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Chinese Weightlifting Men’s 2015 Winter Training *Update* Part 2 Wu Jingbiao 135kg Snatch

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Meanwhile in China … Quick clip from the Chinese winter training camp (where Tian Tao also C&Jed 220kg). Update: Part 2 with Wu Jingbiao Snatching 135kg! Also Ding Jianjun 170kg Front Squat, Li Fabin 170kg Jerk, Lu Haojie 140kg Snatch, Zhang Jie 190kg Front Squat. Translation of Part 2 Thanks to Tim> Narrator: Every year […]

Lu Xiaojun Bottom Up Overhead Squats *Update* 220kg

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Meanwhile in China … Lu Xiaojun does Bottom-up Overhead Squats (Dead Overhead Squats) with 180kg. Here, Lu Xiaojun is using this movement during a mid-week session to train his support strength and practice his balance in the catch position. Notice how he finds his balance point before standing. (via Ma Strength) Update 21.01.2015: Liao Hui does it with […]

Lu Xiaojun Back Exercise “Lu Rows”

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Over at his blog Rob Macklem posted this sequence of Lu Xiaojun getting his Back Pump on in the worlds training hall. Usually I am not a fan of naming exercises after athletes, but “Round Back Deficit Snatch Grip Deadlift Row” is just too long. So I’m just going to call them Lu Rows for now (since “Chinese Rows” is already taken) . From […]

Lu Xiaojun 175kg Snatch + 200kg Clean & Jerk 2014 Asian Games *Update* Short Interview

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Meanwhile in Korea … at the 2014 Asian Games. Here are Lu Xiaojun’s lifts from the 77kg Session: It started out pretty normal. He went 3/3 in the Snatch with 165, 170 and 175. All lifts very solid. In the Clean & Jerk however he missed his first two attempts at 200kg! Luckily he made his […]

Lu Xiaojun Documentary + Interview with English Subtitles

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Thanks to Ma Strength we get some subtitles on a short Lu Xuaojun documentary and a longer interview he did on CCTV. The first video is  more like a quick portrait, but nevertheless sheds some light on how and when he started weightlifting. (Spoiler: He started with 13 and not 19, as was the rumor). Transcript In […]

Current Snatch and Clean & Jerk World Records

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Here is a compilation of the current men’s Snatch World Records. Update 18.11.2014: Updated videos with world records set at the 2014 Worlds Snatch Records Clean & Jerk Records 56kg: 138 kg Halil Mutlu 62kg: 153 kg Shi Zhiyong 69kg: 165 kg Georgi Markov 77kg: 176 kg Lu Xiaojun 85kg: 187 kg Andrei Rybakou 94kg: […]