That was a high pressure phone call for me

This is the liturgical aspect of weightlifting. The training room is a church and we are the believers. More of this guys.

They did change Astana into Nursultan, but have changed it back to Astana last year. Almaty is a different place though.

Lol, Seb is awesome. Just show him some obscure Russian training footage and he can give you the name of the lifter on sight.

Love this whole set up, reminds me of when I had two a days in high school with the boys and we would just sit around watching videos while we waited for the second practice to begin.

Would love to see more session reactions like this!

Weighfing training just hits different, I’ve watched powerlifting, strongman and bodybuilding sessions and nothing compares to old school weightlifting, it’s just so badass

Fun Fact: the Oleg from Austin Barbell is Oleg Kechko 155/195 @ 77. He's also moved from Austin Barbell, but that's a different matter.

The sika boys did a video on Gleb a while back as well. Very good footage from a bit very well known lifter. Dude was a stallion

For me, it was Klokov & Polovnikov squatting. One going super slow and paused rep, the other super fast.

Astana is the former Akmola, Akmolinsk, Tselinograd and Nur-Sultan. I think its in the Guinness Book of World Records for the city with the most name changes. Almaty is a completely different city in the south of KZ (former capital till 1997)

In the end what matters are the comps, but as someone who got into weight training because of bodybuilding and got in love with weightlifting later, these training footages are what made me fall in love with the sport. Thats maybe the reason Ilya and Klokov are my favorites. That 200kg paused snatch is engraved in my mind.

Dude you have no clue how much your videos get me fired up for the gym, its INSANE. Thank you. Since your vid on it I've been dying to try the Pig Squat routine, tried it with pounds (because my max was 425) and set a PR after finishing it, at 445. Was so god damn excited that I did it again yesterday, set another PR at 450. Literally THE MOST FUN i could possibly have in the gym, 2 best workouts I've ever had. And I would not have known about it without following this channel.

Thank you guys for sharing this!!!!

Thank you guys, awesome video!

love these type of videos!

Thanks for posting back to back days guys! Love the dawg kings!

Love this video. The lifting, the reactions. I get excited just from seeing Zack's enthusiasm

Was just watching the Sika boys breaking down these sessions. I like the watch along type thing

First 🎉 Klokov’s pause hang snatch session in the TMNT shirt has my vote

I don't have 5% of the knowledge these guys do but watching them geek out over these videos is just awesome stuff and highly entertaining.

Another Perfect setup! Hit us with more oldschool lifting!

Gunna need more of this, also sprinkle in some old cal strength, and maybe some current stuff?!?? Keep it up guys!

The passion in this video is so great

Beautiful video

this is a good video style - more of this pls

Dude. I certainly research a deep aggregate of lifting and training videos… But I really appreciate your content; it’s extremely authentic and still very very informative at the same time. Good shit man 🤝

oh man I almost had tears of joy in my eyes when you just facetimed Seb :D that was so wholesome!

Great content especially for new oly lifters

Today my knee hurt from yesterday, was planning to do something different tomorrow, now I might snatch tomorrow 😁great video- most fun though to see you guys so stoked up about it 😍

This video was class, going playing a rugby match soon and I'm psyched

We need hundreds of hours of this please

My first year of training at age 13 I shared a gym with these surnames. Sarkisian, Vlad, Blagoev, Kunev, Marinov, Botev. I was so spoiled and seeing the impossible became just another day in the gym.

More of this pleaaaaseeee

hell yeah im into this, do this again

Inject these training videos straight into my veins for big Friday.

You can tell Dylan is hard as fuck while watching that Ilya Ilyin session

Absolute fuken classic. Adorable.

The athlete at 21:30 is Aslambek Ediev, and the black mustache man his coach Kosum Mahamadov both from Chechen Republic, if you wanna know about them more - i can tell you,

These videos are my preworkout.

Ilya’s fucking front squat is like when a kid gets of a bike and lets it roll to a crash, walks in the house to a get a drink and gets back on it with no thought… just second nature with peoples deadlift pr on his front rack, so crazy

You guys need someone who knows all the politics and drama of this period in russian weightlifting 2004 - 2012, like Pisarevsky vs Klokov, the whole struggle in 105 kategory etc Might be interesting. Maybe Polovnikov could spill the beans

haha thanks for letting us hang out with you two in your living room 😂 cool cool stuff. appreciate your love for this sport and love the gems of technical pointers you drop. 👍🏼

sick af

I watch y'all's videos to get pumped to train, glad to know you guys do the same haha Ilya is a fucking FREAK. You guys touched on how the culture of weightlifting has changed, I'd love to hear you guys talk about that a bit more in depth.

without stop I watch whole video

Of course he knows him, how many other weightlifters have names rhyming with Seb? Gleb’s face going red and the scream on that 255 clean made my night.

Also. We want more

I won’t ever try weightlifting but I will watch Zack and pay close attention to everything he says as if I were competing😂

Gleb is unreasonably good

Legendary Russian training hall. Thank you guys!

Now do the in-house competition they held in that training hall. Same lifters and big numbers.

Dylan seeing Okulov everywhere in the Moscow training hall. Okulov would have been 9-11ish years old at the time. Might be Perepetchenov instead

Hair started sprouting on my chest watching that Russian training hall footage

I could watch this shit all day

Bros. This was the one day I literally had to take off and you show me this? 😢

That 255 clean is so the ultimate freaking grind

A shame there’s so many more sessions Ilya uploaded to KZfaq that he later took down. Including the 242 clean & jerk training session pre Almaty. Edit: around 4:30-4:40, when you refer to “uppers” are they taking amphetamines or something to keep the energy and hunger down during cutting? Or is it another substance / gear they’re taking that you’re referring to?

I’d love if you elaborate on the ‘identity’ of WL as perceived by you guys. I can understand serious differences in the culture and substance use between the Russian and Kazaks shown in this video. It is true that they, therefore, take bigger jumps and have more aggressive lifting sessions. On the other hand, the no talking, focus and silence of the room is noticeable. As content creators, I could imagine you guys understand you can’t be like this. That would bore many. But is that what’s missing in training gyms nowadays. Less music, noise, talk and video taking; and more raw pure unadulterated effort ?

Not sure if you guys already reacted but I’d love to see Ilyas 245kg Squat Jerk in the training hall

glebs technique is so clean

Dylan sounds like a battledroid

That's the shit right here LOL... What a vibe...what a gym... No BS- just lift...

I can't believe I'm watching a couple of good dudes watching more good dudes 😂😂

you ask at 24-07 Coach is David Rigert

Gleb!!!

Does anyone have the link to the second video, the one with Berestov ? Can't find it with any keywords

This is my typa content!!

It will be nuts if Eoin, Fitz, Zack, Seb, and Dylan are in the same room just fanboying/commentating on Ilya training videos LOL

I love how that child has no idea that these guys are in the top .01% best lifters in the world, and I assume they are just waiting for dad to get off of work.

Link to the orginal video plz!

David Rigerts son, Vyacheslav Rigert, cameo at 27:25

💪

255 clean at 105 is just more than what the fuck

What is ‘supplementing with 1-3’?

when in doubt ask seb

Gleb Pisarevskiy best technique ever.

The capital changed from Almaty to Astana but they are different cities. Astana did have a name change though. At least that's what Wikipedia says.

Two different cities the capital was moved to Astana from Almaty.

This is so masculine. Amazing

I've never seen anything like the pisarevski clip before. Is there anyone else who hits those types of numbers at their relative weightclasses? This makes me think of the south korean lee sang (67) clean-deadlifting 260kg but I can't think of anything with insane weight disparity

Hey Zack! Are you "Todd in the Shadows?"

sauce anyone?

We are indeed ducking peasants and this is Olympic weightlifting at its absolute finest

26:33 is son of David Rigert Vladislav

This is weightlifting

yo link to that russian training video?

ah good old times when you didnt even know Ilya could squat jerk then BAAM he breaks the world record in training with it

24:00 David Rigert

Yo where is the link to the Russian training? Can’t find it

What does he mean by waves / wave loading?

Can you react abou a documentary like the swedish or bulgarian ones

7:00 unless he tells the odors to lock the doors. Seriously you have to make shirts and hats that say lock the doors

12:26 😂

ah nice duke nukem 3d outro song

What's the name of the Russian video?

YOU GOT SEB ON DA PHONE

Astana and Almaty are two different cities. For some time, Astana was renamed to Nursultan (the former president's name).

How is the thumbnail not couch companion??? Hahaha

7:09 what was they sayin’ ?