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85kg Warm Up Area 2015 World Weightlifting Championships Update Clean & Jerks

February 1, 2016 By Gregor Winter

Here are clips from the 85kg Warm Up Area at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships. It was pretty busy in there. You focus on one lifter and you miss 2 attempts happening behind your back. And before you know it you already have to rush back out to capture the last competition lifts. Let’s start […]

Lu Xiaojun Lateral Raises

January 30, 2016 By Gregor Winter

(Original Post from 2012, Updated) Lu Xiaojun with some lateral raises to grease those shoulders. Ok everybody, you know what that means, right? … Lateral raises Lu Raises, as they are called from now on, till your arms fall off today! Since these are clearly the secret behind his success. Update 30.01.2016: Lu Raises spotted in […]

Lu Xiaojun & Tian Tao 295kg Front Rack Holds 2015 Worlds

January 28, 2016 By Gregor Winter

From the 2015 World Championships Training Hall. After their Squat Session, Lu Xiaojun & Tian Tao worked up to 295kg Front Rack Holds. More: Lu Xiaojun Squatting 275kg Tian Tao Clean & Jerking 220kg Liao Hui’s 400kg Front Rack Hold

Mart Seim 380kg Squat

January 27, 2016 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in Estonia … On his road to 400kg, Mart Seim just squatted 380kg. Originally he planned to do 370kg x2 today. But since he didn’t feel (and sleep) well, he skipped morning training and went for the 380kg single instead. Update: A week later Mart Squatted 400kg!

Max Lang Clean and Snatch Pulls Tutorial

January 27, 2016 By Gregor Winter

“Zug Eng!” That’s not a Rammstein song, but German for Clean Pull (lit. translation “Pull Narrow”). In this video Max Lang goes over the first phase (“First Pull” – the pull to hips). Second Pull is the high pull to belly button / chest. He’ll cover that in his Snatch Pull video. Max emphasises: being able […]

Dadas Dadashbeyli 210kg Clean & Jerk Cross Step Save

January 26, 2016 By Gregor Winter

Here is Dadas Dadashbeyli (98.38kg) saving his 210kg Clean & Jerk opener. More: Watch his 190kg Power Clean

Daniyar Ismayilov 160kg Snatch 2015 Worlds Training Hall Full Session

January 25, 2016 By Gregor Winter

I think this was the heaviest (as in percentage of world record) lift that happened in the 2015 Worlds Training Hall. Correction: It wasn’t! Boyanka Kostova snatched up to 110kg in two separate training sessions, when the world record stood at 111kg. Daniyar Ismayilov (69kg, Turkey) snatching 160kg. That’s 96.3% of Liao Hui’s world record […]

Toshiki Yamamoto 300kg Squat + Heavy Front Squats

January 24, 2016 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in Japan … Toshiki Yamamoto (85kg) squats 300kg. Follow him on Instagram @toshikis160j200. 昨日載せた分が途中で切れてました(￣▽￣) 新しいの載せときます BSQT300 世界記録は93キロ級で303キロなのであともう少しです A video posted by 山本俊樹 Toshiki Yamamoto (@toshikis160j200) on Jan 25, 2016 at 3:13am PST Oh, and here is a 240kg Front Squat he did in the 2015 Asian Championships training hall. Not a PR […]

Arkadiusz Michalski 220kg Clean & Jerk 2015 Worlds Training Hall

January 23, 2016 By Gregor Winter

From the 2015 Worlds Training Hall … Arkadiusz Michalski (105kg, Poland) Clean & Jerking 220kg during his last heavy training session before worlds. Later in competition he opened with that weight. At the 2015 Europeans he won C&J gold with 227kg (Bronze in Total).