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What an exciting weekend with USAW nationals! We had over 400 lifters registered equally split between male and female contenders. Each year, we find the number of athletes within this sport growing and also the number of athletes qualifying for national meets increasing. This is an exciting time for our sport.

Here’s a congratulations to my friends down at Superior Athletic Advantage (@crossfitsaa) — Mallory Rawlings (@malrawlings) — for competing in her first national meet. Mallory competed in the 58kg weight class and went 4/6 (62kg snatch, 77kg clean&jerk). Great job!

FuBarbell coach/athlete Kristin Newman (@strength_geek) at USAW nationals this weekend in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kristin (+75kg) did an outstanding 83kg snatch and 105kg clean&jerk for a total of 188. A big shout out and thanks to Jasha Faye of Jasha Faye weightlifting for helping coach Kristin through her session.

To catch the rest of this weekend’s events, head to:

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www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/LIVE

Typical day at the Chinese national training hall.

Video cred: @wuchuanfu

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The Chinese pride their pulls on being fast, smooth, and close to the body. It’s so rhythmic that this 63kg/138lbs lifter can make a 130kg/286lbs double look just as effortless as his 90kg/198lbs warm up. Being incredibly forward focused on their technique, the Chinese will not advance the weight in a training session unless the quality of the movement is precise.

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With all the technical variations that come with the different styles of lifting, one (of a few) things remain the same. Coaches want you to move from the legs to the torso to the shoulders to the arms. This sequence of movements allow for a proper “build up” of energy to flow to the bar. Lester Ho (@lesterhokw) is here again this week to help you wrap your brain behind the science of these events:

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“Lesson for today: Summation of Force.

Visily Polovnikov (@polovnikov105) back squatting an easy five at their weightlifting seminar down at Catalyst Athletics.

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Coach Jim Scmitz (@jimschmitz) catching a quick workout at The Sports Palace. Coach Schmitz has been lifting since the 60s and has long believed Olympic-style weightlifting is the best total body workout a person can receive demanding a high level of coordination, power, speed and strength. Still practicing what he preaches at the age of 68, Jim shows us that weightlifting can be beneficial (and fun!) for everyone that chooses to participate.

The Chinese are big on accessory work post practice and will often also use these movements to aide as active recovery for the body.

Want to understand the Chinese Weightlifting methodologies better? Diane Fu of FuBarbell has spent some time working with and studying Wu Chuanfu’s (@wuchuanfu) methodology and philosophies. Now she is doing a short mini-series of weekly emails introducing some key concepts of Chinese Weightlifting theory leading into Coach Wu’s seminar tour in the United States.