Technical and Aesthetic Innovations in Free-Weight Areas

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Technical and aesthetic innovations have lifted the free-weight area to new levels of user-friendliness and operational efficiency.

Omm 107 Ab Thirty years ago, the release of a film documenting the run-up to 1975's Mr. Olympia contest sparked widespread fascination with free-weight training. But much of the equipment that made Arnold Schwarzenegger an international bodybuilding champion and mega action-movie star - pockmarked, even rusty, dumbbells and 45-pound Olympic plates - might seem archaic by today's standards. The documentary was called Pumping Iron for a reason.

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