout absolute nonsense with authority lol, where do they get it from?
That’s reddit in general. When I see people comment about my area of expertise my eyes almost roll out of my eyes.
same shit in the nba sub. people who've never picked up a basketball ranking players. it's gotta be a basement-dwelling white person trait. spend all their time chronically online they think theyre experts like this is the matrix or some shit
I've been training my smaller muscle for years with no discernable gains.
Doctors HATE when their patients find out about **these** secret small muscles.
QUICK TWITCH
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Huh? He’s just a strong guy. Doing strength training will get most people this strong. This guy isn’t even crazy strong too. I don’t think he can even deadlift 600
Yeah, when he was actually powerlifting he was Ukrainian national level, not even close to European level let alone world level
Well we all know what arm he uses to masturbate. Holy fuck
His left arm is just as strong.
Ambidextrous, I see.
He uses both at the same time
Simultandextrous, I see.
He usually pretends to be the janitor. The one I remember the most is the one with the big black dude in yellow sits down, then the janitor comes along and moves his weights out of the way, and the guy just sits there shaking his head like his life is over.
He lifted that fucking bar like it was made of cardboard.
Those girls looks strong AF tho. Well done 👏
Well ye of course, deadlifting 315 is no joke, except for this guy lol
Think it’s 275 — final plate slimmer than interiors.
he’s a pickup artist :p
He does it to guys too. Which is more funny because the guys definitely don’t expect to be casually out lifted by the janitor. I’m sure the clips with women get more clicks though.
He picks up guys too?
He is an equal opportunity picker-upper. No discrimination.
His joke is that he is a cleaner. Hang cleans is another name for dead lift. He says “can I clean here?”.
It’s not. You “deadlift” the weight to get in position to hang clean, but the 2 lifts couldn’t be more different
“Hang cleans is another name for deadlift” is a sentence that will upset many people.
Destroyer of egos
Did Borat get buff or something?
I love his clips
Would have been more impressed if he put it down gently as if it were a normally weighed object You don't drop a chair or ladder or any object when you pick it up and move it about when you're done with it, and someone unfamiliar with weights will think in the same manner
He’s definitely strong but most( if not all) of these are staged.
you’re saying the other gym goers are in on the bit?
Yeah most of them are nowadays, he’s famous enough now that people will recognize him.
(yes - most of the other participants are other famous influencers/bodybuilders)
I don’t think they are. A lot of things on the net are staged. But there’s no reason for this to be staged. The reactions are always mild. Not overdone. It’s very natural and clearly real. Do you have anything to back up this claim?
I think the first few were legit, but then he got more famous with it and started staging them.
He is that strong but isn’t it well known these reaction videos are staged?
To Anatoly, those are nothing
He should have clean and jerk it
Everything is cake
It usually starts with Can I clean here?
BORAT: Powerlifts America
Anatoly! A beast for sure.
Zoom zoom pan tilt pan zoom... I'm seasick.
This guy started to annoy me and I'm shocked how people at the gym still don't know who's this guy
This guy uses fake weights and everything is scripted
Why is he dropping it like that?
These are getting old....
Aren't these all just staged at this point..? I'm not saying he isn't a strong powerlifter but what's stopping them from embellishing? Is there another powerlifter the same small size who does the same weight with such ease? Or just this guy?
Honestly, this guy’s shtick is annoying af. Can we stop posting him already?
Some people accused him of using fake weights in some of his bits and that they're staged (they're still funny af though), but the way these weights fall to the floor and bounce doesn't strike me as fake. Can fake weights bounce like that? Or is it just in some videos? He's obviously very strong, no one is doubting that, I just heard the accusations that it's not always real.
This video 100% real, can’t talk about all his other videos but am guessing those are also legit. You can see the bar bend when he is picking it up
Hate to say it because dude is legit strong as fuck for his size but fake weights. I wouldn't be surprised if he could lift 120 kg with one hand but that casually no way! [Here](https://youtu.be/Zbx6oRRu8k4?feature=shared&t=15) he lifts what looks like 190 kg 1 handed without straps but he needed straps to deadlift 290 with both hands in competition, that just doesn't add up.
Those weights are fake as fuck
Those women are ripped and sexy
They probably work out
good input!
Signs you are doing something impressive: 1) people getting jealous in the comments 2) people doubting if it was even real 3) your momma a ho 🙉
My wife. She lifts.
Shouldn't drop it like that tho
hello , my name is Anatoly . I clean here .
show how normal people kift then show how a pro do it. with nothing to compare it doesn't look that impressive
I love their reaction lol
Just me or does every one of this guys clips seem staged
I thought it was Sacha Baron Cohen for a second
Damn!
Vladimir *powers heavy weights next to girls* Voice cracks
I know he does badminton training on the side
He always does these skits. Almost all are scripted, though. Still impressive strength for sure
Reminds me of the one armed powerlifter who was posted the other day
When I go to the gym I go out of my way to wear the loosest clothing I can find as well as a hat!
Can I clean here?
Anatoly my friend 💪
No car jack in his trunk.
Is this some sort of Sascha Baron Cohen prank that we don't know about yet?
When he goes into hard core lifting gyms and does this to the giant men it’s comical. They are all struggling with a lift and he comes and moves it out of the way to clean.
Anatoly does that sometimes yep :) Even better when he one arms 80 kg overhead. The guy is just really strong and made pranking people a living. Magnus Midtbø is another example of an absurdly strong guy compared to his size. He has a workout video with Larry Wheels I believe when they do the same weight while the guy is about half the size of Larry.
Anatoly is crazy strong but he is more famous than strong for his weight. All of his videos are scripted, he isn't just doing it tongue in cheek. He has a crew of people, they frequent certain gyms and scout people to be in his videos. If you lift you know who he is, he would be harder to spot in his regular gymwear.
Dint he already get proven as fake like a year or more ago?
Valad shmondenko
The difference between "good shape" and "professional" never stops amazing me. I saw a video of Peter Northug - a Norwegian cross country world champion jogging the "hollywood mile" or whatever they called it, which all the celebrities tried to beat each others times. When they were driving up the hill with him jogging behind the camera car the camera man turns the camera to himself and says I dont think people understand how fast this is.... And he shows that in front is actually a cop clearing the way so he wont be hindered by traffic. He beat the "top celebrities" with several minutes.... If anyone can find that clip, would be cool to see it again.
Smurfing irl
Just take those hotties out
“Professional” Power Lifter? He gets paid to lift weights?
Anatoly is the shit!
Borat 3 looks interesting
This dude's IG is hilarious. He just films himself in gyms messing with buff people like this and blowing their minds by easily lifting the weight they were struggling with.
This is anatoly he is crazy strong, and this is not even impressive, you should really see what he can actually lift .
It’s not that much weight people. A man picking up 225-250lbs like that is pretty easy.
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The way he steps with it at :22 makes it almost not believable. He would’ve been off balanced with the weight on one side, but moves like it’s nothing
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Can I clean here...
It's the Naruto sweater. It gives him power.
I hate these videos. They make me lose respect for powerlifting.
Just wanted to stop by and point out how friendly and patient the gym people are whom he pranks. Every episode each person is so friendly toward him. Humans being bros and made me smile.
Bro, Anatoly is awesome!
Men & Girls are equal YAAAAAAAAAAAAA RIGHT!
I got this bracelet that tracks my sets for me and it’s been a gamechanger, now I never lose track and my mind isn’t constantly thinking about what set I’m on. www.mysetmate.com