Word: mondragone
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Angelo A. Mondragon, who works in a chemical laboratory at MIT faced off against Jason T. Clower, a graduate student in the Committee on the Study of Religion, in an event billed as New England’s first kettlebell-lifting competition...
...match could not become an official kettlebell-lifting competition because Clower and Mondragon were not in the same weight class. No winner was declared...
Clower spent the half-hour before the match chewing Trident gum and spitting into the bushes in an attempt to lose six pounds of water weight and move down a weight class. He failed, and so had to lift a 32-kilogram (about 70 pounds) kettlebells while Mondragon competed with a kettlebell 8 kilograms (about 17 pounds) lighter...
...different weight distinctions, Mondragon said, meant different lifting techniques. During the first “snatch,” he swung the kettlebell above his head in a forward arc, while Clower hopped slightly to pull the heavier kettlebell straight...
...Sometimes more reps with the lighter weights are more punishing,” Clower said. He snatched the kettlebell 20 times with each arm while Mondragon performed the movement 30 times on each side...