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Liao Hui 198kg Clean & Jerk World Record

October 23, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile at the 2013 Worlds in Poland … Liao Hui took the 69kg Clean & Jerk and Total World Record. Snatch:155kg, 160kg, x166kg Clean & Jerk: 186kg, 195kg, 198kg Watch it in glorious slow motion (or in full speed here at 53:00). Update: Here is HookGrip’s Sequence of it. For Recordings of the 69kg session […]

Lu Xiaojun 260kg Paused Squat in 2013 Worlds Training Hall

October 20, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in Poland … Lu Xiaojun Pause Squats 260kg in the 2013 Worlds Training Hall. Update: See Lu’s 176kg Snatch World Record here. Video comes again from David Boffa, who also wrote about it here.

Lu Xiaojun & Liao Hui 2013 Worlds Training Hall

October 19, 2013 By Gregor Winter

First video from the 2013 Worlds training hall comes from David Boffa. Lu Xiaojun, Liao Hui and (Tian Tao ?)at work. Muscle Snatches, Snatch High Pulls and 170kg x3 Deficit Snatch Grip Deadlifts. More: Lu Xiaojun Barbell Side Bends in the 2011 Worlds Training Hall Lu Xiaojun 160kg Snatch High Pulls Liao Hui at the 2013 Chinese […]

Weighted Reverse Plank

October 4, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in China … You know that planks (like all static exercises) don’t rank particularly high on my favorite exercises list. That is unless they are done with extra weight of course. We saw planks in different variations here, here or even one from Ilya here. One variation that was missing was the Weighted Reverse Plank: […]

2013 Chinese National Games Weightlifting

September 9, 2013 By Gregor Winter

After we saw the ladies perform on a world class level, let’s take a look at the In the 2013 Chinese National Games Men’s Weightlifting. Men +105kg Results here Ai Yunan won with 195+240 Clean & Jerk Video 105kg Results here Yang Zhe 180/215/395 Jiang Yunlong 185/210/395 (bw) 94kg Results here Li Bing 171/216/387 Liu […]

Lu Xiaojun & Liao Hui Heavy Weighted Dips & Human Flag

September 7, 2013 By Gregor Winter

(Originally posted July 28, 2013) Meanwhile in China … You already know about the use of bodyweight /gymnastics exercises by Chinese weightlifters (see their weighted Handstands for example). In the video today you will see Lu Xiaojun & Liao Hui doing Human Flags and heavy Weighted Dips. Lu does dips with 75kg and Tian Tao (田涛) […]

Yue Kang 130kg Snatch +160kg Clean & Jerk 2013 Chinese National Games

September 6, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in China at the 2013 Chinese National Games … After we saw Li Yajun unofficial Snatch world record here is 21 year old Yue Kang with another fantastic performance. She lifted 130kg in the Snatch and 160kg in the Clean and Jerk for a new Chinese national record. By the way, this would have also […]

Tan Yayun 93kg Snatch + 121kg Clean & Jerk at 48kg

September 6, 2013 By Gregor Winter

And another one from the 2013 Chinese Nationals Games. In the 48kg 20 year old Tan Yayun took the gold. 93kg Snatch and 121kg Clean & Jerk on the second attempt which equals Nurcan Taylan’s world record. She skipped her 3rd C&J attempt.

Tian Tao 280kg x2 Squat

September 4, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile Last year in China … Tian Tao (17 y/o 77kg in the video, now 85kg) Squats 280kg for a double! Learn more about Chinese Weightlifting in Larry’s Article Series. Also see his short interview here. And in case you have not seen the 215kg attempt I shared on the ATG Facebook Page the other day, […]