Competition Preparation

Weightlifting pre-competition training planning and important matters
http://www.ttfanwen.com/info_15/fw_2818552.html

1 month is usually appropriate. Under normal circumstances, week 1 and 2 have a heavy load, reaching 90% intensity and above. As fatigue appears, week 3 uses a small training load, intensity changing from 90% to 60-70%. The fourth week is the final week before the competition. Intensity is gradually increased, from 60% to 90% or above. The training should take into account the athlete's individual situation; unorthodox methods can be used in some cases.

Chinese Annual Training Plans

How to draw up an annual training plan
http://old.chinabbba.org/index/jmwz/qnjh.html

Drawing up a rational and scientific training plan is very important for both athletes and coaches. Coaches should develop the plan based on the athletes basic situation and individual characteristics, to meet the years competition goals. People normally divide the year into training periods. If there is no annual training program, the athletes technical problems cannot be effectively solved. The years training plan should include the following: analysis of the athletes current situation, division of the year into training periods, special training contents, general physical training contents, recovery training content, loading plan (ie rhythm), mentality training and competition preparation.

Chinese Youth Training

So I found a few articles on training youth weightlifters in China. Here are the translations (thanks to gf again for help, would've taken way way longer without you).

Initial Training of Adolescent Male Weightlifters
http://www.gdjyw.com/techang/tiyu/8031.html

Weightlifting is an individual event, with limited attempts, high weights, and comprehensive requirements of technique. This requires athletes to be strong all around. Therefore, appropriately training adolscent men is very important.

1 Selection of talent

"A successful talent selection means you're halfway there". Weightlifting requires athletes to have thick bones, strong muscles, and a solid build. Therefore you need to choose high quality athletes.

Liao Hui's 2013 Training

First, thanks to Pent for making me aware of this article. Original article is here. Thanks too to my girlfriend for help cos Chinese is tough.

Ok, here's the translation:

Abstract: Investigating and interviewing the coach of China’s world weightlifting champion Yu Jie, doing a continuous investigation of Liao Hui’s pre-competition training plans before the Chinese Games, researching his training plans, reading Liao Hui’s diaries, analysing Liao Hui’s annual training plan in detail. Analysing Liao Hui’s annual plan in preparation for the Liaoning Chinese National games from a statistical and sports science perspective, dissecting the characteristics and core ideas behind Liao Hui’s training plans.

Train Hard

When I first started weightlifting towards the end of 2012, I did Bulgarian style training. After some months off, during the Summer of 2013 I continued this, hitting a squat daily maximum twice a day, the main lifts once a day, and doing from 6-12 back off sets. Sessions would take me so long I'd often be pale and shaking slightly by the end from lack of blood sugar. I began taking packs of kit-kats and eating around 1000kcal to just let me survive the training. It worked excellently. My lifts shot up extremely fast.

Notes from China

Over Summer of 2015 I lived in a Chinese sport school for a month, and another week just before I left China.

My Chinese is pretty bad, but I managed to, with lots of repetition, understand what my coach was trying to say to me. I'm going to try and post what stuff I've learnt from my experience there. Feel free to ask questions in the comments.