Squatting varied depending on athlete weakness. To lift big you have to be strong and the chinese have strong legs, could you give an example of a typical squat session or leg strength session and was there any thing you picked up on technique (also you thoughts on how they have got to the point they are so strong that they can squat like 3x there BW)? A lot of western science says 3-5 min between heavy sets but that was unheard of in China even with heavy squats or pulls. Personally, my training has improved vastly with shorter rest periods. In general though rest was short around 60-90 secs, this was much different than what you might read in western strength books. Once again it was all dependant on the athlete. Up to 2 mins rest was mostly at 85-90%+ plus. The girls tend to rest a bit less 1-2 mins and even less on the warmup sets. A lot of it is done by athletes feel so there is no set amount of rest. Rest periods are surprisingly short between sets and reps.

We know the Chinese weightlifters train at high intensity, how long usually are there rest periods between each lift or pull etc? I believe with proper recruitment, training and a lot of competition they are able to achieve the results. Winning Chinese nationals is seen as great prestige because the athletes know if they win Nationally, they can easily win at an international venue because Chinese nationals are very competitive. Lastly, the weak is weeded out by putting athletes through years of rigorous and HARD training. They are successful for many reasons, they recruit early, provide support and proper development to the athlete. I believe the Chinese dominance is multi-faceted. Yatin expresses, “I wanted to learn their ways and why the Chinese are so dominant.”įrom looking back at your experience in China, what do you think the main reasons why they are so successful at weightlifting in relevance to their training? He says “I think i got lucky with the timing and i am very thankful to him for letting me have the opportunity.” Since he started weightlifting 3 years ago he’d always watched the Chinese weightlifters and wondered about their training so when the opportunity came, he was more than happy to take it. Coach Jianping Ma was leading a delegation of athletes to China and he happened to get a spot. He got the opportunity to go to China through his coach. We spoke to Yatin Parasher, a 25 year old Canadian Weightlifter, who competes provincially and nationally.

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Tao put on an amazing performance, setting a new world record for the clean and jerk in the -96 kg weight class, lifting 231 kg at the third attempt, with a 406 kg total. In July 2019, the tournament Ready Steady Tokyo was used as a test run for many athletes ahead of the Tokyo Olympic games. In the 2019 Asian Championships in Ningbo, again he won gold in the 96 kg category. In the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon in the -85 Kg categories he won a gold. In the World Championships in the -96 kg category in 2018 in Ashgabat, he won silver and the following year in Pattaya he won gold. Some of Tao’s most significant achievements include winning a silver medal in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the -85 kg category. He started weightlifting in Changyang at age 10 and at the age of just 17 in October 2011 he won the -77 kg category of the Chinese Intercity games, raising his profile nationally. He competes in the -96 kg category and his club is Hubei Province, the esteemed coach, Yu Jie, coaches him. His height is 5ft 8 inches and his weight is 211 lb. Tian Tao is a Chinese athlete competing for his country in weightlifting.

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