In 480 B.C., the new Persian king sent a massive army across the Hellespont to Thermopylae, where 60,000 Persian troops defeated 5,000 Greeks. The year after that, however, the Greeks defeated the Persians for good at the battle of Salamis.
1. (Weightlifting) the sport of lifting barbells of specified weights in a prescribed manner for competition or exercise.
A repetition maximum (RM) is the most weight you can lift for a defined number of exercise movements. It is a good measure of your current strength level as you follow your weight training program. A 10RM would be the heaviest weight you could lift for 10 consecutive exercise repetitions. Repetition maximum is often expressed as 1RM, or one repetition maximum. This indicates the heaviest weight you can lift with maximum effort in a single repetition. A 1RM is your personal weightlifting record for any particular exercise. It could be a squat, or deadlift or any other weight lifting exercise. The 1RM measurement is a standard in weight training for marking improvement.