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Weightlifting
A Brief History:
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.
3 hotel booking hollandIn 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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