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In 2000 500 bc, in places such as Greece, China, and Egypt, people would start lifting heavy rocks and stones to test each other's strength.
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back then in scotland they started to do these stone lifting challenges testing on who is the strongest.
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They used to have strongmen who would compete and perform their strength by lifting anvils, barrels, and other forms of heavy equipment
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Barbels with handles and adjustable weight were just invented in Europe, weightlifting wasn’t a competition anymore in was a act of training for many individuals.
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The first actuall international weight lifting competition took place with dumbells
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The first actuall international weight lifting competition took place with dumbells
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Body building eventually started to become a thing in time for people to compete there bodies
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Powerlifting such started to become a competition for people to show off true strength. The things like bench, squat and deadlift were all in competition to show strength
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The rise of body building like Ronnie Colman, arnold Schwarzenegger all become big names and body building was at its peak through out these times.
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Weightlifting began to take over and become a thing in commercial gyms for the public to use to train reguraly at.
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Women weightlifting competitions came into a thing
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Weightlifting, body building, crossfit, powerlifting all became global popularity within competing and to the general public. Technology revolutionary fitness within nutrition and recover within working out with weight
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Today is one of the most popular forms of fitness and will continue that way.