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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Jim Schmitz on the Lifts: What’s In Your Gym Bag?

by Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D. | ©2012 IronMind

Another way to look at this is what should (and based on Bruce Wilhelm’s experience, what shouldn’t) be in your gym bag.

Olympic-style weightlifting is a pretty minimalist pursuit: one person against a barbell, with no spotters or extraneous equipment, but one glance at Armenia’s Tigran Martirosyan (shown snatching 170 kg in the 77-kg class at the 2009 World Weightlifting Championships) and you can see that you still need shoes, tape, chalk, wraps . . . making the merits of a good, well-packed gym bag hard to contest. IronMind® | Randall J. Strossen photo.
Olympic-style weightlifting is a pretty minimalist pursuit: one person against a barbell, with no spotters or extraneous equipment, but one glance at Armenia’s Tigran Martirosyan (shown snatching 170 kg in the 77-kg class at the 2009 World Weightlifting Championships) and you can see that you still need shoes, tape, chalk, wraps . . . making the merits of a good, well-packed gym bag hard to contest.  IronMind® | Randall J. Strossen photo.


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