Pain is standard issue Despite every effort made to avoid injuries, lifting twice their body weight over and over again inevitably exhausts the competitors and causes injury. Weight lifters collect injuries--from wrists, elbows, and shoulders to waist, knees, and ankles--as easily as other people collect stamps.
儘管戰戰兢兢地防止受傷，但經常將大約體重兩倍左右的槓鈴舉上舉下，還是壓得每位選手傷痕纍纍，從手腕、手肘、肩膀、腰部、膝蓋到腳踝，受傷像收集印花般簡單，卻是選手最恐怖的惡夢。