I'm a one man show here, so doing these films takes a lot of time and effort. I do plan on making many more of these, a series in fact, but time, money and resources are currently not on my side. But worry not, there will be more. This history needs to have the story told.
Love how strictly Paul Anderson pressed at 1:33 to 1:38 -- no body english, no layback; just moving his head out of the way & pushing the weight up. His presses & those of Doug Hepburn were amazing.
1904 Olympics Day 1 1. Lowering a pair of DB's from OH to straight out in front 2. One arm curl 3 One arm snatch from ground 4. One arm Jerk from shoulder 5. Two hand DB Strict press Day 2 6. Two DB Curl 7. DB Clean from ground 8. One arm press 9. Two hand DB Jerk from shoulders 10. Optional for Extra points For those who would happen to give a lift ;) Coach Sanity
The press would always be up to the interpretation of the referees. It’s a great lift but for the good of the sport the snatch should be eliminated so everyone can easily follow and understand a competition. Whoever lifts the most overhead is the winner. And while at it get rid of the ridiculous “press out” rule. As if pressing out makes the lift easier. At the moment we are awarding contestants for style. Like a gymnastics competition.
@@22448824 You are now describing strongman, which is far more like the origins of weightlifting. Pick something up and carry it, put it over your head, or throw it.
Amazing how things have come full circle. The gyms of old, then the institutional facilities like Gold's and World's and now the open, free style cross fit place. Nice job, very cool! TEAM CFN
+ILykToDoDuhDrifting: Here's more to add... that dumbbell (perhaps pricey for the day) may not have ever made it to production. Despite the ads for it, there doesn't seem to be an existing one still around. He did, however, sell some other 'healthlift' machines for hundreds of dollars, and also created gyms around his healthlift concept (competing with Dio Lewis, but that's another story)
No. Sorry. This turned out to be a huge endeavor for some like me with little skill with a camera. I'm a team of 1, so until a rich patron decides to support me through more massive video projects, part 2 may take a while. Meanwhile I still try to put out an episode of Strength Rituals every year, also full of history. And there is a two-part series with Tommy Kono that I filmed over a few years that is on my RUclips channel as well.
Roy Martinez: Try filming and talking and doing multiple takes with a barbell sometime. In fact, I had to film so much of this in a weird time frame that my form across the board looks odd on film. And, let's face it, I'd never wear long track pants while actually practicing my weightlifts. These are things that happen when you're not just the person on camera, but the entire film crew as well.
One of my best sources is Jan and Terry Todd at the Stark Center for Physical Culture in Austin, TX. Good place to start any strength history research project.
If I remember correctly, that would be (it's a long one)... Gymnastics for ladies : a treatise on the science and art of calisthenic and gymnastic exercises. By Madame Brenner/
An extremely important figure in strength history, just not a key player in organized weightlifting as a sport. There are quite a few videos about him, including a film release not too long ago.
The title of this is wrong. This is a history of Olympic weightlifting, not weightlifting in general, which may have shared origins somewhere early, but is a much broader term.
Weightlifting is the accepted term for the name of the sport in most countries. Olympic Weightlifting is only really used in the U.S., since that's the biggest connection most Americans have to the sport. So the title would be considered accurate to actual weightlifters.
@@Bodytribechip As a strength trainer my opinion on the subject is that I lift weights as well, so I'm a weight lifter. But after doing some research it seems "weight lifting" is indeed associated with Olympic weight lifting as we call it in America. My bad.
i know a lot of people who are great at snatch clean jerk whatever whatever and they'll be the first people to tell you they could barely dribble a basketball and could never hit a baseball. what the guy should have said is that the snatch clean and jerk deadlift squat are a good base to start then do sport specific shit if your a athlete. they're great moves but don't get ahead of yourself if you can't catch a football clean and jerk aint gonna help
Calm down. He meant (and I believe actually said) play any sport BETTER. That 'guy' is one of the greatest weightlifting coaches in US history. He's seen and done considerably more than you or I. Calling him stupid shows far more ignorance in your comment than anything he has said.
play any sport better nope not true depends on the athlete and where they're at. its a case by case basis. most athletes should do certain lifts early on. olympic lifts are great no doubt but up to a certain point and then they either no longer need to do them or just use them sparringly. it could hinder a lot of athletes. the way a athlete trains when their young and how they train as they progress or age is different. either way no lift is gonna help a baseball player hit a ball or help a b-ball player drain a 3. lineman should do them but even them can be hinder if they're super explosive already
anthony crisci Is this a habit? Do you go through these lengths with every show you watch? Or do you have a particular passion for this subject, so much so that you felt it necessary to make your point here? I'll tell you what... his name is Jim Schmitz. If you are truly passionate about this, chat with him. He's one of the most experienced coaches in the country (former president of the USAW, olympic team coach several times, etc. etc.), and pretty easy to find. Or, make your own video. Spend hours on it, editing it, researching it, filming it, writing it, narrating it, and put your thoughts in there so you can have a far greater voice than commenting on one tiny part of a historical documentary. If you've got something so important to say, find an outlet for it where you can reach dozens, if not maybe hundreds of people! Freedom! It's yours. Use your powers for good.
Bodytribe "calm down" - he was calm... "calling him stupid" - he never did... I don't see any harm in constructive criticism of the content. The real question here is why you get upset when someone gives a differing opinion. And I agree with him to a point. He did say "if you can snatch clean and jerk, and its part of your (routine?)... Then you can do any other sport, better." which to start off is very unspecific, anyone can snatch clean and jerk a pencil. What weight is he referring to? Yes it can definitely help with your base strength but so can many other exercises/programs. Sport specific training would always be more effective in an experienced athlete. But i believe his point was that it has a large carryover to athleticism in general, which I wholeheartedly agree with. It probably has the most carryover to burst sports like high jump, triple jump, 100m sprint, the list goes on... out of any gym practice focused on strength.
Uh no lol... technology, a greater understanding of how the body works, and genetics getting rapidly better has vastly improved strength. Athletes are not only stronger but they are faster, smarter, everything...
The first weight lifting competition many have occurred almost 2 hundred thousand years ago when the first homo sapiens walked the earth. It's like "I bet you can't lift that heavy rock" " I bet I can, proceeds to lift large rock. "Ok now you lift it." Goes to lift rock and fails. Starts to lift smaller rocks instinctively to become stronger to one day be able to lift the large rock. This could very well have ioccured. Why not.
just eat 500 calories over your maintenance metabolic rate eat 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight you weight and spread it out every 4 hours because your body can only absorb 30 to 40 grams at a time don't take longer than 2 minutes in between sets and lift weight that's so heavy you can only do it 10 times and constantly check you self to see if you can do it more than 10 like 15 reps and then go up like 5 or 10 pounds or so also get 8 hours of sleep... done... get housed.
Not sure the point of this comment. Also, probably written by someone who has no working knowledge of actually training for the sport of weightlifting.
You're super late to the game, buddy. We've beaten this dead horse many times. it's interesting that this little tidbit that is relatively unimportant to the grand scheme of the video, is one of the biggest things folks need to comment on. Man, this video must be boring as fuck if this stupid little price tag is the one big take away.
That $16 is squared the amount today about half the price of todays tech $1 in 1865 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $16.83 today, an increase of $15.83 over 156 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 1.83% per year between 1865 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 1,582.88%.
@@Bodytribechip ya too bad that wasn't upvoted oh we can chat about their diet reason i looked this up is it was before steroids were invented so it was interesting to see
@@thatwastakenagain Yes, steroids weren't on the scene until 20-ish years after the timeline of this video ends. Also keep in mind that processed foods weren't really a thing yet, nor easy refrigeration, so the option of food choices was quite limited compared to today.
@@Bodytribechip actually by that logic when would the percentage of photographed strongmen or bodybuilders on steroids reach a noticable amount? with the fact not everyone was doing it or had the opportunity at that time to be exposed to it
@@thatwastakenagain There's a couple of great books that go into the introduction of steroids in the bodybuilding and strength world. They both delve into the history of the modern Iron Game and how the current gym trends and nutritional trends began. Muscle, Smoke, and Mirrors, by Randy Roach, and Muscletown, USA, by John Fair.. They both discuss how bodybuilding became a separate ideal from strength, and how supplements became a massive industry. Steroids eventually played a big role in all of that.
Ancient Greeks were heavily into bodybuilding. travel to Athens, look at the ancient statues in the ancient gymnasium, then tell me today is “so much more advanced”. Yer fulla shit
Hey! A classic internet troll! Welcome, man with no purpose who might not really know what he is talking about. Good to have you among us. Fulla shit? Let's take a look at who, among the two of us, might fit that term a little bit better. I'm not sure what your gripe here is. What did I say about now being "more advanced?" I claim nothing of the sort. In fact I state that we, as a species, have always lifted something heavy, and that what you're seeing today is a modern version of ideas that have been around throughout our documented history. I even mention how the tools we use now have barely changed from centuries ago. Greeks were into strength training, and, yes, there was probably a great deal of physical vanity involved. What part of my video said anything to the contrary? I even mention how some modern weightlifting clubs still use the ancient Greek word, Halterophilia, to describe weightlifting. So what video did you watch? Look, if you feel like randomly insulting me for something, pick on me for name pronunciations, since I'm pretty sure I screwed some of those up. Otherwise, and I mean this with absolutely no respect, piss off.
A superb question. I've been hoping to do a women's strength history video, and have been filming a bit at a time. Jan Todd's book, Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful is a great place to begin some reading on the subject. In terms of the sport of weightlifting, there wasn't a recognized competitive outlet for women until many years after the timeline in this video, but now women's weightlifting, and strength sports in general, has been growing incredibly over the last 15 years or so. The only medals for weightlifting in the Olympics for Team USA have gone to women recently.
Americans tend not to understand how vastly different sports are. I blame their gym culture over developing true technical excellence. Weightlifting and team sports are worlds apart.
This must be doubly frustrating, as the timeline here didn't even make it to the 30s. Also, 'gnarly highlights from the 30s' would be an awesome band name, although the highlights of my 30s weren't particularly gnarly.
@@Bodytribechip it's a means of getting stronger. Moving weights isnt a real sport. If you look at it competitively. How do you win? Lift more than the other guy. After all the training an roids are said and done there's the ceiling of human capacity. No room for creativity, skill, movesets, footwork, agility, teamwork/combinations, style, or expression. It's just moving the bar, sorry.
@@zafiruzoma6234 It's an athletic competition with clarified rules.That's literally the definition of sport. Not sure what weightlifting (as in the competitive lifts) you've done, but if you don't know the creativity, skill, and agility involved, then I'm guessing you haven't actually studied it. Is it a sport with limited parameters compared to some? Absolutely. But not only is it a competitive athletic endeavor, but one of the oldest, in terms of people trying to out-do each other in competitive feats of strength. Keep in mind, the sport of weightlifting is not synonymous with lifting weights. Train for a local competition sometime. You'll see what I mean.
Thanks for giving it a chance. Have fun watching other, longer documentaries. Sorry i couldn't condense it all into a 3-minute music video or tik tok jam.
I'm a one man show here, so doing these films takes a lot of time and effort. I do plan on making many more of these, a series in fact, but time, money and resources are currently not on my side. But worry not, there will be more. This history needs to have the story told.
Great video and information on the history of weightlifting.
@@mmarmrcz6770 Thank you.
Olympic lifting should be taught in PE classes
Yes, Physical Education needs a HUGE revamp!!! Kids in HS can't do push ups. NO good!
Wow...for real? :o
Jacob Palos nah powerlifting
I agree. Weightlifting is best sport in world for me.
My school teaches powerlifting and has a weightlifting team
Love how strictly Paul Anderson pressed at 1:33 to 1:38 -- no body english, no layback; just moving his head out of the way & pushing the weight up. His presses & those of Doug Hepburn were amazing.
And that power clean that's basically a reverse curl.
1904 Olympics
Day 1
1. Lowering a pair of DB's from OH to straight out in front
2. One arm curl
3 One arm snatch from ground
4. One arm Jerk from shoulder
5. Two hand DB Strict press
Day 2
6. Two DB Curl
7. DB Clean from ground
8. One arm press
9. Two hand DB Jerk from shoulders
10. Optional for Extra points
For those who would happen to give a lift ;)
Coach Sanity
I’d love to see the clean and shoulder press make a comeback.
Perhaps if they enforce the "strict" part in the rules. A standing bench press is probably not the best thing for most people.
The press would always be up to the interpretation of the referees.
It’s a great lift but for the good of the sport the snatch should be eliminated so everyone can easily follow and understand a competition. Whoever lifts the most overhead is the winner. And while at it get rid of the ridiculous “press out” rule. As if pressing out makes the lift easier. At the moment we are awarding contestants for style. Like a gymnastics competition.
@@22448824 You are now describing strongman, which is far more like the origins of weightlifting. Pick something up and carry it, put it over your head, or throw it.
Thanks for this Chip. You have a talent. If you did an expanded version and did a kickstarter to fund it, I'd back you.
Thanks a very interesting and informative documentary.
Thanks for watching.
This was really cool! I do Olympic style weightlifting so this was very informational, thank you!
Most welcome. Thanks for watching.
great video. i was especially pleased with the Misery Signals music clip at the end! great choice.
They were very nice for letting me use it. I've known those guys for a while.
A work of art. Love it
Big thanks.
Great history and research enjoyed watching this 👍
Amazing how things have come full circle. The gyms of old, then the institutional facilities like Gold's and World's and now the open, free style cross fit place.
Nice job, very cool!
TEAM CFN
Cross fit crap
this was the best gym motivation ive ever seen thx
History has the magic with me as well.
This was a fantastic video!
Much appreciated!
Hey, thanks for making this!
oh man... the girls back then looked hot as hell
Alex Ruan They had wookie pussies, though.
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Brendan Jackson r u sure tho
First Name Facts.
@@SuperKamiGuruu Still better than a lot of.modern women though
This is fantastic. Only ~4000 views is a shame.
This was spectacular.
$16 in 1865..
$16 in 1913 = $384 today.
So that's like a thousand bucks?
+ILykToDoDuhDrifting: Here's more to add... that dumbbell (perhaps pricey for the day) may not have ever made it to production. Despite the ads for it, there doesn't seem to be an existing one still around. He did, however, sell some other 'healthlift' machines for hundreds of dollars, and also created gyms around his healthlift concept (competing with Dio Lewis, but that's another story)
Thank you for the Video 🏋🏽
Thank you for watching.
Great video thanks now let’s go lift 💯
Thank you for posting😊👍
This is a genius video. Well done!
Hey! Thanks for the kudos.
what's the name of the instrumental that starts at 11:50 ?
It's been so long since I made this, or watched it, I'll have to check. I'll get back to you.
I need the song 1:20 ! It have been following me my hole life.
Omg Siri did know! "Joe Islander - Ana"
Hahaha
Answered all my questions
Olympic Weight lifting is the real test of strength,stamina,speed,reflex everything.
Subbed, was there ever a part 2?
No. Sorry. This turned out to be a huge endeavor for some like me with little skill with a camera. I'm a team of 1, so until a rich patron decides to support me through more massive video projects, part 2 may take a while. Meanwhile I still try to put out an episode of Strength Rituals every year, also full of history. And there is a two-part series with Tommy Kono that I filmed over a few years that is on my RUclips channel as well.
is there a part 2?
2:41 so now i know where the "hassle-free BBC" banner from Alan thralls meet came from.
Haha was not expecting Misery Signals at the end there, good taste and good video.
They were kind enough to let me use their song. Thankfully they're mighty nice folks and friends of mine.
Could you post links to some of your sources? Would be interesting.
Some weird comments on here. Great video. Your front rack position could use some work though!
Roy Martinez: Try filming and talking and doing multiple takes with a barbell sometime. In fact, I had to film so much of this in a weird time frame that my form across the board looks odd on film. And, let's face it, I'd never wear long track pants while actually practicing my weightlifts. These are things that happen when you're not just the person on camera, but the entire film crew as well.
@@Bodytribechip nice try.
@@daniellindegren-olympicwei7077 Aw shucks. Thanks. Will wait patiently for any content you decide to post on your channel.
got to go back to get ahead . pretty cool contests back in the day.
Woah
Great vid!
Thanks for watching.
good job,great video thanx man!
Kinda wish there was a part 2 now
Hi, I am doing a very similar project so this is a really good source of information! Where did you get this information from?
One of my best sources is Jan and Terry Todd at the Stark Center for Physical Culture in Austin, TX. Good place to start any strength history research project.
thank you!
Good video. Nice to watch
Machine and cable workouts bother my headache and give me headaches
Ok.
what is the book at 5:41???
If I remember correctly, that would be (it's a long one)...
Gymnastics for ladies : a treatise on the science and art of calisthenic and gymnastic exercises. By Madame Brenner/
@@Bodytribechip thank you
Your content is amazing.
Awesome production! 👌
what about louis cyr?
An extremely important figure in strength history, just not a key player in organized weightlifting as a sport. There are quite a few videos about him, including a film release not too long ago.
Nice video, sir👍
The title of this is wrong. This is a history of Olympic weightlifting, not weightlifting in general, which may have shared origins somewhere early, but is a much broader term.
Weightlifting is the accepted term for the name of the sport in most countries. Olympic Weightlifting is only really used in the U.S., since that's the biggest connection most Americans have to the sport. So the title would be considered accurate to actual weightlifters.
@@Bodytribechip As a strength trainer my opinion on the subject is that I lift weights as well, so I'm a weight lifter. But after doing some research it seems "weight lifting" is indeed associated with Olympic weight lifting as we call it in America. My bad.
If you prefer another term for the sport, many countries call it Halterophilia.
Good video quality info!!
great work . .i know the history of power but is nice to watch , . .maybe recapitulate some of each strong mans of each era . .
Wow. I always wanted to know this
@4:43, this guy kinda looks like the narrator...
Ha! I'll take that.
5:22 - precluding means to prevent - I think you mean preceding.
Correct. Where were you when I filmed, edited, researched, and produced this all by myself 13 years ago?
i know a lot of people who are great at snatch clean jerk whatever whatever and they'll be the first people to tell you they could barely dribble a basketball and could never hit a baseball. what the guy should have said is that the snatch clean and jerk deadlift squat are a good base to start then do sport specific shit if your a athlete. they're great moves but don't get ahead of yourself if you can't catch a football clean and jerk aint gonna help
Calm down. He meant (and I believe actually said) play any sport BETTER. That 'guy' is one of the greatest weightlifting coaches in US history. He's seen and done considerably more than you or I. Calling him stupid shows far more ignorance in your comment than anything he has said.
play any sport better nope not true depends on the athlete and where they're at. its a case by case basis. most athletes should do certain lifts early on. olympic lifts are great no doubt but up to a certain point and then they either no longer need to do them or just use them sparringly. it could hinder a lot of athletes. the way a athlete trains when their young and how they train as they progress or age is different. either way no lift is gonna help a baseball player hit a ball or help a b-ball player drain a 3. lineman should do them but even them can be hinder if they're super explosive already
anthony crisci Is this a habit? Do you go through these lengths with every show you watch? Or do you have a particular passion for this subject, so much so that you felt it necessary to make your point here? I'll tell you what... his name is Jim Schmitz. If you are truly passionate about this, chat with him. He's one of the most experienced coaches in the country (former president of the USAW, olympic team coach several times, etc. etc.), and pretty easy to find.
Or, make your own video. Spend hours on it, editing it, researching it, filming it, writing it, narrating it, and put your thoughts in there so you can have a far greater voice than commenting on one tiny part of a historical documentary. If you've got something so important to say, find an outlet for it where you can reach dozens, if not maybe hundreds of people! Freedom! It's yours. Use your powers for good.
Bodytribe "calm down" - he was calm...
"calling him stupid" - he never did...
I don't see any harm in constructive criticism of the content. The real question here is why you get upset when someone gives a differing opinion. And I agree with him to a point. He did say "if you can snatch clean and jerk, and its part of your (routine?)... Then you can do any other sport, better." which to start off is very unspecific, anyone can snatch clean and jerk a pencil. What weight is he referring to?
Yes it can definitely help with your base strength but so can many other exercises/programs. Sport specific training would always be more effective in an experienced athlete.
But i believe his point was that it has a large carryover to athleticism in general, which I wholeheartedly agree with. It probably has the most carryover to burst sports like high jump, triple jump, 100m sprint, the list goes on... out of any gym practice focused on strength.
you completely missed the point.
excellent !!!
Great video.
Milos of Croton could lift this boulder to his shoulder and over head.
Inscription found on boulder in Greek Isles.
Educational
figure men were stronger back than due to less technology and done most works jobs by hands.
Cleaner antibiotic free diet might have done it's part. Could have been less control on the doping side of it, too. Less societal stress.
Uh no lol... technology, a greater understanding of how the body works, and genetics getting rapidly better has vastly improved strength. Athletes are not only stronger but they are faster, smarter, everything...
The first weight lifting competition many have occurred almost 2 hundred thousand years ago when the first homo sapiens walked the earth. It's like "I bet you can't lift that heavy rock" " I bet I can, proceeds to lift large rock. "Ok now you lift it." Goes to lift rock and fails. Starts to lift smaller rocks instinctively to become stronger to one day be able to lift the large rock. This could very well have ioccured. Why not.
Quite possibly.
the history of weightlifting video ends with "and the rest is history"!
Great video
fast forward to 2020:
Gym closed all around the world due to Corona Beer Virus
yeahhhh
I agree
just eat 500 calories over your maintenance metabolic rate eat 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight you weight and spread it out every 4 hours because your body can only absorb 30 to 40 grams at a time don't take longer than 2 minutes in between sets and lift weight that's so heavy you can only do it 10 times and constantly check you self to see if you can do it more than 10 like 15 reps and then go up like 5 or 10 pounds or so also get 8 hours of sleep... done... get housed.
Not sure the point of this comment. Also, probably written by someone who has no working knowledge of actually training for the sport of weightlifting.
very cool video.
$16 in 1865 money would be minimum $250 in todays money, possibly more w/ current inflation.
You're super late to the game, buddy. We've beaten this dead horse many times. it's interesting that this little tidbit that is relatively unimportant to the grand scheme of the video, is one of the biggest things folks need to comment on. Man, this video must be boring as fuck if this stupid little price tag is the one big take away.
Cool video.
That first guy really annoyed me with the power cleans but still a nice video
Thanks...?
Deadlift should be in imo.
In what?
Bodytribe I have no idea :D
+lamebubblesflysohigh me too
That $16 is squared the amount today about half the price of todays tech
$1 in 1865 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $16.83 today, an increase of $15.83 over 156 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 1.83% per year between 1865 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 1,582.88%.
Yeah, we've already been through this. Hopefully there was something else worthwhile in video we could chat about?
@@Bodytribechip ya too bad that wasn't upvoted
oh we can chat about their diet reason i looked this up is it was before steroids were invented so it was interesting to see
@@thatwastakenagain Yes, steroids weren't on the scene until 20-ish years after the timeline of this video ends. Also keep in mind that processed foods weren't really a thing yet, nor easy refrigeration, so the option of food choices was quite limited compared to today.
@@Bodytribechip actually by that logic when would the percentage of photographed strongmen or bodybuilders on steroids reach a noticable amount?
with the fact not everyone was doing it or had the opportunity at that time to be exposed to it
@@thatwastakenagain There's a couple of great books that go into the introduction of steroids in the bodybuilding and strength world. They both delve into the history of the modern Iron Game and how the current gym trends and nutritional trends began. Muscle, Smoke, and Mirrors, by Randy Roach, and Muscletown, USA, by John Fair.. They both discuss how bodybuilding became a separate ideal from strength, and how supplements became a massive industry. Steroids eventually played a big role in all of that.
Step stone
Weightlifting should be taught in pe class
Basic movement understanding should be taught in PE class. Weightlifting could be an advanced version of that.
saw a cat. liked.
I knew he'd come in handy. That was Jack, and he lived in the gym with his life-long mate, Chewy.
bro make a facebook page
Got one. Heck, got 4 actually.
7:32 wtf PAUSE ahahhaha
yeah... still trying to find the story out behind that one.
cool vid, nice misery signals
Ancient Greeks were heavily into bodybuilding. travel to Athens, look at the ancient statues in the ancient gymnasium, then tell me today is “so much more advanced”. Yer fulla shit
Hey! A classic internet troll! Welcome, man with no purpose who might not really know what he is talking about. Good to have you among us. Fulla shit? Let's take a look at who, among the two of us, might fit that term a little bit better.
I'm not sure what your gripe here is. What did I say about now being "more advanced?" I claim nothing of the sort. In fact I state that we, as a species, have always lifted something heavy, and that what you're seeing today is a modern version of ideas that have been around throughout our documented history. I even mention how the tools we use now have barely changed from centuries ago.
Greeks were into strength training, and, yes, there was probably a great deal of physical vanity involved. What part of my video said anything to the contrary? I even mention how some modern weightlifting clubs still use the ancient Greek word, Halterophilia, to describe weightlifting.
So what video did you watch? Look, if you feel like randomly insulting me for something, pick on me for name pronunciations, since I'm pretty sure I screwed some of those up. Otherwise, and I mean this with absolutely no respect, piss off.
Suspicious
Huh?
I'd like to see PowerLifting in the Olympics.
With dozens of different federations and tons of different rules about gear (and, well, gear), that will probably never happen.
I like hearing that chick talk about "the full package."
Dont jump people... dont jump
Not even sure what this comment means.
god dude, straighten that bar
God, dude, make sense in your comments.
lol
Why wasn’t women brought up in this
A superb question. I've been hoping to do a women's strength history video, and have been filming a bit at a time. Jan Todd's book, Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful is a great place to begin some reading on the subject.
In terms of the sport of weightlifting, there wasn't a recognized competitive outlet for women until many years after the timeline in this video, but now women's weightlifting, and strength sports in general, has been growing incredibly over the last 15 years or so. The only medals for weightlifting in the Olympics for Team USA have gone to women recently.
not an olympic sport any more.
Yup. Corrupted itself from within.
Snatch + clean & jerk won't make you better at soccer to be fair.
There is still some carry over due to strengthening of the posterior chain.
Yeah, and MJ was great at baseball.
DidYaServe He was a great athlete regardless.
Americans tend not to understand how vastly different sports are. I blame their gym culture over developing true technical excellence. Weightlifting and team sports are worlds apart.
DidYaServe Well said. You can't develop team spirit, coordination between members, and compromise for the sake of the team through weightlifting.
Look guy, i'm here for gnarly highlights from the 30s.... not a fit bill nye narrator
This must be doubly frustrating, as the timeline here didn't even make it to the 30s. Also, 'gnarly highlights from the 30s' would be an awesome band name, although the highlights of my 30s weren't particularly gnarly.
I have the shits
Thanks for sharing?
@@Bodytribechip yes
Научись правильно делать взятие на грудь ... 👎
Not a sport
Actually one of the biggest sports in the world.
@@Bodytribechip it's a means of getting stronger. Moving weights isnt a real sport. If you look at it competitively. How do you win? Lift more than the other guy. After all the training an roids are said and done there's the ceiling of human capacity. No room for creativity, skill, movesets, footwork, agility, teamwork/combinations, style, or expression. It's just moving the bar, sorry.
@@zafiruzoma6234 It's an athletic competition with clarified rules.That's literally the definition of sport. Not sure what weightlifting (as in the competitive lifts) you've done, but if you don't know the creativity, skill, and agility involved, then I'm guessing you haven't actually studied it.
Is it a sport with limited parameters compared to some? Absolutely. But not only is it a competitive athletic endeavor, but one of the oldest, in terms of people trying to out-do each other in competitive feats of strength.
Keep in mind, the sport of weightlifting is not synonymous with lifting weights. Train for a local competition sometime. You'll see what I mean.
3 minutes in and nothing about the history of weight lifting. 👎
Thanks for giving it a chance. Have fun watching other, longer documentaries. Sorry i couldn't condense it all into a 3-minute music video or tik tok jam.