Toward the end of the year, she finally joined a gym and began to lift weights.

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Foster Wang is a sports enthusiast who loves to lift weights and play baseball, basketball and soccer.

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Never mind that the American Cancer Society and other medical groups now encourage exercise among cancer patients including encouraging breast-cancer survivors to lift weights.

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In particular, you would need to measure their ability to perform different tasks in a standardized way, such as walking on a treadmill, ability to lift weights, mental acuity etc.

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And has since he was a kid sneaking off to lift steel barbell weights in a dark closet next to the gym during lunch in junior high.

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Be sure to perform exercises in a controlled manner rather than using momentum and gravity to lift and lower the weights.

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He said most players simply lift weights to build strength and go through drills that rarely mimic what actually happens on a football field.

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For example, when the one game he went to see Ellsbury was rained out, they watched him lift weights, had a batting practice session with him, and for good measure, watched him dunk a basketball.

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