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Weight Lifting as a Sport

By: Gregg Forscher

Although body building is also a sport it has a totally different purpose. In body building the competitors physique is judged by judges. Weight training is not a sport at all, but is an exercise form to gain strength and flexibility. There are those who lump these different activities together so that the names are synonymous when in fact they are not.

There is a lot of information about weight lifting diets, however these do not necessarily refer to the sport of weight lifting but more often than not refer to a generic use of the word and could better be classified as body building diets.

This sport takes a combination of skills such as will power, flexibility, strength, discipline and mental and physical strength.

Weight lifting is done for many sports such as football, but it has to be done correctly or sometimes it may do as much harm as it does good if not done properly. Injuries can follow if improper technique is used.

In weight lifting the muscles get little tears in them, so a recovery period is essential before further weight lifting occurs otherwise injuries can ensue.

It has been said that short people have an advantage in weight lifting but it is not necessarily the case that all weight lifters are short.

In the Olympics there are 2 events. The first is the snatch where the competitor has to lift the barbell from the floor over his head in one motion. Then there is the clean and jerk where the barbell is first lifted to chest level and then preparing the barbell for the final jerk to above the head and then jerking it above the head. There was another event in the Olympics until 1972 called the clean and press, but it was abandoned.

These events are viewed by 3 judges who shine a white light when they see the lift is successful and when the competitor sees 2 white lights he can drop the barbell to the platform.

The most weight ever lifted in the snatch was in 1987 by Antonio Krastev of Bulgaria who lifted 476.2 lbs. The most weight lifted in the clean and jerk was 586.4 by Leonid Taranenko in 1988.

Contests of men moving large weighty objects have been in picture form way back into early Egyptian and Chinese civilizations. The earliest organized weightlifting competition began in the 1800s.

There are also women weight lifters which topic has its own wealth of information.

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