I have been thinking about getting into weightlifting, do you know anything about it?
I don't weight lift much myself, but I'm told that it is also called Olympic weightlifting.
Yeah I have heard that as well. I wonder how far back the sport dates/
I'm not sure exactly when it started but the cultural influence overall seems very strong to me. They also have different body weight categories for men and women. 
That makes since, Do you know anything else about it?
without lifting aids), weightlifting tests aspects of human ballistic limits (explosive strength); the lifts are therefore executed faster—and with more mobility and a greater range of motion during their execution—than other strength movements.
The lifts performed in the sport of weightlifting, and in particular their component lifts (e.g. squats, deadlifts, cleans), are commonly used by elite athletes in other sports to train for both explosive and functional strength.
Competition.
The sport is controlled by the International Weightlifting Federation (
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