Lü Xiaojun (Chinese: 吕小军; pinyin: Lǚ Xiǎojūn; born 27 July 1984) is a Chinese weightlifter. He is an Olympic champion and five time world champion competing in the 77 kg category until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
Start memeing him instead of the clearly photoshopped chad guy that was probably made for porn purposes.
Lu yelling at libs to sit down and shut up.
Damn that’s an epic pic. These should be added to a swoletariat album with some of the USSR’s swole lifters too.
The DPRK also has a very competent weightlifting team:
Including one world champion who lifted 3 times his weight in a clean and jerk (the move you see in the picture above, though that’s another athlete here). That means moving a dead weight from the ground, up as high as you can above your head (they reason they hold their arms so far out is exactly because it means less distance to travel lol). That’s 105 kilograms on her hands in the pic above btw.
In general ex-USSR countries (+ China and DPRK) dominate this sport. The Soviets had it down to a science.
In general ex-USSR countries (+ China and DPRK) dominate this sport. The Soviets had it down to a science.
Indeed, their training method of step loading is great, I’ve adopted it recently and love it.
But it’s no exaggeration saying they had it down to a science, they would study the progression of an athlete for 2 or 3 olympic cycles, instead of the more usual 5 or 6 months and make assumptions from there.
To me the way those countries treat/treated sports is fascinating, there’s so much choice, incentive and support starting from a young age.
Yeah, and you can see people like Lu (and the whole Olympic team, both men and women) are built like bodybuilders; the Chinese team trains with bodybuilding techniques for strength.
Really they’ve been doing that sport since childhood and have been selected over and over again to be in the national team, which is really not that different from what capitalist countries do – because sometimes libs will invoke the Asiatic Horde myth with that.
Do you have any books to recommend on Soviet physical education methods?
Sorry I’m not well versed on this topic’s literature, but you could maybe look into the USSR’s Ready for Labour and Defence programme and see where else it takes you.
Thanks, I’ll see what I can dig up and may make a post for !swoletariat@lemmygrad.ml if I find anything interesting.
This looks like a snatch
This guy slaps your favorite liberal/socdem candidate across the face, wyd?
encore
Moan in pleasure
was probably made for porn purposes.
I remember reading that his girlfriend did the photoshoot. It was an experiment in lighting and makeup. Don’t quote me though.
