Strength Athletics - E. C. Row Expressway (Paperback)

Chapters: E. C. Row Expressway. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Strength athletics, more generally known as strongman competitions, is a sport which tests competitors' strength in a variety of different ways. Some of the disciplines are similar to those in powerlifting and some powerlifters have also successfully competed in strongman competitions. However, strongman events also test physical endurance to a degree not found in powerlifting or other strength-based sports. Competitions designed to test the strength of participants have a long history going back many centuries before the televisation of strongman competitions in the 1970s. This ancient heritage can still be seen in a number of traditional events, the most famous of which is arguably the traditional Highland Games, which itself is a source of many events now practiced in modern strongman competitions. Different competitions may be structured very differently with some strength athletic competitions, such as the World's Strongest Man, being slanted towards dynamic tests of strength, whilst others pivot around tests of pure static strength such as the Arnold Strongman Classic. See also Highland games The origin of strength athletics lies within prehistory. Testing each other in feats of physical prowess has been something human's have done throughout their existence. This encapsulated in the modern Olympic motto of "Swifter, higher, stronger." There are records in many civilisations of feats of strength performed by great heroes, mythological or otherwise. In ancient western culture Greek heroes such as Heracles are blessed with great strength. In the bible, figures with exceptional physical strength are described such as Samson and Goliath. Man's obsession with those who possess ext...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=94657