Way back on April 15 in the year 1992, Richard Sandrak was welcomed into this world in the country of Ukraine. He was born to world championship holder in the art of combat, Pavel Sandrak, and aerobics athlete Lena Sandrak. By the year 1994, his parents decided to uproot the family, moving to Pennsylvania. They did all this because they hoped that it would give a better opportunity in life for their son.
When they settled in Pennsylvania, his father started training Richard. He was just 2 years of age when his dad started making him get light weight training. Even at a very early age of training and working with lift weights, there was something about Richard that showed how good he was at it. This inevitably meant that he had a good chance of building a career in the future. Even at the tender age of 5 he would bench press 20 lbs.