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Here are the videos of the 2013 Chinese Weightlifting Nationals. Looks Like Lu Haojie completely rehabbed his elbow. He was 2nd in the Snatch, with 170kg. Only 1kg behind Lu Xiaojun (videos below). If you find the results lists somewhere, please let me know. Update 2: Some of Liao Hui’s lifts and an interview here. [...]
On the latest Weightlifting Scoop Podcast Glenn Pendlay, Travis Cooper, James Tatum, and Tim Rawlings talk about their favorite recovery techniques. No miracles here. Eat well, prioritize sleep, live a stress free life and maybe get massages. Download: link to mp3 (22mb, right click + ‘save as’)
Akkaev gave an interview (here is the google translated version) about the current mess in Russian weightlifting. I know it’s a long one, but I encourage you to grab some popcorn and read the entire thing, it is pure gold. He really blows off some steam there. Here is an editable doc if you want to [...]
Vladislav Lukanin (2011 69kg European Champion) made a nice comeback from his 2 year ban. He won the 77kg of the 2013 Russian Weightlifting Championships. 156kg Snatch (at 13:00) + 195kg Clean & Jerk (at 1:13:00) for a 351kg total. Update: Lukanin vs Gobeev Edit. News Alexander Venkov (the new Russian coach for the men) talked [...]
Meanwhile in China … These guys had a fall national championship. The heavy hitters are missing, but still there are some very nice lifts. 77kg Clean & Jerk 69kg Snatch 69kg Clean & Jerk 62kg Snatch 62kg Clean & Jerk 56kg Snatch + Clean & Jerk Thanks to clamrice for submitting.
Meanwhile in China … Here is a CNTV news piece about the Chines weightlifting team in one of their winter training camps. It is from the 26th December 2012… so it is still fairly recent. As always, it would be greatly appreciated if you (or somebody you know) could translate what Lu Xiaojun and his yoked colleagues [...]
Here is the live stream of the 2013 Junior World Weightlifting Championships in Peru. Live Scoreboard is here. Start List PDF (not up to date, for example Clarence will not be lifting there) Schedule PDF (all Peru Times so convert here) Recordings of the previous sessions Results Chat Thanks to everybody who submitted this.
Tom Sroka from the Strength Agenda needs your help. He is collecting “Weightlifting Friendly Gyms”. Enter your gym here (or tell your gym owner about it, includes powerlifting gyms).
Before each session I will post links to the live streams on this page. Streams Results Official Results Book with Sinclair Lists (PDF) Recordings (first link goes to EasyWL for overview, ‘Snatch’ and ‘Clean & Jerk’ link to YouTube recordings) Men’s +105kg Snatch, Clean & Jerk Men’s 105kg Snatch, Clean & Jerk Men’s 94kg Snatch, Clean & Jerk [...]
Thanks to reader Tom who found the the list of the Chinese weightlifting team for London. Update: Found a fairly recent video from the Chinese training hall (with translation on the right). Men: 56kg: Wu Jingbiao 62kg: Zhang Jie 69kg: Lin Qingfeng 77kg: Lu Xiaojun, Lu Haojie 85kg: Lu Yong (So no Tang Deshang in the 69kg, no Su Dajin [...]
Phil Johnson seems to visit China’s weightlifting training halls every year. At the moment he is uploading tons of clips to his YouTube Channel – PJTrainer. Update: So apparently these are not new. Well, hopefully some of you still found them useful. Update: Phil commented and said most of these videos are from his 2010 [...]
This is just a quick shout out to the MDUSA guys. If you enjoyed the Weightlifting Talk podcast you will enjoy this one too. Check it out: The Weightlifting Scoop 15-20min episodes in which Glenn Pendlay, James Tatum, Travis Cooper and co discussing training nutrition and recovery.
Weightlifting on screen graphics have not changed in a while. The video below shows nice ideas, like: timer which is always shown instant bar weight instant referee decisions Your suggestions: What would you like to see? (Bonus points if you get creative and make a mockup of your idea)
Here is a little sneak peak into the Russian training camp in Chekhov from before the 2013 Europeans. Starring: Apti Aukhadov, Ruslan Albegov, Andrey Demanov and co.
I created a resource page for the 2013 European Weightlifting Championships with all the info you need. I will post links to live streams there. As always we will have a chat during all sessions. Hope to see you there. Here is the Link: allthingsgym.com/2013ewc
Finally here is a complete recording of the 2013 European Weightlifting Championships +105kg. For all the other recordings check the 2013 EWC Page.
Another round of weightlifting news that piled up last week. Russia In the city of Perm, Russia a Masters of Sports in Weightlifting has been caught smuggling steroids. Names have not yet been released. One of them was caught with 30 grams, the other with 2kg of potent substances. One of the detainees – a master [...]
Meanwhile in China … Here is another one of Phil Johnson’s Chinese weightlifting videos from the category ”Somewhere in China there is a little girl warming up with your max”. 105kg Clean & 2 Jerks by a Chinese 48kg lifter
Subscribe to the Weightlifting34 YouTube channel. This guy uploads a lot of the weightlifting news videos from CCTV/ CNTV. Check out this one of Lu Xiaojun with some snatchpulls and the so familiar side bends (at 3:20) Or this clip of the team getting ready for London.
Here are videos of the 2012 Chinese Weightlifting Nationals. 105kg Snatch: Clean & Jerk: 94kg Snatch: Clean & Jerk: 85kg Snatch: Clean & Jerk: 77kg with Lu Haojie’s 175 kg Snatch World Record Snatch: Clean & Jerk: with 17 year old Tian Tao attempting 211kg for a Clean & Jerk World Record 69kg Snatch: Clean & Jerk: 62kg [...]
