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Lu Xiaojun Snatch Warm Up Area 2018 World Championships

February 14, 2019 By Gregor Winter

Here is a world’s first: an edit of Lu Xiaojun’s snatch warm up at worlds—in 4k Watch him go from empty barbell (with some pretty sweet bar drops) to 160kg before going on the main stage to snatch 172kg! All in 4k glory. To give a sense of where we are in the competition I also included a […]

2019 EGAT Cup Thailand Live Stream

February 7, 2019 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in Thailand… Here is the next qualification event for Tokyo 2020—The EGAT’s Cup International Weightlifting Championships 2019. Start List PDF Recordings on the Thai WL YouTube Channel Results China sent a women’s team with some big names like Jiang Huihua, Huang Ting and even Kang Yue. Kianoush Rostami is on the list. Itokazu and Miyamoto, […]

The Lift That Launched a Thousand Ships: Rebeka Koha’s Jerk

February 3, 2019 By Dr. Boffa

As part of an ongoing effort to provide high quality Olympic weightlifting content, we here at ATG headquarters are going to spend some time analyzing one of the best jerks around: that of Rebeka Koha. Not only that, to learn more about her approach we went straight to the source, talking with Koha herself and her coach Eduards […]

ATG Patreon Posters for February 2019: Mohamed Ehab 173kg Snatch Pull + Mattie Rogers 105kg Snatch Sequence

February 3, 2019 By Gregor Winter

Here are the ATG Patreon reward posters for February 2019! A sequence of Mattie Rogers’ 105kg Snatch & a still of Mohamed Ehabs 173kg Snatch Pull Extension. ATG Patrons at the $10 level get access to the still photo. $20+ level patrons get access to the sequence, as well as still photo. They can download the high […]

Chinese Weightlifting Team 2019 Winter Training with Lu Xiaojun & Tian Tao

January 30, 2019 By Gregor Winter

As every year CCTV does their bi yearly check in with the chinese weightlifting team. This one focuses on Tian Tao and Lu xiaojun. See here, here or here for past episodes Thanks to Sean for sending this in and translating. Subtitles are available now. Press the “CC” button in the player. Lu Xiaojun Video […]

The ATG Guide to Olympic Qualification

January 24, 2019 By Dr. Boffa

So you want to go to the Olympics? Demystifying the IWF qualification system for Tokyo 2020 TL;DR: to go to the Olympics, be as high on the ranking list as possible. The ranking list doesn’t care about weight class. Spots are given based off this list. Update 05.05.2021: With less than 80 days the IWF […]

Lu Xiaojun 202kg Clean & Squat Jerk Slow Motion 2018 World Championships

January 17, 2019 By Gregor Winter

Here are Lu Xiaojun’s clean and squat jerks from worlds 2018! 197kg 202kg (which turned out to be enough to win his 4th world championships title) x205 “attempt” ATG Patrons had early access. Starting at just $1 a month patrons get early access to new ATG videos. Watch his 172kg snatch slow mo edit here. More: […]

Tian Tao’s 295kg / 650lbs Squat Session w/ 195kg C&J 2018 World Championships Training Hall

January 10, 2019 By Gregor Winter

Here is Tian Tao’s “Heavy” Squat Session in the 2018 worlds training hall. Squats up to 295kg! Front Rack Holds with 350kg! 195kg Clean & Jerk! Handstand Push Ups at 96kg! lots of them! 20kg Back Extension holds to finish the session. Additional Clean & Jerk clips were kindly provided by Dr. Boffa of thehumancircus.hookgrip.com […]

Clarence Kennedy 306kg Pause Squat

January 10, 2019 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in Ireland … Clarence Kennedy pause squats 306kg! As he mentioned in his ATG squat video, he has done as much as 310kg paused! Clarence’s ATG Squat Video