Episode 055: The History Of Weightlifting

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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