Featured Posts on All Things Gym

A collection of the Best Content on All Things Gym. Hope you enjoy!

Gleb Pisarevskiy 255kg Clean (and more Massive Lifts from the 2004 Russian Team)

November 30, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Blasts from the Past … Here are 100 minutes filled with tons ridiculously massive lifts from the 2004 Russian weightlifting team. If you liked the IronMind videos you’ll love this one. Certainly one of the best lifting videos I have seen. When Dmitry Klokov interviewed Dmitry Berestov he mentioned that: I remember during his preparation he […]

Ilya Ilyin Vegetarian + Contrast Showers as Pre-Workout

November 25, 2013 By Gregor Winter

I am going to win Rio as a vegetarianBack in July (2013) Ilya Ilyin sat down for an interview. The interviewer is some kind of business coach, without a particular affiliation to weightlifting. But there are a couple of points you might find interesting… Thanks to Vadim for translating the interesting parts. Update: More in […]

Russian Squat Routine Spreadsheet Calculator Update Masters Routine Added

November 6, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Many of you probably ran the Russian Squat Routine before. Reader Soiren informed me that there is also version which includes programming for Bench and Deadlift. Update: I included another sheet that generates the “Masters” version of the Russian Squat Routine. Download: Link to Google Docs choose File – ‘Make a Copy’ or ‘Download as’ (xlsx […]

Lu Xiaojun 176kg Snatch World Record (and 204kg C&J)

October 24, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Lu Xiaojun has done it again! 176kg Snatch World Record at the 2013 World Championships 77kg. Together with his 204kg Clean & Jerk (2nd attempt) this makes 380kg for a new World Record in the Total. Watch the Snatch in glorious 120 FPS slow motion (or in full speed here).

Chingiz Leans on (even more) Things

October 22, 2013 By Gregor Winter

After I posted the Chingiz Mogushkov Leaning on Things Video he started to appear in more and more photographs around the world. Who knew that Chingiz was a time traveller? #ChingizLeansOnThings was born. I shared the first one on Facebook to get the ball rolling and especially reader/photoshop ninja Paul created some hilarious ones. If you want […]

Om Yun Chol 169kg Clean & Jerk World Record

October 21, 2013 By Gregor Winter

I’ve been looking for this for a while now… Thanks to Nat from HookGrip we get to see the video of Om Yun Chol’s Clean & Jerk World Record (beating Halil Mutlu’s 168kg from 2001). 169kg at 56kg bodyweight! Triple (+) Bodyweight at age 21! Happened last month at the 2013 Asian Interclub Senior Weightlifting Championships Pyongyang, North Korea. And […]

Weighted (Barbell) Broad Jumps

October 17, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in Egypt … Mohamed Ehab (12th at the 2009 worlds 62kg, now 69kg lifter) performs some weighted Broad Jumps to improve his explosive power. In the 2012 Cup of Egypt he did 148 + 180 which won the 69kg category. I asked him how how man jumps he did that day. 20 kg for […]

Smolov Squat Routine Spreadsheet (Includes Smolov Jr Calculator)

September 28, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Here is a spreadsheet for the original Smolov Squat Routine that works for kg and lbs. Update: I just added a sheet that calculates the Smolov Jr Program (choose the “Smolov Jr” bottom tab).

Interview with Markus Krümmer – Weightlifter CrossFitter Strongman

September 17, 2013 By Gregor Winter

The man in the video above is Markus Krümmer, Snatch Grip Deadlifting 250kg (550lbs) at 90kg. It must have been something like a year ago when I first stumbled across his YouTube channel, which features strength and conditioning at its finest. He represents the kind of athlete I would like to be. Super strong and […]