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The freeweight squat is one of the three powerlifting competition exercises, along with the deadlift and the bench press. [2] Equipment Squats can be performed using only the practitioner's body weight. For weighted squats, a barbell is typically used, although the practitioner may instead hold dumbbells, kettlebells, or other weighted objects.
He finished third at the 2010 Champions Battle Raw Deadlift Challenge held in Arhangelsk, Russia with a 390 kg (859.8 lb) beltless raw deadlift behind 3 time WPC World Champion and 2009 WPC Raw World Champion Andrey Belyaev who deadlifted 380 kg (837.8 lb) in the 100 kg (220 lb) weight class and Strongman and Olympic weightlifter Mikhail ...
Romanian Deadlift. In this variation, you’ll start from the top of the deadlift. Start standing with kettlebell in both hands. With a soft bend in right knee, tip forward by hinging at the hips ...
Romanian deadlift (RDL) – Unlike conventional deadlifts where the barbell starts on the floor, in RDLs, the barbell is lifted from a standing position, and the movement focuses on hinging at the hips while maintaining a slight bend in the knees. The emphasis is on keeping the back flat and engaging the hamstrings and glutes to lift the weight ...
Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev (Russian: Василий Иванович Алексеев; 7 January 1942 – 25 November 2011) was a Soviet weightlifter. He set 80 world-records and 81 Soviet records in weightlifting and won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 games. [3]
Kirill Igorevich Sarychev (Russian: Кирилл Игоревич Сарычев; born 1 January 1989) is a Russian powerlifter. He previously held the world record in the raw bench press with a lift of 335 kg (738.5 lb). [2] In 2016, he set a world record raw three-lift powerlifting total in the Superheavyweight class. [3]
A transgender weightlifter has been stripped of her controversial world records after a ruling from the RAW Powerlifting Federation. Mary Gregory sparked controversy earlier in May after claiming ...
Leonid Arkadevich Taranenko (Russian: Леонид Аркадьевич Тараненко, born June 13, 1956) is a former Soviet/Belarusian weightlifter and coach. [1] His 266 kg clean and jerk in 1988 was the heaviest lift in competition for 33 years, until Lasha Talakhadze exceeded it, lifting 267 at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships.