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• The kid would lift weights to the point where coaches had to tell him to stop.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• The next morning, Liza woke up and went to the gym to lift weights and work out with her boyfriend.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
• When Blair tried to walk on at USC, he was told to lift weights and circle back.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
• These are best for people who are just starting to lift weights, or want to focus on one area of the body.
  — Leila Najafi, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2020
• Mobley would either lift weights for an hour or do some on-court stuff.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 18 Oct. 2022
• There wasn’t much to do other than lift weights, travel to wrestling practices and play video games.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 2022
• Bracing core and keeping arms straight, lift weights straight up to shoulder-height.
  — Women's Health, 7 June 2023
• During your lunch hour or after work change into your work out clothes and hit the gym to lift weights or jog around the block to let off steam.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
• Dubus, tired of being picked on by preppy kids, begins to lift weights and go looking for fights.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021
• Demoing the moves below is Tina Tang, a strength coach who mentors women 50-plus to lift weights through peri and post-menopause.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 9 Jan. 2023
• Wilson said Kjar gets his players to lift weights every day at 6 a.m.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
• These are the ones who wanted to lift weights and wanted to condition — wanted to practice six days a week and wanted to be a part of it.
  — Tony Baranek, chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• Practice lasted about three hours before Kidd made the players lift weights and run in the pool, despite some of the players not knowing how to swim.
  — Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2021
• Her coaches tried to make the best of it, having the gymnasts lift weights and stretch outside, Wang-Polagruto said.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2021
• While Wilson and his friends mostly did pushups and agility drills, the varsity starters also showed them how to lift weights.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 9 Oct. 2021
• But the players ended up just wanting to go lift weights together.
  — ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2021
• Football coaches in Weaverville had the boys lift weights a few times a week, just to give them something to do, said junior varsity coach Ryan Gogan.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
• Sommer partnered with the app Fitplan, where users get to lift weights with their fave fitness influencers.
  — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 19 Aug. 2020
• While Meyers Taylor was left to lift weights in her room, her competitors got in early training runs.
  — Amy Bass, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
• Dalton could lift weights and text Garrett Gilbert as the journeyman prepared to be the Cowboys’ fourth quarterback in five weeks.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2020
• Williams demonstrates how to lift weights in a weightless environment and how to sleep without laying down.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2013
• Instead, the players arrived at The Star in shifts throughout the day to lift weights, attend meetings and learn how many players would opt out of the season before the league’s 3 p.m. deadline.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2020
• This year, however, teams may be in a bubble in San Antonio — due to the pandemic — for a prolonged period of time and do have a need to lift weights.
  — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2021
• Amid the historic buildings scattered across the 82-acre campus sits an old gray house, right next to the running track and an outdoor gym where students go in large groups to lift weights and socialize.
  — Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN, 16 Feb. 2022
• So lift weights: compound exercises for your entire body, ideally with free weights, three times a week.
  — Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
• The most obvious explanation for the precipitous drop is that Foltynewicz didn’t lift weights during the shutdown.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
• Coming into this season, players got together frequently to run routes, lift weights and sometimes just to hang out.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2021
• Donald recalled how he was first inspired to lift weights by his father, who would train in the family's basement early in the morning while his son looked on from the steps, waiting for the day that he would be allowed to join.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2022
• But given that Green couldn’t lift weights or block shots like Wallace, the 12-year-old settled for a disco-era hairdo reminiscent of the black mane flowing from Wallace’s blue and red headbands.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2021
• In addition to walking, aim to lift weights at least twice a week to build strength and stability, and help your body recover with daily massage and stretching sessions.
  — Outside Online, 23 Mar. 2011

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