David Rigert Clean and Jerk

[MsFisicoculturismo]

eso es auténtica fuerza.-

[towneshasnolife]

Thus was uploaded with a toaster.

[meatitarian]

I came up in lifting in the 70's and for anybody of my generation who ever laced up a pair of lifting shoes, Rigert was quite simply the man that all the wannabe's wanted to be.

[johnjsil]

i was california state champion / trained at the sports palace -what Rigert lifted there was probably about 500lbs. - i put 500lbs in the racks over head so i could stand under it with my arms extended and lift 500 lbs off the pins and support it overhead as Rigert does here at the end ---- i tell you it felt like a fookin Freight Train on my arms. Just gettin that much off the floor is a FEAT !

[fartonmeharder]

Man i could barely get up 175 lol

[musclemonster1993]

its funny cuz 5yrs earlier he clean and pressed 203... thats 447lbs!!

[dan7edan7e]

@musclemonster1993 whats funny here?

[dustyrustee]

amazing lifter he was!

[armpitpolice]

Olympic lifting is a combination of speed, strength, flexibility, endurance, and agility/balance. It's like yoga for superman.

[psolarhidi]

@armpitpolice all true except for endurance

[armpitpolice]

@psolarhidi In my opinion, the jerk is mainly about endurance. Throwing over your head weight that you almost passed out standing up with, means you have to able to be fast and explosive at the point of exhaustion.

[psolarhidi]

@armpitpolice being explosive at the point of exhaustion would be a boxer throwing explosive punches in the 12th round for example. Olympic weightlifting is a purely anaerobic sport. The lifts are completed fast and so it does not require endurance(sustaining an effort for long periods of time)

[omarhjawaid]

thats just impressive as fuck

[pmilleroly27]

Speed is the most important aspect of the clean, but the body needs a lot of strength to go with it. But not using speed is an inefficient use of the bodies strength.

[jc55]

This man are make plenty men looking the like woman!

I am apology for english.

[dan7edan7e]

@jc55 Borat, is it you?

[JSavic]

Thanks for posting the greatest strength athlete who ever lived but, unfortunately, not as recognised as he should be. Beyond superman, David Rigert was a god, and we all know that there is only one god !

[Eningmea62]

In My opinion Rigert is one of the all time best, a classic!

Setting WR from 165lb. class all the way to 220 and even 242

[finrod55]

Rigert was lifting VERY conservatively here. Not long before the Games he set a WR C&J with a monster 485 lbs (220 kg), and in training had snatched 391. But he bombed out of the 1972 Olympics by starting too high in the snatch, so here in '76 he just wanted to total and secure a Gold Medal. He was so far ahead of anyone then that a mediocre day for him would still mean victory. Today he is a very successful coach.

[laiosto]

Rigert has the sickest traps and deltoids I've ever seen in this video.

[Faramarzrastin]

The british measures are not precise. Long live French metric system

[dconner50]

were there even weight classes back then?

[Xtothemins1]

official weight classes started around the 1930's i think

[sr19]

moron

[chinescookie5642]

lol @ his facial expression

it's a "im a fucking G" expression :)

[Machismo1983]

HAHAAHHAHAHAA

[skirts365]

On GoHeavy Rigert claimed he weighed 227 in training and CJ'd 573. I feel it may have been possible---bodyweight plus 346 pounds. At just over 5 feet nine inches, he was a bit tall as a 198lb-er whereas Blagoev was 5 feet 6. Maybe David got to his ideal height to weight ratio and became a "Russian bear."

[gusregeton]

Olympic lifting is THE sport, everything else is just play. Nothing else requires nearly the same level of power, skill, speed and courage, and Rigert was a god in his day (and was and is a chain smoker and heavy drinker). Now he coaches the Russian National team. You can see him, smaller and white-haired, in clips coaching Klovov and Chigishev.

[thompsonlake]

It is the greatest "movement" in sports!

Look at his body?

NOBODY except a super trained olympic lifter could come close to do this..NOBODY

You can't compare dead-lifts Bench- press...or like the guy said earlier "throwing kegs over walls" to this sport..and it is ashame that NOBODY cares...

[Monctonite]

I remember Dave Rigert very well.Pound for pound he was the strongest man in the world. He was an incredible athlete. He eventually cleaned and jerked close to 510 pounds at a body weight of 198.

[ArnarStyr]

Why is this better than powerlifting, it is just another sport.

[bradycentralbball08]

a guy i know can squated 837 pounds!

[Weightlifter10000]

what weight class is this ?

[Infineon77]

Weightlifter1000...I'm not sure of the class but I beleive he weighs 198 lbs

[mikeyburger1]

212.5 @ 90 kg, thats pritty awesome :)

[mikeyburger1]

ye hadnt he done like 3 reps at 305 kg back squat ?

[Monctonite]

He was able to squat 660 pounds "rock bottom" for three reps. Remember - an olympic rock bottom squat of 660 would be the equivalent of a 1000 pound "power squat". Power squatters do not dip below parallel. Olympic squatters have to go much much deeper. A huge difference.

[mikeyburger1]

they are much better !!! agreed :)

[Monctonite]

Hi Mikeyburger- I saw some of your video clips - you are an excellent lifter- just keep it up ! It takes time to develop your skills and clearly you have them. Do not succumb to drugs which tend to be extremely prevalent in both Olympic and powerlifting contests. Good luck !

[mikeyburger1]

hey thankyou, very few people think so actually, somebody said doing 120 clean and jerk @ 63 @ 16 (yrs old) is shit :( so i dnt know whats good, but its nice to think somebody likes them, il have some more soon thanks :D I just love the sport its fantastic ! great videos btw!!

[mikeutube7888]

mikey amazing lifts you are pulling keep it up.

[mikeyburger1]

:))

[odessafile75]

One of the greatest weightlifters of all time who was an inspiration to many. David Rigert was a colourful character who had an incredible physique

[Kuviasuktok]

One of the greatest!

[Rasy2kG]

what a beast!

[dynomax101]

If you don't have the STRENGTH you don't make the LIFT! Simple as that. Rigert was not only fast and a great technician, he was strong as a bull. Try it some day before you talk...

[mikeutube7888]

dynomax is absoultely correct! what does it mean it is all technique? this is non sense. what about him front squating 468lbs basically from rock bottom??? He is 198lb in that video!!!

[drekevans]

@mikeutube7888 well i lift weights with the football team and if your the strongest person in da room but u tryina power clean staning straight up u finna break sump ... but it still takes that strength to get the weight up so itz a combination of strength and technique

[vibra64]

He was stronger than a bull!!!!

[fridogg]

its not all power and strength. You can take a huge strong person and he could not even pick up that weight. Its comes with technique and explosive quick power

[Apjooz]

Watch some Paul Anderson videos, where he for example clean and jerked over 400 pounds with piss poor form. Then you could watch some videos of Hossein Rezazadeh and discover that his jerk form is awful but he is still able to clean and jerk 260 kilos.

[fridogg]

all technique

[Apjooz]

All pure power and strength.

[demizebp]

please delete your account.

[Apjooz]

Why? Rigert is one of the strongest men in his weightclass, ever, in the whole fucking world. Now fuck off kid.

[demizebp]

and the clean and jerk is all technique, thats why people can put up twice their weight, and not be very strong. learn something about the sport before you talk. thanks.

[Apjooz]

You are kidding right?

[demizebp]

hah, whatever dude, im done argueing over the internet.

[Apjooz]

Good. Don`t do it ever again, until you learn the basic facts of this great sport.

[demizebp]

hahahahaha

[Apjooz]

What a dickwad this dude is.

[iwilson1894]

or...they're great athletes...imagine that!

[demizebp]

and that makes NO sense in repsonse to what we were saying.

[iwilson1894]

actually it does because you said it's all technique so I said it's more than technique

[joku73]

try front squatting the weight these guys lift - pure strength

[mikeutube7888]

yes, this is a good point. front squatting imo is so much harder. the fact that he front squats that lift is representative of his elite status as a strength athlete.

[Madmick007]

@demizebp

Congratulations. You're the dumbest motherfucker on the internet, troll. 

[truthbelongstoeveryb]

Of course. And Michellangelo wasn't a master artist, it was all technique. Sport is the art of achieving an objective the most skillfully, and technique is what you cultivate to accomplish that. Skill by nature is context specific, so don't try pulling that "he's not as strong as so-and-so" bullshit, either. If you're a history buff and I'm a math whiz, it doesn't make one of us smarter than the other; they're not comparable contexts.

By the way, I didn't win this argument. Just good technique.

[magnabank]

Yeah...Rigert is amazing, what a powerhouse....but do away with the UFC???? C'mon bro. Lifting in all its forms (Olympic, bodybuilding, powerlifting, all-round, strongman) is my lifelong passion and I wouldn't trade my time with the iron for anything, but nor would I stop training / watching MMA. Maybe you should try choking somebody out before you go trashing the sport. You might like it. Just an opinion.

[varet19]

David RIGERT était surnommé le" roi DAVID " ;

c'est tout dire.j'ai eu la chance de le voir tirer à Paris , inoubliable....

[Dunnigan3]

What a trip!

I was there when David Rigert broke the worlds record in Montreal CA in 1976...

unreal.

This is "the greatest sport" on earth...put that on TV and get rid of all that UF Shit...

That stuff is sad....and the people who watch it are like wrestling fans on crystal meth and Bud light Beer! Get a fucking life!

Yea I love people getting the eyes broken by some pill-popping trailer trash catfish eating mother fucker...(really)

Put a real sport on TV.

Man I feel better.

[nekcrank]

we feel your pain bro.

[fdfdfdfdsss]

Well when five people have C&Jed more than Reza, I don't see how he can be one of the greats. If he were to break Taranenko's record then I'd consider it, but I think he let that opportunity slip by.

[ageofempires]

how is he not one of the greats, 2 olympic golds, countless worlkd championships, are u an idiot, look at wut this guy has done.

[fdfdfdfdsss]

Competing in a watered down, pathetic Super Heavy division is a wonderful thing.

[ageofempires]

ya 2000 sydney was real watered down huh? and he totalled even more in 2004, ya of course....

[fdfdfdfdsss]

Wait a minute, earlier you said weight lifted doesn't matter, only medals. Except that Reza doesn't hold the true world record in either the C&J or Snatch. Like I said, watered down.

[ageofempires]

i just think you have something against where hes from.

[PashaGolikov]

Rigert is one of the three greatest weightlifters ever, Rigert, Alexeev and novak.

[ageofempires]

more like alexeev, pyrros, rezazadeh

[fdfdfdfdsss]

Reza? When lifters before him could snatch and C&J more at lighter bodyweights? As for Dimas, he was a great lifter, very charismatic, but Vardanyan put up bigger weights at a lighter bodyweight.

[ageofempires]

um let me see, pyrros has 3 golds and 1 silver in the olympics, so hes the best.

aleexiev was the same bodyweight as reza.

[fdfdfdfdsss]

Vardanyan has more world records...obviously the best is subjective. Going purely by the kilos, Vardanyan was stronger and weighed less.

As for Reza, well he doesn't hold the true record in the snatch or C&J. In fact Pisarenko C&Jed more weighing 100 lbs less.

[ageofempires]

once again, when ur putting up 580 pounds it really doesnt matter how much u weigh, thats why its called the superheavyweight division.

[usynli]

thats true rza isnt the greates

[wilwn]

3 golds and 1 bronze*

[agvares]

Alexeev was lighter than Reza

[oso0610]

wow...ive seen better

[paldrich1]

Rigert last lifted in the 198 pound class. The best Clean and Jerk I ever saw him do was a 4th attempt world record 489 pounds.

[DanW1]

just think if that bar hit him in the knees...

[alexdol]

Very good. What bodyweight was he in?

[ageofempires]

and just a bit over a decade later guys were snatching more then that...

[mccallyogi]

With what drugs though? Compare apples to apples.

[ageofempires]

ya true

[laurionb]

Rigert wasn't in the highest weight class (the SHW snatch record is slightly higher than this C&J). Even now his best lifts compare favourably with those in the 105KG class.

[johnsmdm]

excellent work David..