Bogdan presented us his training plan. Our questions were also answered by his coaches and consultants – Dmitry Golovinskiy, Vladimir Nichnik and Dmitry Bondarenko.

Who’s idea was it to record those videos? What was the goal of them?

Bogdan: it was my idea to create the blog and the rest of the guys were against it at the beginning. Then they realized that this kind of thing could be useful to other people interested in armwrestling.

At present, my coach is Dmitry Bondarenko, and Vladimir Nichik is helping me with his knowledge and experience. The training is realized by the methods described in the articles and other texts by Dmitry Golovinsky.

Why have you decided to change your fighting style?

Bogdan: it hasn’t changed that much, I just tweaked it a little, made it better.

What control methods are you going to use?

Dmitry Bondarenko: the main method of technique control will be using its usefulness to the movement in a fight.

Usually sportsmen don’t want to share their training plans and secrets.

Why did you decide to do that?

Bogdan: in truth, I was never a man who put himself on a pedestal, I never had any secrets. I believe our sport will be better if we have more data to analyze, more material to study. A sportsman’s training plan is their individual matter, taking into consideration individual factors: anthropometric, genetic, stamina, technique, strong and weak aspects. Copying another person’s plan will lead us nowhere, it can actually do us harm.

There is a lot of “experts” in the internet. How do you react to criticism? Do you plan on making any changes in your training schedule?

Dmitry Golovinsky: of course, there will always be “trolls” and “experts”, know-it-alls. I try to look sensibly an all comments . Sometimes people write really valuable stuff. But of course, there is much more silly, “trolling” stuff out there than the valuable content.

Bogdan, do you use supplements?

Bogdan: yes, I use joint supplements, such as: Cissus, Joint Men, Omega EFA and multivitamins.

What do you expect from the World Championships?

Well, if you go there, you usually go to win!

Anastazja Kisilyova