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A weight-lifter can throw a punch maybe 30, 40 miles an hour.
The Ultimate Fighters Ted Lerner 2011
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Although barely five-feet-five inches, Bucky is a superlative javelin thrower, weight-lifter and all-around athlete as well as a good-hearted, upstanding young man who wants nothing more than to inculcate decency in his charges.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Philip Roth's Nemesis an Instant Classic David Finkle 2010
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Although barely five-feet-five inches, Bucky is a superlative javelin thrower, weight-lifter and all-around athlete as well as a good-hearted, upstanding young man who wants nothing more than to inculcate decency in his charges.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Philip Roth's Nemesis an Instant Classic David Finkle 2010
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Orange Juice is good for you and so is an arm from an Olympic weight-lifter who had a bad case of the trips; the kind of trips that end at the bottom of a fifteen story building.
365 tomorrows » B. York : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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"We helped a weight-lifter increase his capacity to do pull-ups from 180 to 600 in the same time period after six weeks of training," notes Grahn.
‘The Glove’ – Stanford’s New Anti-Fatigue Technology | Impact Lab 2007
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Spelled like that I thought he was a German weight-lifter.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Spelled like that I thought he was a German weight-lifter.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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“We helped a weight-lifter increase his capacity to do pull-ups from 180 to 600 in the same time period after six weeks of training,” notes Grahn.
‘The Glove’ – Stanford’s New Anti-Fatigue Technology | Impact Lab 2007
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Sydney-bound weight-lifter Martinho da Arajuo, 27, improvised his own set of weights from construction pipes and truck transmissions.
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The team includes at least one potential medalist: freestyle weight-lifter Nasir Gaxhihanov, a three-time European Champion.
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