Gregor Winter, Author at All Things Gym

Lu Xiaojun Bottom Up Overhead Squats Update 220kg

November 20, 2014 By Gregor Winter

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 […]

Aleksey Lovchev 257kg Clean & Jerk Almaty 2014 World Championships

November 19, 2014 By Gregor Winter

2014 World Championships Highlight … Aleksey Lovchev’s 257kg Gold Medal Clean & Jerk. Yes he had a bad day in the Snatch (his 195kg Snatch in the warm up area had us hoping for a good session), but this 257kg in my opinion made up for it in my book. 257kg is even 1kg heavier than […]

Weightlifting News – Video Evidence & International Competitions in North Korea

November 19, 2014 By Gregor Winter

Quick News Update, so we are all on the same page. Video Evidence to Avoid Judging Errors (via): Remember when Simplice Ribouem (Australia) was denied a gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games because of a judging error? Of course that was just one of the major errors in recent times Well, the IWF reacted […]

Vladimir Sedov 188kg Snatch 2014 Worlds

November 19, 2014 By Gregor Winter

One of the best lifts from the 2014 World Championships. Vladimir Sedov‘s 188kg Snatch that earned him the Snatch Gold Medal in the 94kg category. This lift ties Kakhi Kakhiashvili’s Snatch World Record from 1999. In this video I added a little slow mo. You can find the real time version here. More from the 94kg Session at […]

Dietmar Wolf Interview (Coach of Carl Yngvar Christensen)

November 19, 2014 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in the in Powerlifting land … Here’s an Interview with Dietmar Wolf, who is the coach of the Norwegian Powerlifting team. This interview was recorded when his athlete Carl Yngvar Christensen set a new single ply world record at the 2014 IPF World Championships. What’s interesting about the “Norwegian System” is the high frequency […]

Apti Aukhadov 205kg Clean & Jerk Photo

November 18, 2014 By Gregor Winter

Here is my shot of Apti Aukhadov’s 205kg Clean & Jerk opener at the 2014 Worlds. This was his only successful Clean & Jerk (he missed 213 twice). Let’s wish him a happy birthday (today, November 18th, he turns 22) and hope he will have less trouble with injuries in the upcoming year. More: Watch […]

Tatiana Kashirina 155kg Snatch 193kg Clean & Jerk World Records

November 17, 2014 By Gregor Winter

(Video also on Facebook in case you want to share it there) Tatiana Kashirina had a grand slam victory at the World Weightlifting Championship 2014 with 5 new World Records! Her biggest competition was Meng Suping who fell short of the World Records, but got a new competition PR. Tatiana posted 145kg as her starting weight in the Snatch, continued with 152kg to break […]

Simon Martirosyan 183kg Snatch World Record

November 16, 2014 By Gregor Winter

You might have heard of Simon Martirosyan from the Youth Olympics earlier this year when he attempted to break his own Snatch record and set a new Clean and Jerk record. Today at his first senior worlds championships he sets a new world record snatch. He made a gutsy attempt at breaking the total world […]

Matthias Steiner Reflects 2008 Beijing Olympics

November 15, 2014 By Gregor Winter

Here is nice edit of Matthias Steiner reflecting on his 2008 Olympic success from the Olympics Channel. Just incredible to relive that moment with him. About his epic last Clean & Jerk (258kg) attempt he says: The very best athletes are distinguished by one thing. They compete lots of times, but they only have a few where they have one […]