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2012 Chinese Fall National Weightlifting Championships

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Meanwhile in China … at the 2012 Chinese Fall National Weightlifting Championships. The heavy hitters are missing, but still there are some very nice lifts. Men 85kg Zhang Huacong 167/198/365 Lu Changliang 157/204/361 Huang Zhong 166/195/361 (bw) Guan Xiaobiao 160/200/360 He Lin 159/199/358 Pang Dong 157/196/353 Liu Chun 160/190/350 Zhang Ke 160/190/350 (bw) Cao Gang 165/202x/DNT […]

Pawel Najdek Interview

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Head on over to Weightlifting Fix. Clarence did an interview with his coach Pawel Najdek. We trained a program that was very similar to Bulgarian training methods. (Szewczyk was a good friend of Abadzijev) training was very difficult and required a complete subordination of all life to weightlifting training. But this is the only way to […]

Andrey Molchanov 205kg Clean & Jerk

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Here is a nice lift by Andrey Molchanov (85kg). 205kg Clean & Jerk lifted in 2010 at the Italian & RSA Senior Championships, Grigoriy Novak Memorial. He went 165kg/ 205kg there. Anybody know about the whereabouts of this guy? I couldn’t any info about him. It doesn’t help that there is a prominent Russian mafia […]

Kelly Starrett Hip Prep Warm Up

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Here is a 2010 Kelly Starrett with a nice hip warm-up sequence. Maybe you find a movement you can incorporate into your warm-up. For me it was the duck walks. I have not done these in a long time. Try the advanced version if you can: hold a barbell overhead while duck walking. Heard Glenn […]

Let Sargis Martirosyan Compete!

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I recently came across the story of  Armenian born weightlifter Sargis Martirosyan (94kg). He lifts some impressive numbers (see videos below). So you might ask why haven’t we seen him in London or at the Europeans? The answer is politics. As of 2005 he is residing in Austria. First as an asylum seeker, now as […]

Full Knee Extension Mobility WOD

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From the category “things you didn’t know you were lacking”. Kelly Starrett talks about terminal knee extension. The Problem: knee can’t fully extend, is flexed all the time. Check out more drills on Mobility 101. The Fix with band distraction and tibia internal rotation. Doing extra work with a voodoo compression band.