Sentence examples for lifting contest from inspiring English sources

Some one in the gym had me work in with them doing squats, deadlifts and bench presses and it did inspire me to enter a power lifting contest which I took second.

Balances are sustained; pirouettes are always in many multiples; overhead lifts are held as if we were at a weight-lifting contest with our stopwatches.

The loss by world chess champion Garry Kasparov to Deep Blue, the IBM computer, is about as significant as an Olympic gold medalist's losing a weight-lifting contest to a crane or a forklift.

In 1971, Bell also won the Piqua YMCA high school weight-lifting contest in the 165-pound class.

During the Starkbierzeit (the springtime 'strong beer season'), the famous stone-lifting contests are held here.

Stone-lifting contests still take place in the modern era.

Short of a mandate that all races end with a refrigerator-lifting contest, I was doomed.

There's their annual benchpress and dead-lifting contest every November to find the world's strongest investor and founder.

The sporting aspect of stone-lifting developed in Edo around the seventeenth century, likely evolving from the sack-lifting contests of the stevedores and labourers.

Four months prior to the contest, Henry began lifting the heaviest of weights and trained for the first time since 1997 for a major lifting competition.

Although the lifts vary from contest to contest, the most popular strongman events and records are now well established, and the latest feats circulate instantly on YouTube.