Power extreme: 7 records that have not yet been broken

A sport that is considered the activity of strong people, which is accepting more and more infusions of new fans into its ranks. Power extreme, what it is, how it appeared and what it is, we will tell you in this article.

Let's start with information from Wikipedia , where it is said about this that this is a sport in which competitions take place using unusual power loads.

These include:

1. Log push;
2. Atlas Stone;
3. Rocker.

There are no specific requirements for the appearance of an athlete, as is the case with bodybuilders. The main criterion is the personal sympathy of the audience. The difference from powerlifting is the absence of standard exercises, which can change in sequence throughout the competition.

From this we can understand that extreme strength training primarily puts the functionality for which the athlete is ready.

Competitions

What kind of sport is extreme strength?

This is, above all, a unique spectacle! Because it has no generally accepted rules. Usually they are established by the organizers before certain competitions.

The basis of the performances is testing the strength level of the participants. Often the secret for athletes is the exercise program that the organizers have prepared for them.

Typically, such competitions involve athletes from other strength sports in which they have previously achieved excellent results. But this does not mean that it is easy for them here, since they can use their existing skills. This is not so, in extreme strength there are no ordinary equipment from the gym. Endurance and strength are both important here.

What is power extreme?

Strength extreme differs from pump training, bodyflex and other areas. This is a rather unusual sport, which is based on performing various strength exercises with the additional use of non-standard objects, from car tires to concrete balls and even racks with several barbells.

Such training is relevant for lovers and followers of strength training who decide to diversify the program and try something new. Properly performed exercises help build muscle and increase endurance. A unique effect – increased pain tolerance – deserves special attention.

What is included in a standard strength extreme program?

The extreme power program promoted by Mikhail Koklyaev consists of a variety of disciplines, including the following:

• Raising a log. A very spectacular action, carried out since 1980. Since its inception, the discipline has undergone significant changes. Initially, the exercise simply involved lifting an object above your head to the maximum possible height. Today the technique involves lifting at a certain time a large number of times. The complexity is higher, but this discipline is not without popularity.
• Throwing weights high. The weight of sports equipment is 25 kilograms.
• Moving car tires. This means heavy trucks.
• Towing a vehicle. The discipline was first held in 1977. What is the essence - an athlete, using a special cable, pulls a carriage, passenger car, tram or other vehicle to the maximum possible distance.
• Lifting oversized objects. This is a speed discipline that involves lifting various “loads” from the ground and lifting them above your head with outstretched arms.

Exercises

The tests that are proposed to be overcome look like this:

1. Several large stones (preferably of a regular round shape) weighing 120 kilograms or more must be lifted onto separate stands of different heights and placed in the shortest possible time.
2. Participants pick up heavy cylinders weighing from 110 kilograms. The winner is the one who covers the greatest distance without dropping the projectile on the ground.
3. 2 projectiles having different large masses are taken into hand and raised horizontally to the sides on the floor. The goal is to maintain this position for as long as possible. Otherwise this exercise is called “crucifixion”
4. Log press. For 90 seconds, the athlete squeezes a log weighing 110 kilograms or more.
5. An athlete with crossed arms moves a beam on which several girls are placed. The weight of this design reaches up to 300 kilograms. To do this, the athlete is given a little more than a minute.
6. The strongman is faced with the task of deadlifting a projectile that looks like a barbell and weighs about 320 kilograms. The more times the lift can be done within seventy-five seconds, the closer the participant is to victory.

Basic exercises in the program

A set of exercises for training athletes can be performed both with standard sports equipment and with unusual objects. The main condition is strict adherence to the technique, which ensures an excellent result of the study. Main elements in the program:

• Tire flipping.
• Barbell press with clean.
• Deadlifts with a high number of repetitions using heavy weights.
• Carrying and holding heavy, oversized objects.
• Diamond shaped neck transfer.
• Holding various objects for a while.

Interesting fact. It’s not for nothing that Mikhail Koklyaev is considered the most famous and honored extreme power athlete. He trains five times a week. Often several complexes are performed at once in one day. Each lesson must begin with a warm-up.

Restrictions

Restrictions on admission include the following reasons:

• Spinal diseases (intervertebral hernia);
• Inflammatory processes in the joints;
• High blood pressure (hypertension);
• Severe myopia;
• Heart disease;
• Diseases of the central nervous system.

As you can see, extreme strength training is a very energy-intensive activity. Therefore, it is not available for children. Since the impact of extreme stress on a child’s body and unformed psyche is not desirable.

Adult athletes in excellent health and athletic experience can participate in it. This direction is a proof of strength for real men, a victory over the body’s own capabilities. Leaving your comfort zone for the sake of participation and victory.

If you have a desire to take up this sport, you know extreme strength what it is and what awaits you.

Nutrition

Increased physical activity requires a special nutrition system. In this case, the athlete must eat a lot and satisfyingly. To maintain balance in the body, a special diet is provided, mainly consisting of proteins and complex carbohydrates. Mikhail Koklyaev himself adheres to the following diet - a sample menu for one day looks like this:

• Breakfast - rolled oats porridge with water and no added salt, three sandwiches with cheese and three fried eggs.
• Lunch – vegetable salad, classic first/second course, natural juice, still mineral water.
• Dinner - hearty dishes in large quantities.

This diet should not be confused with proper nutrition aimed at losing weight. In this case, food helps to effectively replenish significant energy losses that occur during severe physical activity.

Koklyaev’s training is relevant for men. Women can only admire the strength and courage of athletes involved in strength training and choose less strenuous physical activity for themselves. For example, classes according to the Kurkurina system are perfect for representatives of the fair half. You will also find information about these trainings on our website. Give it a try. You will definitely like it.

Strength records of Mikhail Koklyaev

Those who are actively interested in news from the world of big-time sports are undoubtedly familiar with Mikhail Koklyaev - an athlete, weightlifter, multiple champion of Russia in weightlifting. In performances at the Russian Weightlifting Cup, he took first place six times, which is currently an absolute record. Koklyaev’s other achievements in powerlifting include a bench press of 230 kg, a deadlift of 417.5 kg, and squats of 360 kg. Another strength record of Mikhail Koklyaev in lifting a log - (log lift) 202.5 kg - is the second result on the planet and the best in Russia.

Mikhail Koklyanva’s weight is 160 kg, with a height of 1 meter 92 cm.

After retiring from big-time sports, the famous weightlifter decided to try himself in a new field - extreme strength, a sport that involves performing a variety of strength exercises in the form of competitions between individual participants. However, more about this.

Natural strength training and strength exercises

In the last century, when big sport made friends with pharmacology, the world of strength sports split into two irreconcilable camps: “naturalists” and “chemists”. The confrontation between two sides, two philosophies has become the talk of the town over the past decades. Not a single conversation about the specifics of training and nutrition is complete without discussing the use or non-use of pharmaceutical support.

The disputes that have not subsided all these years have reached the point of hoarseness and fights. And indeed, who is considered truly strong: an athlete who is able to surprise others with his achievements, but only on a short course of using special drugs, or an athlete with less impressive results, but obtained without using them?

We are afraid that this dispute is eternal and there is no end in sight. Someone wise said: “The truth is always one,” but in this dispute there are several truths and they all have the right to exist.

What do we know about natural strength training ? A common opinion: modest, uninteresting results, high risk of injury and futility. “Clean”, doping-free powerlifting and bodybuilding federations are unpopular, little-known and unprestigious.

Strength training by Sergei Lysenko

The hero of this article will help us prove the opposite today - Sergey Lysenok , winner and prize-winner of the interregional, Russian and Moscow powerlifting championships according to the FPR and WDFPF, winner of the CIS Cup in weightlifting (veterans), repeated participant in extreme power competitions (amateurs). And this is far from Sergei’s complete track record.

What is special about his sporting achievements, you ask? But the fact is that, firstly, all the titles have been won by Sergei over the past 5 years in the fourth “ten”, and, secondly, Sergei is a convinced and unshakable adherent of exclusively natural strength training, with an original and unique view on training methods and food.

Among other things, over the last shock five-year period, literally from scratch, Sergei trained a dozen strength athletes, champions and prize-winners of the World and Eurasian powerlifting championships.

Nikolai Krasotkin, Arthur Niazyan, Ilya Shadrin, Alla Solodovnik, Olga Frolova - this is a far from complete list of world champions, Russia and Moscow in various disciplines of bare-metal powerlifting , brought up under the sensitive and close attention of Sergei. Under his leadership, Evgeny Artyukhin, a former player of the NHL team Tampa Bay, and now a forward for St. Petersburg SKA and the Russian national hockey team, as well as his brother Sergey Artyukhin, a medalist of the European Championship in Greco-Roman wrestling, conduct strength training.

— Sergey, tell us what inspired you to compete? Still, I have never had any serious sporting achievements, and my age, to put it mildly, is not optimal for such starts...

- It's simple. In 2005, I first heard about bare-metal powerlifting and took part in competitions according to WDFPF. Before that, I simply went to the Odintsovo PLSE base several times. The first start was in 2005, I took 3rd place in the deadlift at the Moscow Championship. I pulled out 190, pulled out 210 twice, but it didn’t count. At the same time, they performed in the FPR. They weren’t limited to just powerlifting. I myself competed in weightlifting for the first time in 2010, at the CIS Veterans Championship, and took 3rd place.

Pros and cons of natural strength training

— And as for the naturalness and unnaturalness of your opponents, does this not bother you?

— Well, doping control is carried out only at the Russian Championship. Although I am a supporter of natural training, no matter how funny it may sound, I don’t care about the question of whether someone is using chemicals or not. We come and compete. Surprisingly, I can say that not all athletes who use something do not achieve the desired results, although this is the basis of any modern professional sport.

— What do you think about the thesis that heavy exercise without chemicals is very dangerous and can have a negative impact on health?

- I absolutely agree here. But I don’t consider myself and my guys to be athletes with serious achievements. Even those champion results that we sometimes show within our categories are not, in my opinion, something supernatural. It’s probably hard to do without pharmaceutical support at the international level. But at our level we do without it, despite the fact that we have to compete with guys who are really “charged”. We chose this path. It's like a state of mind...

—Have you never used anything yourself? Do you have any idea about pharmacological drugs?

— When I met some weightlifting guys in the army, they talked me into trying it once. Although it was a little, it affected my health; there were minor glitches. But since then, I, and all my students, we do not use not only “chemistry”, but also traditional sports nutrition, including synthetic vitamins. Synthetics are not as digestible. We eat exclusively natural food. I proceed from a different training principle. I build training based on a person’s individual capabilities.

If he eats modestly, then the training should be non-exhausting: a couple of warm-up approaches and the third - the main approach without repetition. After all, everyone who trains with me is an amateur. Everyone has their own business, their own business. I make a program for them, they don’t even get into it. My task is to adjust the lesson system taking into account the nutritional characteristics and body of the student.

— What can you say about your “star” students? What are their results?

— When Zhenya Artyukhin comes to Moscow for training after the end of the hockey season, I give him a “strength test.” His performance is far from the limit: deadlift 240 kg, squat 200 kg and bench press 160 kg. Own weight 116 kg. Sergei, his brother, a professional wrestler, European medalist, also sometimes trains with me. Before the Olympic Games, he had the following indicators: chest lift of 140 kg, snatch of 110 kg. Own weight - 120 kg.

Basic Strength Exercises and Nutrition

— In your training, do you focus on a strength approach or a mass-gaining approach? I know that you have a lot of unconventional exercises in your arsenal.

— I take the classic weightlifting selection of movements, the very same Soviet school, but shifting the emphasis to the fact that the snatch and clean and jerk are auxiliary movements, and not the main ones. And I classify auxiliary weightlifting movements—bending with a barbell, sitting and standing, jumping with a barbell on the shoulders—as the main ones, thereby protecting a person from injury. A huge number of auxiliary, auxiliary movements train stabilizer muscles, covering all the weak points of a person. We perform without equipment, so we need healthy ligaments...

— How often do you do the classic “three”? Bench, squat, deadlift...

- This is the basis, this is the base. Everything else is adjusted to this base. We don't swing. The same chest lifts, jerks - we do such exercises with careful weights so that they do not interfere with the base. I work out 3 times a week, but for 30-40 minutes. I work with a minimum number of approaches, just like my students. This, by the way, also helps well in extreme strength training: minimum warm-up, maximum impact on the last approach.

— Regarding nutrition : you don’t take vitamins, you don’t use sports nutrition... But what do you eat with such and such loads?

— I’ve been on separate meals for 15 years now. Depending on the season, I eat fruits or dried fruits in the morning, in the afternoon I have cereals (rice, buckwheat, even potatoes may be present) - half a pan flies into the lungs. And I have dinner at about two in the morning: I usually eat chicken or meat with vegetables, I can even eat 15 eggs at once... Now I weigh 92 kilograms, height 180 cm. If I wish, I can increase my diet and gain weight. In 2005 I weighed 75 kg, now I’m almost 20 kg more, since there is an incentive.

Program for the article - continued...

Source: Hardness Magazine: 2011-4