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NEWS ABOUT: weight lifting

weight lifting stories: 7 news summaries

USC Star Recovering After Surgery on Crushed Throat

Tailback suffered mishap in weight room

Sep 29, 09 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - USC tailback Stafon Johnson is in critical but stable condition and communicating nonverbally after surgery to repair a horrific weightlifting injury. Teammates say Johnson was bench-pressing yesterday and accidentally dropped the bar on his throat. After 7-plus hours of surgery, during which doctors realigned Johnson’s larynx, the athlete is... More »

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Trojans • injury • USC • USC Trojans • Stafon Johnson • weight lifting • college football • larynx

(Newser) - The FDA has issued a serious warning urging consumers to steer clear of bodybuilding supplements advertised as containing steroid-like substances, the Los Angeles Times reports. The products are unapproved drugs, not dietary supplements as claimed, and adverse effects include kidney failure and major liver damage, officials warn. More »

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FDA • steroids • weight lifting • steroid use • bodybuilding • dietary supplement

 Michelle Breaks Out 
 Killer Accessories: 
 Her Arms 

Once again, first lady opts for a summery look in winter

Feb 25, 09 8:02 AM CST
(Newser) - Washington is freezing cold, but last night Michelle Obama strode into Congress wearing a sleeveless dress, her bare arms on display. It's hardly the first time recently she's gone sleeveless, notes Jodi Kantor of the New York Times: from a photo op in the White House kitchen to the... More »

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fashion • Michelle Obama • Washington • fitness • first lady • weight lifting

OLYMPICS

 Britain Bumps 
 Medal Count on Day 11 

3 more golds give 2012 host nation total of 16, best haul since 1908

Aug 19, 08 5:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britain’s Olympic team added a 16th gold medal today, a total not seen since the 1908 Games, Reuters reports. Christine Ohuruogu took first in the women’s 400 meters—the country’s first track victory in Beijing. Bahrain’s Rashid Ramzi won the men’s 1,500 meters, giving... More »

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2008 Beijing Olympics • track and field • weight lifting • Christine Ohuruogu • medal • Matthias Steiner

 The Price of Reaching the Top

Chinese weightlifter left her family as child

Aug 9, 08 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly all of Chin'a Olympic athletes come out of the country’s sports boarding schools—a system that depends on the dismal prospects of the country's poor. "A rich person would never let his child do this," the father of Athens gold medalist Chen Yanqing tells the Wall ... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • weight lifting • Chinese athletes • Olympics • Chen Yanqing

 Post-Saddam,
 Bodybuilders
 Let 'Er Ripple 

Pumping iron is hugely popular among Iraqis, despite dangers

Jun 10, 08 12:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi bodybuilders have long needed nerves of steel to pump iron. Under Saddam, only officially connected Iraqis could join gyms, and the average weightlifter was forced to use makeshift equipment. But after Saddam, a flood of Iraqis seeking lucrative security jobs hit the gyms. The result? Extremists began targeting bulging... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • steroids • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Sylvester Stallone • bodybuilder • weight lifting • bodybuilding

Lift Weights, Reap Hefty Benefits

Strength training provides health benefits
that aerobic workouts can't

Jan 21, 08 7:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Pumping iron has long been known to improve strength and prevent injury, but evidence increasingly points to a wide range of other benefits, writes Judy Foreman in the Boston Globe. The findings—decreased heart disease and neck pain, improved metabolism and balance—are driving groups such as the American Heart... More »

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health • heart disease • public health • blood pressure • exercise • calories • American Heart Association • metabolism • weight lifting • strength training • aerobic workouts • pumping iron • neck pain

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