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Weight lifting (and power lifting) is a sport that requires lifting a bar loaded with metal weights. It is both a competitive amateur sport and a form of exercise.

The principle behind weight lifting is that a muscle will become stronger, harder, and larger if it works against increasingly heavier loads.

In competition athletes use both hands to lift a 2.2 m (7 ft 2 in) barbell with weights on the ends. The three lifts in power-lifting competition are the squat (in which the bar is lifted from supports to the back of the shoulders, after which the lifter squats and straightens up), the bench press (in which the lifter lies on his or her back, lifts the barbell from the chest and extends the arms fully, locking the elbows), and the dead lift (in which the lifter raises the barbell from the floor to the thighs in one motion).

Powerful weight lifters can lift more than 450 kg (991.8 lb) in a dead lift and more than 250 kg (551 lb) in a bench press. In 1972 the press was eliminated from Olympic and international competition.


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Fédération d'haltérophilie du Québec # of clubs

4545 ave Pierre-de-Coubertin C.P. 1000, Succ. M
 
Montréal  QC  H1V 3R2  
PH: 514) 252-3046FAX: (514) 254-4545  
 
 
admin@fedhaltero.qc.ca  

 
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Saskatchewan Weightlifting Association # of clubs

Gull Lake Club c/o Terry Hardy
 
Gull Lake  SK  S0N 1A0  
PH: (306) 672-3847FAX:  
 
 
 
http://www.glcn.com/town/sports/weights/weights.htm
 
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Manitoba Weightlifting Association # of clubs

200 Main St.
 
Winnipeg  MB  R3C 4M2  
PH: (204) 925-5689FAX: (204) 925-5703  
 
 
weight@sport.mb.ca  
http://www.herculesacademy.com/html/mwa.html
 
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Newfoundland Weightlifting Association # of clubs

 
 NF    
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http://www.nlwa.net
 
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Ontario Weightlifting Association # of clubs

25 Ferguson Road
 
Collingwood  ON  L9Y 2Z9  
PH: (705) 445-7515FAX:  
Jill Miller President  
 
Ken-Jill@sympatico.ca  
http://www.ontarioweightlifting.ca
 
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