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valantin dikul???
I really dont know what to make of this guy, must be a fake right?
 YouTube - valantin dikul 450 squat 260 bench 460 deadlift For you Americans the weights used are as followed.... Bench 260kg = 572lb Deadlift 460kg = 1012lb Squat 450kg = 990lb  Last edited by POWERJIM; 12-20-2007 at 04:33 AM. 
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12-20-2007, 04:25 AM
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Strongman Sells Determination in Spinal Clinic
Strongman Sells Determination in Spinal Clinic
March 3, 2004 The Moscow Times Sometimes life's tragic events can result in life's most triumphant moments. In 1962, when Valentin Dikul was performing a circus routine in Kaunas, Lithuania, a cable on his trapeze snapped, sending him plummeting 15 meters to the floor and breaking his back. Doctors told him that he would never regain the use of his legs. He was 16 years old. Dikul had always dreamed of becoming a circus performer, and he was determined to get back on his feet and return to his passion. Immediately after his release from the hospital, he began a rigorous self-imposed rehabilitation program, often passing out from exhaustion on the floor of the gym. After six grueling years, what seemed impossible was becoming a reality: Dikul was able to rise unaided from his wheelchair and walk across a room in a series of shuffling baby steps. Today, more than four decades after the accident, Dikul is back in the big top, this time as a dumbbell-juggling, iron-bending strongman with several Guinness records to his credit. But his recovery has enabled him to do more than simply return to the circus. Now, as one of Russia's leading authorities on treating spinal injuries, he serves as the director of a Moscow clinic group that specializes in the methods he used in his own rehabilitation. "People come here from all over Russia and all over the world," Dikul said, sitting behind his desk at the Valentin Dikul Center, located in Ostankino. Although dressed in a doctor's uniform, he looks every inch the circus strongman, from a massive chest and shoulders to a craggy face framed by a flowing white beard. His phone rings constantly: a bedridden man from Saratov wanting help to start walking again, a German doctor checking up on a patient he sent to the clinic, a New York woman whose son was recently injured. According to Dikul, the waiting list for his clinics is extensive: There are more than 136,000 applications on file from patients representing 32 countries. "Not everyone who comes here will walk again," Dikul said. "But everyone will improve. If we can't make them fully mobile, they will at least be a great deal more self-sufficient than they would have been otherwise." The heart of Dikul's method is not healing the spine itself, but rather teaching healthy nerves and muscles to compensate for those that no longer function properly. As the patient embarks on a rigorous physical therapy program, his body learns to reroute nerve impulses to healthy muscle groups, creating greater freedom of movement. "Medically speaking, it is possible," said Abdullah Dovlatov, a specialist in spinal injuries at Moscow's Psychiatric Hospital No. 12. "There are passive muscles in the body that can be taught to pick up the slack if other muscles are rendered inoperable, as in the case of a spinal injury." Dovlatov noted that the severity of the injury has a great deal to do with how completely a patient may recover. Dikul is quick to point out the differences between his method and those that are frequently used in other parts of the world. "In the West, they supply invalids with all sorts of gadgets that help them better interact with their surroundings," he said. "What we do is help the patient restore his own natural body movements." Although his technique requires a great deal of time, energy and willpower -- patients spend anywhere from three months to a year at his clinics and exercise on specially developed machines for up to five hours a day -- Dikul can point to some impressive results to keep participants in his program motivated. "In the past 10 years, more than 7,000 people who were not able to walk left my clinics on their own two feet," he said. At first glance, the physical therapy room at Dikul's Ostankino clinic resembles any other gym: the same smell of sweat, the same clanking of iron mixed in with the groans of people pushing their bodies to the limit. Closer examination, however, reveals that many of those straining on the clinic's vast array of specialized machines have canes, crutches and wheelchairs nearby to help them move from one piece of equipment to the next. Irina, 41, a doctor who has been suffering from a degenerative muscular disease since her early 20s, said she prefers Dikul's method to the many that she has tried over the years. "I've been sick for a long time, so I don't expect immediate results," said Irina, who has been at the clinic for several months. "But I do feel more in control of my recovery," she said, adding that her favorite exercises are the aqua aerobics that she performs several times a week at the clinic's pool. Another of the clinic's patients, Nikolai Verenko, 24, is rehabilitating himself from extensive leg and spinal injuries he sustained after falling out of a fifth-story window. "All of this exercise was brutal at first," he said. "Now I'm getting used to it. I feel like a gladiator-in-training." RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2004/03/03 :: Strongman Sells Determination in Spinal Clinic  Last edited by POWERJIM; 12-20-2007 at 04:34 AM.
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If those weights are real, that is amazing, esp the deadlift. Any idea how old he was in the vid? I'm thinking at least in his mid-50s. Gives me something to look forward to that you can continue to get stronger as you age. Does'nt make sense though as my joints seem to be getting worse as I age...
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Svet Sundays: Strong people of Russia - Valentin Dikul!
Hello! Yes, you are right! I like to find and tell about strong people. Sometimes these people have strong spirit and sometimes they are strong both physically and in a spirit way. Such person is Valentin Dikul. And today I want to tell about him: Look at the pictures of this legendary strong circus man! Valentin Dikul has a title of Strongest Man in the World. He set these records: 450kg squat,260kg bench, 460kg deadlift. (1 kg equals about 2.5 lbs)  And he was the only man who have carried the 1000 kg barbels on his shoulders for 10 meters. Yes he is very strong man! But now I want to tell you another story of him a story of strong spirit within the same man: Valentin Dikul was born 03.04.1948 in Latvia, soon after the Second World War. His father was killed action, his mother died giving birth to him. Little Valia (short name from Valenrin) was brought up in the birth orphanage, difficult and hungry, spent in with his life fights for leadership for a bread. The traveling piece of circus was his only real joy in life. Valia would run away to spend the entire day there. He very early that decided he must become a circus performer. He was talented and fantastically devoted. He quickly mastered the juggling and acrobatics, but finally decided to become a trapeze artist. He was fifteen years old when he performed his first number. In 1962, when Valentin Dikul was performing a circus routine in Kaunas, Lithuania, a cable on his trapeze snapped, sending him plummeting 15 meters to the floor and breaking his back. Doctors told him that he would never regain the use of his legs. He was 16 years old. Dikul had always dreamed of becoming a circus performer, and he was determined to get back on his feet and return to his passion. Immediately after his release from the hospital, he began a rigorous self-imposed rehabilitation program, often passing out from exhaustion on the floor of the gym. After six grueling years, what seemed impossible was becoming a reality: Dikul was able to rise unaided from his wheelchair and walk across a room in a series of shuffling baby steps. Today, more than four decades after the accident, Dikul is back in the big top, this time as a dumbbell-juggling, iron-bending strongman with several Guinness records to his credit. But his recovery has enabled him to do more than simply return to the circus. Now, as one of Russia's leading authorities on treating spinal injuries, he serves as the director of a Moscow clinic group that specializes in the methods he used in his own rehabilitation. I've seen this big strong kind man on the Health Festival two years ago. He told about his system, answered questions... He even told that Moscovites get help in his clinic for free. There will be this festival again 2-16 of December 2007. Dikul will seminar the 15th of December. We will try to go. So if you have questions to Valentin Dikul send to us and we'll try to ask them of Valentin Dikul. Windows to Russia!: Svet Sundays: Strong people of Russia - Valentin Dikul! Last edited by POWERJIM; 12-24-2007 at 05:07 AM.
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