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clean li lis, all the way using one band only, while if you have a lj4-inch bar tliis would be right for double-handed work, bul would handicap you in single-handed snatching and pulling in to the shoulder, as such a bar would be found to be too thick. In practicing. do not proceed too c|uickły front one lift to another. Take a rest between each lift while a friend takes a tum with thc beli. A lot of strength is lost in the stooping position necossary to adjust the wcight of the beli and to “eentre" same. Therefore have someone to do this for you, if possible. In compctition lifting, where you have t<» use the bent press, it is advisable to get this lift pcrformcd first. The bent press is by no means such a ccrtain lift as ihe double-handcd lift. Balance has a lot to do with the body lift. and if you are tired and shaky you will prob-ably be unsuccessiul, while the two-handed lift is alw.ays certain of accomplishment. Also in competition lifting do not try your heaviest wcight at the first attetnpt. Vou w ill l>e allowed, perhaps, only three attempts, and if you fail three tinics in succession you will not have liftcd anything at all, whereas if you started 10 pounds or so below' your best lift you tnight succeed in doing an cxtra five or ten pounds, at the third attempt, ahovc your previous record.

It is also advisable that. as opportuttity occurs, you try other lifters' weights, so that you will get used to handling long bars and short burs, thick bars and tliin bars, bars that are bent and bars that are straight, solid helis, disc helis and shot-loading l>ells: you may evcn learn something from the ordinary bar weight weighing 56 pounds. The instructions in this book must l>e altered to suit your physical j>cćuliarities. Take the bent press: I have given my positioit. but it may not suit you. Sonie people can bend better tlian others. It suits sonie to lift with morę speed than others, so you w ill see there is a great science in weight-lift-