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14:00 Szymon was the main commentator for Euros on Polish TV and on a few occasions refered to Giorgi Asanidze as 'close friend'. Makes sense that they trained together.

Snatch on training with straps: 192,5kg C&J: 235 Front Squat: 240kg Back Squat: 260kgx3 Bench press: 228 (222,5 in competition)

Kolecki is one of my favourite weightlifters of all time. He's probably the main reason I became a weightlifter. Thanks for this video

Kolecki told Strossen in a Milomagazine article back in 99 that the polish team was using the bulrian style of training,13 sessions per week,this style close to competitions,the rest of the year soviet style.

I went through a Kolecki rabbit hole a few months back, some of the finest lifting footage on KZfaq for sure

They should do a video on Milko Tolkola 🇫🇮

I'm polish and i have followed his weightlifting career and mma career recently and i'll tell you - his static power is ridiculous (rip and tear type of strength). He has the punching power to knock out any heavy weight. Too bad he's probably heavily juiced so we will not see him fight outside of poland probably.

Kolecki front squat: Ironmind 1999 Gonzo in Greece Kaki back squat: Ironmind 1993 Heavy Metal in Melbourne I have the DVDs (weightlifting porn) I also have the DVD with the footage you're using here of Kolecki and Giorgi (Ironmind 2001 Creating Champions). It was filmed at the Polish national sports institution camp thingy place.

Szymon under rated! Coach and I agree that the lad knows how to use his body well for leverages

LETS GOO, was waiting for this

Great video, you guys should do a review of vintage lifting aesthetics. Maybe even make some vintage styled merch?

Watching this before heading for training. Motivation like no other!

Kolecki's got a half decent MMA record of 10-1, although it's mostly journeymen and lower tier talent, his fight against Pudzianowski was a big deal understandably and is worth the watch just to see the muscles 👀

That's true his max front and c&j was the same - 240kg. Backsquat was 260x3 His best training lifts was 190 or 195 snatch and 240 C&J (as a light 105 or fairly overweight 94). After Sydney he got a lot of injuries and in 2001-2003 he competed as light 105 with hope bigger bodyweight will led to fewer injuries. He said in one of interviews he was lifting senior WR clean and jerk 3 times per week. PER WEEK as junior. But as previously written nad coaching lead him to many back and knee injuries. After couple years with help of great coach Zygmunt Smalcerz he managed to be on great shape for beijing 2008. It's crazy to think what he could accomplished with smarter training in his young years.

Excellent video, thanks

He snatched 182.5 at the 2000 olympics

Love this! Thanks for doing it!! My coach is a former polish lifter and my quote to him is I want to snatch like kolecki 😂🙌🏻

Love these videos, so cool to see

The pride of Poland. Apparently he would wear a black leather biker jacket to competitions. Hardcore stuff lol

3:37 Jesus Eoin, put that thing away...

man like Kolecki 🙌

Checked his MMA record. He’s 10-1 so far with 9 knockout wins

You guys convinced me to high bar squat

Thank you!!!!!

I had a VHS tape of Szymon training sessions in a gym in early 2000s after his injury. He was at about 80 percent recovering. He was doing a lot of serts of bak squats on that vid

That latter Iron Mind video of Kolecki training with Asanidze is from the Creating Champions DVD. This was a training hall in Poland a month prior to worlds. I believe both were being coached by Grikurovi at the time. This is my favorite Iron Mind video as its actual training rather than the training hall lifts from a big event. Also awesome because both Kolecki and Asanidze bench in this video - I think I remember Kolecki hit 180 for a double and Asanidze hit 160 for a triple.

Shmiao Shmui

powerful man

His overhead strength is insane.

Don’t know about classic guys, but can you do a video on David Fischer! Moved from Austria to Bulgaria and changed his name to David Fischerov 😂 And he’s got a fascinating technique (which his sister has too - weird)

@Sika Strength, the Asadnize/Kolecki DVD is from 2001,called Creating Champions, one month before 2001 worlds

Kolecki is 10-1 in MMA 9 KO / TKO 1 Decision and 1 Decision loss

My favourite polish lifter is arkadiusz michalski for some reason i think u know him and u know why i like him 🤔

10:50 great thanks

An incredible lifter but never less than second place on the world stage from 1961 to 1971 makes W B the greatest.

Have you done Andrei Aramnau?

Seems as both were squatting heavier the bar kept getting lower and lower for each lifter

England football shirt 10:14 🤔🤔🤔

Shemon Koletzky - That's better way to pronounce it. Simon also works.

🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

David Rigert would be really cool

Stefan Botev

Kołecki did 235kg CJ in Polish national competition.

Szymon beat another juicy lad in KSW, World's Strongest Man Mariusz Pudzianowski. (At heavyweight, no less. Szymon is a light heavyweight.) He also has only one loss across 11 pro fights. Quite talented as a regional level fighter, at least based on the data. I've yet to watch any of his fights to get a more personal assesment.

Is Kolecki pronounced koleki or koletski?

I can’t believe he was squatting LOWBAR!

classic lifter

closer to "shim on" "Ko lets key" in pronunciation

Australian super heavy weight, dean Lukin 1984 Olympic Champion, Not much on him.

As a Pole I heard stories He was wiping platform before every session.

dla algorytmu

Do Aramnau!

Algo comment

Kolecki's fight record is as follows: he beat Mariusz Pudzianowski!!!

Liao Hui was a freak of nature Also Can you confirm that Sikastan is the leading nation in gene doping?

Do you think Kolecki’s heavily juiced sweat might rub off onto his opponent’s while grappling and could possibly get into their blood stream?

Kolecki, I think in Polish you say, 'co wet ski'

I think you pronounce him "Co-latch-ky"

Siodme Poty

For the hord... i mean algo

You could have at least studied in 2 minutes how to pronounce his name when preparing this solid material. It's Shemon Kawletzky, sort of. Not Colecky or whatever you call him. It's nothing difficult.

before you record material about someone, you should learn the correct spelling of the character's name, because it does not sound right and is not fair

Its pronounced Kowetski 😅

After butchering kolecki's name so many times I don't think you have any right to complain about people not pronouncing Irish names right lmao 😭

You could at least plop his name into google translate to pronounce it properly *smh*

Kolecki had several knee surgeries after the 2008 Olympics