After WWII, a new era of communist dominance has commenced, with dramatic revolution of the sport of weightlifting. The Soviet, since 1956 until 1992 have  broke many previous records. The Soviet were followed by East Germany, Bulgaria, and Poland as the four giants of weightlifting of modern times. Only late 80’s when a new breed of nations had jumped into the forefront of weightlifting.. China, Japan, Koreas, Greece, Turkey, Iran and Qatar are showing a trend that monopoly is a fallacy in weightlifting. It must be noticed that, these later years, accomplishing top ranks in weightlifting is a tremendously difficult task. After all what the Russian have done to advance the sport, these new competing nations are demonstrating that the human limit is yet far from being reached.

The most important observation from these international trends of the climbing and declining of nations and the constant stampede of new records are:

  1) Research, on the national scale, was the major impetus for uncovering the human potential of developing strength without gaining excess weight. Without the aggressive experimentation of the Russians on all aspects of strength training, it would be impossible to discover the optimum training methodology that we know today.

 2) The introduction of scientific analysis, combined by strong theoretical and experimental efforts through a breed of military officers, keen on exploring the unknown was thrust by the first man in space in 1956. 

 3) Human limits of lifting heavy weight may be in state of constant evolution. The potential of the cardiopulmonary function to endure such new challenges of strenuous exercise demonstrate the evolution process. The enhancement of human ligaments, tendons, muscles, and bone by exercise to lift over three times bodyweight at high speed is another sign of evolution.

 4) Though unpopular and almost overlooked by news reporters, health professionals, and sports fans, strides in weightlifting are planting the seeds of future revolution in strength training.

 5) Most of the gyms in USA into places that spread ignorance and confusion about strength training. A whole army of profiteers is launched to pray on people's vulnerability of overweight and sedentary life style. Gyms stock the training floors with shining machines to impress unwary clients. 

 6) The school system is more dismal than the fitness industry. Teachers worry about litigious fears, physical safety, and the intolerable cost of living than about the future of the new generation they are supposed to prepare for future challenges. The government is a product of the pop culture of entertainment, self –serving, and main stream popular alliance that ignore the long term effects of  poor educational system and destructive industries.  

 7) Role models are lacking in nations that fared poorly. The American model had shifted toward the physical attractiveness of big and strong. Few youth know or hear of Olympic training. Many people think that powerlifting is synonymous to weightlifting.  The public is divided into two parties, a party that is entertained, has the power to buy the tickets, the food, and the drinks to watch a frenzy of clowns of athletes. That party would also consume the national health resources by ailing hearts, joints, and minds. The other party of entertainers of athletes have to gamble with their future to excel in sport with very little emphasis in excelling in both academic and athletic fields. 

This left the fitness literature with misleading methods of training. Hollywood bodybuilders promote the fitness of ignorance, of building huge muscles regardless of the ill effects of increasing total body-to-strength ratio. Joints that have to lift that heavy bodyweight for years suffer prematurely.  The heart and entire endocrine system have to labor unnecessarily to sustain such improperly massive body.

 8) The louder and powerful media form the public perception of strength training. Individual training of each muscle, of groups of muscle, using certain fantastic machines for training, splitting the training days for upper body and lower body training, such misleading methods of training are so pervasive in many gyms in western nations. Armed with an arsenal of impressive bodily photography, phony medical supplements, and marketing experts, many fitness magazines and media have contributed to the apathy of today’s youthful athletes.