Interviews on All Things Gym

Make sure you check out the Interview Series with the Best Russian Weightlifters and the Interviews by Dmitry Klokov.

Vasiliy Polovnikov Interviews Ruslan Albegov Translation Added

October 4, 2014 By Gregor Winter

Continuing in his Interview series, Vasiliy Polovnikov sat down with Ruslan Albegov. The Translation + Summary was kindly provided by reader “mindblowned” Translation Vasiliy: How did you start lifting? Ruslan: When I was 11-12 my brother brought me with him. He became Master of sports and won the Russian championship under 18. When I was […]

Vasiliy Polovnikov Interviews Chingiz Mogushkov Translation Added

October 2, 2014 By Gregor Winter

Yes! I was waiting for this one… Vasiliy Polovnikov interviewed Chingiz Mogushkov. Thanks to Sergiy and “mindblowned” for the translation. PS: The “Chingiz Leaning on Things Shirts” is back in stock. Quick Facts: He was 127 kg when he started training. “In 8 months I already was 151 kg. I was 14-15 years old.” Bodyweight PR […]

Dmitry Klokov on Front Squats, Hyperextensions, Squat Jumps & More

September 28, 2014 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in Russia … Dmitry Klokov was again guest on Andrey Skoromniy’s “Body Time”. Unlike his other recent interviews this Body Time episode is again more focused on training and exercises. Read the translation of his first appearance on the show here (has info about his Stiff Legged Deadlifts and more). Once again big thanks to Sergiy […]

Dmitry Klokov Interviews Aleksey Lovchev Translation Complete

September 25, 2014 By Gregor Winter

Time for Aleksey Lovchev’s “On Par” interview with Dmitry Klokov. Translation Status: Completed! Big thanks go to Vadim Pakhutkin & Sergiy Turchyn who tackled this one. Just as he did in his other “On Par” Interviews, Dmitry did a great job as an interviewer. Here we really get to know Aleksey. During the interview he references Aleksey’s past […]

Dmitry Klokov Interview September 2014

September 19, 2014 By Gregor Winter

The guys from sheiko-program.ru also made an interview with Dmitry Klokov. Now some of you might think “Ugh, another one? We just had 2 Dmitry interviews in the past months”. Sure, there is some overlap with the previous ones (Barbell Shrugged, “On Par 1”), but Dmitry also touches on some new topics. More: Interviews with and by […]

Khadzhimurat Akkaev Interview

September 12, 2014 By Gregor Winter

Next in our interview series with Russian weightlifters we talked with Khadzhimurat Akkaev. More Interviews from the Series: David Bedzhanyan Interview Adam Maligov Interview Alexey Lovchev Interview Vailiy Polovnikov Interview Tima Turieva Interview Oleg Chen Interview In his First Interview of 2014 the 29 year old, two time Olympic medalist and 2011 World Champion talks about […]

Dmitry Klokov Interview “On Par” Update: Part 3 Added

September 7, 2014 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in Russia … Dmitry Klokov sat down for his own “On Par” interview with Alexander Zakharov. Thank him for doing this interview and subscribe to his channel for more weightlifting videos. If you (like me at first) thought that after the many interviews Dmitry gave in the recent past, there wasn’t anything new we […]

Oleksiy Torokhtiy Interview

September 3, 2014 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in Ukraine … It’s been over a year since the last Oleksiy Torokhtiy Interview. So here is a new one. Today the 28 year old talks about his goals and motivation (after having retired after the Beijing Olympics). Big thanks to Sergiy Turchyn who, again, took the time to translate this for all of us. […]

Tima Turieva Interview

August 23, 2014 By Gregor Winter

More Interviews from the Series: David Bedzhanyan Interview Adam Maligov Interview Alexey Lovchev Interview Vailiy Polovnikov Interview Khadzhimurat Akkaev Interview Oleg Chen Interview Here is the next interview in our series of interviews with Russian weightlifters. We got to talk with 22 year old Tima Turieva. She is the 2013 World & 2014 European Champion in the 63kg […]