Perhaps the most powerful men are involved in weightlifting . They are capable of lifting simply incredible weights that no one else can even budge.
Every year more and more new records are set, but there are those that are very difficult to give and for decades no one can beat them. Consider the most incredible world records.
The strongest
“The strongest man on the planet” - that’s what he was called in due time. An athlete from the United States, Paul Anderson, who was involved in weightlifting and performed more than 50 years ago, still has unbeaten records in strength exercises.
In Las Vegas, he managed to sit down with a weight of 526 kg in a row as much as three times. He did this every day for several weeks and said that such weight was for him an ordinary worker, and not the maximum. He did this without any athletic equipment, and barefoot. For example, Doni Thompson, who crouched with a weight of 590 kg, set a modern record. And in 1975, without equipment, a record was set in a squat with a weight of 423.5 kg by Don Reinhodt - no one has beaten this record so far.
Another amazing Anderson achievement is lifting your weight with one right hand. He lifted 136 kg 11 times. He did such exercises with special dumbbells.
To tear off almost three tons of weight - it is possible!
He set one of the most incredible world records in lifting weights from racks. Anderson was able to tear 2844 kg of weight, which is almost a ton exceeded the records set before him.
Also, Andy Bolton, an English weightlifter, set incredible world records in weightlifting. He set three world records: a squat with a weight of 550.5 kg, deadlift - 457.5 kg, total eventing - 1273 kg. Andy was the first man on the planet who managed to lift more than 453.6 kg (1,000 pounds) in deadlift.
In deadlift, the successes of Benedict Magnusson should be noted . In the spring of 2011 in equipment, he set a world weightlifting record and lifted 460 kg at the Ronnie Coleman classic.
As for the bench press, it is impossible not to mention the achievement of the American athlete Ryan Kenneli. Without equipment, he squeezes 297 kg. Many? In equipment in 2008, Ryan squeezed 478.6 kg! So far, no one can beat this world record in weightlifting.
Iran is ahead
In an exercise such as a jerk in the absolute weight category, the world weightlifting records belong only to Iranian athletes. And it is noteworthy that the two most recent belong to the teacher with his student. So, in 2003, Hossein Reza Zadeh set a world record by making a jerk with a bar weight of 213 kg. And in 2011, his student Bedhad Salimi surpassed the teacher and managed to make a breakthrough at the National Tournament, which was held in Iran, with a weight of 214 kg. At the same time, in the aftermath, Hossein's world weightlifting record remained unbroken - no one managed to take weight more than 263 kg.
Despite the development of training systems, as well as sports supplements that are used by weightlifters, so far no one has been able to surpass the result of the Soviet athlete Leonid Taranenko, who in 1988 was obeyed by a weight of 266 kg. Then in the total biathlon he gained 475 kg.
Also unsurpassed is the result of the Turkish athlete N. Suleimanoglu, who in the same 1988 was able to push the barbell weighing 190 kilograms, thereby setting a new world record in weightlifting. Seems a bit? Your opinion will change when you find out in which category the athlete was then - up to 60 kg. That is, the Turk was able to lift a weight that was more than three times his own!
Weights are easier for them than fluffs
Let's touch a little and kettlebell lifting. The world champion in this sport, Pavel Lesnykh, who lives in the Altai Territory, is not tired of setting new records. In 2007, Paul set a world record by pushing a weight of 36 kilograms 1,030 times. He managed exactly one and a half hours.
And this is really a great achievement, since the previous record, which was set by Vyacheslav Khoronenko, “The Belarusian King of Weights”, amounted to 1020 pushes of weights weighing 32 kilograms.
In addition, Pavel managed to push a weight of 41 kg 209 times, and also to keep a weight of 52 kg for 30 minutes on weight, thereby setting new records for the weightlifting world.
Another Russian athlete, Ivan Denisov, multiple champion of Russia and the world in weight lifting, managed to set no less world records. He set a world record for pushing a kettlebell in a long cycle. Pushing a 32-pound weight in 2007, he managed to achieve a result of 109 points. And in 2005, Ivan was able to score in biathlon, which consists of a push and a jerk, the result is 387 points. At the same time, he scored 175 points in the clean and jerk - 220 points.
What's next?
Many experts say that the new world records in weightlifting, which are set by athletes, are less and less different from those already set. And this is despite the new methods, nutrition and financing of athletes. More and more people attribute this to the fact that they simply have already come close to the possibilities of the physical strength of the human body, and therefore there can no longer be large breaks in records. Like it or not, only time will help to figure it out. As the saying goes, "wait and see."