#287 Overcoming Injuries & Adversity | Ilya Khazov, Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 156 minutes
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Welcome to another podcast episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk. Today's guest is Ilya Khazov.
Ilya Khazov, born in Russia and a long-term resident of Cyprus, has made a significant mark in strongman competitions. He set a Guinness world record on Italian TV for rope jumping while holding an 80kg anvil, a challenge he prepared for with rigorous training that now forms part of his weekly routine.
Ilya competed in multiple Strongman Champions League (SCL) events in 2022, achieving notable placements and setting records, such as lifting a 360kg front loader in Finland. Despite suffering serious injuries, including a career-threatening bicep tear, he remains focused on competing at the highest levels, including the upcoming World's Strongest Man.
Ilya's athletic endeavors extend beyond strongman competitions to martial arts and professional paintball, where his team placed third in Europe. When not competing, he enjoys playing competitive PC games and solving escape rooms with his wife, Lily.
Ilya's IG: https://www.instagram.com/ilyakhazov.strongman/
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| 0:00.0 | And over the next two, three days, the pain kept getting more and more intense. |
| 0:03.4 | In the back? |
| 0:04.2 | Yeah, in the back. |
| 0:05.0 | To the point where I couldn't breathe from the pain. |
| 0:07.9 | I was lying on the floor, just trying to find a comfortable spot. |
| 0:12.6 | Now, are you thinking this is just still low back pain? |
| 0:16.2 | I was starting to suspect that it's probably not just a pain in the back. |
| 0:20.0 | You could breathe though, right? |
| 0:21.7 | Yeah, I could breathe, but it was painful to breathe. |
| 0:28.2 | It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. Welcome to Table Talk. Today, my guest is Ilya Hasoff. Yep. Right. And where I'm going to start |
| 0:41.9 | here is 2020, you know, the world's locked down. You end up in a strongman competition |
| 0:50.1 | with Big Z. the breakfast you know |
| 0:55.0 | you um |
| 0:55.8 | there's pancakes and |
| 0:58.7 | bacon |
| 0:59.4 | and eggs |
| 1:00.6 | and eggs |
| 1:01.4 | a lot of eggs |
| 1:02.0 | so tell me about that |
| 1:03.6 | how that was |
| 1:05.0 | I need the whole story |
| 1:06.6 | because what I got was abbreviated |
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