Weight lifting isn’t necessarily bad for your heart, unless you do intense exercises regularly that could put strain on your chest. Anything that involves you holding your breath can spike your blood pressure. Whilst any form of exercise will increase blood pressure, this increase is only temporary. Squatting, for example, will increase your blood pressure around …
There is no specific wage for Olympic weightlifters, and how much one may earn depends greatly on individual circumstance. Potentially, Olympic weightlifters can earn money through entering competitions, sponsorship, coaching, and training. Unfortunately, these options do come with a caveat. Olympic weightlifting is not for those who are looking for gains – at least, not …
Weightlifting has many benefits, the main one being it allows you to build muscle strength. As we age, our joints become stiff, we lose muscle and our posture lapses. Weight lifting targets all of these: it helps build and retain muscles, lubricates joints and reduces stiffness, and strengthens our muscles and bones to reduce the …
Watching an Olympic weightlifting competition, it might surprise you to see the build of the competitors. Many of them are large, without the defined muscle we imagine when we think of strength. To the casual observer, it might seem they all have something of a gut.There are many reasons why people choose to lift. For …
Weight training is one of the most versatile types of training anyone can do, but it’s easy to see it as mainly focused on building muscle and losing weight.This traditional style of training focuses on heavy weights, fairly low reps, high intensity and is the type of training used by bodybuilders, powerlifters, and Olympic lifters. …
Weightlifting is one of the best exercise regimes if you want to hone your physical appearance. But weightlifting also has a lot of myths and ‘broscience’ that surrounds it that can and has caused a lot of strange beliefs and approaches to weightlifting.Ideally, if you’re an adult you can start weightlifting whenever you have the …
There are a few reasons for the current price of weights, but let’s cover the obvious first.COVID-19 has forced many gyms to shut due to lockdowns and restrictions. This means that people have started working out from home. For a lot of weightlifters, bodybuilders, and powerlifters, this means that they’ve had to purchase their own …
Olympic barbells are perhaps the most expensive of the different kinds of barbells. Your other options are standard barbells and powerlifting barbells.There are lots of reasons why Olympic barbells cost more than others, these are discussed below.What we’re interested in at the moment is how much Olympic barbells actually cost.Naturally, we can only give you …
Finding the right form of exercise is the one of the first steps when it comes to losing weight. What activities are going to be effective, and what will work for you and your personal weight loss needs? It’s actually a common misconception that you have to be doing cardiovascular activity for weight loss. It’s …
A weightlifting belt, much as the name indicates, is a belt specifically designed for use with heavy weightlifting. It essentially has two main purposes and benefits: reducing the stress on your lower back, and preventing hyperextension when you lift the weights over your head. But should you get one? The answer to this depends on …
