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In episode 55, we travel back in time and share some insights on the origins of weightlifting over the last 5-6000 years of recorded history.

• Ancient Egyptians and their sand-sack throwing
• Ancient Greece and the origin of progressive weight training
• Ancient China and the origin of the barbell
• Lifting Stones
• Halteres (ancient dumbbells)
• Indian clubs
• Ancient Russia and the origin of kettlebells
• Olympic weightlifting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Sources

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• https://physicalculturestudy.com/2014/11/18/an-early-history-of-weightlifting/
• Tsatsouline, P. (2019). Kettlebell: Simple & sinister. StrongFirst.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_training#History

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