Hyping Up Liao Hui - One of the BEST Chinese Weightlifters!

[@sikastrength]

Remind me of some other classic weightlifters!

[@xxOmnipresencexx]

Angel Guenchev is critically underrated. Cut from 75 to 67.5 and nailed the heaviest 3xBW clean and jerk. Also had some femurs on him, crazy positions in the first pull.

[@charlesmulliner]

Szymon Kolecki's jerk was unreal

[@camtyler3576]

Zaddy Telander

[@pannonianfit1582]

oleg perepetchenov, Andrei Rybakou

[@TheSilversimon]

tatiana kashirina, milko tokola

[@yungcris]

Sheeesh can really see the production going up on the edits, audio, and camera work on this one. Great content as always.

[@sikastrength]

😍😍😍😍 thanks for noticing

[@ziweihe1465]

I have a reason to believe that Shi Zhiyong's 2021 Olympic final weight selection has everything to do with Liao Hui's previous world records: 166/198. Liao Hui did it in 2 separate occasions, but Shi was living in Liao's shadow for a couple years, and he needed to prove himself by doing that in one event. I still see people commenting that Shi is not as good as Liao because Liao did it in a lower weight category. I mean I still believe that, until Shi pulls out an equivalent Sinclair in the future years.

[@arpussupra]

Long live Liao Whey, part-time lifter, part-time protein powder poster boy. Szymon Kolecki or Andrey Rybakou next ;)

[@diveshkr4127]

I agree with the kolecki video, I peronsally think his split jerk is the best in weightlifting over the likes of Liao Hui who is still phenomenal

[@TsarNicholas2nd]

@@diveshkr4127except for Lu Yong

[@CollarToCollar]

“My little pumpkins” first time ive ever felt loved

[@awildstrongmonappears6770]

Everyone has their guy that caught their attention to bring them into Weight lifting. He was the one for me. I think some of it had to do with the fact that he was at a certain amount of notability at a Time that I was first having direct exposure to social media‘s and Othersize comparable to myself. Obviously I know now that there are a ton of absolute houses at his weight class and the one above, but he was just the stand out at the right place and right time

[@Velstadt-qi1ch]

Amazing stuff. Once again. This is really becoming my favourite s&c youtube channell👍

[@adamyoung9283]

I'm curious about the Australian weightlifting team of the 90s 2000s. Imported elite Bulgarians and Armenians.

[@PhiyackYuh]

So they dont have elite australians born but had to recruit outside australia just to compete?

[@ws2013]

Liao Hui's split jerk technique is phenomenal. His leg positions are diagonal and thus create a very large and stable supporting base. (Of course it depends on individuals cuz some folks find it not very comfortable). I personally wouldn't call his knee movements a double dip, more like a pre-dip dip thing. I think that's perfectly acceptable, and Liao trains very hard and SMART based on the rules e.g. tons of push press and front-rack hold training, which are honed to his special techniques. I'd dream to see him as a 77kg compete with prime 77kg Lu or even as a 69kg just in terms of sinclairs, given that they give their best shots. It's a shame that they tended to give up their 3rd attempts in competitions in the good old days. I think Lu will take the snatch and Liao will take the c&j. Politics really messed up Liao's career, what a shame.

[@andrewkim2804]

Just asking out of curiosity, what was the political barrier that kept Liao hui from progressing. I’m just assuming it’s the fact that he got popped that stopped him?

[@ws2013]

@@andrewkim2804 It was probably the other way round. Someone tricked him such that he got popped. He was popped with boldenone, a drug mainly used in bodybuilding. We don't know whether it was false positive because he was tested negative the same day in the other test. It makes no sense for a weightlifting athlete to take boldenone because it makes an athlete very hard to control bodyweight, and the strength gain is also minimal. Maybe someone contaminated his food with boldenone or maybe other possibilities. On top of that he was not selected to go to Rio despite his win against Shi Zhiyong at China's selection competition. Not saying that he's clean but sth political was probably going on.

[@andrewkim2804]

@@ws2013 damn i had no idea. Yeah that definitely is suspect. Does shi zhiyong have some sort of special connection politics-wise? Maybe the son of a politician or something. I wonder if there is tension between liao and shi

[@ws2013]

​@@andrewkim2804 Actually many Chinese professional weightlifters including Shi have a poor or rural background, so I doubt he has some connections with "real politics." I don't think there is tension between Liao and Shi personally either. My speculation is that Shi's former coach Zhan Xugang had some influence in the Chinese team cuz he was a two-time Olympic champion. Zhan and Shi also came from the same provincial team, but yeah that's just my speculation though...

[@durrantmiller8810]

@@ws2013 Just to add to this Squat Jerk journalist made a video that was removed shortly after upload talking about Lu getting popped and Shi's federation also reported Lu to the ITA in a very similar fashion to what happened to Liao Hui

[@ryantrotter9561]

sikastan continues to put out higher and higher quality weightlifting material for us to enjoy, great work boys and thank you

[@eshlemon3176]

I sent you guys an email with a blogpost from his training (allegedly) from 2013. Liao Hui's training seems to differ a lot from other Chinese athletes in that he does pressing (mostly Push press, some BTN stuff) very frequently. Sometimes as often as 4x a week depending on the period of training.

[@sikastrength]

When did you send it? I'm not seeing it my g

[@eshlemon3176]

@@sikastrength Sent it a couple of days ago on your contact form on the website. I'll send it to your Facebook page

[@ShinSuperSaiyajin]

another rumor I've read and heard is that Liao Hui was the type of athlete who would train hard when he's motivated. With that said, it's a shame that we didn't see his full potential. Had he stayed the course, I think we would have seen Shi Zhiyong compete at the international stage on a later date.

[@projectgowther2562]

Zlaten Vanev would be a great weightlifter to watch!

[@AnthonyGarcia-sy3yk]

Yesss sika !!!! I been waiting for this one !!!@

[@ShinSuperSaiyajin]

will never forget Liao's? 211 cnj attempt. Even Shi Zhiyong hasn't come close to that

[@-TK-]

Iirc he weighed in at 73-74

[@ShinSuperSaiyajin]

@@-TK- yeah I think so too

[@Arleph1984]

The people need the merch! Btw I also enjoy the content alot.

[@g00zik97]

is it worth doing back squats over front squats? i kind of cant really get deep in backsquats and they feel weird for me, whereas front squats feel more natural for me and i can pump easily heavy 5x5s

[@DredFulProductions]

Liao Hui vs. Lu Xiaojun Top 10 anime rivalries

[@l.mosfet9859]

They were not in the same weight category. Shi Zhiyong and Liao Hui were truly rivalries, though.

[@1baby]

I posted about this as a reply on the short you posted a few days ago but the rumor I was told was that Liao was caught for boldenone at the time because he took something that was contaminated with boldenone under the orders of someone higher-up in the Chinese government who had some sort of connection to the weightlifting team, if my memory serves me right it was a general interestingly enough. From what I remember it had to do with conflict between the different 'groups' within the Chinese weightlifting team which I believe you could previously denote from the colour singlets they used to wear at comps, I also think this links to the different athletes within the Chinese team who train/compete under the PL but someone who follows the Chinese team more closely and is active on Chinese social media can correct me on this. There is also likely some more information on this supposed rumor on a forum thread or two if someone went digging as I have read about it elsewhere too. I came across one of these posts a while back as I was highly curious with the number of male international and nationally competing Chinese weightlifters who looked like several young bodybuilders I've seen who are in the early stages of juicing, whilst at the same time seeming to easily pass doping tests without a noticeable decrease in performance or physique 'aesthetics' most athletes suffer from who have to cycle off compounds well in advance. So far I haven't found anything concrete on their methods despite talking to several people who I'd consider of being in 'the know', aside from hearing several possible scenarios such as gene doping, political/financial power, designer compounds, the ability to pass the epitestosterone ratio test because of the UGT2B17 gene present in many East Asians, and finally traditional chinese medicine (yes really). I have found a photo from what I would guess is a decade ago in which you see both Lu and Liao, and where they're hilariously downsized as if they're off-cycle for once. Also from being highly active in the bodybuilding and powerlifting scene in recent years and seeing what many people's 'stack's' are, as well as my own experience with different compounds, if they were using your everyday AAS most of them look to me as if they're running low test with low dosages of dianabol or turinabol (or a similar oral testosterone derivative). They lack the vascularity and collagen changes you get with most DHT-based compounds, most of them don't seem to exhibit significant androgenic changes you'd see with someone whos highly abused a compound like testosterone (or higher dosages of other AAS), and they seem to always maintain a high intramusclular retention look you hardly ever see from lower dosages of Testosterone alone, outside of some individuals who are almost always of West African descent. I'd also say HGH or a growth hormone releasing peptide is almost given, especially since their female lifters were popped for GHRP-2 several years ago.

[@trtnec]

"they seem to always maintain a high intramuscular retention which you almost always see from West African descent". You have to keep in mind, being 60-85kg with a shredded look is very possible naturally (not saying they are natural). I think you're conflating shredded, jacked, NFL players who weigh 95kg plus with these Chinese lifters who are a fraction of the mass, but just look huge when lifting in isolation around other people of similar size. You don't see any weightlifters, Chinese or not, shredded at mid-90s and greater except Lesman from Colombia.

[@sentralorigin]

i believe this is the best explanation as Liao Hui represented the PLA/CCP group so he was targeted with a spiked test

[@ahadmalik8801]

Oooft camera looking sharp!

[@mellpear4773]

Is this Gurph’s audition tape to be a commentator for WH? 👀

[@ShinSuperSaiyajin]

Commenting on this for the Algorithm. Seb, I know you want to.

[@slajmlord3211]

Video on li dayin? Love his pull

[@Justin_Choy]

Commenting for the algorithm. But your pronunciation of Liao Hui’s name is phenomenal. Hate it when people just butcher East Asian names and don’t even try to get it right

[@nolanhauck9390]

Your pronunciation is great

[@aimlessjoe1]

What about the incorporation of complexes in training? So, for example doing three reps of very heavy snatch deadlift, followed by dropping the weight to 100-110% of snatch 1rm and doing a few explosive pulls there?

[@matthewmckee6289]

I think you should be doing the explosive moments first. Doing heavy first obviously slows you down, which is detrimental as it’s important you are actually going fast and not just trying to go fast.

[@weightedsumwl]

@@matthewmckee6289 second, also I want to add that what you described is not a complex. What is generally said to be a complex is when you string different exercises in the same set, ex: 1xPower clean +2xfront squat + 2xpush press

[@weightedsumwl]

@@matthewmckee6289 tagged you but meant to the op

[@matthewmckee6289]

@@weightedsumwl I think it's a bug, it keeps happening when I make comments too.

[@williambrace462]

camera looking crisp gurph

[@alejandromagnobarrasa9244]

It does seem like the Chinese are all too willing to sacrifice a weightlifter if he split jerks vs squat jerks. Lu Yong was also really really good but he lost steam once, and it was like you never see him again. This guy also was the freakin best at the time but he went away I’m same fashion. It could be some respect thing with the coaches who may have wanted him to try the squat style jerk.

[@clintiacuone1703]

Li fabin and Chen linjun would like a word with you😅 it would have nothing to do with jerk style at all I can tell you that much!

[@durrantmiller8810]

Lu would also like a word with you know

[@tsubasa4883]

do one on Toshiki please, I actually do believe him to be natty

[@nuperer]

he is my favorite full natty vegan bodybuilder

[@Panda13572]

Kinda split on him, if anything I think he may have started doping when the weight classes changed and during covid. But his progression seems reasonable and he peaked at 31 and not 18-21 like most doped athletes

[@durrantmiller8810]

ya know something that i think people forget about is some people have a myostatin deficiency and something about toshiki kinda makes me think he might have it. He could be on juice though lol

[@thechosenone93]

@@durrantmiller8810 You know what is event crazier? That people on the Internet try to make excuses for people who are likely to be on juice but let them think otherwise

[@durrantmiller8810]

@@thechosenone93 fair enough. I'm just kinda curios how far that myostatin deficiency can take you naturally. like could you reach top level with it. We will likely never know

[@phliuy]

"lyow hwee"

[@paddygilmore711]

Kolecki!

[@andrew98115wl]

I know from experience if you think you're saying a Chinese name correctly, you're probably wrong and vice versa.

[@nuperer]

good that Shamas Shajan is gone - he crazy

[@stevenlafford506]

boom!

[@davidbarnhouse4642]

he did internal rotation because thats the right technique? Sika hurting their own credibility.

[@nolanhauck9390]

Tree reasons