If you’re lifting with a Smith machine ... double that number, and add the weight of the bar. So if you have a 45 and a 25 on each end, add 25 + 45 to get 70, double that (140), and add the ...

I’ve been into weight lifting (two words ... In one of the events, the snatch, the bar is lifted from the ground to overhead in one swift movement. In the other, the clean and jerk, the bar ...

It is a two-motion lift – the clean and the jerk – and allows for the use of much greater weight than the snatch. The first part, the clean, is done by pulling the bar up to the shoulders, with bent ...