Forgot to add in the Soviet weightlifting system (and maybe China too), you spend years doing GPP before you move into a lot of sport specific training. Even then, you don't really do sport specific training (like just s/b/d or snatch and cnj) year round. If you are coming from no athletic background, jumping straight into a super specialized powerlifting program is not really a good idea. I swear most of this information about the Soviet training system was widely known like 12 years ago.