Accessory work accounts for the majority of training volume, and so watching it being performed reveals a lot about the athlete. This session, from the 2019 World Championships, was less than 24 hours after snatching 210kg / 462lbs and clean and jerking 255kg / 561lbs. Lifts Performed Muscle Snatch – 140kg / 308lbs Lasha Pulls […]
Harrison Maurus, the talented young US 81, and Antonino Pizzolato, the Italian powerhouse, battled ‘each other’ at the Roma Cup last year.
At 36 years of age, Lu Xiaojun exceeded the World Record yet again in training. Clarence Kennedy graced us with some highlights from his last few months of training, and WADA has forced the IWF’s hand to start on the path of retesting 130 hidden samples. Timestamp: 00:00 – Intro01:06 – 130 Hidden Doping Results03:43 […]
This week, Georgia’s Lasha Talakhadze (+109) hit the heaviest snatch ever recorded on film at 222kg / 489/lbs during a national test event. Alongside a 255kg clean and jerk, Lasha totaled 477kg, a weight that only he has ever beating internationally in the history of the sport. Prior, the heaviest snatch ever recorded in competition, […]
This is a training session from the 2019 World Championships training hall, less than one week out from competition. Meso Hassona (QAT 96) worked up to a training lift in the clean and jerk at 220kg, the heaviest training lift from any 96kg lifter in the training hall, and a lift that only one other […]
Here is this week’s update on the sport of Weightlifting – 03/09/20 Time Stamps 00:00 – Intro00:19 – The Glenn Pendlay Method02:19 – Shi Zhiyong’s Ridiculous Hops04:40 – Liang Xiaou Mei’s 110kg Hang Snatch05:25 – Huang Minhao’s 150kg Snatch06:05 – Lu Delin’s 175kg Snatch08:45 – Ali Reza Soleimani’s 200kg PC+Jerk09:04 – Meso Hasona’s 200kg Clean […]
Have you ever wanted to know what it feels like to lift the gold medal-winning lift over your head at the Olympics? Oleksiy Torokhtiy (UKR) spoke to us about that very moment from the 2012 Olympic Games where he took the gold in the -105 kg weight class with a 185 kg snatch and a […]
If you want to know what type of training session proceeds a 210kg snatch and a 255kg clean and jerk – the heaviest training hall total of all time – this is it. This is the session that sets the next in motion, and so though it doesn’t contain any full lifts, the success of […]
This is part one in the new Weightlifting House YouTube series where we take you into the most competitive, most elite training hall in the world at the Weightlifting World Championships 2019. Each day hundreds of the greatest weightlifters in the world, and a small handful of the greatest of all-time, train side by side, […]
Two days before becoming a three-time world champion, Olympic Champion Shi Zhiyong (73 CHN) hit a session in the training hall comprised of heavy snatch pulls and snatch deadlifts, up to 230kg. One platform over was teammate Li Dayin (81 CHN) who completed clean and jerks, front squats, and snatches. By Robi points, these to […]