How to Build a Weightlifting Platform

January 20, 2012 by admin  
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A beginner’s guide to building a weightlifting platform in your home. Cost: ~ $200 Time: ~ 2 hours Tools needed: drill, caulking gun, tape measure, saw or utility knife, straight edge, markers. Materials needed: 5 sheets of low-medium quality 3/4″ thick, 4′ x 8′ plywood, 1 pieces of 3/4″ thick, 4′ x 8′ stall mat, 1.75″ wood screws, heavy-duty adhesive. Inspired by Iron Mind: www.ironmind.com

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Full Snatch – Olympic Weightlifting Guide

August 25, 2010 by admin  
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See www.workoutbox.com for more workouts and exercises. The full snatch is a full-on Olympic movement. If you ever watch Olympic weightlifting you’ll see this as one of the two competitive lifts performed. It engages the entire body, and is one of the most useful, yet most technical movements you can perform. the full snatch how to snatch lift snatch powerlifting how to snatch weightlifting barbell snatch exercise

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Sesame Street – Maria’s 13 step method of weight-lifting

February 8, 2010 by admin  
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Weight-lifting is another thing I do in my spare time besides youtube. And thank God I didn’t learn from this.

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Is Weight-lifting Resulting in Hair Loss?

November 3, 2009 by admin  
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Are you a regular weightlifter? Are you desperately trying to cope up with the problem of fast receding hairline? Then, you are not the only one. Scientists have found a definite relation between weight-lifting and hair loss. Let’s check it out.

How Weight-lifting Causes Baldness?
In normal condition, weight-lifting helps in building of our muscles and keeping us fit. A regular weight lift may also increase free testosterone level and this excess causes various physiological changes in our body like receding hairline, balding in the crown or general baldness in male. In female, it results in general thinning of hair.

A 45-minute work-out session can increase the level of testosterone (hormone) in our body by 25%. When this excess hormone is reacting with 5-alpha-reductase (an enzyme naturally found in our hair follicles), it is causing the formation of dihydrotestosterone (DTH). This DTH is responsible for shrinkage of hair follicles and roots.

Ways to Control Baldness:
While it is natural to loss 100-150 hairs on an average everyday, we start noticing thinning of hair only after we have lost half(50%) our hair! Listed below are some of the ways to control or prevent baldness affected by weight lifting:



Propecia(finasteride) is the first FDA-approved oral medication used for hair replacement in male and female, Rogaine topical solution is also used.
Low level laser therapy: Infrared light is used to enhance blood circulation, cellular metabolism, and supply of oxygen to the hair follicles in the scalp.
Hair replacement surgery.
It is absolutely necessary for proper treatment of hairloss to consult with your physician and, if possible, with your dietician to help you prepare with proper medication plan as well as a regular diet plan suited to your particular lifestyle.

You do not have to stop or curtail certain weight exercises to control baldness. All you have to do is to follow proper medication and treatment under physician’s active guidance.

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Weight-training and Weight-lifting

October 27, 2009 by admin  
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What is Weight Lifting? Lifting barbells or dumbbells with the goal of increasing your strength and/or muscle size. Weight lifting can take several forms:

·    Weightlifting Sport. The sport of Weightlifting is part of the Olympic Games. It consists of 2 lifts: the Snatch and the Clean & Jerk. The goal is to lift more weight than competitors in the same weight class.

·    Strength Training. Lifting weights to increase your physical strength. More muscle & a lower body fat are byproducts of strength training.

Weightlifting Olympic sport since 1896

An ancient sport as old as mankind, embodying the most direct manifestation of human strength, weightlifting has not only flourished, but also developed into a modern sporting discipline for the 21st century. The apparent simplicity of lifting the barbell from the ground and over the head in one or two movements is deceiving. Weightlifting requires a combination of power, speed, technique, concentration and timing. Super heavyweight lifters normally claim the title of World’s Strongest Man or Woman. However, kilo per kilo,  the lightest weightlifter is often the strongest. Men’s weightlifting was on the programme of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. Women participated for the first time at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000.

Find an instructor.

Find an instructor who can help you learn how to do the exercises correctly. Good technique is one of the most important ways to avoid injury. A high school coach or athletic trainer can help you. If a college is located in your town, the weight coach for the varsity athletic teams may be able to give you advice or recommend another instructor. The
National Strength and Conditioning Association may also be able to recommend a qualified coach in your area. Advice from people who have never learned good technique themselves,
such as parents, friends, coaches or other weight lifters, may not be correct. Books can help, but nothing beats personal coaching.
Without your diet supplying the raw materials your body needs to build muscle, all the hard work you do in the gym will be wasted. If you don’t provide the body enough rest time with which to repair and rebuild muscle, all your weight training will be wasted.

There is a dominant basic weight training philosophie:

1.    HIT – HIT is an acronym for High Intensity Training. HIT calls for the trainer to workout 1-3 times a week with full body single-set routines. These are to be short but very intense workouts. The basic prescription is 8-12 reps per set always done to failure. Each and every workout is expected to produce an increase in strength so that when
performing your next workout you should either look to perform more reps with the same weight or the same number of reps with a greater weight.

How to Do the Concentration Curl for Biceps

The concentration curl is an exercise for targeting the biceps of the upper arm. By supporting the back of the arm, you can target the biceps brachii muscles more directly by inhibiting assisting muscles while doing a biceps curl.

Weightlifting accident – Beijing 2008

October 20, 2009 by admin  
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Janos Baranyai was trying to snatch 148kg(326lbs.) in his third lift in the men’s 77-kg division, when his elbow popped out of socket. No longer able to support the weight of the barbell, his right forearm bent backward. … beijing 2008 olympics weight lifting accident pesas pesista accidente Janos Baranyai peru