Everyone who at least once touched on the topic of bodybuilding or at least once dreamed of an athletic physique, with a high degree of probability heard about Alexander Tikhomirov. This is a very controversial person, which causes more criticism than support. His activity can be evaluated as you like, but let's go over the facts a bit.
Road in sports
Alexander Tikhomirov is an athlete from the Ivanovo region. He attracted attention to himself repeatedly and loudly. Nothing is known about his past.
What does today:
- occasionally performs at bodybuilding competitions;
- actively PR at all events related to fitness;
- gives lectures on hormonal supplements for athletes;
- implements various sports supplements.
Married to Elizabeth Tikhomirova - a girl with a strong spirit. No kids.
Literacy
Initially, like all sports bloggers, Alexander Tikhomirov began to fight sports nihilism among the population. The fact is that a few years ago, training in bodybuilding was not familiar to most people. Sports nutrition was considered something harmful and dangerous, someone still believes that cans of protein powder contain the real chemistry.
The athlete began with good educational videos. There, the viewer could see how the myths about sports nutrition are debunked, and also get acquainted with several exercises for training in bodybuilding. They treated this content differently until it became clear that Tikhomirov was reading out all the materials from one well-known sports site.
Like any athlete, at some point our hero faced a choice - to continue natural training or to become on the slippery path of hormonal doping. And so began the path of Alexander Tikhomirov to the title of a kind of antihero of the world of Russian bodybuilding.
Steroid Cuming Out
As a bodybuilder, Alexander Tikhomirov can cause any associations and thoughts. In general, the sports community agrees unanimously - this guy does not have courage.
As you know, the sale and purchase of anabolic steroids, as well as injections of testosterone is outlawed today. A certain amount for sale can become a reason for criminal prosecution according to one of the "drug addict" articles and send to places not so remote for a very long and real time. But to achieve serious results, like Arnold or Jay Cutler, without additional "outside support" will not work.
In this connection, for representatives of the sports community who love to raise iron, the purchase of some forbidden sports supplements has turned into a kind of quest that no one can tell about.
But Alexander Tikhomirov went the farthest. He began to lecture on the benefits of steroids.
The athlete also talked about how to use the additives correctly, what is the difference between one and the other, what consequences can be from this. Steroids Alexander Tikhomirov does not consider something forbidden and harmful. He also knows that up to a certain age you cannot invade the endocrine system, but he is skeptical about the ban. Thus, he professes a certain medical nihilism, rejecting all the traditional medical postulates that the human hormonal system is in a very fragile balance, which can be disturbed by grossly interfering in it.
The most interesting thing is that Alexander Tikhomirov openly declares that he can buy growth hormones from him. Fatal courage or fantastic desperation? Obviously, no one can explain what this natural phenomenon is in the human mind.
Fight "without rules"
As already mentioned, our hero did not shun any actions to promote his own personal brand. Once he said that he would perform at the Moscow Open Bodybuilding Championship and would certainly win. As a result, it all ended only with guest posing, but Tikhomirov did not participate in the competitive part. But he managed to make such a noise that everyone close to the world of “iron” sports didn’t stop talking about him.
But the most striking PR action was a real fight without rules with Vadim Ivanov. Brewed this porridge, it is worth noting the latter in order to promote its sports nutrition store.
The logical result of the match was the technical defeat of Tikhomirov in the first round. Vadim Ivanov knocked down his opponent, turned the fight into a low ground and inflicted several crushing blows to his face. Our hero had no choice but to cover his face with his hands and wait for salvation from the judge. The moral is the same - you should not participate in any fights without proper preparation.
Conflicts with famous people
Alexander Tikhomirov has become a kind of antagonist in the world of bodybuilding. His reputation is characterized only as scandalous. And it seems that all representatives of "iron sport" expressed criticism against him.
One of the most striking conflicts occurred with Maxim Martsinkevich, a Russian nationalist convicted of extremism. Differences of opinion on one of the joint projects led to the fact that Maxim promised a reward to anyone who would arrange a humiliating reprisal against Tikhomirov. But, fortunately, the threat remained unrealized.