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Levers make lifting possible. The muscle and bone structures act as levers so that lifters can stress the muscle to produce more strands of muscle. Lets examine the system of levers in the body to make the lift easy for the lifter to perform.

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The system of levers is a combination of first second and third class levers

   

     First class                                Second Class                            Third Class

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/levers.htm

The combination of levers makes it possible to lift the weight up to increase the lifters power output. Without levers the lifts would not be possible.