00:00:00: it was a really stupid decision you know to move to the crossfit you know

00:00:06: This interview will be honestly one of the craziest ones that we've ever done so

00:00:10: the first part of the interview is recorded three weeks ago. The interview

00:00:14: is already crazy but the second part gets even crazier so like after laying

00:00:18: in hospital for two weeks because of really serious stuff he decided to throw

00:00:24: around everything and yeah explains why. All the questions that we handled in

00:00:28: this interview are in the description so you can just click on the time mark and

00:00:33: then you can go to the topic that interests you. Now enjoy the interview,

00:00:36: stay tuned till the end and see you gorillas!

00:00:41: Yo Gorillas! Welcome to the next episode of the athlete insider podcast by GORNATION!

00:00:45: my name is Phil and today

00:00:46: we have our special guest, a really special guest somebody who I know since

00:00:51: 2015. I saw you at the King of the Bar competition at the FIBO in Cologne and

00:00:56: you totally destroyed everyone! - Haha yeah it was good times, good times, you know - and it was a freestyle competition even, so like

00:01:05: most of you and most of the people out there the listeners will probably know

00:01:09: you for like your sets your weighted skills like stuff like that but like

00:01:13: back, back then you were like doing freestyle and it's, it's like crazy. We

00:01:18: will get into this topic afterwards but somebody who really inspires one

00:01:22: hundreds of thousands of people online, like a Ukrainian workout beast, a legend

00:01:27: for a lot of people and I'm really happy to have you here: Vadym Oleynik from

00:01:31: Ukraine. - Thank you, brother! I really appreciate it

00:01:34: to join a podcast with you, you know, so it's pleasure to answer some, some

00:01:39: interesting questions for GORNATION community so I'm up everything! -

00:01:46: Nice let's go! So how do you present yourself to somebody who doesn't know

00:01:51: you? Like do you say "yeah hi I'm 50 kilo muscle-up man" or like how do you present

00:01:57: yourself? - I never, you know, I never represent myself as a big guy, you know, I

00:02:03: don't know, as a popular, as a star, as strong whatever, you know, never. I don't

00:02:09: like it, you know, I always stay humble. Those who

00:02:13: want to know me, they can they can just write down my name in YouTube or

00:02:17: whatever they want, you know, and then they can check like all the information,

00:02:20: you know. I never represent myself like, you know, like, you know, like like a star, you

00:02:27: know, like I'm the best or whatever, you know, never! Because there is no, there's,

00:02:33: there's, there's no point for me when I'm rich everything, you know, like in

00:02:42: calisthenic. I think I rich, all I want all I was

00:02:49: wishing before at my beginning you know because right now I'm like I I'm moving

00:02:57: more into the CrossFit, you know, because it's something it's more challenging

00:03:01: for me, you know, because in calisthenics I was able to do all, you know, like all

00:03:08: not all the stuff that the people want me to do. All the stuff that I was

00:03:14: wishing before, you know, so and that's actually why I decided. I decided to try

00:03:20: something new, you know, because it become so boring, you know, like you have thousand

00:03:26: variation of pull-ups, thousand variation of push-ups, dips whatever, you know, but

00:03:32: still it's pull, it's pull up and it's push-ups and it's

00:03:36: dips. It doesn't matter how you do it, you know, still the same movement, you know, so

00:03:42: it become a bit boring for me, you know, and when I was able to do like all I

00:03:48: want so then I decide okay I think it's enough and I have to try something new

00:03:52: and it was CrossFit because CrossFit was made for the Special Forces, you know,

00:03:58: like for the people that was working in a special force to have like a good

00:04:02: condition, a good strength, a good entrance, power like to be able to do

00:04:06: everything, you know. So what can I say about the CrossFit? It makes me stronger

00:04:13: in total, you know, so because I am receiving a lot of messages from the

00:04:20: people: Why you are moving to the CrossFit? Why you're making kipping muscle-ups,

00:04:24: if you were able to do 50 kg muscle-ups or whatever, you know, and like to be

00:04:29: honest I won't say anything anything bad about those people, you know, but these

00:04:33: people they're stupid as f**k, you know. You know why? Because they they don't

00:04:39: understand why I'm doing this kind of things. For example you have a metcon,

00:04:44: you know, like in CrossFit you call it metcon complex like whatever and you

00:04:50: have to complete it in time as fast as possible. It's impossible to complete it

00:04:54: with the strict form, you know. You have to do it with the kipping, you know, so that's

00:04:59: like, of course I have also weighted trainings,

00:05:01: weighted sessions, strict form like everything and the main thing the

00:05:06: CrossFit makes me stronger even in calisthenics so like the stuff I

00:05:11: was doing before, only in calisthenics. Right now I can

00:05:16: make it like this! Much easier, you know, because my body is recovering from the,

00:05:22: from the stuff I was doing for many years, you know, so let's say for 17 years

00:05:28: I was doing Muscle-Ups, Pull-Ups, Front Lever like all the stuff you know and

00:05:33: right now like I'm working to be more complete, you know, like so I'm doing

00:05:40: everything like everything running, swimming, I don't know, roping like I

00:05:46: don't know, I don't know like whatever like everything, you know, and it really helps

00:05:51: me, you know, so I would like to say I representing myself as just Vadym

00:06:01: Oleynik, you know, and that's it, you know. Nothing else just Vadym Oleynik, you know,

00:06:05: so if you know me so then you know me. If you don't know me so then you can

00:06:11: check me, you know, so that's it, you know, but I think the people that are representing

00:06:17: their yourself as the best, the strongest, the I don't know like the

00:06:26: stars whatever, it's not humble. It's it's not good, you know, I mean I'm not

00:06:35: judging anyone, you know, it's their life, their decision, you know, but it's not for

00:06:42: me, you know. - Okay like something that jumps into my mind: In your bio, in your

00:06:47: Instagram bio there's written "strongest calisthenics athlete in the

00:06:50: world" - Yes. - How does it fit together for you? -

00:06:56: It was more like marketing, you know, it was like more for the social media to

00:07:06: make more sales to make more like, just just marketing, you know, but I cannot

00:07:15: say it's not true. So if somebody has something to say to me about it you know

00:07:20: to discuss it with me, so if I come wherever, you know, to the people that the

00:07:26: saying sh*t about it, so then they can prove it you know there is the people

00:07:30: that, of course that can pull more than me, you know,

00:07:32: because I'm not working more than 80 kg for the dips, for the pull-ups, you know,

00:07:36: but I'm doing for, but I'm doing this weight for the two for the three hundred

00:07:41: reps, you know, they can say like, you know, that I'm not the strongest but I'm

00:07:46: able to do everything, you know, I'm calling myself the strongest because I'm

00:07:50: the most complete athlete in Calisthenics right now. Even right now without

00:07:54: training the calisthenics. The level I was putting in the supersets plus 20 kg,

00:08:01: the muscle ups plus 50 kg, I don't know like whatever, you know, the people can

00:08:05: check my Instagram, you know, there's everything that I did you know and

00:08:10: nobody reach it till now, nobody, nobody! I won't say like that I am the best, you

00:08:18: know. Just go and reach it. Prove it that you're better than me, you know, so that's it,

00:08:22: you know. Just prove it that you're better than me, you know, then then it's over,

00:08:26: you know ,so heads heads off, you know, hands up, you know, and that's it, you know, so like

00:08:31: because I was doing everything, you know, I was able to do, I don't know, one-arm pull-ups,

00:08:37: I don't know, front lever pull-ups like like everything, you know, it's not

00:08:42: because I was training the elements, you know, where I was completely training

00:08:46: weighted sets or just weight, no I was training everything, you know. That's

00:08:51: actually why it took me 17 years to reach my level, you know, and like in

00:08:57: total my training experiences 22 years, you know, so like since four years old,

00:09:02: you know, like it's a part of my life and if somebody

00:09:09: have something to say to me, so they, they can say and I can prove. This is the

00:09:14: thing. I can prove my words, you know, so if, you know, nobody was writing me

00:09:23: something about it, you know, nobody, They just saying behind my back:

00:09:27: "Vadym is using steroids!", "Vadym is piece of sh*t!", Vadym is this,

00:09:31: this, this, this, this, this, bro! You know, there is a one short meaning that dogs

00:09:37: are barking and the caravan is still moving. They can bark behind my back, I

00:09:43: give a f**k about it, you know, I give a f**k about it, you know why? Because I

00:09:48: know what I'm doing and I know why I'm doing it! You know, at my beginning

00:09:52: calisthenics everyone was against me, everyone was saying sh*t about me,

00:09:56: everyone was saying that "Vadym, you will never be something." This sh*t is

00:10:00: sport, you know, because this sport is not Olympic sport, is not professional sport,

00:10:04: it's from the street, you know, it just like underground sh*t, you know, and

00:10:10: everyone was against me and right now all the people that was against me they

00:10:16: come and they say "Vadym, bro, how did you reach it? How did you get there, bro? Like wtf its crazy" blablabla.

00:10:23: I say yeah of course. It's just hard work, you know, hard work pays off, you know,

00:10:28: that's it. So I give a f**k about the people and they will watch this video. I know they're gonna watch this video, bro for sure,

00:10:38: because there watch everything and they hate it but they not gonna hate it like into my

00:10:43: face into my eyes, you know, they gonna hate it behind my back, you know, this is

00:10:48: the main thing. I never had anybody bro, anybody in calisthenics in the

00:10:54: world calisthenics community, you know, because if you spread like like in a

00:11:01: second, you know, "Vadym is talking sh*t about everyone!", you know, so "He is a piece

00:11:04: of sh*t!", you know, so it's like Bam! One second, you know, so that's actually why like I

00:11:09: think: Alright, I have my people. I have my people around the world like I think

00:11:15: they are the best athletes, you know, they're for real they're the best

00:11:18: athletes and I really respect them, you know, for example it's

00:11:22: Ruslan Saibov, Max True, Vitaly Feschuk, Evgeny Scherbina, Adam Raw like

00:11:29: kind of like I know everyone, you know, and everyone knows me, you know.

00:11:33: So we're trying to support each other, you know, we're trying to motivate each other.

00:11:38: We're trying to do something together. We're trying to organize some events

00:11:41: which are like that's actually why I'm traveling and making the workshop, I'm

00:11:44: judging the competition and making that master class like everything to show

00:11:50: people what is the real way to train calisthenics. It's not just static, it's

00:11:54: not just dynamic, it's not just trends. You have to be complete, you know, you

00:11:59: have to be complete. You have to work on everything. That's actually why I was

00:12:02: moving to the CrossFit, you know, because it's something new that will

00:12:05: makes me more strong, you know. Because I was not moving from calisthenics for

00:12:11: example, I don't know, to dancing or just to running, you know, I was moving, moving

00:12:16: from the hardest sh*t to the hardest sh*t, you know, so that's it, you know, yeah so like this. -

00:12:25: Like something that I really admire about you is your mindset because like everybody who has

00:12:29: seen you doing a set, you you see that you really, that you bite through the pain,

00:12:34: that you really, like you have a, you must have an incredible mindset and

00:12:38: it shows for me also like when you talk about your haters

00:12:41: that it, when you talk about like negative comments etc. Like how did

00:12:45: you develop to this mindset? Was it always like this? - It was from my, from i

00:12:52: can say it from childhood, you know, because my grandfather was growing me as

00:12:56: a man, you know, like you have to go through everything because you have to

00:13:00: know how to protect your family, how to protect your girlfriend, how to protect your ,your

00:13:04: friends. You have to be a man, you know, you have to be a man like how the f**k

00:13:09: you can call it yourself as a man, if you're giving up when you get in pain, you

00:13:15: know? When you get into the pain in your trainings, but bro if you're not getting

00:13:20: into the pain in your trainings, how the f**k you wanna reach a progress like how

00:13:26: the f**k you want? I don't know, you want to be the best for example, you know.

00:13:31: Every day right now I die like in the morning

00:13:35: I die on my training then I go to the doctor then I die on my doctor

00:13:39: because he's making me like some so f**king strange sh*t, you know, that

00:13:44: it's f**king painful, you know. Then I back to my training again then I have a

00:13:49: stretching with a girl that that make me a stretching and I'm dying from the fact

00:13:52: is stretching and mobility and then I go home then I have to do any action you

00:13:57: know for my joints for my tendons for everything because I'm recovering right

00:14:00: now because like in Ukraine is quarantine

00:14:04: and I don't know when it when it's it will be over and also like I deciding if

00:14:09: I'm not traveling right now so like I will focusing to recover myself you know

00:14:13: because I never did some massages you know like therapy like whatever you know

00:14:22: so right now focusing more on the recovering myself and yeah it like you

00:14:31: know you just I always saying one thing to everyone: if you giving up once you

00:14:40: will give up till the rest of your life! like you know

00:14:47: for me my mind never stopped you know like my body died for that other people

00:14:55: the body is dying before their, before their minds die so what it means for

00:15:02: example you did 10 pull-ups and your mind say to yourself you know maybe I am

00:15:07: tired you know and then your body is getting the signal from your mind: okay

00:15:13: I'm tired so it's over. My mind is not working like this until I'm done with

00:15:18: everything doesn't matter how I feel, doesn't matter how I died but mostly of

00:15:24: the time my body is dying before my mind. like I'm getting cramps, I'm getting like

00:15:29: you know like like I'm getting f**ked after the training you know like

00:15:35: everyday like six days a week and in a rest day on the Sunday I'm doing some I don't

00:15:41: know like cardio like an active recovery you know like it looks like this like

00:15:47: you just have to, to prove, to prove not to others, you know you have to prove to

00:15:52: yourself first because the only competitor that you, that you have it's yourself. Every

00:15:58: day you have to wake up, every day you have to cook, every day you have to train,

00:16:01: every day you have to work, every day you have to do the stuff, you know and if

00:16:05: you're not motivated you know ,so it's impossible to do. It's possible but

00:16:11: you're not going to enjoy the journey, you know and the main thing in

00:16:15: calisthenics, in every sports, its to love what you do

00:16:23: you know because if you are not loving what you do so then it's over

00:16:30: you know then it's over for real but because like how the f**k you can do the

00:16:38: thing that you really hate, you know? like you came to the training and said: F**k, f**k

00:16:42: if you know I want to train I don't like it I don't want like whatever, you know, so

00:16:47: you're not gonna train, you're not gonna get the progress you know but if you

00:16:51: really like it you know I'm still fighting with the one thing because I

00:16:55: cannot control it you know I cannot control the pain. When I will reach the

00:17:00: level when I be able to control the pain then it will be like something like

00:17:04: something something huge you know because after this you know you can do

00:17:12: like incredible stuff. You can go through the pain. I mean I can go through the

00:17:17: pain right now but it hurts as f**k you know like you know it hurt but when you

00:17:21: will enjoy the pain, when you can control the pain then it's like something new

00:17:26: you know. - Okay. And do you sometimes have trainings where you're not

00:17:31: motivated? Like do you also have these moments where you don't want to work out

00:17:36: you know like to be honest bro I'm not motivated at all for my trainings you

00:17:43: know like right now I'm not motivated at all like if I, if I have a chance you

00:17:51: know to do like something else right now you know I don't know if I do, if I

00:17:57: change or not but mostly of the time I'm not motivated you know. Of course there's

00:18:05: the days when I feel good when I am like enjoying you know but most of the time

00:18:10: like I just know that I have to do it you know and that it I just have to go

00:18:14: and I just have to do the stuff and then I have to go out you know and then

00:18:19: like I'm even if I'm not completing the training like for 100 percent you know

00:18:24: because if you have some problems, if you have some sh*t in your mind you cannot

00:18:28: train for 100 percent. And you know your mind has to be

00:18:32: totally clean, you know, without any sh*t inside because if you got some sh*t

00:18:36: inside your mind you know like it's hard you know.

00:18:40: When my father died like one year ago, bro, for the, like to be honest for the

00:18:47: four months I was out of everything. Every day like every day I was training

00:18:54: but you can imagine how hard it was for me like it was almost it was impossible

00:19:00: you know I just came I had no power, had no strength, I had nothing you know and

00:19:05: I was continuing training because here somewhere like somewhere in my mind I

00:19:12: was understanding there's two ways: I can drink, i can use some drugs, I can smoke,

00:19:19: I can like you know whatever because was so hard you know family for me mean like

00:19:23: it means everything. Maybe for some people they giving a f**k about their

00:19:27: family, you know, but for me family is everything you know it always was

00:19:31: everything for me, and like when my father died like I understand: oh my

00:19:37: god it's like, it's, it's really hard for real you know like I cannot handle it

00:19:41: you know. And it was the moment when I deciding if my father's looking, look

00:19:49: at me right from the upstairs you know so he was like, he would like to say you

00:19:58: have to continue to grow yourself you know, to not go down you know, to not get

00:20:05: into the depression you know, to not get into the some sh*t. You have to continue

00:20:09: grinding you know and that's actually what I did and that's actually what I'm

00:20:13: doing right now you know. People, people, I mean

00:20:20: they'll always have a choice you know to go to train or to drink a beer you know,

00:20:25: for example, whatever, you know. To make the money or to work for somebody till

00:20:31: the rest of their life, you know. So the people they always, they always have a

00:20:36: choice the only thing the choice is up on you, you know. -

00:20:40: Wow, crazy! That's like intense and like something that I would be interested in

00:20:49: how does your day look? Like like you you like we talked today you today you did

00:20:55: two workouts as I understood like... - look like in the morning

00:21:01: when I'm awake so I'm like I'm doing like my morning start for example i'm

00:21:08: doing i'm i warm like I make a boiled wat.. like not boiled, just warm water with a

00:21:15: piece of lemon with the one spoon of honey so I mix it drinking to activate

00:21:19: my body after the night after the sleeping then I'm making the coffee with

00:21:23: the lemon with the honey also maybe with the coconut oil, if I have it,

00:21:28: if not so just lemon and and honey then I'm eating a piece of ginger. Then, then I

00:21:33: swallow the piece of garlic and then I'm eating 2 small spoons of B-bread and

00:21:41: then and then I'm yeah and then I'm cooking the breakfast like oatmeal with

00:21:49: a different kind of seeds with the honey with the peanut butter yeah then

00:21:54: I'm doing all the vitamins then I'm going to my first training so like one

00:21:58: hour it's my like I'm doing from rolling warm up like a bit of mobility then I

00:22:05: start my first training. Then, then I'm going to the doctor like to do my

00:22:11: therapist like in as a therapist so for one hour. And then I'm going to eat then

00:22:17: I'm going to the second training then I'm trained and the girl that makes me a

00:22:21: stretching and mobility so I'm doing the stretch and mobility then I'm going home

00:22:25: then I'm making that all they're all the things like before I'm going to sleep to

00:22:30: sleep so like any action to recover my joints, to recover my tendons, to

00:22:33: recover like all my injuries because I have a lot of trigger points on my body

00:22:38: I mean also I'm doing, I have some work I have some stuff to do, so like you know I

00:22:43: mean but most of the time from the morning till till the evening

00:22:47: it's a hard time for me you know, so wild and crazy, you know, like i will say. -

00:22:54: So you put yourself through a lot of pain during the day? - I'm just start

00:23:01: enjoying it, you know. - And what is your goal right now? Like what what is your

00:23:07: goal for for this year for example? - For this year I just want to recover myself

00:23:13: from all the injuries that I've got before in my past you know and just you

00:23:19: know just to continue training, just to improving myself you know like this is

00:23:24: the main goal. I hope the quarantine go over soon so I

00:23:28: can travel again you know but right now till the 31 of July like there's the

00:23:34: quarantine in Ukraine because the amount of the sick people with coronavirus is

00:23:40: growing in Ukraine you know. - Okay, nice, like so What is your job right now? Like

00:23:50: how do you what do you say to someone what is your job? - Actually, bro, i have

00:24:00: different words, you know. - Okay. - Yeah like different one but most of the people

00:24:05: they know that I'm just yeah I have an app. I have a my I have my manager that

00:24:11: are managing all the stuff for me like workshops, like the money from the app.

00:24:18: Right now we're opening our clothing shop, we are, we're putting more adverts

00:24:24: into our app to make it bigger so like, I mean this is the thing that the

00:24:30: people should know you know. The rest of the stuff they don't need to know you

00:24:36: know. - Okay. - They just don't need to know. - Okay.- I'm just a simple Vadym Oleynik you know that's it you know. - Okay.

00:24:48: Nice! like something that the community asked: What are the questions that you,

00:24:55: are the mistakes that you see other people doing in calisthenics? - You know

00:25:02: I'm like while my traveling the workshop that they did they did before you know

00:25:07: like trying to explain people they have to

00:25:10: focusing to be more complete you know. Of course it will take more time to gain

00:25:13: muscles, to gain strength, to gain like whatever you know they want, but they

00:25:18: have to, they have to focus to be more complete because the biggest problem

00:25:22: right now: They make a circus from the Calisthenics, you know, before like for example

00:25:27: back to 2015 on the King of the Bar, bro, you remember there was the so much f**king

00:25:33: strength you know there was a lot of strength there was a lot of power like

00:25:38: brutal power you know and right now they're just f**king flying you know

00:25:42: they just making the acrobatic they just making dynamic you know and just

00:25:45: statics. There is no power. The guys that are competing on the world

00:25:51: championship, bro, they're not able to do straight muscle-ups with a strict form

00:25:55: you know, bro how the f**k like what's going on you know for me it's just impossible, you know like how the f**k

00:26:02: you can like if you don't know how to do the perfect muscle up how the f**k you

00:26:08: can complete on the world championship in the calisthenics you know. So right

00:26:12: now the biggest mistake of the people because they are focusing not on the

00:26:17: strengths. They are focusing on the fly, on the static and That's it you know.

00:26:21: That's actually why 95% of the people that are competing on the competition

00:26:30: right now they are tiny as f**k without any muscles and short you know like so

00:26:39: this is I mean I won't say anything bad about those people you know they are good,

00:26:43: they're like they don't crazy crazy crazy sh*t you know but it's not it's

00:26:49: not the way I did it you know and I don't like this way know. Like for

00:26:54: me the the biggest point it was to be strong and big you know when you go to

00:27:02: compete and the people they just check bro when I was competing on the King of

00:27:08: the Bar, bro, I was f**king 90 kg bro f**king 90kg. Can you imagine? F**k, bro.

00:27:17: I was yeah in back to that time I was giving a f**k about the diet I was

00:27:23: eating everything you know and as much as I want you know and I was like this,

00:27:28: if you remember me, I was like this for real you know and the people you know

00:27:35: like for the people it's more interesting if you're huge if you're big

00:27:39: and you're strong you know then then it's more interesting and right now from

00:27:46: like right now I'm not going to compete in calisthenics you know because it

00:27:51: makes no sense for me. And like the thing I'm watching like the competitions

00:28:02: around the world. I don't like it you know like you

00:28:05: compete the world championship and you get just a f**king cup and a pair of

00:28:09: socks bro like what the hell? you know you have to

00:28:13: pay for your flight, you have to pay for your hotel, you have to pay for to

00:28:16: compete and then like you have to prepare yourself for the competition you know

00:28:23: and for me I'm not preparing myself just to go to compete and to lose. I'm

00:28:29: preparing myself to win and if I wanna win so I have to hold my diet so it's

00:28:35: expensive food, it's expensive supplements, it's my time, it's my like

00:28:40: dedication, my passion my like everything you know I have to put a lot of effort, effort

00:28:45: in it to make it happen you know and then I have to f**king pay for it you know and then I'm only receiving a f**king Cup and

00:28:52: the f**king pair of socks. What the hell bro? like real what the hell you know

00:28:58: they they're just kidding on me you know. when they was inviting me: Vadym bro come

00:29:02: compete you know we really love you you know come! I say like: bro

00:29:06: if you want me to see..

00:29:11: if you want to see me competing then like I have to understand why I am competing

00:29:18: and what what I can get from the competition you know because bro I get a

00:29:25: lot of injuries and right now I pay a lot of money to recover myself from it

00:29:30: you know. And if I'm not getting everything and I'm just get injured from

00:29:34: the competition the pair of socks, of course I can wear socks and I can

00:29:38: say: you know you know bro I get these socks from the world championship you

00:29:42: know they are so f**king cool you know and probably they cost like 10,000

00:29:45: dollars you know but I'm not sure you know you can check them in the store and they

00:29:50: will cost like f**king 10 euros you know and then it's like over you

00:29:56: know. So back to 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016,

00:30:01: no 2016. Sixteen it was already bullsh*t you know because we did the bar wars

00:30:06: with the ... you now yeah but eleven twelve thirteen fourteen

00:30:13: fifteen it was cool you know they was taking care of the athletes you know. At

00:30:18: least they cover everything you know and you come and you competing you know and

00:30:23: when you win so you get sponsored for example for the next trip or whatever

00:30:26: you know so it, .., it had some sense but right now nothing

00:30:33: at all. For example I have a coach from the CrossFit you know like I really

00:30:39: respect him and for me he is the best I mean he's the best in Ukraine and he is

00:30:44: one of the of the top athletes from around all over the world. He was the

00:30:48: first guy that was representing Ukraine on the CrossFit Games you know. So and

00:30:54: he's saying you have to start competing in Ukraine and, and I'm saying

00:30:59: for me it make no sense to kill myself just I don't know to win hundred

00:31:07: bucks bro like f**k I'm spending more in a f**king day you know without

00:31:13: the therapist, like the doctors the food like everything you know. So like right

00:31:19: now like the main goal for me, I really would like to compete on the CrossFit

00:31:24: Games now but I know it's not easy and I have to

00:31:27: take to take off my glasses you know that: all right one year and I'm going to

00:31:34: be on the CrossFit Games! No! It's not gonna work like this. You have to work

00:31:37: hard consistently you know. You have to improving yourself, you have to work hard

00:31:42: you know to get results you know and it takes some time. So right now I'm

00:31:46: focusing on my health to improving all the problems that they've got before and

00:31:51: to recover myself to improving myself and I'm still continuing making a lot of

00:31:58: workshops around the world you know because I'm still able to do everything

00:32:02: you know that they did before even much better.

00:32:05: So because the if I'm not posting the videos about the calisthenics you know

00:32:10: or whatever because they last the last months it was so busy so I'm I was not

00:32:15: posting anything on my social medias you know but doesn't mean that I'm stopped

00:32:19: training that I'm not improving myself, bro i work hard as hell. The people

00:32:23: cannot even imagine how hard I'm working right now you know because if I'm not

00:32:27: posting that they think I stopped and then I will get f**ked it up bro I'm still

00:32:33: improving myself and when quarantine is over and when I go travel like when I be

00:32:39: able to travel again they will see. I won't say anything you know. I won't say

00:32:43: anything. I never said anything I just showed the

00:32:47: results you know. Before everyone saying me: bro 50 kg muscle up you're f**king

00:32:52: stupid? You f**king, f**king b*stard you know like how the f**k it's possible? but when I did 30 minutes mo with the 30

00:32:59: reps of 50 kg muscle everyone said: bro you're using steroids! you know but

00:33:05: they're not paying attention that I was training like bro from four years old from

00:33:09: f**king four years old. Right now I'm 25 you know in 21 of July I will cross 26 you know

00:33:15: but bro 22 years I was training. Show me like even seth .. how long

00:33:23: he training? And I was not training only calisthenics. First i was training some but then was training

00:33:27: then I was mixing calisthenics and some and I

00:33:30: went out for some and I was focusing on calisthenics and then I was

00:33:34: adding the powerlifting I mean back squats front squat

00:33:38: dead lift like whatever. Then there was like more training with the rubles, with the bikes,

00:33:42: with the swimming, with the running, with everything like for me it was like to

00:33:46: kill myself it become an habit you know like a daily habit you know

00:33:51: so like to die yeah that's like the motto, like my motto you know

00:33:57: people always using I live to die and they die to feel a life you know

00:34:03: so you die on your training and after you feel alive and then you wanna die

00:34:09: again you know because it makes you alive. So this is how it works for me you

00:34:15: know. - Wow! Wow! So like you're talking about the topic that also like the

00:34:22: community asked like Sally asked on YouTube: Did you ever take steroids?

00:34:29: And you already said it like two times that it's something that people often

00:34:34: ask you. Do you know where it comes from and do you have an answer to these

00:34:37: people? - Yeah of course firstly it was like like

00:34:46: guinea Kumasi from my right chest. I've got it from 12 years old because of the

00:34:53: of the disbalance of my hormones you know of the estrogen and testosterone

00:34:59: and I went to the doctor and he saying me like when you crossed 18 or 20 if you

00:35:05: went like if you go out you know but it doesn't and I have to make a surgery.

00:35:12: It's not because I was using steroids like at 12 years old

00:35:17: you know...

00:35:21: we're back from the last interview. I think three weeks passed since then.

00:35:27: Different location, different setting right now and I think a lot of stuff

00:35:31: happened in your life like weird stuff like maybe the people saw on social

00:35:36: media and I'm happy to have you here back Vadym so yeah do you want to

00:35:41: tell us: What happened? What's your current state? - Yeah so because of my

00:35:50: high intensity trainings in CrossFit I went into overtraining. My muscles get

00:35:58: into the over, to overuse and it stopped working so even basic moves like

00:36:06: pull-ups push-ups like everything become so complicated for me because my muscles

00:36:13: it's not working you know. I mean in that moment. So then I went to my to my

00:36:19: therapist and he said oh you have a lot of triggers, you have a lot of problems

00:36:23: with your muscles but he cannot check my health from the inside and then I went to

00:36:31: like to the to the best sport doctor that are providing like professional

00:36:38: boxers, like professional athletes in Ukraine and she based in Odessa so I went

00:36:44: there and she said you have to do a blood test we have to like the whole

00:36:49: test of your body, heart, your internal organs and like everything so I went to the to

00:36:55: the hospital. I did like the whole test of my body, of my blood, of my organs, of

00:36:59: everything and the situation was really really bad so I stay in the hospital for

00:37:08: almost two weeks with a very bad health, with a very bad health position because

00:37:19: like I was killing myself for many years. It's already more more than twenty one

00:37:26: year, almost 22 because tomorrow I will I have a birthday so tomorrow I have like

00:37:32: 26 years and since four years old I was training

00:37:38: so hard and I had no trainers and I had no coaches, I had no doctors, I had not

00:37:43: therapist like nothing so I I was just killing myself you know and everyone

00:37:49: like in everyone in the world they, in calisthenics community,

00:37:54: everyone knows how hard I work. I just died on my trainings you know and why

00:38:01: everything was happening to me because of my, of my stupid mentality you know. I

00:38:08: said to myself I can I will and it doesn't matter how hard it is, how

00:38:15: long it's going to take me like whatever I just going to do it you know and it

00:38:20: was the problem because here I was ready. I was ready for whatever you know but my

00:38:27: body is not you know. As I said before in the last hour talking I said firstly for

00:38:36: most of the people bodies die, your muscles die and then it's it send you, it

00:38:45: sends you a signal to your mind: it's over I'm tired, I cannot continue

00:38:52: anymore like and then like it's over so you stop training because firstly

00:38:57: your muscles stop working for most of the people. For me my muscles, I mean my

00:39:02: mind is never stopped working and my muscles continue because because my mind

00:39:08: is going to continue you know. So here if you're not tired here, if you're

00:39:15: strong mentally, so your body will follow you you know and that's actually why, if you

00:39:21: have this kind of mentality, you have to take a rest, you should have a team of

00:39:26: smart people that will providing your health like everything what you're doing

00:39:32: it has to be provided by professional people, by therapists by doctor, by

00:39:38: your team you know and I didn't have a team like till now you know till now

00:39:46: when I went to hospital and they say: if you will continue for the

00:39:49: next six months like this you can die like you can die. Bro like can you imagine? The people

00:39:56: they say me you know if you will continue training with this high

00:40:00: intensity like for another six months you're like you can die because the sh*t

00:40:08: the sh*t that I've got it calls Rhabdomyolysis. Rhabdo. This is the problem of

00:40:17: CrossFit athletes because you just doing a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot you know

00:40:24: without any rest you know and I went to the level for in one year bro.

00:40:33: For other people it takes years, years! 5, 10, 15, 20 like years you know. It is the same

00:40:42: thing if I said to somebody you know you have to reach my level in a one year you

00:40:47: know. So like it's kind of weird you know because I went there no to the level

00:40:56: but I was living at the gym bro from the morning till the evening I was training for

00:41:03: example in the morning it was weightlifting session some cardio

00:41:08: metcons, then I took some rest for the two, three hours

00:41:12: and then there was for example another two three metcons you know and between you have to stretch, you have to roll, you have to do

00:41:20: mobility, you have to do stretching, you have to recover yourself, you have to visit the therapist, you have to eat

00:41:26: clean you know like there is so so so so many things you know and the

00:41:30: problem was everything was new for me because CrossFit was new for me you

00:41:34: know it took me some time to adapt myself to this kind of training you know

00:41:40: because it's a high-intensity work you have to you have to breathe you know you

00:41:47: have to breathe you have to do everything so fast you're sweating a lot so

00:41:52: everything is going out of your body with the sweat you know and so

00:42:00: everything went out of my body you know that's why god I've got the cramp from

00:42:05: my internal organs and also like like I cannot stand I cannot I can do anything

00:42:10: I cannot eat I can't drink I cannot do anything because of the cramps from the

00:42:18: inside like sometimes you get the cramps from your core if you overuse you know

00:42:24: with some core exercises but it was like another sh*t you know it was something

00:42:30: it was it was worse you know and after, after the whole the whole test of my

00:42:40: body I decide, it was hard decision for me you know because I said to myself I

00:42:44: want to compete at the CrossFit Games I want to become like a good athlete and

00:42:49: all that stuff but right now I understand why it was a really stupid

00:42:55: decision you know to move to the CrossFit you know because I won't say that

00:42:59: I'm the best or whatever no I just want to say that calisthenics it's my life.

00:43:07: this is the things that gives me everything in my life.

00:43:12: Traveling, friends, body, strength. I don't know I met a lot of good people

00:43:21: you know I have an amazing team I working with right now you know I have

00:43:27: like I have everything in my life because of calisthenics and I don't know

00:43:31: why I moved to the crossfit. I mean I kind I know why because I said to myself

00:43:37: why I can't? I can like I always can. there is nothing that I can't you know and that

00:43:45: and it was the reason why I moved there and I stopped trying calisthenics you

00:43:50: know but right now I understand. this is my life this is the point that i really love to do you know. I'm not gonna move to the crossfit,

00:43:59: I'm not gonna compete at the crossfit, I'm not gonna do crossfit anymore because the main priority in my

00:44:05: life is to stay healthy you know because I want to have a family I want to have

00:44:09: the kids I want to I want to travel I want to enjoy my life you know and I was

00:44:13: training calisthenics for many years you know so nothing is stuck because

00:44:17: the people already a lot of messages, I've received a lot of messages from the people they're saying you know

00:44:22: Vadym I think it's over with you but like you're gone with the with the with the

00:44:29: calisthenics you know right now from today bro from today my power today is

00:44:36: like a big day for me you know because the power is back to me you know my

00:44:42: power like everything is back to me you know and I'm so f**king proud of it you

00:44:47: know because I after I went from the hospital you know so I decided to go to

00:44:58: my training you know to try to do at least something you know and I couldn't

00:45:03: do even like muscle-up plus 10kg bro like one muscle.up plus 10kg like mentally I was die like you can

00:45:14: imagine how hard it was for me when I was doing like 30 minutes plus 50 kg

00:45:19: you know like just nothing you know like everything was like the strength was

00:45:22: unbelievable you know and back to the time where they was at

00:45:27: the gym and I couldn't do you know even one muscle-up plus 10kg it was like

00:45:31: went like to depression you know because that's why I like I was not but like I

00:45:41: was not available my social on my social media you know I was not posting

00:45:46: anything you know because I was it was really really bad and hard times you

00:45:50: know and I was alone and it every day it was just killing me you know because I

00:45:55: understood that if I'm if I go continue training so everything becomes worse and

00:46:00: a lot of doctors they're saying: Vadym you cannot train it's over you have to

00:46:05: understand you have to find another passion you have to find another things

00:46:08: to train it after I don't know find the girlfriend, build the family, work on your

00:46:15: business like whatever but you cannot train! bro like I said you know the life

00:46:22: can take everything from me house money clothing friends everything but nobody

00:46:29: can take my passion out of me! nobody never! I can stay naked outside on the street

00:46:36: but I'm gonna rise like thousand times if it needed you know and like no one

00:46:43: can take it from me like it's impossible and right now I'm training you know every day I'm training, every day i work on myself, every day pulling myself you know

00:46:52: and I give a f**k I give a f**k what

00:46:58: they saying with the Vadym you cannot train it's over bro

00:47:04: I give a f**k to all of them you know I will never stop doing the things that I

00:47:09: really love that I really enjoyed that gives me everything in my life you know

00:47:13: yes I understand that a did mistake for the people that are following me you

00:47:19: know for the my community for the my people is saying sorry because I did

00:47:25: mistake and I take it you know and I take it like a man

00:47:30: that I did it but I understand and right now I changed everything

00:47:36: you know I mean start doing calisthenics again, the way I did it before and again

00:47:42: I will I will make the workshop so I will go to the competitions I will

00:47:46: train people I will teach them and I will give everything to my community

00:47:49: because my community was staying with me when I did the biggest mistake in my

00:47:54: life you know they are not leaving me my people are staying with me and they

00:47:58: saying but if I didn't went to the crossfit so it's his life and his decision you

00:48:03: know they was supporting me you know even when I was out of calisthenics

00:48:07: for almost one year it's September, October in October like it's supposed to

00:48:14: be one year of crossfit you know without calisthenics but right now I'm

00:48:19: back and they are mad you know because the haters they was happy that I that I

00:48:26: out and they can reach every day and then and they can become stronger than

00:48:31: me like whatever but bro I'm back and I'm back you can imagine how hard

00:48:39: I work right now like only he's only he is watching me you know only he is watching

00:48:44: me and only he knows how hard I work I kicking my ass every f**king day right

00:48:49: now you know to get back everything what I

00:48:52: everything that I had before and even to reach more you know so

00:49:05: There was not even one injury in my life that was putting me on my knees that i

00:49:12: cannot stand on my legs you know not even one I was laying on my bed for two

00:49:17: months that I cannot that I cannot stand my father put me on his shoulder and he

00:49:24: brings me to the toilet because I couldn't walk you know and there was so

00:49:28: many and right now it's just a new chapter in my life you know and I'm

00:49:34: ready to take it and I will improve myself because right now I will take

00:49:39: care of my health much more than before because I'm able to do everything but

00:49:45: it's not true. no one is a machine and everyone has a

00:49:52: limit, has a limit of their like energy you know it's like a battery you know if

00:49:59: you're not gonna charge your phone it's not gonna work you know I for

00:50:03: example I put my phone just into the water you know and it get it gets even

00:50:07: worse you know so this is what this is what they did to myself you know I just

00:50:10: kill myself like I just kill myself without no there there was no doubts I

00:50:17: just kill myself you know and when I was laying at the hospital I understood

00:50:23: there that right now I have to change something in my life because if I will

00:50:31: continue the way I did before I'm not gonna cross 30 you know I'm

00:50:39: not gonna cross 30 years. - What are your learnings? Like what what

00:50:45: can you give to the community as an advice? - To train smart. to Train smart to

00:50:53: not killing yourself you know because like I'm gonna do this this this, I'm not tired or whatever you know it it was

00:51:03: I was representing representing myself like like psycho

00:51:10: but it make at the end it makes no sense you have to train smart for example one

00:51:17: week you're training hard another week you've got the lower it, then for

00:51:21: example you train at the 50% you know like every time you have to change

00:51:26: you cannot work like a hundred precent every day it's impossible. I mean it is

00:51:32: possible but then you will get the sh*t that I've got you know right now and guys

00:51:38: you have to you have to think about your future, not about tomorrow, about your

00:51:46: future you know because you have to stay healthy.

00:51:49: you have to stay, you have to feel good you know and you have to train till

00:51:54: rest of your life if you really like it you know and you have to do it and if

00:52:00: you and if you have to do it so then you have to rethinking about the stuff you

00:52:08: are doing you know because everyone has their battery you know and battery can

00:52:18: like the battery can over you know if you're not going to charge it and then

00:52:25: you will get a lot of problems with your health you know and some of these problems

00:52:32: you cannot recover you know even with a lot of money so just think about it and

00:52:40: implement some recovery things in your life like therapies like swimming I

00:52:47: don't know like do some blood tests every I don't know every two three months,

00:52:57: try to eat healthy because it's very very important right now my diet looks

00:53:05: totally different. I'm eating perfectly clean, only good food like nothing bad at

00:53:12: all like I was sitting clean even

00:53:15: before you know but right now eating clean it's it's like a different level

00:53:24: for me you know like complete and i continue training but smart.

00:53:29: It totally changed my training system right now you know and I'm

00:53:34: working on it so probably it'll take me another maybe one month you know but I

00:53:41: will share it with the people. We will implementing it into our app so the new

00:53:49: system will, be should be available like maybe in the next months so this system

00:53:54: will give to the people a lot of new benefits to stay healthy them ...

00:54:00: to improve their self like their muscles I mean their their physical, their

00:54:09: strength, endurance like everything you know but from the healthy position you

00:54:18: know not just with the killing their self you know the way I did it before I

00:54:22: mean you can kill yourself but if you kill yourself smartly then it will give

00:54:30: you much more benefit you know if if you will have like stupid mentality and you

00:54:37: do do do do do do do a lot of a lot of things we have to do it smart because we

00:54:42: have only one life and the god give us only

00:54:46: life, one health and I understand you know when when your health is f**ked and

00:54:55: you can do anything you know no one is with you no one, brother, no one everyone

00:55:06: gives a f**k about you and I and I really understand it you know and it's

00:55:14: really really it's really really bad you know and it's so so f**king sad. when I

00:55:21: was laying there bro no one is calling me to ask me: Vadym, how are youß

00:55:24: what's going on? what's happening? you know only my team my team they are

00:55:30: Julian, my manager, my team mate, they was asking me Vadym bro what's happening

00:55:35: do you need helpB do you need this this this? my team only two people you know I understand that the only the only

00:55:44: option is is is to train hard but smart to stay healthy because if you will kill

00:55:54: yourself then everything is over and for me my health it's everything for me

00:56:01: it's my travels, it's my workshops, it's my for example masterclass, judging

00:56:07: whatever I mean everything is connected to my health and if my health is f**ked

00:56:14: so my life is f**ked you know it's over and when they were saying me Vadym

00:56:21: you know like with Rhabdomyolysis, with the rhabdo, you cannot train hard you

00:56:28: cannot train like with the high intensity you cannot you cannot use you

00:56:34: cannot you cannot use a lot of a lot of stuff in your life like for example

00:56:41: bicycle, swimming like you know to enjoy in my life and I understand I had to

00:56:47: recover myself. I have to recover myself and I will recover myself you know there

00:56:53: is no doubts about it you know you. Not even one you know

00:56:57: so the only the only thing I want I will ensure to the people they have to

00:57:07: understand they have only one life and they should have a family, they should

00:57:14: have kids, they have to travel, they have to enjoy their life and they

00:57:21: have to train but right now of course I'm going to do 60 kg muscle-up, I'm

00:57:28: going to reach like new goals like everything but right now it will be much

00:57:33: smarter you know with the so many changing in my life. - Crazy!

00:57:45: so yeah let's let's talk about your goals like do you already know where you

00:57:50: want to go? or are you just like in the recovery phase and like finding to

00:57:55: yourself or do you like already know what is your goal for 2020 now with with the

00:58:00: experience that you had in the last weeks? - right now recovery it's a part of

00:58:13: my life you know it's not just right now it's it become a part of my life. I will

00:58:21: train, I will recover, I will train, I will recover. so it's like 50/50 you know

00:58:28: because without recovery you kinda try without training you don't need to

00:58:34: recover so it's like 50/50 you know and it's it's like people saying you know

00:58:41: the six-pack are made in the kitchen you know the same thing with the training

00:58:47: you cannot improve if you are not recovering you know because your battery is

00:58:53: going to like it will be like lower lower lower if you not charge it you know

00:58:58: so recovery it's like right from now it's a part of my life and about the

00:59:08: goals you know. my goals about the travelings for 2020 there is no goals because I

00:59:16: don't know when I'll be able to travel outside of my country you know and

00:59:20: actually right now it's it's the longest time when I when I when I am staying in

00:59:28: Ukraine you know because like every time I was traveling like every months every

00:59:35: second month I was traveling everywhere you know but right now I cannot. I'm

00:59:39: just staying in Ukraine drink home Beach like whatever you know but still you

00:59:45: know it become a bit boring so about traveling there is no goals. I

00:59:50: hope like this sh*t is is going it's going to be over like very soon and I'll

01:00:02: be able to travel about the trainings I don't want to rush anything you know I

01:00:07: don't want to rush anything and I will share my progress I go share my trainings

01:00:12: with the people on my social media how I'm recovering, what I'm doing, what I am

01:00:17: eating, how I training like everything just to give some knowledge to the

01:00:21: people and I want to do like 60 kg muscle-up, want to do I have like some

01:00:30: things in my mind you know but I don't want to write the process you know. No

01:00:36: more, no more bro like 22 years I was killing myself like every day and my mom

01:00:44: she saying she saying me you know you have to understand you was killing

01:00:49: yourself for many years without the doctor, without the therapist, without the

01:00:54: recovery, without anything and your body has your limit. your battery is over.

01:01:00: that's why everything and what's happening to yourself because I was so I

01:01:06: was in it so bad like depression you know like you can't even imagine you

01:01:12: know I felt so bad you know and I was so down you know and I and I just recognize

01:01:17: that oh my god like what's going on what I'm doing to myself like oh like where I

01:01:23: am you know. right now finally I'm recovering you

01:01:27: know like I can train. I I cannot train like with the high

01:01:30: intensity but I I can use weights because my doctor like he provides

01:01:35: me with all my trainings I sending him what I'm doing, what i want to do, how I'm

01:01:41: doing like everything you know so everything is under the control and yeah we will

01:01:48: see you know the time you put everything in the correct places you know and I

01:01:54: will I will show to the people the limit is only here from 2015 you know from

01:02:02: King of the Bar because they are asking me where is your limit? the limit is only

01:02:07: here you know only in your mind and I will rise and I will rise again and I'm

01:02:18: on the way you know I'm on the way and the people that were saying sh*t about

01:02:22: me and they they say Vadym is gone from calisthenics they're gonna watch my back

01:02:28: again bro and I swear I swear to God you know I swear to God I just need a bit

01:02:33: more time you know I just need a bit more time to beat my sh*t that I did

01:02:37: that not others my sh*t that I was like when I was at the top level of my

01:02:44: strength you know I will beat it you know and Bro the thing is

01:02:49: I'm so angry from the inside and it burned me you know it burns it

01:02:54: burns me because when I was laying no one was with me you know no one was me no

01:03:01: one even was contact contacting me to ask how I am you know no one brother my

01:03:07: mom, my my team and that's it, for real, bro that's it. no

01:03:15: one else you know and I don't I don't want to say anything about about the

01:03:22: people from all over the world for my friends nothing I have nothing nothing

01:03:27: to say to them you know I love them I will support them I will help them I'll be glad with them.

01:03:32: probably it was it was the time to understand

01:03:39: some things you know and I understand them. - Yeah sounds like yeah bad times but

01:03:50: like that you took a lot of things with you from these times and that you

01:03:56: you can do a restart now so yeah and you already answered like the

01:04:02: question from Nikita from the community if you will beat your 50 kg muscle up?

01:04:07: and yeah so you so the goal is to do 60 kilos you just don't know when because

01:04:13: you don't rush yourself anymore. - Soon! - Soon, okay. - I don't want to say

01:04:27: anything you know. I never said something you know. I just did. - Okay. - I'm going to do

01:04:34: it. then I'm going to share it and then the people will understand and I'm on

01:04:38: the way, trust me brother, I'm on the way and if

01:04:41: I'm on the way I'm on the way you know. - Nice!

01:04:47: That's good! Another community question that we received from Sallie and it's

01:04:53: actually a question that we received quite often when we asked what question

01:04:57: we should ask Vadym it is: Did you ever take steroids? And

01:05:02: last time in the last interview you started like talking about it but then

01:05:06: like the the connection.. - I know why people are thinking about why I'm taking steroids because of the .. in the right side. I have it from since 12 years

01:05:18: old because of the hormone disbalance and the doctor saying me it will gone

01:05:24: when he will cross 18 because then your your hormones will be stable you know

01:05:30: but wasn't and I have it like till now but it's not because I was taking

01:05:37: steroids you know. I never took steroids in my life. I was using I was using fat

01:05:44: fat burners like t5 is the hardest one I was using when I was in Poland when I

01:05:51: was working so I did go classes and personal training that I had like no

01:05:55: power for the training so that's why I was doing some some stuff from the outside

01:05:59: like pre-workout, fat burnings and all that and all that stuff so t5

01:06:06: includes caffeine, caffeine aspirin and ephedrine

01:06:12: so different pre workouts and all this stuff but then my my nervous system

01:06:22: get f**ked you know because of because I understood that I cannot train without

01:06:29: you know so it took me another two years to go out of this sh*t you know because

01:06:35: right now I like I'm not taking anything you know

01:06:38: no pre workouts, no fat burners like just the cup of coffee and I'm

01:06:43: good you know so no steroids so I never you know I was thinking to take to take

01:06:50: the hormone you know to recrover my injuries you know but my spot doctor

01:06:57: she's saying she's saying that there's like a salty lake yesterday I

01:07:04: did the story you know I'm on my therapy know so it's like a salty water with the

01:07:11: dirty sh*t so you have to put it on yourself on the injured places you know

01:07:14: and then you have to lay to lay on your lay on your, in this lake you know and

01:07:22: has to be like 10 or 15 sessions and then like you feel much better so it's

01:07:28: supposed to recover my all my injuries you know. I hope so.

01:07:34: so like probably I'm not gonna take any any any any sh*t from outside you know

01:07:40: because if if you take it from the beginning so you know then it it makes

01:07:45: sense to continue you know. if you never took it so then it makes no sense to you

01:07:50: know to broke yourself you know with the with some sh*t from outside and a that

01:07:57: sh*t on my on my right on my right side like you know ... it's like from 12

01:08:04: years old you know and I'm not doing a surgery because it will take me

01:08:09: like some let's say one month to recover from it you know and right now it's not the time to stop

01:08:17: you know like to go out of my training for one moth you know i can't.

01:08:22: so that's why like I'm not doing it right now you know and my doctor she gives me

01:08:28: a medicine that will bring bring it down you know so probably maybe that sh*t

01:08:35: maybe it will remove that sh*t you know some I hope so. If not, then I will

01:08:40: do the surgery I don't know maybe next year or whatever. - Okay well okay yeah

01:08:51: then I think we already covered like crazy crazy topics we had like yeah I'm

01:08:59: really like I really have to say thank you that you took the time and that you

01:09:03: shared so much stuff even though like it's it's personal stuff. it's of course

01:09:08: it's your job on the one side but it's like showing weakness showing, sharing

01:09:13: stuff about your personal life about your health etc. so I'm thankful

01:09:16: that you share this because I think people can learn from it as you say. - I

01:09:21: hope so because you know they they have to understand they have to enjoy their

01:09:27: life you know. they have to enjoy their life but they're so like, I understand it

01:09:32: just now so late there are so many things you have to do in your life

01:09:37: because at 50 you're not gonna train that hard like at 25 you know or even at

01:09:45: 30. At 50 you would like to travel around the world you would like to eat good you

01:09:51: like to enjoy your life. You would like to drive a good car, you would like to have a good business, you would like to not go

01:09:58: to the work from 8 a.m. till 6 p.m. you know so there are so many things you

01:10:04: have to work on you know until you can because there is a time when everyone

01:10:10: will die you know so before we die

01:10:14: we have to we have to enjoy our whole life and try to do with

01:10:20: rest of my life. I say I would prefer to die on my training you know with the

01:10:26: passion in my heart with the fire in my heart you know because I love it so

01:10:30: that's why I totally changed everything in my life from now everything in my

01:10:35: life. I will improve and going I'm going to improve myself but smart. -

01:10:44: Nice so yeah we're coming to quick questions with quick answers before we

01:10:51: end this episode um and we end the interview so first question: pizza or

01:10:58: burger, what do you prefer? -

01:11:01: I'm not eating both of them. - Never? - Like bro I don't remember the last time when

01:11:09: I was eating pizza or burger you know sometimes it happens but it's not like i go to KFC, but

01:11:15: say like a good Italian pizza or a good like like a really good healthy burger

01:11:22: you know with the good bread with the good meat, like with a good

01:11:26: vegetables with the good sauce and not like a piece of sh*t just to

01:11:30: eat something just to put something in yourself you know so that's why. - Okay. -

01:11:37: Both, I mean, I love both of them you know it's definitely worth, i mean here in Ukraine

01:11:42: it's hard to find like I mean there is like a really really good

01:11:47: restaurants you know that i really really like but I'd rather for example eat pizza in taly you know, like for real you know. - Yeah, get it. Okay. What is your favorite food? -

01:12:01: wait It's a hard question, I don’t have a favorite like for real i dont have a favorite food that i like.

01:12:14: like I am eating like homemade food or like or in a restaurants like something

01:12:21: healthy you know just that's my favorite food like a healthy food like my that's it like I there's no

01:12:27: there's no like some favorite meal or like recipe or whatever you know. - Okay.

01:12:35: when you eat is it more important for you that it tastes good or that it's

01:12:39: healthy what is the focus on? -

01:12:42: ah both. - okay. ok nice because like I know the bodybuilding quote that people say:

01:12:52: food doesn't have to taste good ,it has to work out you know it has to work for

01:12:57: my body. - Bro I cannot eat the food that I don't like you know if

01:13:03: it smells bad I'm not going to eat it, if it tastes bad I'm not gonna eat it

01:13:08: you know I have to love it you know to eat it you know so for me the

01:13:11: things are really important that you know I'm not gonna eat like piece of

01:13:14: sh*t just because it's healthy you know, it's f**ked up. - Nice. What is your favorite country in the world?

01:13:26: where would you like for holiday ,for traveling in generally? - Italy. - Italy? -

01:13:33: it's my like my soul and my heart is there people food atmosphere weather sea

01:13:46: beach fruits kitchen oh I love all bro like I've been in many countries you know but migh

01:13:57: you know I have so many like countries that I really like like Guatemala,

01:14:02: like Mexico like Colombia like like some countries from Asia like

01:14:11: there's so many you know for real there are so many but the favorite one is Italy

01:14:15: you know every time I come there for the four three days you know I always staying

01:14:21: there for two or three months you know I don't know how the f**k it's happening you know but every time It's

01:14:26: happening you know I just like broke my ticket you know in the front of camera

01:14:31: and I say okay guys I'm just staying here in Italy just because I already low

01:14:35: and I have a lot of friends there in a different regions you know many

01:14:39: different countries in different cities you know so i just like I go there

01:14:45: for one week then i fly there then i go there so you know it's like Italy is my favorite country. - Nice. do you have a favorite

01:15:01: favourite calisthenics athlete or somebody like a hero, an Idol like somebody you like. -

01:15:09: I never had it and I don't have till today. -

01:15:12: Okay . - I was just watching on myself you know I was you know I don't understand.

01:15:17: I really appreciated that the people watching me that the people, I won't say

01:15:27: my fans, they are my community they are my people you know it's not my

01:15:31: fans I won't say my fans I never say my fans you know this is the this

01:15:36: is my community this is my people that are supporting me from all over the

01:15:40: globe you know and I am really grateful for it you know they are supporting me

01:15:45: because I was working so f**king hard to reach the level that that I have like

01:15:50: till today you know right now and they're supporting me because I'm

01:15:55: because I'm kicking my ass you know not because of something just because of the

01:16:02: hard work you know and I really appreciate each of them and I really

01:16:07: would like to shake a hand of each of them around the world you know it will

01:16:12: be a pleasure for me and not for them for me

01:16:16: because they are supporting me you know and no Idol bro you don't need to have

01:16:23: an idol you have you have to become an idol you don't need to you don't need to

01:16:28: have an idol you have to become an idol. it was my goal at my beginning. I don't

01:16:33: have like any like no one like either like guys that I was watching them okay

01:16:42: I want to be like him I want to reach his level no never, bro!

01:16:46: like never and I'm not going to have it like later you know. - Yeah, interesting!

01:16:54: Okay. do you have a favorite skill like from freestyle from statics something

01:17:03: yours your favorite skill? - you know like I'm able to do freestyle like like a good one

01:17:09: like mine that I'm creating you know on the deep bars,

01:17:16: I mean on the p-bars, on the bar like .. whatever. I love everything! if you're

01:17:22: asking about calisthenics I love all like everything for example weighted muscle-ups

01:17:28: I don't know like weighted calisthenics, freestyle, calisthenics just

01:17:33: body weight you know I really like. I don't like flying like 360 if this sh*t like

01:17:40: I really hate it you know it makes more sense you're skinny as f**k you know you

01:17:44: just flying around the bar without like like you cannot do one clean muscle-up but

01:17:50: you're flying you know for me it's like it's f**ked up you know but right now

01:17:53: all the championships you know they are based on it you know and other people

01:17:57: like to do it so I'm like I'm going to support them but I'm not gonna do it

01:18:03: you know. - Okay, get it. What was the best calisthenics event you've ever been at? Oh bro there was so many, so many, bro!

01:18:19: oh my god bro like like I provide like more than hundreds of workshops like

01:18:29: judging I don't know how many like oh I don't know like well to be honest I I

01:18:36: don't know like so many different events so many different like emotions it was

01:18:43: so different so many different memories you know like so many so many events you

01:18:49: know I cannot say I have a like it I I have my favorite one no! like I but in

01:18:57: my heart there is a piece of each event you know like in my heart in my soul in

01:19:04: my mind right from each event I took something for myself you know. I learned

01:19:09: something, I met new people, I got new experience,

01:19:13: like ever like I learned a lot from each trip you know so there is there is no my

01:19:21: favorite or the biggest all right whatever from each events when

01:19:25: there was like six people on my workshop alone

01:19:28: I really enjoyed you know and they take it like as a lesson you know I take it

01:19:33: like as experience you know and when there was like 450 people in my workshop

01:19:38: and I was providing the workshop with the microphone so it was another lesson in

01:19:43: my life you know so I take everything as a lesson you know and everything take a part in my heart you know each

01:19:49: event, each person, each each minute, you know so like it means really a lot for

01:19:55: me the traveling to make the workshops to share my experience to

01:19:59: share to share the knowledge that they've got through many years it's a

01:20:05: pleasure for me you know because I don't want people go through through the same

01:20:09: mistakes you know that I did in my past you know I want people grow

01:20:14: I want people I want people to become better than me

01:20:20: this is my goal. I am teaching people the stuff that they learn through many years

01:20:29: and through many mistakes you know so I want them to go without it you know to

01:20:36: go properly. if I know how so why should I not share it to the people? that's

01:20:42: actually why I really love to share to share to the people that's why it's like

01:20:45: traveling its a part of my life. I will travel till the rest of my life like if I don't have ...

01:20:50: you know I'm going to travel and to teach people i swear to god if I'm not gonna die

01:20:56: before so I like im going to do it. - Nice, nice, that's a good attitude. if you have to decide between

01:21:07: weighted like endurance and body weight or skills which which training method

01:21:15: would you do like if you have to if you are just allowed to use one? - No right now

01:21:20: my system are based only on the weight that I have some some trainings like

01:21:25: with the skills you know but it's only like once a month you know once in a few

01:21:30: weeks like something like that but no more. -

01:21:32: weighted, skills or body weight? - weighted brother weighted because right now like

01:21:40: everything is based on the weighted calisthenics so for example one day and doing lower

01:21:45: body another one I'm doing like weighted muscle ups, dragon flex, some

01:21:52: handstand push-ups on the next day I'm doing again legs then again weighted but

01:21:58: super sets then rest stretching like swimming whatever sauna then again like

01:22:05: some skills one arm front lever raises on like whatever then again legs

01:22:10: so like weighted you know but I'm doing everything you know sometimes if I

01:22:16: have no equipment then i have like just a simple bar so end up being body weight you know

01:22:21: so it's like favorite of course it's weighted you know because you can

01:22:27: become stronger you know but I work not on one rep I mean I also work on one rep

01:22:32: but not on the pull-ups and on the dips, only muscle-ups i working on the

01:22:38: one rep and other stuff I'm doing for example four reps with the 60, with the 80kg, with the 20kg

01:22:46: supersets or something like that you know. - Okay nice. If people want to reach

01:22:53: you if people want to get in touch with you how can they contact you like can

01:22:58: they write to you on instagram? - Yeah they can write me on instagram i always answer if it's like some smart questions you know. - "Can i get

01:23:09: a shoutout" that's the typical question. - oh shoutout aaaah. -

01:23:18: like people people who write to you can i get a shout out like i guess i I bet

01:23:23: that people also ask you that. - why not? - Okay, nice. so yeah we will put all the links

01:23:35: of Vadym in the description like YouTube Instagram Facebook you are not

01:23:41: that active right? - it's active, it's active. - Okay. - I will send you the links

01:23:50: for my social media I mean I don't know how to sell the link from my Instagram

01:23:55: so you have to do that by yourself.- Yeah we will do that! It's all good. -

01:24:01: People who wants to find me, they will find me you know. - That's true, nice, so we're coming to.. - I'm not living

01:24:10: in the shadow you know. - that's true, that's true, so we're coming to an end of the

01:24:17: interview, the interviews even and before you can end the episode Vadym I want to

01:24:23: say thank you to everybody listening to this till the end because I think now

01:24:27: it's around two hours this interview so it's crazy crazy long and so yeah

01:24:32: everybody who listens to this till the end it's it's crazy and yeah if you have

01:24:37: any questions to Vadym you can send him an Instagram message, follow him do

01:24:41: whatever you want but yeah thanks a lot for following thanks a lot for your time

01:24:46: Vadym, it's it's really a pleasure to talk to you and thanks a lot for time. - Thank you for

01:24:50: you all so much thank you so much and yeah so like shaking your hand bro, goodnight

01:25:03: well thank you once again for the interview was a pleasure for me and

01:25:06: thank you guys for watching us I hope you learned something and yeah I'm gonna

01:25:13: rise! So hard you know!