My guess as to why he doesn't front squat - his upper back/front rack aren't a limiting factor, at this point his limiting factors are probably tiny (invisible to 99% of us) technical inefficiencies and he just wants to maintain his strength/speed ratio. The load it must take to challenge his legs must still be high enough that it would tax his upper back too much to get enough volume in and if his upper back was too taxed, then it would affect the classic lifts/variations too much to merit the cost
Just what I was thinking... he probably doesn't need to front squat because it's not his limiting factor. Maybe his jerk is the limit right now? And front squats wouldn't help the snatch.
My friend who’s competing in olympic weightlifting, never front squats, always back squats like Lasha. I asked him why? He said: well, i want strong legs, but i never fail my cleans. So why would i front squat? I do front squats but mostly stick to back squats personally. 😄
For some weightlifters especially tall ones their front squat form is different from their clean form and the front squat doesn't transfer effectively to their clean. In fact in some cases it lowers it either phycologically or mechanically. Because a heavy front squat is a much easier clean. They have two options try and match their front squat form to their clean which involves a faster descent or trying to match the spontaneous foot position one achieves in a clean or drop it all together. Or it could be a wrist thing bigger guys have that problem also.
Oliver Court true but not realistic, when you are best in world in something you usually not going to do something else. Maybe if he keeps winning for 6/7 years and gets tired of wining
In Bulgaria we believe that if a lifter can do 3 reps front squat of a certain weight , he/she should be able to clean and jerk the same weight also. If not - the person have to train more technique. In most of our weightlifting clubs the front squat is done in the morning sesions and the back squat for the evening ones.
why do these weightlifting racks have such a small space to place the weights? it seems like they're typically used by heavy lifters who would benefit from racking without having to look left and right first?
Too bad the Olympics got canceled this year. Lasha would have won a gold medal easily. I'd like to see Lasha break the 500 kg combined snatch and clean and jerk barrier. Some say it is humanly impossible to lift that much weight. I say never say never!
If shi only Front squats, then that would make his training style slightly Bulgarian. If you ask me, he is his weight classes equivalent to lasha, especially with that 190 power clean holy cow😂😂
Strength doesn’t go up in a direct proportion to mass. They increase in accordance with the square-cube law. Take a 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm cube with a mass of 1 g. The area of the base supporting that mass is 1 cm^2. Each cm^2 of the base is supporting 1 gram of mass. If you then double the dimensions of the cube, so it is now a 2 x 2 x 2 cube with the same density, its mass is now 8 g while the area of its base is only 4 cm^2. Now, each cm^2 is is supporting 2 grams of mass. Strength in humans increases in a similar fashion. A person who weighs 120 kg would be expected to be 2^(2/3), or roughly 1.58 times as strong as a person with the same body fat and muscle percentages who weighs 60 kg. Of course other factors come into account that would limit a heavier lifter even more, such as the fact that more muscle mass requires a higher caloric intake to maintain. This higher caloric intake in turn creates more fat, which adds extra mass that doesn’t contribute to strength.
Lydia Valentin doesn't front squat either. In this interview (around 9 min. into it ... ruclips.net/video/sd52EqilNRg/видео.html ) she said that front squats caused her some pain in the lower back and she along with her coach decided to leave it out of her program, and she never had this lower back issue again... and it doesn't affect her clean at all! For some lifters, doing back squats and heavy cleans is enough. Lasha is probably in this case.
I think Lasha only back squats because it's more of an advantage to him. Because he's 6FT he's probably going to be more hamstring dominant so even when he's coming up from a front squat his hamstrings still play a bigger role than it would for shorter lifters. Just my guess
fRONT V bACK squat. Lasha often looks to have wrist issues. the front squat may effect this. He can do the stregth work on legs without them so why take the risk?
It has been this way for a long time now. I don't know exactly when it changed, but at some point it went from a legal snatch (just with very light weight), to basically meaning that you just have to get it overhead without bending the knees. No problem with that, but some people prefer the older, lighter, method.
Purchased one of your bars a few days ago, now plates? Hmmmm.. I don't have proper change plates..this could get expensive really fast . Get the whole set?🤔 😁.😁
He'd need to take steroids and train at least a year to stand a chance. Strongman is a very different sport than Olympic lifting, almost no crossover. He has great strength genetics but it's like asking Hafthor to do power cleans at an Olympic level
@@simondean5227 I disagree. In any overhead lift he would already excel like a log or dumbell, he can squat. I would say his only weakness might be the farmers walk, I dont think his grip is good enough. Also, his max deadlift might not be up to scratch, but it would certainly come fast.
The reason why many olympic lifters do only backsquat is because it is more comfortable for them. With front squats you cannot really go all out, your one rep max FS won't represent your total squat strength.
Please trust me when I say that I agree that the weight he is able to lift makes him the strongest man in the world, but there are a handful of people in the history of the sport who have lifted three times their body weight. If Lasha was able to do that, he be clean and jerking a bit north of 500 kilos. Many women can clean and jerk twice their body weight. Even Lasha can't do that!! Please don't send Lasha over to my house to beat me up!!
The squats can be explained by the lifters leverages and body weight. Some lifters leverage better training front squat, while others use back squat or work in both. But the truth is a squat is a squat, so I believe either way they’re getting the results from squatting
Add to Brandon´s explanation that, according to Mark Rippetoe, you should only ever front squat when actually doing Olympic Lifting as the front squat due to the altered balance point removes a large part of the involvement of the glutes and hamstrings making for a weaker general position when building actual strength. For this the back squat is superior. No need to strength build a weak position,- for weak positions practise drills, mobility and technique,- like snatch grip deadlifts etc.,- build strength in strong positions,- and then lift as heavy as you can.
When you said at some point "the strongest man in the world" the guys from strongman came to mind. Do you believe Lasha could deadlift 500kg if he went for it?
Jorge VS yes i hate calling somebody wsm because he is best weightlifter/powerlifter, wsm is is title for strongmans, you can call it strongest weightlifter..
Dude i really like Weightlifting and shit but "strongest" man in the world is such a cringe statement... hes the strongest weightlifter for shure but noone knows if hes the strongest man and i really doubt that he is with strongman juiced to their head and like 30kg heavier than him. With 350 or whatever he squats he would prolly be barely qualify for WSM and i dont think he can deadlift 450+ so he prolly has no chance of becoming first or even second on a current WSM competition. Even if he wouldnt be drug testet we dont know if he has much more potential as he was already juicing and prolly is at this moment. Eddy Hall almost strict pressed his snatch WR so dunno.
A lot of strongmen talking about him recently. Not sure why he'd leave a sport where he's on top to something he's inexperienced in. Wonder what his static pressing and benching would be like anyway...
He is not the strongest man in the world, he is the strongest weightlifter in the world, if he competes against people like Brian Shaw, Martins Licis, Hafthor Bjonsson, Mateusz Kieliszkowski and others in a strongest man competition he won't even end up last.
Not hating but lasha is almost 400 pounds so he should be doing moving the big weight he’s moving haha..idk why some consider him the greatest..I give more props to the guys that are 160 pounds cleaning over 400 pounds but hey that’s just my opinion 🤪
Cleaning 400lbs weighing 160lbs is nowhere near as impressive as someone Lasha doing what he does. We have enough of a sample pool now to know what is comparable between body weights. Only 10 other weightlifters ever, none from the last two decades, compare to Lasha in this way.
World record is world record. If there is someome stronger to come lift more they can. Till than he willl be the greatest. Just with the ease he does his records
Maybe it’s just me but it’s way more impressive seein someone super lean move big weight no matter how many ppl in one weight category can do similar weight..not many ppl can weigh what lasha weighs so of course he’s gonna be in a league of his own 🤷🏽♂️
@@ChristopherWB The lift to bodyweight ratio is not a good metric. It always favors lighter athletes. You'll never see a huge guy like Lasha squat 4x BW.
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I swear watching Lasha lift is a form of meditation, there's something so relaxing about his technique
Natural Hypertrophy 100% agree! It makes me sleepy in a good way
Lasha is the ASMR for weightlifting supers
@@syahrules Best description.
@@jamesstone123 Luis Javier is the ASMR for the smaller guys
We can relax because we know it’s gonna go up smooth as butter. No if’s or maybes, it will.
That transition at 0:40 !! Your content was already high quality but you just keep outdoing yourself! Love it
GADDDAMM
Nice work!
8:34 damn impressive calf raise
Room Cleaning Enterprise not like eddies, but still impressive calves
I tune in to watch impressive lifts but mostly just to see his belly
wtf! :D ;D
Physique is really not that important when you proved everyone your goddamn strong
pretty cute and sexy bear
@@jpch8814 dude... he's got a little girl
@@tobiasbrunner4720 What is your point? I just said he's cute...
His 628lb squat looks like my empty bar warm up. Most powerlifters with 800lb+ squats would not handle 628lb this effortlessly.
The cuts are so smooth 0:41
My guess as to why he doesn't front squat - his upper back/front rack aren't a limiting factor, at this point his limiting factors are probably tiny (invisible to 99% of us) technical inefficiencies and he just wants to maintain his strength/speed ratio. The load it must take to challenge his legs must still be high enough that it would tax his upper back too much to get enough volume in and if his upper back was too taxed, then it would affect the classic lifts/variations too much to merit the cost
Brandon great explanation. We don’t definitively know, but good argument
Just what I was thinking... he probably doesn't need to front squat because it's not his limiting factor. Maybe his jerk is the limit right now? And front squats wouldn't help the snatch.
I will use his not front squatting as an excuse to front squat less haha
I'm working so hard to be able to strict press 130kg hopefully next week, he's making it look like a joke and it's only inspiring me more!
I managed to do it ^_^
@@CiaranFordStrongman how much do you weigh?
@@jakieboiZ94 145kg bud
@@CiaranFordStrongman decent press. I think if you can press bodyweight that's pretty strong
@@jakieboiZ94 cheers, I can clean and push press 160kg if that counts :P
me @ the gym: how come there's no more plates?
*pan to **6:20*
me again: ..oh
This is why we have a world wide shortage right now
Heck yes, Seb you always post around my breaks at work and I’m thankful🙌🏻
This beast was born to lift heavy. Period
Been absolutely CRUSHING THESE VIDEOS!
Amazing commentary as always! Thumbs up 👍
2:03 Muscle snatches 130kg, then get helped to another guy to move it to rack lol
thats sumthin inpressive?
Chrontard duh? yah?
My friend who’s competing in olympic weightlifting, never front squats, always back squats like Lasha. I asked him why? He said: well, i want strong legs, but i never fail my cleans. So why would i front squat? I do front squats but mostly stick to back squats personally. 😄
" lasha only backsquat..." is a great t shirt frase
Smoothest form on the planet, absolute natural
For some weightlifters especially tall ones their front squat form is different from their clean form and the front squat doesn't transfer effectively to their clean. In fact in some cases it lowers it either phycologically or mechanically. Because a heavy front squat is a much easier clean. They have two options try and match their front squat form to their clean which involves a faster descent or trying to match the spontaneous foot position one achieves in a clean or drop it all together. Or it could be a wrist thing bigger guys have that problem also.
3:30 Did he just toss 215kg over his head?
They are a different breed, absolutely insane :D
Fabian Meyer Georgian kind of
So mesmerized by his lifts damnnn
Very full training!!
Impresive Lasha!!
This guy needs to transfer to Strongman. Not for his benefit, just for my entertainment. 😄 THE GUY’S A BEAST!
Oliver Court true but not realistic, when you are best in world in something you usually not going to do something else. Maybe if he keeps winning for 6/7 years and gets tired of wining
Strongman will ruin his body.Not worth it.Also clean and jerking 270kg is really a feat,so i doubt his goals will change.
This man could undoubtedly eat two large pizzas by himself
No pizza but khachapuri ✌️
Dam, I do that and I am not nowhere near that big/fat....
That’s not a challenge for most that have big appetites lol
Cleanest intro ive ever seen
Fun fact: Guy in white 5:25 is Lasha's brother
Lasha still makes contact on his belly in the muscle snatch 2:03
that transition was the sexiest thing ever
Could You please add the time between reps? thanks!
All his power comes from his strong ass gut!
2:09 Is that Matame in the background with no bent in the arms?
I understand that if you can compete in the Olympics why compete in WSM, but I wonder how Lasha would do in strongman.
watching this man lift makes me wanna start trying cleans and jerks and snatches, all that stuff
3:05 who is this fine athlete on the left with the light blue top on?
Don't be a simp.
If I recall, Lydia Valentin doesn't front squat because it hurts her back(or something). Perhaps something as simple as that?
Looks more like a knees forward and chest forward squat then knees out and chest up squat. When I do that, my quads burn. He big boy, and big strong
I just seen your bumper plates on Instagram!!!
In Bulgaria we believe that if a lifter can do 3 reps front squat of a certain weight , he/she should be able to clean and jerk the same weight also. If not - the person have to train more technique. In most of our weightlifting clubs the front squat is done in the morning sesions and the back squat for the evening ones.
Weigthlifters don't train their muscles. They train their brains.
why do these weightlifting racks have such a small space to place the weights? it seems like they're typically used by heavy lifters who would benefit from racking without having to look left and right first?
Great lift
Lasha got 3 reps, kyriakos grizzly did 6 with the same weight. MOGGED!
This guy could have the best squat of all time if he trained for it. Ray William doesn't handle 620lbs with that much ease, not to mention beltless.
Too bad the Olympics got canceled this year. Lasha would have won a gold medal easily. I'd like to see Lasha break the 500 kg combined snatch and clean and jerk barrier. Some say it is humanly impossible to lift that much weight. I say never say never!
i am also curious about why i hardly see lasha do heavy squats like 360 or 400kg, mart seim do 400 kg back squat so i think lasha can do it or more
Why would he tax his body with heavy squats when his legs are not his limiting factor?
Watching this again lasha could probably do 5×20 on that 70kg strict press his max must be 180ish kg and that's conservative
Who are those two babes at 4:40?
If shi only Front squats, then that would make his training style slightly Bulgarian. If you ask me, he is his weight classes equivalent to lasha, especially with that 190 power clean holy cow😂😂
I would be curious to see the mobility of this man
lasha would do amazing in sumo imo. at least ozeki, and id bet he'd bag a couple maegashira wins against hakuho. incredible strength
Let’s gooooooo 🏋🏻♂️🏋🏻♂️🏋🏻♂️
His strength is definitely impressive....but how much does he weigh? I feel like the lighter guys lift much more in relation to their body weight
yes but that's not how it works, 120 kg at 60 are different than 240 at 120
Heavy wights have less muscle mass percentage than light weights, also longer limbs, so a 120 kg lifter isn't supposed to be 2x stronger than a 60
Strength doesn’t go up in a direct proportion to mass. They increase in accordance with the square-cube law. Take a 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm cube with a mass of 1 g. The area of the base supporting that mass is 1 cm^2. Each cm^2 of the base is supporting 1 gram of mass. If you then double the dimensions of the cube, so it is now a 2 x 2 x 2 cube with the same density, its mass is now 8 g while the area of its base is only 4 cm^2. Now, each cm^2 is is supporting 2 grams of mass. Strength in humans increases in a similar fashion. A person who weighs 120 kg would be expected to be 2^(2/3), or roughly 1.58 times as strong as a person with the same body fat and muscle percentages who weighs 60 kg. Of course other factors come into account that would limit a heavier lifter even more, such as the fact that more muscle mass requires a higher caloric intake to maintain. This higher caloric intake in turn creates more fat, which adds extra mass that doesn’t contribute to strength.
Lydia Valentin doesn't front squat either. In this interview (around 9 min. into it ... ruclips.net/video/sd52EqilNRg/видео.html ) she said that front squats caused her some pain in the lower back and she along with her coach decided to leave it out of her program, and she never had this lower back issue again... and it doesn't affect her clean at all!
For some lifters, doing back squats and heavy cleans is enough. Lasha is probably in this case.
Mass moves Mass!
i have never seen any footage of him front squatting. does he even do them?
No
Saw him once doing it in a video as part of a power clean + front squat complex, but that doesn't really count though
I think Lasha only back squats because it's more of an advantage to him. Because he's 6FT he's probably going to be more hamstring dominant so even when he's coming up from a front squat his hamstrings still play a bigger role than it would for shorter lifters. Just my guess
fRONT V bACK squat. Lasha often looks to have wrist issues. the front squat may effect this. He can do the stregth work on legs without them so why take the risk?
Your voice-over needs a bit more volume. Especially at the plug bit.
maybe he prefers back to front squats to take away a little bit of pressure from his knees?
Whats the intro song
Interesting you mention compare his squat technique to the Chines lifters'!
Looks fake even with the bar bending. I know it isn't. He just makes it look so easy.
Which video did Lasha punked team China off his platform I can't remember which video you show us Lasha is the GOAT
When did a snatch grip muscle clean and press become a muscle snatch?
It has been this way for a long time now. I don't know exactly when it changed, but at some point it went from a legal snatch (just with very light weight), to basically meaning that you just have to get it overhead without bending the knees. No problem with that, but some people prefer the older, lighter, method.
Purchased one of your bars a few days ago, now plates? Hmmmm.. I don't have proper change plates..this could get expensive really fast . Get the whole set?🤔 😁.😁
You know what you have to do...
Girl in the gray top?
Possibly this norwegian?
instagram.com/maritaardalsbakke/?hl=en
Me @ 70kg Deadlifting 170kg as a 1RM and then crying when lasha can JERK 100kg more than that :/
Lasha should compete in World's Strongest Man
He'd need to take steroids and train at least a year to stand a chance. Strongman is a very different sport than Olympic lifting, almost no crossover. He has great strength genetics but it's like asking Hafthor to do power cleans at an Olympic level
@@simondean5227 I disagree. In any overhead lift he would already excel like a log or dumbell, he can squat. I would say his only weakness might be the farmers walk, I dont think his grip is good enough. Also, his max deadlift might not be up to scratch, but it would certainly come fast.
@@simondean5227 so you think he is not on steroids ? xD
sweet baby jesus the woman lifting to the right of Revaz is a 17/10
Let's just hope that he, uh, never lashes out. ^^
The reason why many olympic lifters do only backsquat is because it is more comfortable for them. With front squats you cannot really go all out, your one rep max FS won't represent your total squat strength.
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The guy with wrist issues never front squats? I wonder why...?
How much beer can he drink?
All of it
Please trust me when I say that I agree that the weight he is able to lift makes him the strongest man in the world, but there are a handful of people in the history of the sport who have lifted three times their body weight. If Lasha was able to do that, he be clean and jerking a bit north of 500 kilos. Many women can clean and jerk twice their body weight. Even Lasha can't do that!! Please don't send Lasha over to my house to beat me up!!
don't forget that he cleans the weight plus his body weight so he cleans about 435 kg.
Pardon my French, but holy fuck.
Has Lasha tested positive for PEDs?
What are his accomplishments? Like gold medal?
Dude is muscle snatching 264#. Good grief.
You don’t have to put the weight in the title just put Lasha and people will watch
..... because of wrist pain
The squats can be explained by the lifters leverages and body weight. Some lifters leverage better training front squat, while others use back squat or work in both. But the truth is a squat is a squat, so I believe either way they’re getting the results from squatting
Add to Brandon´s explanation that, according to Mark Rippetoe, you should only ever front squat when actually doing Olympic Lifting as the front squat due to the altered balance point removes a large part of the involvement of the glutes and hamstrings making for a weaker general position when building actual strength.
For this the back squat is superior.
No need to strength build a weak position,- for weak positions practise drills, mobility and technique,- like snatch grip deadlifts etc.,- build strength in strong positions,- and then lift as heavy as you can.
Rippetoe is a clown. Don't listen to his dogma.
2:55 That dude with the red t shirt is far stronger than he looks.
When you said at some point "the strongest man in the world" the guys from strongman came to mind. Do you believe Lasha could deadlift 500kg if he went for it?
Jorge VS yes i hate calling somebody wsm because he is best weightlifter/powerlifter, wsm is is title for strongmans, you can call it strongest weightlifter..
I wonder how much this dude eats
Dude i really like Weightlifting and shit but "strongest" man in the world is such a cringe statement... hes the strongest weightlifter for shure but noone knows if hes the strongest man and i really doubt that he is with strongman juiced to their head and like 30kg heavier than him. With 350 or whatever he squats he would prolly be barely qualify for WSM and i dont think he can deadlift 450+ so he prolly has no chance of becoming first or even second on a current WSM competition. Even if he wouldnt be drug testet we dont know if he has much more potential as he was already juicing and prolly is at this moment. Eddy Hall almost strict pressed his snatch WR so dunno.
The Bloatlord did 6x130kg muscle snatches. he's truly the strongest man on earth not him
A lot of strongmen talking about him recently. Not sure why he'd leave a sport where he's on top to something he's inexperienced in. Wonder what his static pressing and benching would be like anyway...
Strongman doesnt have bench press, that would be powerlifting.
giving chinas team a run for the money
The back squat always supercedes the front squat if training for strength.
i couldn't stop looking at the pink plastic chairs....
مطمئن باش یه ایرانی میاد رکورد تو رو میزنه🤩🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷
This man just warmed up/stretched his legs with my max.
THICC
no frot because dont need it :)
He is not the strongest man in the world, he is the strongest weightlifter in the world, if he competes against people like Brian Shaw, Martins Licis, Hafthor Bjonsson, Mateusz Kieliszkowski and others in a strongest man competition he won't even end up last.
What are you even talking about? Many strongmen said that he would be top strongman for sure if he trained for it.
1st
Wada, please, look elsewhere :D
Yeah, I'm the 333rd like! That's my favorite number.
Not hating but lasha is almost 400 pounds so he should be doing moving the big weight he’s moving haha..idk why some consider him the greatest..I give more props to the guys that are 160 pounds cleaning over 400 pounds but hey that’s just my opinion 🤪
Cleaning 400lbs weighing 160lbs is nowhere near as impressive as someone Lasha doing what he does. We have enough of a sample pool now to know what is comparable between body weights. Only 10 other weightlifters ever, none from the last two decades, compare to Lasha in this way.
World record is world record. If there is someome stronger to come lift more they can. Till than he willl be the greatest. Just with the ease he does his records
That's not how physics work.
Maybe it’s just me but it’s way more impressive seein someone super lean move big weight no matter how many ppl in one weight category can do similar weight..not many ppl can weigh what lasha weighs so of course he’s gonna be in a league of his own 🤷🏽♂️
@@ChristopherWB The lift to bodyweight ratio is not a good metric. It always favors lighter athletes. You'll never see a huge guy like Lasha squat 4x BW.
Would personally prefer music to talking, right now just muting the videos
Big disagree ngl