The History of Weightlifting

Please visit to donate to our new physical culture history series called Strength Rituals. And watch Strength Rituals on its own YouTube channel. If you have a passion for movement and strength then embrace the roots of physical culture. Here’s the story of the beginnings of the sport of weightlifting. Special thanks to the Todds at the Stark Center for Physical Culture, and to all the folks interviewed for this project. The strength community is a giving place! (slightly