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- noun Plural form of
powerlifter .
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Examples
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He won't hear any argument from Matt Gary, who opened Supreme Sports Performance & Training in Rockville in 2009 to be a home specifically for weightlifters and powerlifters.
The MisFits: A dumbbell's guide to CrossFit and weightlifing Post 2010
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You get female boxers and powerlifters so what the hell has it go to do with anything?
Bigotgate – the Diversity Trainers nightmare. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Strongman competitors look down on powerlifters because there's more to strength than a one-rep max in three lifts performed with a minuscule range of motion.
Battle of the Strength Sports by Erick Minor William Harryman 2009
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Sure, the Westside guys do a lot of GPP, but even the best-conditioned powerlifters aren't fit by any traditional definition.
Battle of the Strength Sports by Erick Minor William Harryman 2009
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But as a former competitor I know that powerlifters as a group are out of shape for anything other than powerlifting.
Battle of the Strength Sports by Erick Minor William Harryman 2009
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Bodybuilders have more sculpted physiques, and powerlifters and Olympic lifters are better in their specific lifts, but the best Strongman competitors come close in all three areas.
Battle of the Strength Sports by Erick Minor William Harryman 2009
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"A lot of bodybuilders are really hybrid powerlifters-bodybuilders, and they train with most of the same exercises," Roach says.
The Overhead Press: Bodybuilding's Forgotten Muscle Builder by Chris Colucci William Harryman 2009
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In the study, which was completed in October 2006 by the Department of Integrative Medical Biology at Sweden's Umea University, researchers took muscle biopsies from 26 elite powerlifters who have competed at the sport's highest levels.
Cheaters Do Prosper 2008
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An MLB spokesman says the league isn't aware of the research done on powerlifters and hasn't considered it during deliberations.
Cheaters Do Prosper 2008
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The Swedish study was inspired by a study in 1999 by Fawzi Kadi, a physiology professor at Örebro University in Switzerland, who looked at muscle biopsies from powerlifters who admitted they were taking steroids at the time of the study.
Cheaters Do Prosper 2008
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