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Maximum Acceptable Weight of Lift
American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, 1967Abstract This paper discusses the maximum amount of weight that an individual can be expected to lift comfortably and without strain. Recommendations based on empirical estimates, biomechanical techniques, and psychophysical methods are reviewed, including those of the International Labour Office, the Swiss Accident Insurance Institute, the Danish ...
C. H. Irvine, Stover H. Snook
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Visual perception of lifted weight.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1981The weight of a box can be seen by observing another person lifting and carrying it. Evidence is provided in two experiments, the first of which employed videotaped events with the actor and box visible only as 21 bright patches. Observers judged the weight of the box rather linearly with an average slope of .87 and with a pooled standard deviation of ...
Sverker Runeson, Gunilla Frykholm
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Memory for Lifted Weights [PDF]
The American Journal of Psychology, 1906 The object of the investigation was two-fold; on the one hand to study the influence of the interval upon the accuracy and quickness of recognition, and on the other to determine the mental processes involved in comparison and recognition. Lifted weights were used because they promised a domain where memorial images are very weak and would therefore ...
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2020
The term weight lifting has a variety of meanings to the general public. To many it relates to bodybuilding, to some it refers to competitive sport, and to others it is a form of exercise. In this chapter, the terms weight lifting and weight training will both refer to the use of free-weight equipment (barbells and dumbbells), weight machines, and ...
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The term weight lifting has a variety of meanings to the general public. To many it relates to bodybuilding, to some it refers to competitive sport, and to others it is a form of exercise. In this chapter, the terms weight lifting and weight training will both refer to the use of free-weight equipment (barbells and dumbbells), weight machines, and ...
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Lifting “the Weight of the Continent”
2013Shortly before the turn of the twentieth century, historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that “the line of most rapid and effective Americanization” was along the American frontier— though only for an implicitly white population of pioneers— before summarily pronouncing the frontier closed.1 Nearly one hundred years later, Gloria Anzaldua would ...
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Weight Lifting in Adaptive Sport
2017Adaptive powerlifting was initially added to the Tokyo Paralympic Games in 1964 and just included wheelchair weight lifter. By 1984, other disability groups such as cerebral palsy (CP) weight lifters received permission to participate at the events. Since 2012, weight lifting has been open to athletes with any lower extremity impairments that limit ...
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