Weightlifting

Weightlifting Weightlifting Weightlifting is a sport based on the lifting of a series of progressively heavier metal weights, which are generally encased in rubber. Participants engage in the sport for competitive or recreational purposes. As a competitive sport, weightlifting is popular internationally, notably in the United States, the countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Germany, Romania, Poland, Finland, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, China, and Cuba. The sport of weightlifting is organized worldwide by the International Weightlifting Federation, located in Budapest, Hungary, and in the United States by the U.S. Weightlifting Federation, Incorporated, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Weightlifting is one of the sports in the Olympic Games. The chief item in weightlifting is the barbell, a steel rod to which plates (also called disks) of different weights may be attached by means of clamps called spin-lock collars. The plates are interchangeable. Participants in weightlifting contests are usually tested in two types of lifts: the snatch and the clean and jerk. A third type, the press, was eliminated after the 1972 Summer Olympics. In executing the snatch the contestant grasps the barbell and in one continuous motion lifts it to a position of arm’s length overhead. Both legs may be flexed or moved at kg, tone, sets, hips, body, 12, weight, floor, barbell, lift, legs, knees, build, back, - repeat, weightlifting, waist, two, both, until, triceps, spinae, repeat, raise, grasp, erector, classes, return, snatch, order, one, muscles, jerk, flexing, extended, close