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Posted: 5/16/2022 9:52:52 PM EDT
Post people being fucking awesome at the thing they're awesome at.  My interest just happens to be weightlifting so......

We'll start with some old school Milko.  You can't help but get that energy he has lifting.

Max Training 29.11.2012 Milko Tokola




Link Posted: 5/17/2022 11:06:43 AM EDT
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This was the highest competition total in human history, a record which stood for 18 years (unofficially).

477.5 kgs Weightlifting Total - Ashot Danielyan
Link Posted: 5/18/2022 11:24:33 AM EDT
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Can't make it everyday.

IronMind Big Lift Series: Zlaten Vanev 210-kg Clean & Jerk: 5 Attempts
Link Posted: 5/19/2022 10:16:42 AM EDT
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My lifting mentor from high school
Charlie Driscoll Career Deadlift Highlights 1983-2020

Rita

Jocko
How To SMASH DAYS When You Don't Feel Like It - Jocko Willink
Link Posted: 5/19/2022 7:27:59 PM EDT
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Nice, moving some big weight.

Another unofficial record.

Hysen Pulaku 211kg Clean and Jerk at Podium Gold Weightlifting Club
Link Posted: 5/20/2022 2:13:52 AM EDT
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I follow bilbo swaggins on Instagram.

Haack is a god walking the earth.
Link Posted: 5/20/2022 10:26:08 AM EDT
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This was the highest competition total in human history, a record which stood for 18 years (unofficially).

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Oh he's stronk, but he looks terrible.
Probably gasses out walking up a couple flights of stairs
Link Posted: 5/20/2022 8:44:48 PM EDT
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Oh he's stronk, but he looks terrible.
Probably gasses out walking up a couple flights of stairs
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We'll move down a weight class for you then.  105kg

Dmitry Klokov - Olympic Weightlifting Motivation - 2016
Link Posted: 5/21/2022 10:07:55 AM EDT
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We'll move down a weight class for you then.  105kg

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Yep, he looks like an athlete
Link Posted: 5/21/2022 10:14:31 AM EDT
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THE 4 MINUTE SPEECH THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE | David Goggins (2021)


Probably NSFW
Link Posted: 5/21/2022 11:11:50 AM EDT
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I'm torn between being happy about how cool a thread this is and sad because of how badly I suck at any Olympic lift.
Link Posted: 5/21/2022 12:32:09 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/21/2022 7:39:49 PM EDT
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"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself......"

Rim Jong Sim (75kg, North Korea) All Out 2015 World Weightlifting Championships


This performance earned her a gold and two silver medals.  Some people say it wasn't worth it, which voice are they?
Link Posted: 5/22/2022 11:33:25 AM EDT
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EDIT:  I'm going to save Ilya for another day.  

Here's the story of Matthias Steiner.  

Matthias Steiner Shares his Emotional Beijing 2008 Weightlifting Gold | Olympic Rewind


Link Posted: 5/23/2022 9:27:48 PM EDT
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Elite level weightlifting is a young mans game.

This is Pyrros Dimas.  He was born in 1971.  He won three gold medals (this ain't swimming).

1992 Barcelona.  1996 Atlanta.  2000 Sydney.

Pyrros Dimas Wins Weightlifting Gold At Third Consecutive Olympics - Sydney 2000 Olympics
Link Posted: 5/24/2022 3:47:29 PM EDT
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Back to the ladies, Boyanka Kostova.  A 127lbs girl, front squating most guys' deadlift.

Boyanka Kostova (58kg) 180kg Front Squat 2015 World Weightlifting Championships


She still has two world records from that competition.
Link Posted: 5/26/2022 11:40:42 PM EDT
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2014 World Championships.  A three way battle between Ilyin (KAZ), Nurudinov (UZB), and Bedzhanyan (RUS).

Nurudinov went 193 in the snatch, leading Ilyin by 3 kilos.

Each lifter set consecutive new world records in the C&J starting with Nurudinov at 239, Bedzhanyan at 240 and finally Ilyin, lifting in front of his home crowd (at 0:40).  This was a do or die lift, he missed his second attempt at 239. It was literally gold or nothing and completely up to him.

Ilia Ilin (Ilya Ilyin) 2014 Almaty
Link Posted: 5/30/2022 4:16:01 PM EDT
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Time to rack it......  Pat Mendes.  Snatched the most weight of any American.

800 pound / 363 kg Squat - ATG 100% RAW


Link Posted: 6/1/2022 11:47:17 AM EDT
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Power or nah?

Evgeny Chigishev 220kg Power Clean & Jerk
Link Posted: 6/2/2022 5:07:01 PM EDT
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That feeling when you power clean & jerk your opener to clinch the total gold medal.

Shi Zhiyong (73 kg) Power Clean & Jerk 190 kg - 2019 World Weightlifting Championships
Link Posted: 6/21/2022 4:20:08 PM EDT
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What you squat today?



She weighs 71kg, btw.
Link Posted: 6/23/2022 7:31:00 PM EDT
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