Andrey Paley is a man whose name is well known in certain sports circles. More specifically, this athlete is well known in the world of powerlifting. He is a role model for a huge number of young people, since Andrei’s personal record in the bench press is 340 kg.
Paley is a multiple champion of Russia, Europe and the world. This year, the athlete turned 55 years old, despite his age, Paley Andrey continues to play sports and actively participates in competitions at various levels. Despite constant training and eternal employment, Andrey Paley, whose sports achievements are really impressive, manages to devote time to his family. The man is the owner of a fitness club and the owner of a print magazine.
Andrey Paley: biography, brief data
The future athlete was born in October 1961 in Magnitogorsk. As Andrei himself now notes with humor, little heralded a great sports career. Judging by the circumstances, he was to become a typical Jewish boy. Based on the inherent physical data, Andrei was advised to engage in violin, and not to burden gravity. Paley was a rather weak child and, it would seem, had absolutely no prerequisites in order to become a champion: narrow shoulders, thinness and a thin bone did not at all lead to the lifting of serious weights.
The parents of the future multiple champion had absolutely nothing to do with the great sport. They both worked all their lives at the local metallurgical plant, and the son had to continue their fate.
Having reached school age, the boy, like everyone else, went to school, but his studies were very poor and difficult. He could not boast of particular success in any subject. In addition, overall performance was poor. Andrey Paley was a terrible bully in childhood. He constantly participated in some fights, for which his father was often invited to a conversation with the director. At home, of course, he was constantly blamed for it. Andrei remembered these unpleasant moments from childhood and drew conclusions for himself for the rest of his life. As an adult and raising three sons, he never scolded them for failures or some kind of oversight at school.
Military service and education
As a schoolboy, Paley became interested in various sports. He went to an aircraft modeling club, was engaged in swimming and boxing. And after school, the guy first graduated from SGPTU number 13, and then went to serve in the army. Andrey served on the Chinese border as part of a parachute assault platoon.
He remembers this time with warmth and says that, despite all the difficulties, he never regretted that he went to serve, since it was the army that tempered his character. It was very difficult to repay a debt to the motherland, a platoon was almost constantly thrown into the mountains without sufficient food, but Paley withstood all this. At first he became foreman, and then was appointed deputy commander. And it was there that Andrei Paley got his first CCM on parachuting. For a long time after the army, Andrei was offered to return to serve under the contract, but he chose a different path for himself.
Hard times
After returning from the army, Paley continued his studies at the evening department of the Industrial College. Then he enters the MSTU, but he never graduated. Andrei understood that he needed to earn money, and to do this at that time was very difficult. He gets a job, like many in Magnitogorsk, at a local foundry, works in the LPC number 3. Realizing that there are no special prospects in his city, Paley decides to go in for business and goes abroad. A certain period of time he lived in Bulgaria.
Unbeatable craving for sports
All this time Andrey does not stop training. He began to reap a barbell at the age of 15 and, despite all life's difficulties and ups and downs, always and under any circumstances made time for sports. When Andrei reached the age of 25, having fulfilled the necessary standards, the young man became the CCM in weightlifting, but he did not see further prospects for further development in this area for himself. After this, Paley is seriously interested in weight lifting.
In this industry he achieved quite good results: he became a master of sports and a champion of the Chelyabinsk region. But over time, this power form has become of no interest to anyone in Russia. Powerlifting came into vogue, and, of course, Paley Andrey Eduardovich decided to try himself in it. This sport became very successful for the athlete, and it was here that the man was able to fully realize himself.
Andrey Paley: achievements in sports career
The arrival in powerlifting provided the athlete with a great opportunity to return to his favorite barbell. Paley began to focus on his beloved, but once abandoned exercise - bench press. Over time, he was able to achieve excellent results. His own bench press record is 340 kg.
This man became the winner and champion of many competitions. To date, Paley is the owner of several European Cups, was twice recognized as the Absolute Champion of Israel, twice won the absolute championship of Europe and the world.
In 2008, Andrei became the Absolute Champion of Eurasia, in 2014 - the winner of the European Cup. Despite the fact that this year the athlete turned 55 years old, he continues to perform at prestigious competitions. In 2016, Paley won the French National Championship and European Championship held in Moscow.
The athlete speaks of his many victories very easily and naturally and admits that some championships went to him solely due to a successful combination of circumstances. But people associated with sports imagine how much effort needs to be made only in order to fall for championships of this level, not to mention taking first places in them.
Family life
The athlete was officially married twice. With his first wife, he signed at age 18. Relations were difficult, but the couple lived together for 12 years. With his second wife, Inna Paley, Andrei has already lived for more than 20 years.
Lina is also a famous athlete. She is professionally engaged in bodybuilding, and at the age of 36 a woman managed to achieve what seemed to be incredible: Inna received the title of Absolute World Champion.
Sons
Spouses Paley have three sons. Senior Dmitry is an adult and independent young man. He is engaged in lighting discos. The middle son Edward, according to his famous father, has not yet finally decided what he would like to do in life. Joy for parents is their youngest child named Semen. From an early age he was engaged in gymnastics, recently became the winner in regional bench press competitions. The boy was only 9 years old, and he lifted a weight of 30 kg (he weighs the same).
What is Andrei Eduardovich doing now
At the moment, the Paley spouses are the owners of their own fitness club in Magnitogorsk called “Paley Reform”. They own the glossy sports magazine Be in shape. Articles based on their own experience are written in the journal by both Andrey and Inna. Having earned some money at international competitions and contests, Paley did not turn into a miser.
After 50 years, he came to the realization that material wealth is really not the main thing in life, now he is breaking up with money very easily. For example, Andrei became the sole sponsor of the Russian Veterans Bench Championship, which was held in the hometown of the athlete Magnitogorsk.