Viktor Blud is a strength athlete, armlifter, champion, blogger. He promotes the “old school” in training, which draws a lot of attention to his person.

Biography of Viktor Blud: footprint on Wikipedia

Victor is a native of St. Petersburg, where he was born on March 13, 1991. Until some time, the guy did not talk about how old he was and about other data of his biography. But with the advent of popularity, the strongman began to give interviews and tell small fragments of his formation.

Bashun is the real name of the athlete. In addition to the leaked certificate of the master of sports in armlifting in the international class, where Victor’s real name is indicated, his name also appeared on the Wikipedia page of this sport in the records section. At the same WAA level, Blud is recognized as the world record holder in the 90 kg division.

The path to the “Old School Strongman”

According to some reports, Victor was brought up without a father. He also has a sister, Zinaida, and a brother, Dmitry. After school, the future armlifter studied at the Art Lyceum, and then entered the University of Physical Culture. P.F. Lesgaft. Graduated from the faculty of coaching and received a bachelor’s degree. Between studies and after it, the guy earned money wherever he could – as a cashier at McDonald’s, a laborer at a construction site, a model, a distributor of leaflets on the street and a security guard at a club.

In terms of sports, Victor has been involved in various areas since childhood – from athletics to karate. In the latter form, he achieved good success and has a brown belt. Between that was wrestling and boxing. In 2013, fate brought the young strongman together with Alexander Zass, who became the motivator for the transition to power sports. Then a duet was organized with Alexander Kapralov. After a series of successful performances with this athlete, a whole culture of “Strongmen of the old school” has been created.

This concept includes strong people – and not only with powerful biceps and back, but also owners of an incomparable inner spirit. It was these strongmen who performed at the time of Tsarist Russia in the circus arenas, who juggled pood weights like tennis balls. Victor wanted to achieve such a state of the body and began training.

On the net, on his personal YouTube channel, you can see how unrealistic this guy tears a horseshoe or lifts adults on his forearm, like a light pillow or a bag of groceries. In addition to being famous on the Internet, Blud and his like-minded people began to tour Russia and perform at events.

Viktor Blud: training and records

For 7 years of hard and monotonous work, Victor has significantly gained weight, pumped up his neck and easily lifts a weight with his teeth and throws it back over his head without the help of his hands. He has more than a dozen personal records, including 3 pushes with each hand with a 50 kg kettlebell. The basis of training for the reference press and the “steel” back, he laid down an individual nutrition schedule and a special exercise regimen. His programs are available online. Blud also conducts author’s marathons, creates video tutorials and teaches athletes the proper development of the body.

Alexey Shredder and Goga Tupuria became partners of the long-awaited sparring at different times. Multi-series releases of joint preparations for powerful battles, as well as the fights themselves, have collected hundreds of thousands of views. In addition, Blud is a permanent coach at the St. Petersburg club “Neva”, from the hall of which videos are often published on his Instagram.

Some facts about Victor

Fornication did not serve in the army because of the diagnosis – astigmatism. In some videos and stories, he can be seen wearing glasses, since one eye of the athlete sees very poorly.

The representative of the bodybuilder’s ideal body loves tattoos. One of the ornaments of his powerful chest is a pierced ram with a ferocious look.

One of the distinguishing assets of Victor’s appearance was the mustache, which is dedicated to a whole section of stories with the hashtag “mustache of order”. And the old Slavic style of “curls” and a toothpick sticking out of the mouth gives the young hero even more brutality and charm.

Strongman releases his own merch, which has a separate account on the BloodShop Instagram. Most of the items in the store are made in the “boy” style – fashionable fanny packs, caps, tracksuits with matching prints.

Due to the created image of an admirer of Tsarist Russia, as well as thanks to a recently shaved head, some Internet users began to call Blud a Nazi. The guy himself does not comment on such suspicions.

According to many of Victor’s statements, his body condition and voluminous muscles are only exercises and a training system. He does not accept any additional funds. As proof, he even released a video “Chemist or straight?”, In which he openly takes a blood test for doping.

A separate place in the biography of the armlifter is occupied by a dog of a fighting breed named Cyclone. The dog accompanies the owner to workouts in the gym and on long trips to work meetings with fans.

Does Viktor Blud have a girlfriend or wife

For a long time, rumors circulated around the personal life of a colorful strongman. It was discussed on social networks that Victor has a girlfriend, but he does not show her. And only in May 2020, an Instagram post with the caption “young dad’s diary” delighted Blud’s subscribers. By the way, his audience in total counts already more than 2.3 million people, or, as he himself calls them, “pies”. Of these, Tik Tok alone has 1.3 million viewers.

The cute video shows a little daughter sitting quietly on her dad’s back while he does push-ups. Thus, the athlete’s fans learned about his marital status. However, Victor does not tell about the mother of his child and whether she is his official wife.

Viktor Blud now

The strongman continues to develop his YouTube channel and Instagram page. New videos are released at regular intervals. It offers subscribers to purchase their own merch and sports nutrition. Victor does not report on new projects and plans.