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Chad Vaughn has a Blog

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Sort of. Chad is a coach for CrossFit CenTex where he writes a blog post every once in a while. In part 1 of his “Do You CrossFit?” series he describes his  struggle with not competing at the Pan Ams this year and where he sees CrossFit fitting into his training. CrossFit has a unique, weakness exposing ability, and then […]

Official London 2012 Game Weightlifting Game Play

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Bwahaha, check out the game play of the official London 2012 Weightlifting video game. Especially the flawless 2nd attempt. Thanks for sharing Lester. Update: Interesting side note: Damon Kelly did the weights dropping on the platform sounds in his gym. And the platform is the one Leonid Taranenko lifted the 266kg Clean & Jerk on.

Polish Weightlifting Team for London

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Thanks to reader Markus for submitting this news. Tomasz Zielinski won the XVII Memoriał Waldemara Malaka Competition in Gdansk/Poland last weekend (results PDF). He did 171kg/215kg with BW 95,9kg and got the last ticket for London (video below). Polish Olympic Weightlifting Team: 77kg: Krzysztof Zwarycz 85kg: Adrian Zielinski, Krystian Sroka 94kg: Tomasz Zielinski 105kg: Bartlomiej Bonk, Marcin Dolega […]

Hysen Pulaku 150kg Clean + Overhead Squat

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Finally a new Hysen Pulaku clip! Watch this super smooth combination. 150kg Clean + Overhead Squat. Thruster 2.0? Hysen lifting the equivalent of an NFL offensive lineman, like Holly Mangold’s brother, Nick, of the NY Jets, over his head and then squatting. How many NFL players could do this? Zero. (via) Oh, and while we’re talking […]

Weightlifting Talk Ep.3 with Glenn Pendlay

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On Weightlifting Talk Episode 3 Donny Shankle & Jon North have Glenn Pendlay on the show and answer listener questions. [1:25:30] Glenn’s take on the low bar back squat depate from episode 2. you want to develop strength in the positions you use high bar squat has good transfer to other exercises if you are a strong […]

Lu Yong’s Road to London 2012

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Thanks to Clarence K for uploading some news pieces about Lu Yong’s road to the 2012 Olympics. And thanks to YouTube commenter shawncheng8 we get an English translation. It begins with a recap of his last lift in the 2008 Olympics and the red light situation with his second to last C&J, which I won’t bother translating. Lu Yong: […]