olympic weightlifting
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Why You Need to Lift Weights If You Play a Sport
It’s no secret that professional athletes hit the weight room hard. If you search YouTube for your favourite (male) athlete’s name, plus “workout” or “gym,” you can probably find video evidence of them crushing a 225 kg deadlift or pressing huge kettlebells like they’re nothing. But that kind of training is overkill for beer league…
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The Difference Between Weightlifting and Weight Lifting
This will be an extremely pedantic post, and one that I am terribly sorry to have to write. I’ve been into weight lifting (two words) for a long time, but over the past year or two I have gotten into weightlifting (all one word). It turns out these are two very different things.